tlug: X colormaps

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott Stone writes:
 > 
 > Are colormaps and colormap structures in X at all useful in bit depths
 > greater than 8?  Ie, if I have a program that I'd like to be able to run
 > under X and do neat things like pallette fades/color cycling/etc, can I do
 > that in 16/24/32bpp or must I use 8bpp?
As far as I know you can create colormaps for all visuals and they
should have some meaning. Look at the manpages for XCreateColormap.
So I think it should be possible to have those effects. There is a
very informative web site that has all kinds of information about X11
and Motif:
http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.shtml

Hope that helps. I only did some stuff with colormaps for Pseudocolor
visuals because in that case you need your own colormap to watch TV :).

Marcus

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