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Re: color setting

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From: Ken Stailey
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1989 20:21
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In article <8268@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>Being too lazy to jump right into this, I'm asking you to help me set up the
>color palette within a GEM application.  The nicest way would be to use the
>control panel accessory, since it's familiar to most users.  Anyone care to
>tell me how it sets colors?  From the ways it doesn't work in various 
>situations I get the idea that it sends messages to the desktop, and the

The control panel calls the xbios.  It either calls setpallete() once
or setColor() 16 times.  See your C or Pascal manual for the details.
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From: stailey@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ken Stailey)
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Subject: Re: color setting
Keywords: Source, Control panel
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Date: 23 Apr 89 20:21:35 GMT
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