hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) (02/08/91)
In article <18828.27b1ddd7@windy.dsir.govt.nz> sramtrc@windy.dsir.govt.nz writes: > I have about 10 colours from the system palette on my desktop including > coloured windows and menubar; I have a picture that uses a special palette > of 240 colours; and my monitor can display 256 colours. > > So there are enough colours to display the desktop and picture under > MultiFinder with exact colour matches. How do I do it? > > I tried creating a palette with 240 tolerant colours. When the tolerance > is $0000 the picture displays perfectly but the desktop colours are wrong > and the disk icons down the right side disappear. Why? 256 colours is > enough for everyone. I believe the answer to this question is that the Finder does not use the Palette Manager! Fixed in System 7, so I understand. Herb Poppe hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu NCAR (303) 497-1296 1850 Table Mesa Dr. Boulder, CO 80307-3000
sramtrc@windy.dsir.govt.nz (02/08/91)
I have about 10 colours from the system palette on my desktop including coloured windows and menubar; I have a picture that uses a special palette of 240 colours; and my monitor can display 256 colours. So there are enough colours to display the desktop and picture under MultiFinder with exact colour matches. How do I do it? I tried creating a palette with 240 tolerant colours. When the tolerance is $0000 the picture displays perfectly but the desktop colours are wrong and the disk icons down the right side disappear. Why? 256 colours is enough for everyone. When I make the tolerance $1500 the desktop colours are right but the picture has some colours wrong and the desktop icons are missing. When I make the tolerance $4000 the desktop colours are perfect, the disk icons are present, but my picture is very distorted. Am I expecting too much from the Palette manager? Do I have to manually copy those 10 colours into my palette? I don't even know what colour they are or how to find them. I thought the palette manager handled that sort of thing. Am I spelling the word "colour" wrongly? Thanks for your help Tony Cooper sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz