Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!whutt!mls
From: mls@whutt.UUCP (Michael Siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard with multiple monitors...
Summary: color?
Message-ID: <3674@whutt.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 16:45:31 GMT
References: <3150003@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU> <14837@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <14837@apple.Apple.COM>, dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) writes:

> ...  This "main" screen must also be in 2 color mode.  This is because
> the visual effects write directly to the screen, so the screen depth
> must be 1 bit deep.  Someday, with more code, we MAY be able to extend
> the functionality of viseffects to multiple monitors and color screens,
> but for now, this is the way it was designed to work.

The phrasing of this leads me to hope (probably vainly) that I could put
color on cards if I AVOIDED the visual effects.  Am I just whistling in the
dark, or is something of the sort possible (now, or even Real Soon Now?)
-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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