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From: jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Visual help needed.. Multi-plane as a Monochrome
Keywords: visuals,monochrome->color
Message-ID: <139@tityus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 01:53:03 GMT
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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I know that this topic has been bandied about for a time, but I'm
having problems which I don't remember being discussed...

I am trying to get some Monochrome code working on Color, and am
having some problems trying to find/use a Visual of depth one on the
color machine. All the visuals are of depth eight, which is the extent
of the color planes.

My code currently wants to create stuff in Monochrome, and doesn't
behave correctly with the GC PlaneMask set to one.  I would like to
create my base windows with a depth of one, so all the other code
should work ok.

If I use all eight planes my XImages and Pixmaps don't show up, as
well as tiles and text. In short, only lines seem to be working !!

The original system I am using is a Sun 3/50, with the current target
being a VAXstation II/GPX w/ 16mb memory. The intended target machine
will be a Sumitomo Color system (don't know the flavor yet).


Any help would be appreciated -- I got real work yet to do!!