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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Weird Quickdraw Bug w/ Geneva
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.101317.10189@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 10:13:17 +1200
- References: <cshotton-180892101517@oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> <1992Aug18.165219.3514@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <cshotton-180892123434@oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> <1992Aug18.202015.13117@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.202015.13117@hobbes.kzoo.edu>, k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- > cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton) writes:
- >>k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) wrote:
- >>>
- >>> cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton) writes:
- >>> >
- >>> >When 9 pt. Geneva is used, the text comes out as a
- >>> >VERY pale yellow (instead of the expected black).
- >>>
- >>> Sounds like you're messing with the screen's color table, and not
- >>> letting the system know that you're doing it.
- >>> Theoretically, there's no way you can do this :-) if you're using the
- >>> Palette Manager exclusively...
- >>
- >>OK, that makes sense. I am certainly NOT doing it on purpose. The only
- >>color environment changes I THINK I'm making involve getting the palette
- >>associated with a window and using SetPalette to assign the same palette to
- >>several other windows (but not the one with the problem).
- >
- > Hmmm. This may be bad; I've never seen a prohibition against having
- > the same palette accessed by more than one window, but I've never seen
- > anything allowing it either.
-
- As I recall, the capability to share a palette among multiple windows was
- added in System 6.0.2. Or possibly 6.0. It is explicitly allowed in the
- section titled "Associating One Palette With Many Ports" on page 20-18 of
- IM6.
-
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