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From: mongo@helios (Mongo Package)
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Subject: Re: Playing with the colormaps
Summary: X11/NeWS will allow this
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Date: 18 May 89 05:58:56 GMT
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>I have some 8-bit color bitmaps I would like to display under NeWS
>(via the readcanvas routine). It appears, however, that the NeWS
>colormap is static and that readcanvas just selects the closest
>color.
>
In order to support the X11 colormap models, X11/NeWS must allow
colormap manipulation.  It has some new operators to deal with this.
Of course, use of these operators requires knowledge of the capabilities
of the NeWS server-->It won't work on just any display.


Steve Allen

This is merely a repeat of words heard at the Sun New World Expo.
No part of the UC would have opinions like mine.