Re: problem allocating colors

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "DS" == Don Smith <address@hidden> writes:

DS> My computer can show only 256 colors, so when I try to run
DS> various SWARM applications (including heatbugs) I get errors like
DS> the one shown below.   Because so many colors are getting mapped
DS> to white, I am not seeing the whole animation.  Arguably, this
DS> is a bug that the SWARM team should fix.  

Swarm 1.4 will create virtual colormaps as necessary.  As the user switches
between windows with and without virtual colormaps, the windows out
of focus show false colors.  Hopefully that's a little more useful than the
current behavior of substituting white.


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