OpenEuphoria

Re: Win32Lib: color constants

• Posted by Derek Parnell <derekp at solace.com.au> Oct 03, 2000
• 370 views

>>Because, if I run my flood fill demo in 16-bit color, I get dithered
>>remnants of the previous color, meaning that (127,0,0),
>(0,127,0), etc. are
>>not 'pure' colors.  If they were defined with 128 instead of 127, there
>>would be no dithering in 16-bit color (they would be pure colors) and my
>>demo would work 'properly' (i.e. there would be no dithered remnants left
>>over).  Follow?
>
>On the other hand, this seems to be a platform and/or system specific
>issue.  This was the behavior I was seeing on my Win98 system at home.  I
>am not seeing the same problem on my Win2000 system at work.  Oh well...
>that's windows for ya.


It may be influenced by the video driver as well. But in any case, I'll
change win32lib. As a "special", I just might include a "htmlcolor.ew" file
with the next release. This gives names and RGB values for each of the
defined HTML colors.

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cheers,
Derek Parnell