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RE: 8-bit PseudoColor
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Mark Jones" <mark dot jones106 at verizon dot net>
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:14:05 -0500
- Subject: RE: 8-bit PseudoColor
Mark,
> Now 4.2.0, last week I'm not sure. I just redid my whole windows
> partition
> and so I have the latest Cygwin/XFree.
>
> I just tried it in non full screen mode with Windows in 16 bit
> color and it
> failed. Is this what you felt shouldn't happen anymore? Or just that I
> shouldn't have to run it full screen?
Well, Windows doesn't allow each program to run at a different bit depth, so
if you want Cygwin/XFree86 to run in 8 bit color in windowed mode, you have
to run Windows in 8 bit color. The -depth 8 parameter only applies
when -fullscreen is used because we can change the bit depth for the screen
when we are running in a DirectDraw-based fullscreen mode.
Does that make sense?
So it makes perfect sense that your 8 bit application would fail when
running Cygwin/XFree86 in windowed mode with Windows in 16 bit color.
What I was saying is that if you run Windows in 8 bit color, then
Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0 should work just fine with your 8 bit color
applications.
So, please run Windows in 8 bit color and let me know what happens.
Harold