Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II screen depth Message-ID: <7445@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 29 Jan 89 23:35:12 GMT References: <4119a45b.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> <352@salgado.stan.UUCP> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 38 In article <352@salgado.stan.UUCP> dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott) writes: >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. > >[...] 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 Well, yes, but as a fanatic switcheroo user, and having previously (a year ago before I got switcheroo) used a QuicKey macro for the task I will point out that even on a system with a fast hard drive (Quantum pro80s) bringing up the control panel and making the switch can take up to 15 seconds given that the control panel first scans your system folder for cdevs. Switcheroo on the other hand takes about 1/4-1/2 second. Josh ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-5423 (school office)