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

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 2/14/07, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:

> but
> w32_defined_color maps it to (ff00,ff00,ff00). This is due to windows
> only supporting 8 bits per color channel, while Emacs expects 16.

I don't entirely understand. That should be an issue when passing the
color to Windows, not during manipulation inside Emacs. Or is that an
optimization?

> Correcting this bug would allow us to use the latter code in
> xw-color-values, which is more clear.

I'll file it in my list of things to remember after the release.

            Juanma