Thielemans, Kris wrote: > Hi, > > do I gather correctly from the FAQ that it is impossible to open an depth 8 > window and display and 8 depth ZPixmap on a 24 bit depth screen? > > It seems that the depth settings are largerly ignored (aside from size > issues). That is, I don't seem to get an error message at all when I ask for > 8bit depth, but then it does not seem to work properly. > > > Is this a general restrictiion of X servers, or only of XFree on Windows?
> Oh, while I'm taking some bandwith here. Can anybody point me to some online > documentation on how to put up a bitmap in 24bit mode? (I'm constructing my > bitmap myself, and do that in 8bit mode with ZPixmap that essentially > indexes in a colormap, but I get the impression that my ZPixmap has to be > 24bit per pixel now. What format is it in? Is the colormap ignored?) maybe the -fullscreen option helps. For some -engine modes it changes the displaydepth for the requested depth. If you don't use fullscreen, the depth setting is ignored. bye ago NP: Apoptygma Berzerk - Paranoia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723