Re: Help jump colours partial solution

Subject: Re: Help jump colours partial solution
From: Richard Mateosian <srm -at- C2 -dot- ORG>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 01:05:09 -0700

>If the machines are set to 32K or 64K colours the links are
>black even if I specify the 0 128 0 colour (that charming green) in the
>win.ini.

Just a guess here, but 32K colors means you only get 5 bits per color
instead of 8 (assuming the colors get equally many bits -- not necessarily
the best match with human perception).

The value 128 = 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 in 8-bit binary, and I can imagine a
plausible mapping from 8-bit to 5-bit that maps that to 0 0 0 0 0.

Assuming that zero maps to zero, you'd have (0, 128, 0) --> (0, 0, 0) = black.

As I said, just a guess. ...RM

Richard Mateosian Freelance Technical Writer
srm -at- c2 -dot- org Copyright 1996 Review Editor, IEEE Micro
http://www.c2.org/~srm/ All rights reserved President, Berkeley STC

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