peter@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (peter.pavlovcik) (02/02/90)
I am trying to figure out how to use my EGA color display to work as a grayscale B/W terminal with windows. I asked OnLine, but their answer was: 1) use control.exe to change all the colors to B/W (which is a really silly answer), or 2) re-install the windows specifying an EGA high resolution B/W monitor. Both of the above result in a B/W picture, where the gray shades are crudely emulated, not a true grayscale display. What makes me mad is that I've seen this done before on the very machine I am using, but the guy who did it no longer works here. Any wizards out there? Peter Pavlovcik ...!att!iexist!peter
gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi) (02/04/90)
One solution to make you're EGA into a gray scale display would be to get hDC's 16 color drivers for windows. This would give you 4 gray shades to play with in your colors setup. With their color utility, you can force the entire pallette (spelling?) to be only gray scale. A warning, though: this only changes what you see on the screen (I think) and doesn't affect window's internal color number, so if program X thinks it's putting out the hex value for blue, and hDC Color makes it look like gray, if you dumped it to a printer it would still come out blue (If possible). So if you want gray scale so it matches printer output, you're best off installing as a black&white EGA. -gyug ----- gyugyi@portia.stanford.edu "Actor is my best friend."