In article <899f6m$i1k$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>,
Aaron.Sloman.XX@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman See text for reply address) writes:
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> Robin Popplestone, pop@roo.cs.umass.edu, writes:
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>> I'm having a bit of trouble with XpwSetColor in Linux Poplog. Instead
>> of returning <false> if it can't allocate a colour ('cos Netscape's hogged
>> the lot) it returns 1, which is black... Makes for a very incomprehensible
>> display... Nae doot I can hack around it. Does anybody else have this
>> problem?
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> I have not had exactly that problem, but I have found bizarre
> colours turning up in images generated by Pop-11 at times because
> too many colours had been hogged by other things, including
> netscape, gv, etc..
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> The only cure then was to re-start the X server, which can be a pain
> if you are in the middle of too many things.
i haven't used X i 256 color mode for quite a while, but isn't there a
way to specify a private colormap for an apllication?
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