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From: mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  HELP with DECstation 5000/200 24bit color & XAllocColorCells
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.160743.124@dragon.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:07:43 GMT
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In article <9104100234.AA16796@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@zia.aoc.nrao.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes:
>XAllocColorCells will only try the colormap you specify as its second
>argument.  If you want to use a non-default visual you must create a
>private colormap using XCreateColormap with a pointer to the visual
>you want to use. 

For an example of this, get cpicker.tar.Z from
export.lcs.mit.edu:~ftp/contrib.  This is my colormap manipulation
program, and it searches for a suitable PseduoColor visual to work
with.

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