Re: Finding color capabilities

• To: Guy Footring <Guy@avon.sltd.dialnet.symbolics.com>
• Subject: Re: Finding color capabilities
• From: Chris Richardson <cer@franz.com>
• Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:11:48 -0700
• Cc: clim@BBN.COM
• In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 28 Sep 92 17:04:00 A. <19920928170404.1.GUY@BLACKWATER.sltd.dialnet.symbolics.com>

> Is there some function available that allows you to determine the color
> capabilities of a CLIM stream/window?
> 
> I'd like to use different techniques to display data depending on whether
> the CLIM display I'm using supports color or not.  I guess that the generalization
> of this would be to know the bit-depth or number of colors displayable - or perhaps
> whether a given color can be displayed as such.
> 
> Is this part of the functionality to be offered by CLIM 2 palettes?


In CLIM 2.0, functions for obtaining such information are not part of the
public interface and differ across the various ports.  It would not be
difficult to add such a capability to the CLIM API.  I'll investigate
doing this.

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