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From: knight@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Matt J. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: HELP with DECstation 5000/200 24bit color & XAllocColorCells
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.174106.2727@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 17:41:06 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University
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Please Help!

We, at Western Washington University, are now the proud owners of several new
DESstation 5000/200.  Two of which are expanded with 24-bit color capibility.
The problem is that XAllocColorCell will always return FALSE (on the 24-bit 
machines).  So to try and track down the problem I did some digging and testing
and discovered that the 24-bit machines do support a DirectColor visual (read/writeable),
however, it is NOT the default visual!  Does XAllocColorCells only try the default
visual? How can we change the default visual from a read only to the read/write visual?

Any help would really make my day because many of the applications that run on the
8-bit machines we have will not run on our 24-bit machines, and I have been pulling
my hair out trying to fix this!