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- From: error@stack.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
- Subject: Re: Colour.
- Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 14:48:13 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9405300202.A15807-0100000@undergrad> from "Timothy Miller" at May 30, 94 02:49:02 am
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- Timothy Miller wrote:
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- > Are you sure programmers are going to want to put forth that effort?
- > It's much easier to just stick together your palette. How about someone
- > write a library routine that, given a new palette, sorts them with respect
- > to the palette in place?
-
- I don't think that just a library routine is good enough for this
- purpose. I think a better solution would be to have colour handling
- installed as a cookie or something like that and only have library
- routines as a mapping. That way the functions can easily be upgraded and
- older programs will be able to use newer implementations of the colour
- handling. I could imagine that earlier versions would not have
- sufficient locking facilities, so that no two programs change the same
- colour at once, but that later ones do. Having a common routine would
- also save a little bit of memory in a multitasking environment.
-
- Erlend.
-