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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: color setting
Keywords: Source, Control panel
Message-ID: <183@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 23 Apr 89 20:21:35 GMT
References: <8268@chinet.chi.il.us>
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Reply-To: stailey@iris613.UUCP (Ken Stailey)
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center Climate and Radiation Branch
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In article <8268@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>Being too lazy to jump right into this, I'm asking you to help me set up the
>color palette within a GEM application.  The nicest way would be to use the
>control panel accessory, since it's familiar to most users.  Anyone care to
>tell me how it sets colors?  From the ways it doesn't work in various 
>situations I get the idea that it sends messages to the desktop, and the

The control panel calls the xbios.  It either calls setpallete() once
or setColor() 16 times.  See your C or Pascal manual for the details.
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