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Subject: Re: COLOR PALETTES
Message-ID: <8134@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
From: jenlan@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jennifer S Lanham)
Date: 20 May 91 16:23:06 GMT
Sender: jenaln@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jennifer S. Lanham)
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Organization: Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, CA
Keywords: color, palette
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In article <14374.282B3424@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> Sheldon.Keala@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sheldon Keala) writes:
>I am beginning to experiment with custom palettes.  My problem is this: how 
>do I reset everything when my program exits so that the desktop looks right? 
>I presently reload the default QD color table and reset the palette, but that 
>is clearly not enough.  Thanks, S. Keala.
>
 I have used palettes quite often and have not had a problem with simply
exiting my program...the Color and Palette Managers clean everything up once
my palette entries are released. Definitely never had to reset the color
table, and my palette was disposed of, so no resetting was necessary.

I thought that was the idea behind palettes: the Mac keeps track of color
priorities ( e.g. give front window priority), it "knows" when your 
application quits and reprioritizes the color allocations. 

Are you doing things behind the color or palette manager's back? If it 
doesn't "know" the environment has changed, it won't update. 

Finally, I could be flaunting my ignorance here, so can some one clear
this up?  Will color QD take care of re-allocation, when one follows the
rules for using color and palettes?

Thanx 
Jennifer Lanham

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