nanogui: nano-X with 8 bit greyscale
Subject:
nano-X with 8 bit greyscale
From:
James Steward ####@####.####
Date:
1 Apr 2006 22:21:22 +0100
Message-Id: <1143927265.5188.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Hi folks,
I'm rather fresh to nano-X and GUI programming, so please excuse my
ignorance. I will learn given half a chance though!
We have an ARM based custom board that has its LCD controller connected
4bits to a 320x240 mono lcd, setup for 8 bit palette.
If I manually set all 256 entries in the palette and cat a tux 8bit
greyscale image to /dev/fb0 it looks fine.
When I start nano-X I see it saves and sets the first 16 color map
entries, not the entire 256 entry color map. Why is this? Shouldn't it
use the whole palette? Did I compile it with wrong options?
If I run wish and add a button with text then pack the button, the wish
window is there, but the button has no text. I wonder if I need to
specify colours for tk to use? Or is this more likely because nano-X
isn't using the whole palette?
Will nano-X run over a network as X11 does? Will it be happy with a tcp
connection? If so, what do I need to tell it (command line or config
file??) to allow connections forwarded via ssh?
I did google for some of this stuff but turned up very little.
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
James.
