| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I have a customer who has problems on his 4-plane VS2000, because he is getting COLORMAP FULL all the time. He understands why he gets this message while running a lot of color applications. He's problem is that even after stopping the different images he gets colormap full messages he has to acknowledge when he starts working again. He has to make a @DECW$STARTUP RESTART to restore the default colormap. Is it another way to restore the default colormap ? Is there another way to get rid of these messages ? I have read a lot of notes concerning Colormap, but can't find anything about this. Aage
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| 1300.1 | Check use of RetainPermanent close down mode | STAR::ORGOVAN | Vince Orgovan | Mon Aug 21 1989 18:27 | 6 |
Normally the server is supposed to free all colormap entries
allocated by a client when the client closes the display connection.
However, clients can override this behavior using the XSetCloseDownMode
routine. Perhaps your customer is using XSetCloseDownMode with the
RetainPermanent setting?
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| 1300.2 | Using standard applications, but some are displaying in REGIS. | OSLKC::AGE | Aage Ronning | Tue Aug 22 1989 10:40 | 12 |
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think the customer use this routine. He is running standard applications like 2020, DECchart? and some 3-party products. Some of these products are displaying REGIS-graphs. Any problems? Even if the programs are screwing things up, is there a way to restore the default colormap without running DECW$STARTUP RESTART. Aage | |||||
| 1300.3 | This is how ReGIS works on a 4-plane system in V1 | HANNAH::MESSENGER | Bob Messenger | Tue Aug 22 1989 12:33 | 19 |
Re: .2 I assume the customer is running DECwindows V1 (i.e. he isn't running field test software). On a 4-plane color system, when an application displays ReGIS graphics DECterm allocates a private colormap for that window. If the window with ReGIS has the input focus, the entire workstation switches to that colormap, so the ReGIS window displays in its true colors, and if another window has the input focus the workstation uses the default colormap, so the ReGIS window does not display in its true colors. You can return the ReGIS window to using the default colormap by invoking the Clear Display and Reset Terminal commands from the Commands menu. I've never seen the "colormap full" message. Is this output by an application? If so, which one? If you run a DECwindows application while the ReGIS window has a private colormap, the DECwindows application should allocate its colors out of the default colormap, so there should be no problem. -- Bob | |||||