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From: josh@viewlog.UUCP (Josh Marantz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PseudoColor visuals and colormaps in OpenWindows
Message-ID: <1485@viewlog.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 90 22:48:51 GMT
Organization: Viewlogic Systems Inc., Marlboro, MA
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The default visual for OpenWindows on a Sparc/GX is StaticColor, but I'd
like to use PseudoColor.  So I use XGetVisualInfo to find a PseudoColor
visual.  What then?  Do I have to create a private colormap and then battle
with ICCCM and non-ICCCM window managers to get it installed at the
appropriate times?  I only want 16 colors, so I really shouldn't be going
technicolor.  Will I?  Who controls where in the hardware colormap my
private colormap will get installed?  Hopefully, it will be in an area
that is seldom used by "typical" applications.  How can I help make this
happen?

I was hoping to find a call like XGetVisualColormap (dpy, vis, &map), where
if I had a visual, it would give me the corresponding colormap and I could
start allocating cells in it.

Any ideas?


-- 
Joshua Marantz
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
cloud9!viewlog!josh@bu-cs.bu.edu