On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 09:08:28AM +0000, gsez020_at_compo.bedford.waii.com wrote:
> Dominik Vogt writes:
> > As far as I know CDE even adapts the actual colours it uses to your
> > display hardware. That is why CDE's colours look the same
> > regardless of the machine you have. This is far beyond everything
> > we tried to code yet.
>
>...
>
> If you really want to get the same colours as CDE, link in the Motif
> library and call XmGetColors(). That returns foreground, select, and
> shadow colours for a given background. In my experience the
> underlying algorithm is different in each of Motif 1.1, 1.2 (CDE 1.0),
> and 2.1 (CDE 2.1).
Ah, thanks for the info. The algorithm that lesstif uses does
indeed look like what CDE does. Dan, do you feel inclined to
port lesstif's algorithm to fvwm? I've attached the source file
with the code. Look for the '_XmColorProcDefaultProc' function.
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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