giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA (Eric Giguere) (07/31/90)
I'm playing around with colour in a Motif environment right now. I was wondering -- can't seem to find this anywhere -- if there are any kind of colour guarantees on a Motif system? That is, if you're running on a colour system with at least 3 bitplanes, does MWM guarantee the presence of some form of red, green and blue colours? Can we assume anything? Is there any way to customize MWM so that the colourmap it uses always includes these colours? -- Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
bob@odi.com (Bob Miner) (07/31/90)
I'm playing around with colour in a Motif environment right now. I was
wondering -- can't seem to find this anywhere -- if there are any kind of
colour guarantees on a Motif system? That is, if you're running on a
colour system with at least 3 bitplanes, does MWM guarantee the presence
of some form of red, green and blue colours? Can we assume anything? Is
there any way to customize MWM so that the colourmap it uses always
includes these colours?
--
Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
It's been my experience that you can't assume anything. Usually the X server
will support the standard X colors listed in Appendix E of Oliver Jones' book,
but I recall seeing cases where they weren't supported, so it's not guaranteed.
The same RGB description can look very different on one color monitor vs.
another color monitor - even if they're the same make and model. Our demo
people always have to tune the colors in their .Xdefaults file before giving
a demo on a new color machine.
BTW, this isn't Motif's fault or responsibility. It's an X server problem.
Good Luck,
Bob Miner
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