On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Rojas, Francisco wrote:
Can you please further clarify, I do not understand the answer in relation to the question.
I am not worried about the 8 bit per color component. I am trying to allocate more than > 256 color cells. An example, I would like to use DirectColor to create 1024 shades of gray.
1024 shades of grey requires 1024 shades of red, green and blue. 8 bits doesn't allow for that.
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