Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!veronica.cs.wisc.edu!elliott From: elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Teflon Colors (was Re: Apple's incompatibility with itself) Message-ID: <1991Jun7.064917.24187@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 06:49:17 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> <1991Jun7.012621.10493@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 18 In <1991Jun7.012621.10493@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) writes: >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. That's possible, but I'm surprised that an application as fundamentally imprtant as the Finder would do this. I have a hard time complaining about the very rare times that colors get messed up on the Mac, though. The Palette Manager is a wonderful thing. Having used 8-bit color on Unix workstations, I'm more used to the colors in background windows becoming total garbage and staying that way, most disconcertingly. Watching background windows on the Mac redraw themselves in the best available colors is truly delightful. -- Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu