Hi Jonathan, The video mode I would use is the one set up in WINDOWS by the user. If they are running 15, 16, 24 or 32 bit mode, it doesn't matter as I just poke 24 bit R, G, B values into video RAM. I just let windows sort it out. I don't really worry about speed as most PCs now days are well above 100MHz and updating video RAM is not much of an issue as compared to the calculation speed for fractals. All I was asking for is that I can do my own thing in the windows part of the code and only do sufficient mods to the 'generic' code so I don't disturb the platform independent build. I want to be part of the bigger objective of platform independent code but I am very interested in getting a good version of windows fractint 'out there' as this is probably going to be the most popular platform. I was just ensuring that I synchronise my vision with that of the team. Regards, Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul de Leeuw Computers Central Coast Australia Email: pdeleeuw@deleeuw.com.au www: <http://www.deleeuw.com.au> ABN 72 360 822 562 ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Osuch <osuchj@avalon.net> Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:42 am Subject: Re: [Fractdev] Requst info on FRACTINT Variables for 8 bit to True colour conversion

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:10 am, PHD wrote:

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I'm having a lot of trouble getting the 8 bit colour working but actually> made a lot of progress with the 16 bit true colour. May I suggest a compromise. I build a 16 bit windows engine but truncate its implementation> to pass only 8 bits so the original fractint code has minimal disturbance. The only down side to this is the true colour palette rotation algorithm is very slow on older machines.

Ideally, would you not want to be able to run in 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bit color depths? That way the user wouldn't have to change color depths just to run Fractint.

The only reason I bring it up is that I have a program at home (I don't remember which one) that requires, as it puts it, thousands of colors. Since I was running 8-bit color for the speed, I changed to 24-bit color. It didn't like that because that wasn't thousands. I had to use 16- bit color to get it to run.

Jonathan

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