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From: mwp@murtoa (Michael Paddon)
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Subject: Re: Playing with the colormaps
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Date: 17 May 89 02:23:49 GMT
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From article <406@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, by barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett):
> 
> Remember, the NeWS model is DISPLAY INDEPENDANT.
> The application may not be capable of displaying what you ask for,
> but the window server tries to display the best approximation to the
> color you asked for. Your applications are therefore portable to displays of
> a different type.

There should be a way to say "I *really* want this color", and the server
will comply if possible. There is nothing device dependent about this.
Fooling around with color maps directly is inferior due to the portability
problems you pointed out.

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