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- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: NewIcons v MagicWB (was What I want from new Workbench)
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- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:03:36 GMT
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- > NewIcons is actually much faster is there are no free entries in the
- > palette (I suspect this is due to the underlying pen sharing
- > system).I have 256 colour thumbnail icons for some of the graphics on
- > my harddisk, and they load and display very quickly on my 32 colour
- > WB, where all the pens are already allocated, and incredibly slowly on
- > a 256 colour Workbench where they have to fight it out for pens. If
- > someone could think of a decent palette, and then lock it, I get the
- > feeling that NewIcons would work much better at higher colour depths.
-
- Hmm. That's worth trying. I'll write a little app that allocates all 256
- pens and forces them to a fixed palette (say RGB 3:3:2) and see whether
- that makes any difference.
-
- Jolyon
-