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- From: ouster@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (John Ousterhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: couldn't allocate a color for "#ffe4c4"
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 16:32:42 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Sprite Project
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- References: <1992Nov19.025858.15521@bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov19.025858.15521@bnr.ca>, scoob@bnr.ca (Christian Marcotte) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> So this is my first Tk application.
- |> Tk is the best thing since chocolate but I still have this little problem
- |> when running my tk application on my color machine when I already a very
- |> colorful background...
- |>
- |> couldn't allocate a color for "#ffe4c4"
- |>
- |> Any ideas on how I could avoid that?
- |>
- |> Thanks.
- |>
- |> -- scoob
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Christian Marcotte Bell-Northern Research
- |> scoob@bnr.ca 3500 Carling Ave
- |> Telephone: (613) 763-2782 Nepean, Ont., Canada K1Y 4H7
-
- Tk 2.3 doesn't handle color exhaustion very gracefully. This code has
- been reworked and will behave more gracefully in the next Tk release.
-