Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!stan!dce From: dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II screen depth Message-ID: <352@salgado.stan.UUCP> Date: 29 Jan 89 19:24:07 GMT References: <4119a45b.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> Reply-To: dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado Lines: 31 In article <4119a45b.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean (The Mysterious One) Yu) writes: >In article nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Norman William Franke, III) writes: >>I seem to keep switching from 2 color mode to 256 color mode on my Mac II, and >>calling up the control panel takes a while. Is there some FKEY out there >>that will change the screen depth? Or does anyone know what procedures to >>call in LightSpeed Pascal? I couldn't find anything like that in IM V. > > You're in luck. There's an FKEY called Switcheroo which does exactly what >you want. It'll even let you choose which to depths you want to flip >between. The bad news is I don't know where you can find it. While this sounds like a useful item, wouldn't it be better to have something (cdev or init?) that allows you do attach a mode to an application? MacroMaker allows you to assign a set of keyboard macros on a per-application basis. Comment allows you to attach external data to files and applications. Would it be possible to write a program that allows you to attach a screen depth to a given application? That way, you could set up MacPaint to use 2 colors, PixelPaint and the Finder to use 256 colors or 16 grays or whatever you prefer. Also, wouldn't it be just as easy to use MacroMaker (or one of the better general macro handlers) to call up the control panel and set the depth? I'll give MacroMaker a try when I get home. -- David Elliott ...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce "All he wanted was a Pepsi, but I wouldn't give it to him!" -- Mike's mom