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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Will Apple PLEASE Respond to THIS!!
Message-ID: <13966@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Jun 91 01:31:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.195502.15181@sequent.com> <15357@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991Jun6.215232.17595@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
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In article <1991Jun6.215232.17595@ulowell.ulowell.edu> jkeegan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Keegan) writes:
>
>Despite Steve's help, I'd still like to hear someone at Apple at least say
>that they've read messages about this issue but have yet to reproduce it,
>or that they know about the bug and will fix it someday. Another thing I've

I've read this discussion, and it's easy to reproduce.  I'm not in a
position to do anything about it, however.

My theory is that the Finder uses 1-bit icons when it can't get the
necessary colors to display the multi-bit icons, or perhaps when the color
table is non-standard.  The alternative would be to display lousy-looking
color icons in some cases.  So this probably isn't a bug.

The Monitors control panel displays the selected devices color table, so you
can see that the Finder shifts to 1-bit icons when the color table changes.
It also looks like the Finder is courteous with respect to the color table
in that it doesn't reset the color table when it comes to the front.  That
makes sense to me, because resetting the color table takes time (every
window has to update), and there's no loss of functionality when using 1-bit
icons. 

This doesn't explain why the multi-bit floppy icon isn't used.  That may be
a bug.  I don't work on the Finder, so I don't know for sure.  

By the way, if you think there is a bug, and you're concerned about Apple
knowing about it, then send in a bug report.  The utility you need is on
ftp.apple.com in the /dts/mac/tools directory (I think).  Posting a message
on Usenet is not guaranteed to work.



-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)