DirectColor-visual?

Alan Hourihane alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk
Tue Jan 14 03:16:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:58:07PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> So would it make any sense at all to try to support it on Windows?  To 
> the best of my knowledge, you cannot read and write the 24 bit colors 
> that are available.

If you can't get a read/write colormap from Windows, then apart from
emulating it, it'd be pretty hard to support it. There are some
applications that would use it though, if it were available.

There are a few graphics cards that support this mode in the *nix versions
of XFree86 though. 

Alan.



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