8 bit PseudoColor problem

[Charles Wilson]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> I wouldn't say that PseudoColor support is sketchy.  I mean, it works fine
> either in fullscreen or if you are running Windows in 8 bit color mode.
> Granted, PseudoColor is not available when you are running in windowed mode
> with Windows set at higher than 8 bit color.

Correct.

> Are you telling me that Cadence still does not work with Cygwin/XFree86 even
> when you are using one of the two options outlined above?  That would be
> disappointing because I did put a lot of time into the PseudoColor support
> and I was pretty certain that it was working properly.  Hmm...

Well, it's also the fact that *cadence* uses PsuedoColor poorly.  It 
wants a private colormap, which means lots of fun colorflashing, unless 
you have support for multiple 256color psuedocolor maps within the same 
display.  AFAIK, only Solaris's Xserver actually implements this.

Now, Cadence is ALSO ugly when hosted by XWin32.  *But*, because Xwin32 
supports multiple windows, the ugliness only affects cadence, and not 
any other windows you might have open.  In my case, if I'm using an 
Xserver in "full screen" mode, then I tend to open up xterms and other 
windows inside it -- which means they all get affected by the 8bit 
colorflashing.

OTOH, if I'm Xhosting an app using an Xserver that supports multiple 
windows, then I open up cygwin rxvt (native) rxvt windows, and native 
windows editors, etc.  And only cadence is affected by the 8bit issue -- 
so it's tolerable.

As I said, it has been a long time since I've tried it using the 
cygwin-xfree server, but that's my recollection.

--Chuck