begin nbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:35:14PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > i think this is the source of my confusion about global versus local > > colormaps. > > > > program A has a colormap of 256 colors. program B also has its own colormap > > of 256 colors. > > > Yeah... SOrry about that. I didn't really explain global vs. local. > (I never deal with this these days, obviously :^) ) > > I think when you do local colormap, it gives you what it can, or a > 'best fit' color, if there's no more room to alloc. colors. ok -- i know there's a gdk function that returns the "best approximate color" to some given color you want. there must be a corresponding xlib function. there must be a function that tells you how "close" your Color is to the requested Color. > -bill! (not as 'leet an Xlib hacker as most think :) )
hey -- anyone who can connect to the X server, put a window up and draw a color smiley face on a window is a haX0r in my book. ;-) pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
