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From: defaria@hpcladb.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X color maps and switching
Message-ID: <1340064@hpcladb.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 17:26:16 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>I was using the new X Window Systems' ability to output starbase
>to a window, when I stumbled onto a very interesting thing:  When
>the cursor enters the starbase window, the color maps change just
>like I supposed they would.  Unfortunately, the REST of the screen
>turns a kind of reddish-orange extremely distracting hue.  Like
>groovy!  Unfortunately, this is somewhat distracting.  Has anybody
>else noticed this?  Is this a "feature" to draw attention to the
>new facility?  Couldn't a black background replace the outside
>windows, so the day-glow orange colors couldn't be seen?  I need
>my shades..:-)

I heard, at the HP Graphics Symposium (where were you!?! :-) , somebody say 
that when he opens a Starbase window the first thing he does is call gescape 
to read the hardware colormap.  This syncs up Starbase and X11 as far as 
colormaps go.  I'm not sure how you work with the colors, or allocate new ones, 
at this point so I haven't tried this yet.  This is also hardware dependent.
Can anyone expand on this?