mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) (06/19/91)
[This post is regarding the new finder's colored progress thermometer] I got the progress thermometer work in 256 color mode but its doing strange things in other bit depths. In B/W mode both gray and blue map to black so the thermometer is solid black. Not the effect that I want. In 4 color mode The gray is light gray and the blue maps to black. This is opposite of what I want. I added a 'pltt' resource containing the two colors I want in the thermometer and attached it to the window. But it doesn't seem to help. I don't think I understand all this color stuff. Please help me out. 1. How do you detect what bit depth the screen is? 2. Do you have to check for colorquickdraw first? 3. When do you use a clut and when do you use a palette? 4. Do I have to use a clut or a pltt if I only want two colors (besides black and white) 5. How do you know what a color is going to map to? 6. Do I have to special case non colorquickdraw machines or is there a way to this so it works on all macs. Thanks in advance to whoever can help me out. Matt -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora | my Mac Matt_Mora@sri.com SRI International | my unix mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________