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depth in pixmap
- From: "Thielemans, Kris" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:46:48 -0000
- Subject: depth in pixmap
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
do I gather correctly from the FAQ that it is impossible to open an depth 8
window and display and 8 depth ZPixmap on a 24 bit depth screen?
It seems that the depth settings are largerly ignored (aside from size
issues). That is, I don't seem to get an error message at all when I ask for
8bit depth, but then it does not seem to work properly.
Is this a general restrictiion of X servers, or only of XFree on Windows?
Oh, while I'm taking some bandwith here. Can anybody point me to some online
documentation on how to put up a bitmap in 24bit mode? (I'm constructing my
bitmap myself, and do that in 8bit mode with ZPixmap that essentially
indexes in a colormap, but I get the impression that my ZPixmap has to be
24bit per pixel now. What format is it in? Is the colormap ignored?)
Thanks for any help!
Kris Thielemans