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Re: True Color, but !d.table_size eq 64?
- Subject: Re: True Color, but !d.table_size eq 64?
- From: Alex Schuster <alex(at)pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:29:21 +0100
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer neurologische Forschung
- References: <3A841481.FE2C3516@pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de>
- Xref: news.doit.wisc.edu comp.lang.idl-pvwave:23511
Alex Schuster wrote:
> On our Ultrasparcs, with True Color display, I only get a color table
> with 64 entries. I start IDL, open a window, and !d.table_size is 64,
> not 256, or the value I pass via the colours keyword.
> Any idea why this happens? Under Windows, it's always 256.
>
> About all of my programs only need 8-bit color, so I used to do a
> device, pseudo=8 to switch completele to 8-bit mode, and everything was
> fine. But now I would like to use a true color display and
> non-decomposed colors, but 64 coler cells is not enough. Hey, where's
> the problem, there are plenty of colors, it's a true-color display after
> all!
Um, it is not. I just forgot the DEVICE, TRUE_COLOR=24 statement. Silly
me.
Alex
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