Colors for Rebol

Hi: I'm using Rebol on a linux system with an 8 bit display (X window displau) (yes, that's right, 256 colors). I can't seem to get exactly the colors I want on the screen using Rebol. For instance, if I do a view/new layout [cat: box 300x100 255.255.255] I get a white box, as I want. But if I then do cat/color: 255.255.250 show cat I get the exact same shade of white. If I use a non-Rebol program side by side, so I can be sure of what's going on, like xterm, ie xterm -background rgb:ff/ff/fa -geometry 100x100+100+100 I clearly see the Rebol program is displaying the same color for both 255.255.250 and 255.255.255 While xterm displays different colors. Is there some setting anyone knows about that can give me the results I need ? Thanks, Andy

Hi Andy, On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 6:51:36 PM, you wrote: AF> Is there some setting anyone knows about that can give me the results I AF> need ? I'm not sure I recall the name correctly, I hope so. Try to set: system/view/screen-face/options: [exclusive-colors] in your user.r. (There are other options as well, some of which should be set by /View when you install it based on what you check on the configuration window.) Anyway, it's possible that RT never tested /View on a 256 color display... I used it a couple of times on a Solaris box with 256 colors and I recall the colors being wrong too. Probably the Amiga version handles this much better, for obvious reasons... :-) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Hi Gabriele: Thanks for the tip; unfortunately it doesn't seem to help the problem. I guess Rebol is locked into using only the colors it allocates. Maybe I can unlock the colormap values, and directly change some of the ones I'm not otherwise using to get the colors I need. Andy

Hi Andy, On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 6:37:54 AM, you wrote: AF> I guess Rebol is locked into using only the colors it allocates. Maybe AF> I can unlock the colormap values, and directly change some of the ones AF> I'm not otherwise using to get the colors I need. You might try to contact Holger Kruse directly, maybe he can give you a solution. (Provided he still has time to read emails these days.) His address is [holger--rebol--com]. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r