nanogui: X11 driver palette bug
Subject:
Re: X11 driver palette bug
From:
George Harvey ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jun 2000 20:49:33 -0000
Message-Id: <yam8199.1134.139054320@smtp.dial.pipex.com>
On 12-Jun-00, Greg Haerr wrote:
>: Yep, I saw that. Now that you have confirmed the X11 fix, I am
>: fairly happy that I have 8-bit palette mode working. From what I
>: know of the source, I don't see any good reason that the
>: truecolour modes shouldn't work as-is but I haven't got suitable
>: systems for testing them. I will try and make my updated version
>: available this week and would appreciate your help in making
>: sure it works for all colour modes.
>I'm pretty sure that the VNC client doesn't work for
>other than 8bpp. I mean VNC 8bpp, not Nano-X. So
>you can still get the VNC 24bpp working on your palettized
>device, Microwindows will convert the colors for you. However,
>there's still some work to be done in the VNC client.
OK, I'd be interested in knowing what combinations do or
don't work. It may be something simple like I am not picking
up the right nano-X parameter to set the VNC screen mode.
>I suggest getting 3.3.2 to work first, then considering 3.3.3. Are
>3.3.2 clients completely compatible with 3.3.3 servers? If so,
>then I suggest sticking with the Nano-X 3.3.2 client. Later,
>we can make an FLTK VNC widget and we'll get scrollbars
>from that.
I'm happy with that, I'll continue with 3.3.2 for now. The VNC
documentation says that any 3.3.x viewer should work with any
3.3.x server so compatibility is not a problem.
George
