Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ml27192 From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Teflon Colors (was Re: Apple's incompatibility with itself) Message-ID: <1991Jun7.012621.10493@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 01:26:21 GMT References: <15355@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <3!whzbb@rpi.edu> <1991Jun6.180820.14114@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun6.211643.5064@neon.Stanford.EDU> <11024@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 16 jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) writes: >This bugs me too. I love playing with MandelZot in 256 glorious colors, so >I don't mind so much when it's displaying that the background looks odd. >However, when I switch forward to finder, the colors stay mapped this way. >Finder thinks it has only got a few to work with, so until I quit MandelZot, >I'm stuck with 1-bit icons and dull menubars. There's no good reason for >this, since I really don't care if my Mandelbrot window (or PhotoShop window, >or whatever) looks funky when I'm not paying attention to it. I would bet that the Finder is using "courteous" colors, which don't cause the palette to be reorganized even when such a window is in front. -- //----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Lanett mlanett@uiuc.edu Software Tools Group, NCSA