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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: CSD and color map for Windows apps
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:35:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.143524.22002@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1d3lsbINNmlp@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <hatton.720915662@cgl.ucsf.edu>
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- In article <hatton.720915662@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- >hook@eagle.geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook) writes:
- >>Point 1: My gripe now is, once I get the Tseng SVGA dirvers loaded (which works fine
- >>[Running Windows app seamless screws up palette].
-
- >Someone posted that removing any bitmaps you have put up for full-screen
- >WinOS2 sessions relieves this palette problem for seamless WinOS2.
- >In part, it is always going to be a problem since Windows has a "funny"
- >palette - I remember Petzold describing internal inconsistencies in the
- >Win palette management. This suggests that getting things to be identical
- >between Win and OS/2 might be tricky.
-
- I suspect that it is tricky, but that it is managable. I found that running
- a full screen WINOS2 session corrected the color palette. Both the seamless
- app and the OS/2 desktop were OK until you started another WINOS2 app seam-
- less. Then the palette we get "rescrewed." However, switching to the WINOS2
- full screen session and then back to the WPS desktop would repair it again.
- This is a miserable workaround, so I have just removed the bitmap from my
- Windows desktop. The point is that the palette can be corrected so there
- must be some way -- probably tricky -- to fix it so that you can run Windows
- apps seamlessly with a bitmap defined for your WINOS2 full screen desktop
- and keep the color palette sane at all times.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com or att!cbnmva!las) speaking only for myself.
- EOR (end-of-ramble)
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