You're right, I was thinking of screen-size, but it was generally true on Windows anyway.
On the Mac you can change it without too much problem (just remember to set it back when you're done!). On Windows, it used to NOT work for many systems - nowadays it's more likely to work. It used to be that most systems were not capable of going over 256-colors, not true now. But, I would still say that if the system is set to 256, there's probably a reason for it - my guess is that they don't have the hardware to do better than that, so if you ultimately want to run in 256 you'll need 256-color art for best results. - Tab At 07:52 AM 4/15/02 -0400, Colin Holgate wrote: >>Usually it is bad form to modify the user's computer settings. > > >That may often be the case (for example, resizing their desktop may be >bad, or changing their sound level to super loud wouldn't go down too >well), but in these days I don't think that setting the colordepth is that >bad a thing. It's also a built in function, no Xtra required, and it's >likely to work on most modern systems. > >So, try to set the colors if you can, and if that fails, tell the user to >change it for you. > >One important thing, don't use the projector option for changing the color >depth, because it won't let you reset it to how it was before. Change it >using the colordepth function, but remember what it was set to, and reset >it to that when they quit the projector. > > >On the other problem, read up on 'the searchpath' in the Lingo dictionary. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
