Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!gt0t+ From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: 3200 color pics (handling them) Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 04:53:32 GMT References: <3568@kluge.fiu.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: <3568@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes: > i'd like to include a picture as the backdrop to a program. i know i can > do this with $C1 pics (standard 640-mode pictures). can i do the same > with 3200 color pics (i.e. just load in the data and move it to the > SHR screen)? How do you propose to update the pallettes for the picture if it's going to be used as a background? I think it'd be pretty impossible. Besides, how are you planning on putting windows on top of a 3200 color pic? For each scan line, you'd have to figure out which color was white, and which was black (assuming white & black exist on that line) and set the window to use those colors... Hell, it'd never work. Besides, you'd be limited to 320 mode... > if the answer to above is no, then how would i display the pics? The answer is no... How would you display a 3200 color pic? Simple, just watch the vertical beam counter, and swap in the pallettes as the beam moves from line to line... > albert -Greg T. InterNet: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNet : R746GT0T@CMCCVB AOL : GRThompson