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- From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: 256 color workbench?
- Message-ID: <37247@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:36:27 GMT
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Nov20.173519.8457@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
- >In <37080@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
- >>The workbench cannot be opened in a HAM mode, so multiview is forced to display
- >>HAM (or Extra HalfBrite) images on a separate HAM (EHB) screen. You can easily
- >>open a 256 colour Workbench screen though using the screenmode prefs file - just
- >>set the 'colors' slider to 256.
- >
- >Well, Multiview cannot display 256 color pictures on a 4 color workbench either,
- >but it still opens on a workbench window.
-
- Yes it can, it just won't look very good, because it is trying to map a 256
- colour image to the 4 colours you have set for your WB. HAM and EHB are
- different beasts, because the palette mapping functions in 3.0 do not handle
- these.
-
- > So it _should_ have an option to
- >select where it should display the image. And if you are on it, add multiple
-
- You can use the SCREEN option of MultiView from the CLI or WB ToolTypes if you
- want MultiView to use a separate screen.
-
- >Michael van Elst
- >UUCP: universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve
- >Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
- > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
-
-
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- Spencer Shanson - Amiga Software Engineer | email: spence@commodore.COM
- | or uunet!cbmvax!spence
- All opinions expressed are my own, and do not | Bix: sshanson
- (necessarily) represent those of Commodore. | I want a tube of
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