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- From: vedovatt@u.washington.edu (Philip Vedovatti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Default disk-icons ?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 08:53:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Message-ID: <4i62f1$g22@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
- References: <4fuu58$ctm@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <799.6635T798T2564@netspace.net.au> <4hqmc4$rpf@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <947.6642T1262T1182@netspace.net.au>
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- In article <947.6642T1262T1182@netspace.net.au>,
- Paul Dossett <astroboy@netspace.net.au> wrote:
- >Philip Vedovatti (vedovatt@u.washington.edu) said:
- >>In article <799.6635T798T2564@netspace.net.au>,
- >>Paul Dossett <astroboy@netspace.net.au> wrote:
- >
- >>>>Yes, RTFM. Basically, it sets the "exactness" of the color choosing on
- >>>>the Workbench when it renders the icons.
- >>>
- >>>Does this slow the system down much? I just leave it at default at present,
- >>>and with only 8 colours on my screen I didn't bother worrying about it.. :)
- >
- >>It doesn't slow it down. With 8 colors, you don't really need to bother
- >>with it though.
- >
- >If I may ask then, why is the option there? Wouldn't it be easier to just
- >have it always set the maximum precision? Or am I missing something quite
- >obvious? Does it perhaps eat lots of extra pens?
-
- If you're only using 8 colors, it doesn't offer any real benefit. With 32,
- 64 or more, it certainly can be useful. If you're not that concerned about
- getting the exact color (maybe one that's very close that's already being
- used by the system, say, in a backdrop picture), then it will not allocate
- another pen color for the Workbench, thus leaving more free pens available
- for stuff like Multiview. Thus you can leave the precision low in that
- case. If you have a GFX card or are running a 256 color WB, you can set
- the precision high, since you probably have more free pens available.
-
- Phil
-
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