On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:59:00AM +0100, dominik.vogt_at_fvwm.org wrote:
> 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.
... and the attachment ...
Bye
Dominik ^_^
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