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From: madd@adt.UUCP (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DefaultColormap bug?
Message-ID: <8901111542.AA09516@adt.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 89 15:42:43 GMT
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I'm not sure if it's a bug or not but I have noticed that it's
possible to delete the default colormap, at least on the Sun server.
This breaks just about all following programs that attempt to use
color (sunGetPixel: can't allocate pixel [or some such] gets written
on the console a lot and the client dies with an XError).

I've fixed this problem by not freeing a colormap if it matches that
returned by DefaultColormap() but I'm curious as to whether it's a
bug, a feature, or what.

Jim Frost
Associative Design Technology
madd@bu-it.bu.edu