Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Playing with the colormaps Message-ID: <416@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 18 May 89 13:47:05 GMT References: <406@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1501@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: mwp@murtoa (Michael Paddon) In article <1501@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>, mwp@murtoa (Michael Paddon) writes: >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. I just tried an experiment, and now I understand. You are right in that NeWS 1.1 has a real problem with colors. I just now tried to create several windows with the frames of different colors, gradually changing the values. Since I only have 5 different colors at the start, I would expect that the colors I selected would be used, with a gradual changing of hue. Instead - the colors are rounded off somehow, and sudden jumps in colors are seen. I would expect that if I wanted black, white, and 200 shades of blue, I would be able to get them. I hope X/NeWS doesn't have this problem. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP