Re: XForms colormap

Stefano Mancini (mancini@galileo.pi.infn.it)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:01:25 +0100

To subscribers of the xforms list from Stefano Mancini <mancini@galileo.pi.infn.it> :

Andrew Baucom wrote:
>
> To subscribers of the xforms list from "Andrew Baucom" <baucom@swales.com> :
>
> Hi,
>
> I have discovered XForms as a means of creating XWindow applications and am
> thoroughly impressed.
>
> I need some help to figure out how I go about creating a custom color
> palette for viewing images in
> a canvas. I've got my image in an XImage structure and it works fine on a
> 24 bit color display. I can't
> seem to figure out how to change the system palette so I can view the image
> correctly on an 8-bit
> color display. I realize I've got to same some "basic system" colors for
> window decorations and buttons.
> but I'm not having any luck with the fl_mapcolor routines....
>
> My images are 1024 color grayscale which I can compress down to 256 or less
> colors. I'd like to use
> as many colors as possible to view the image.
>
> Does anyone have any example code I could view to see how to create a
> custom colormap?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Andrew Baucom
>
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If you need to define a private colormap to perform graphic overlays, i
have the code for you....
let me know.

regards

S.Mancini
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