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- From: error@stack.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel)
- Subject: Re: Colour.
- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 09:09:34 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <9405310003.AA10852@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> from "Warwick Allison" at May 31, 94 10:03:52 am
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- Warwick wrote:
-
- > >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?
- >
- > Exactly. If a library routine is to be provided, then a greater amount
- > of effort is justified compared to if just a statement of a standard is
- > required. For a std, it should be simple, or else people won't follow it.
- > For a lib routine, extra effort can be employed and the code shared.
-
- I favour a solution that is implemented as some sort of system
- extension. Since we are dealing with a single resource (a palette) a
- single program should manage this resource. It has the added benefit
- that programs that are no longer updated will be able to use newer
- versions of the colour manager. And it would also be possible for
- programs to 'upgrade' that part of the OS, instead of requiring the user
- to upgrade to at least TOS 2.06 or something like that.
-
- > Match exactly? That won't work unless you adopt the X11 approach of naming
- > colours. The colour space is too large otherwise (ie. WHICH purple?).
-
- But a program could do a request for a colour within a certain margin
- from some value.
-
- Erlend.
-