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From: jaysun@cygnus.eng.clemson.edu (Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: color background for SunView (part II)
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Date: 21 Feb 89 00:42:57 GMT
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I have received about 8 responses so far about wanting color images
for a background for SunView.  But no one has done it and had it
work correctly.  The following response was the only one that gave
some advice on how to do it.  I know someone out there with some 
spare time on their hands can get this to work right.  Maybe someone
from SUN will be reading this and will give the people what they want.
COLOR.....  I am looking at this whenever I get a chance but I do not
claim to be the greatest C programmer in the world so if I do get this
going myself it will be awhile.

>  I sort of did it, but gave up.  The code is actually pretty simple
>  (and sun gives it out with every copy of SunOS).  All I had to do
>  was to change the root pixrect to be 8 bits instead of 1 and 
>  tell it not to do a monochromatic multiple rop (it tries to make
>  multiple copies so that smaller bitmaps/icons get replicated to fill
>  the screen).  I gave up because the images would get their palette
>  trashed right away.  The code to keep track of which window gets
>  which palette is a bit harder to hack.  With only 8 bits of color
>  My colorized icons, windows, etc (I colorized clock tool for instance)
>  grab the pallete from the background and make it look funny.
>  If you get any code that works better, please let me know.  Who
>  knows, maybe I will give it another go if enough people ask you
>  for it, and no one has yet done it.


Lets get it together,
                       Jay Williamson