[comp.windows.news] color maps in NeWS 2.0

alan@ELROY.JPL.NASA.GOV (Alan S. Mazer) (02/16/90)

I have asked a similar question in different forums, so if you use X and
think you've seen this question before you probably have.

We're considering using NeWS 2.0 under OpenWindows 1.0 for imaging.  Because
of the way Sun has implemented OpenWindows, the StaticColor visual is the
default, and if we specify our own colors in the PseudoColor visual, then
when the cursor moves out of the display window the colors change as one
colormap is uninstalled and the other installed.  This, at least, is the way
things work with X.  Are things any different under NeWS?  If so, please send
mail and let me know.  It doesn't seem from the documentation that they are
but if there is some clever things one can do in NeWS to define a different
color map and keep it when the cursor leaves the window, we'd like to know.

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