rusty@velveeta.berkeley.edu (11/09/87)
Please respond by email. Sorry if these have already been discussed. Hardware configuration: Mac II with a color monitor. Software is multifinder; I think the system is 4.2 and the finder is 6.0. The setting in the monitors cdev is the highest (16 I think). (1) Sometimes when the machine is booted the background printing program comes up first but there isn't anything listed in the queue. Clicking on its icon in the top right of the screen brings up the finder and everything seems ok. Is this something that I should be worried about? (2) When I use the Kolor cdev or double click on one of the color boxes for fiddling with the desktop background pattern I get a color wheel (which I think may be called the "color picker") and I can fiddle around with the colors. While fiddling with this color wheel I get the impression that I can get lots of interesting colors. When I click on the OK box the color that I have picked doesn't "take". With Kolor It seems to only use the nearest "primary" colors (the center of the color at the outside of the wheel). With the background fiddler it switches to the nearest color of what seems to be some built-in fixed colors. What makes it strange is that while fiddling with the color wheel I can get lots of interesting colors in the sample box in the top left. -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@weyl.berkeley.edu ucbvax!weyl!rusty
fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry) (11/12/87)
In article <5@ovaltine.berkeley.edu> rusty@velveeta.berkeley.edu () writes: >Please respond by email. Sorry if these have already been discussed. > >Hardware configuration: Mac II with a color monitor. Software is >multifinder; I think the system is 4.2 and the finder is 6.0. The >setting in the monitors cdev is the highest (16 I think). ... >(2) When I use the Kolor cdev or double click on one of the color boxes >for fiddling with the desktop background pattern I get a color wheel >(which I think may be called the "color picker") and I can fiddle >around with the colors. While fiddling with this color wheel I get the >impression that I can get lots of interesting colors. When I click on >the OK box the color that I have picked doesn't "take". With Kolor It >seems to only use the nearest "primary" colors (the center of the color >at the outside of the wheel). With the background fiddler it switches >to the nearest color of what seems to be some built-in fixed colors. >What makes it strange is that while fiddling with the color wheel I can >get lots of interesting colors in the sample box in the top left. You may have heard that the Mac II can display 16 colors from a palette of over 16 million. It is those 16 million colors that you see when you play with the Color Picker color wheel. But once you choose a color the color is returned to the program that asked for the color (the Kolor cdev in this case), and it is up to that program to make sure that ACTUAL color is available (i.e. one of your 16). But that may not be appropriate, and it's not in the case of the Kolor cdev because it would mess up other programs that needed the color that your chosen color replaced. So instead Kolor just gives you the nearest color which is currently available. This effect is much less noticeable if you purchased the video expansion kit because with 256 colors active at once you generally have at least one that is pretty close to the one you chose. So save up those pennies! :-) David Fry fry@huma1.harvard.EDU Department of Mathematics fry@harvma1.bitnet Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry Cambridge, MA 02138