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From: dalbrich@oregon.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How can I get 256-colors?
Message-ID: <20724.28064f25@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 07:21:57 GMT
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Only Windows applications that are written to use 256 (or more) colors
can.  Many (most) popular applications do not.  This includes all system
utilities like the control panel's pallete etc.  Pretty sad huh?

I gues (and I'm not an expert on the topic) that windows applications must
get the system color pallete, and this must involve some burden to programmers
since many modern (made for Windows 3.0) software ignores this ability.
Corel Draw 2.0, gifview (shareware from cica) are a couple that do have
this ability.  Believe it or not Paint which comes with windows can 
read a 256 color file and display it, but you cannot access the pallete or
create your own 256 color images.  i.e. it only works if you have a PCX 
or BMP created by another program, and then just display it.
If you attempt to save it, Paint saves it as a 16 color image no matter what.
Sorry for the bad news,
-Dan 
PS: Call the folks who make the app your using and ask them to include it.
   Pressure never hurts, and I'm sure this will no longer be a problem in
   the future (people will just expect it in the future- my guess anyway)


In article <11034@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes:
> We have a VGA card and monitor which claims to be able to support 256
> simultaneous colors.  What we want to do us use VisionWare X-Vision
> (X11R4 server software) to run UNIX X clients that display 256 colors.
> Has anyone out there accomplished this?  Are there settings in Windows 3.0
> that allow you to run with 256 simultaneous colors?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Tim