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RE: RE: Weird color!
- To: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: RE: Weird color!
- From: Quek Hong Cheang <quekhc at altavista dot com>
- Date: 3 Oct 2001 01:26:10 -0700
Hi
No, Test49 did not solve the problem. Actually, I have already tried XWin -engine1, it did not work either. Now I am thinking of editing the rgb.txt file directly, meaning that I will change all those numbers for green to some other number that represents a lighter colour, such as light gray. Hopefully it will work, though I don't think that it should be done this way.
Thank you.
Quek
On Tue, 02 October 2001, "Harold Hunt" wrote:
>
> Quek,
>
> Oddly, I was thinking of a modification to the engine selection code that
> turned out to be related to your problem. As before, DirectDraw engines do
> not support windowed 8 bit color, as DirectDraw reserves the first and last
> 10 colors of each palette. However, the engine selection code was choosing
> a DirectDraw engine, regardless of the current color depth and
> windowed/fullscreen mode.
>
> You could force the server to use the GDI engine, which works correctly in 8
> bit windowed mode, by passing the '-engine 1' parameter to XWin.exe:
>
> XWin.exe -engine 1
>
> However, the aforementioned limitation will not be fixed anytime soon, so I
> made XWin.exe select the GDI engine when using 8 bit color and not running
> in fullscreen.
>
> Server Test 49 incorporates those changes. You should try it, as it will
> probably fix your problem.
>
> Harold
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