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- In article <m0uDb9b-000GOKC@gwar.ardi.com> mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) writes:
- > I think the problem is that Executor ties up his colormap, so
- > subsequently run programs can't get the colors they desire. Since you
- > are running in 16bpp mode, you have no colormap and everything works.
- >
- > "-privatecmap" is one workaround for his problem, although not a
- > perfect one.
- >
- > -Mat
- Mat,
- Your response got me to thinking about the problem of running
- Executor with an 8 bit colormap. The current options leave you
- with two extreme solutions. You can either run in the root
- colormap resulting in Executor eating up many of the available
- 256 colors that are then not available for other programs or you
- can use the privatecmap option which then results in
- funky/annoying color changes as you change windows. Perhaps there
- could be a more flexible intermediate option that allows you to
- specify & limit the number of colors that Executor will use for
- itself (I know that this can't happen until post Executor
- 2). In a sense such behavior is already possible. Specifically,
- if you run Executor after allocating many of the available
- colors, then Executor manages to run with the remaining available
- colors albeit with a somewhat changed on screen appearance. The
- feature that I am suggesting would simply allow you to specify
- the number of colors that Executor can use and then Executor
- would try to make the best use of them (eg. pick the closest
- available color). Is this a reasonable suggestion?
-
- Jeff Kosowsky
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