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From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: X server has "too many" colors?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:49:18 +0100
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Hi Stan,

I've written a bit using Motif and Qt, and have never had any problems with
colour depths. This is more or less hidden from you (the programmer) anyway.
I do have one application (written by Mentor Graphics, not me) that barfs
with 16 bit colour depth though. 

I believe there's no such thing as 'too many colours', and the vendor is a
bit cheeky by claiming this.It's more likely a case of a buggy program. 

Regards,

Jeff


Stan Brown wrote:

>         I am trying to run a vendor supplied X task displaying on my
FreeBSD
>         machine. My FreeBSD machine is configured for 64K colors. The app
keeps
>         core dumping :-(
>
>         The vendor swears that I have "To Many Colors", and that it will
run if
>         I reduce my colors to 256. I really don;t want to reduce the
colors to
>         this.
>
>         Does this make any sense? How could to many colors cause a
problem? I
>         could see too fwe, but to many?
>
>         Any X coders got an opinion on this?
>
> --
> Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com
843-745-3154
> Westvaco
> Charleston SC.



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