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Subject: Re: Colour.
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 10:15:02 +1000
From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
Precedence: bulk
In message <199405301254.OAA04628@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl>, you wrote:
>Warwick wrote:
>
>> - The standard 16 colours
>> - When should a user desire to change them?
>
>In my opinion a user will never want to change that standard 16 colours.
>But users do want to change the colour of certain objects on screen.
Here's when they will:
- When they don't like having a bright green desktop.
- When they want more subtle colours for window elements.
I changed my palette for exactly these reasons. The changes where minimal
and all colour icons still look fine.
>The least thing that should be added is that there is some way for other
>programs (or a central colour manager) to find out that the application
>has changed the palette or something that registers a program in a
>systemwide database as 'colour-aware' so that other programs know that
>those applications are well-behaved.
Hmm.... this may be a good idea.
The problem at the moment is that the only way an application can check if
the palette has changed is to look at every colour - useless. If there was
a vdi call which returned the last TIME the palette was changed (or even just
some number that changes when the palette changes [eg. increases by 1]), then
a program could very regularly check this state and compare it with the last
state it recorded.
I'm very keen on this idea. It should work very well, and supports older
applications.
Who should be responsible for changing this `last-change' value? Libraries?
The VDI? (if it was the VDI, then it would work for old apps)
Usage:
restore_palette()
{
static int remember=0;
if (remember!=palette_change_number()) {
set_palette(...) /* increments palette_change_number */
remember=palette_change_number()
}
}
--
Warwick