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From: franklin@snowball.ucdavis.edu (Paul Franklin)
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Subject: Re: Sys7: Lost ICLs with greyscale monitor
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Date: 9 Jun 91 06:00:10 GMT
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In article <7898@ecs.soton.ac.uk> rdw89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Williams RD) writes:
>Now I expect you're wondering why one would ever want to have anything
>other than 'grey' or B/W highlight on a greyscale monitor?
>Anyway, why can't it cope with maintaining grey representation of colours?

I have experienced this problem several times, as I have a grey monitor.
It can be triggered in many different ways, notably with ResEdit, which
always succeeds to destroy any color table.  Why doesn't Color QuickDraw
force every color to its grey equivalent, and not let the color table
change (I can display 256 of 256 possible greys, so it shouldn't have to).

--Paul Franklin
--pdfranklin@ucdavis.edu