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From: hart@leadsv.UUCP (Howard Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Sun cgi help
Summary: get screendepth programatically
Keywords: suntools,screendepth
Message-ID: <6018@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 21:31:12 GMT
References: <1399@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: hart@leadsv.LEADS.LMSC.COM.UUCP (Howard Hart)
Distribution: comp.graphics
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <1399@ncar.ucar.edu> clyne@redcloud.ucar.edu.UUCP () writes:
>Could someone tell me how to detect the type of device. i.e color or 
>monochrome, programatically on a Sun. I need to initialize Sun's cgi
>	
See page 109 of the Sunview programmer's manual or look through the
last few months of Sunspots articles. I think someone has posted a
new way to check screen depth about once a week there :-). The basic
idea is define and open a pixwin, then reference the screen depth via:

Pixwin *pw;
int depth = pw->pw_pixrect->pr_depth;

where depths of 1 mean monochrome and depths > 1 (8 bits deep) mean 
color displays.

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Howard C. Hart                      UUCP: { sun!sunncal, pyramid }!leadsv!hart
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