Re: 16 bit display

[hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Hankin)]

Hi Pepijn, Geoff, and Emilio,

You are right. Ferret version 4.5 does not support color displays of greater
than 8 bit depth. Ferret version 4.9, which we are in the process of packaging
and documenting now, will fix this problem. Version 4.9 will be available very
soon ...

	- steve

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On Oct 21,  2:25pm, VEEFKIND J.P. 254/1J10/4-3 wrote:
> Subject: 16 bit display
> Dear ferret users,
>
> I run ferret remote on a sun, using my PC as an X-terminal. When my
> monitor is set to 16 bit (ie 65536 colors) all the colors that ferret
> uses become blue, probably because ferret thinks that I'm using 256
> colors. Thus anyone know how to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Regards
>
> Pepijn
>
>
> ____________________________________________
> J. Pepijn Veefkind
> TNO-FEL
> tel (+31) 70 374 0000  (operator)
> tel (+31) 70 374 0626  (direct)
> fax (+31) 70 374 0654
> ____________________________________________
>-- End of excerpt from VEEFKIND J.P. 254/1J10/4-3

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On Oct 21,  9:15am, Geoff Vallis wrote:
> Subject: Re: 16 bit display
> I had the same problem. Apparently the current version of Ferret
> will only support an 8-bit display. The only solution I am aware of is to
> set your display to 8 bits. Apparently the next version of Ferret
> will perform correctly on 16-bit and higher displays.
>
> --
> Geoffrey K. Vallis
> Dept. Ocean Science	      Tel: (408) 459 2049
> UCSC			      Fax: (408) 459 4882
> Santa Cruz CA 95064	      Email: vallis@cascade.ucsc.edu
> USA	 		      http://natsci.ucsc.edu/acad/oceansci/gkvCV.html
>
>
> >
> > Dear ferret users,
> >
> > I run ferret remote on a sun, using my PC as an X-terminal. When my
> > monitor is set to 16 bit (ie 65536 colors) all the colors that ferret
> > uses become blue, probably because ferret thinks that I'm using 256
> > colors. Thus anyone know how to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pepijn
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________
> > J. Pepijn Veefkind
> > TNO-FEL
> > tel (+31) 70 374 0000  (operator)
> > tel (+31) 70 374 0626  (direct)
> > fax (+31) 70 374 0654
> > ____________________________________________
> >
>-- End of excerpt from Geoff Vallis

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On Oct 21,  9:55am, Emilio Mayorga wrote:
> Subject: Re: 16 bit display
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, VEEFKIND J.P. 254/1J10/4-3 wrote:
>
> > Dear ferret users,
> >
> > I run ferret remote on a sun, using my PC as an X-terminal. When my
> > monitor is set to 16 bit (ie 65536 colors) all the colors that ferret
> > uses become blue, probably because ferret thinks that I'm using 256
> > colors. Thus anyone know how to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pepijn
>
>
> I ran into the same problem, with exactly the same specifications (running
> ferret on a sun, using my PC-Windows 95 with an X emulator, Xwin32). I
> don't remember if the colors were blue, I think my problem was worse, that
> ferret would crash whenever I started opened a graphics window. I had to
> switch to 256 colors.
>
> Emilio
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> University of Washington
> School of Oceanography			emiliom@u.washington.edu
> Box 357940				ph. (206) 543-5334
> Seattle, WA  98195-7940	  USA		FAX (206) 685-3351
> http://boto.ocean.washington.edu/staff_pages/emilio
>
>-- End of excerpt from Emilio Mayorga




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