Paul Koning said: >> 2. Handle 8 bit color, *including* updating the look of the display >> dynamically if entries in the color map are changed. That would be harder. >> You'd have to keep a backing store of the 8-bit data, and regenerate the >> truecolor image whenever the color map is changed. Doable, but messy. >> Is #2 actually important in practice?
Well #2 is vital to me - the VMS software involved expects to be able to turn on and off and change colours of 'overlays' (implemented as one or more planes) such as a background raster image while keeping foreground vector map visible and doing dynamic temporary stuff in a 'refresh mode' plane. Regards, -- Paul Hardy Email: paul at the paulhardy.net domain, web: www.paulhardy.net _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
