On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:43:40PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Francisco,
Do you know what a DirectColor visual is?
Do you know why you would need a DirectColor visual?
Do you know of any Windows-based graphics cards that actually support
DirectColor?
My understanding of DirectColor is that it allows you to specify the
range of colors that will be used in a mode that is similar to
TrueColor... however, I don't know of a single Windows graphics card
that allows you to do that. I don't know of any program that utilizes
such a visual either. As such, there is no support for DirectColor in
Cygwin/XFree86. I don't expect that there will ever be DirectColor
support in Cygwin/XFree86 unless someone can explain to me that I am way
wrong.
DirectColor seems like a lot of things in X: it was thought to be REALLY
useful when X was designed, but it turned out to be anything but useful.
I read about those things once, then I ignore them after that.
So, anyone else know what DirectColor is?
DirectColor is a read/write colormap just like PseudoColor.
TrueColor is a read only colormap just like StaticColor.
Direct/True giving more colors than the other two though.
Alan.