Date:	13 Sep 94 14:20 -0700
From:	Philip Hodder <hodder AT geop DOT ubc DOT ca>
To:	<djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject:	Palette problem with GRX 1.03m1 (& djgpp 112m1)

Hi,
	I've been playing around with writing an image display program - this
is for astronomical images so everything is greyscale (and 8 bit data also).
I seem to have run into a problem when trying to display 64 grey levels using
GRX 1.03m1 (you can only display 64 (6 bit) distinct grey levels on VGA).

I set up a palette of 256 colours:

  for (i=0; i<256; i++) { 
    j = i / 4; 
    pal[i] = GrAllocColor(j, j, j); 
  }

i.e. pal[0], pal[1], pal[2], pal[3] are black (0), [4], [5], [6] & [7] have
intensity 1, etc. However this doesnt seem to work! What I get is 16 levels,
specifically (using GrQueryColor to recover the intensities):

COLOR INDEX      R/G/B
pal[0] = 0       0/0/0
...
pal[7] = 0       0/0/0
pal[8] = 14      4/4/4
...
pal[23] = 14     4/4/4
pal[24] = 13     8/8/8
... continues in blocks of 16 until ...
pal[248] = 16    64/64/64
...
pal[255] = 17    64/64/64

GrBlack() returns 0; GrWhite() returns 15 - so there are a total of 16 colours
instead of 64!

I'm fairly sure that the arrays etc are being allocated properly - the program
does work, just not the way I want it to! I've read the documentation, and have
used GrAllocColor in other programs with no problem - I think I'm missing
something obvious and was hoping someone could point it out.

I hope this makes sense to you all - I can try a more detailed explanation if
needed.

	Thanks in advance,

			Phil.

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