Re: define_color vs. xw-color-values, or pixel vs. red, green and blue

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:21:28 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> 
> So I suppose the question is: why does xw-color-values do
> 
>   return list3 (make_number ((GetRValue (foo.pixel) << 8)
>                              | GetRValue (foo.pixel)),
>                 make_number ((GetGValue (foo.pixel) << 8)
>                              | GetGValue (foo.pixel)),
>                 make_number ((GetBValue (foo.pixel) << 8)
>                              | GetBValue (foo.pixel)));
> 
> instead of
> 
>   return list3 (make_number (foo.red),
>                 make_number (foo.green),
>                 make_number (foo.blue));

Whatever turns out to be the reason, I hope we are not going to
consider changing this now, since this code is there since Emacs 19.x
(with very minor changes).