>Yeti wrote: Sharing of colours means sharing of colourmap entries. >All the colour allocation stuff dates back to the pre-direct >colour era when only a limited number of colours were >available. The table of all available colours is called >colourmap, sometimes its entries were changeable, sometimes >even didn't. Applications were fighting for colourmap >entries with other applications that wanted entirely >different colours... >Shareable means the application says `I want a colour at >least a bit similar to this' to the windowing system and >the windowing system assigns to it a colour from the >colourmap. Other applications that wish a similar colour >can obtain the very same colourmap entry, therefore our >application must not change the entry to a different >colour. >Non-shareable means the application says `I want a colour >and I want to change it later' to the windowing system and >it gets an entry in the colourmap that no one else uses. >(Well, at least not at the same time.) Thanks Yeti for your explanation. I still have a question. So what youre saying is no two application can allocate same color when writable option is set to TRUE while using gtk_colormap_alloc_color(). Is that true? If that's true then how come I can use the same allocated color (when both of these applications are running) to draw a picture? --DC _________________________________________________________________ Experience Live Search from your PC or mobile device today. http://www.live.com/?mkt=en-ca _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
