How to determine screen depth?
Dan Ingalls
Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Wed Mar 1 23:19:08 UTC 2000
Doug Way <dway at mat.net> wrote...
>Er, I think by "host display" they meant the host operating system display
>depth/size, not the Squeak display depth/size. (Although I could be
>wrong.)
>
>I'm nearly positive that you'd need to roll your own pluggable primitive
>to set the host screen's depth or size. (Not only that, but doing this
>from an application is often frowned upon, even for applications with much
>greater native OS access than Squeak.)
I think we may want to make this part of the standard VM. I have often wanted a feature whereby, each time you start up Squeak with a different host screen depth, it sets a flag #HostScreenDepthChanged in all projects. Whenever you enter a project and this flag is true, if its screen depth is not the same as the host it prompts you along the following lines...
[The screen depth in this project (8 bits)
is not the same as that of the OS (16 bits)]
<continue as is>
<make this project match the OS>
<make all projects of this depth match the OS>
... and, of course, resets the HostScreenDepthChanged for that (and any other affected) project.
- Dan
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