| 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 |
We have a number of greyscale /GPX systems (both 4 and 8 plane) running
VMS V5.4. The Login screen on these systems radically changed
appearance in VMS V5.4 (it's now displayed in largely unreadable shades
of grey). Also, various other "colour" oriented things changed - the
watch cursor always used to be black and white, but now it shows up
grey and black. Some applications display different colours too. For
example, XMAZE, XCHOMP etc. all seem to use the Screen Background
colour as the Window background colour.
This behaviour started with the VMS V5.4 final mandatory update, it
didn't happen in the previous FT Update version of V5.4.
Can someone say what has changed, and whether it is intentional ?
Trevor
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3380.1 | STAR::MCLEMAN | Jeff McLeman, VMS development | Mon Sep 24 1990 09:54 | 2 | |
Did your DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM file get trashed?
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| 3380.2 | WIKKIT::WARWICK | Trevor Warwick | Mon Sep 24 1990 13:33 | 5 | |
No, that's intact. Is there anyone running a greyscale /GPX on V5.4
that hasn't noticed a change ?
Trevor
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| 3380.3 | DECWIN::FISHER | Locutus: Fact or Fraud? | Fri Sep 28 1990 14:52 | 14 | |
The thing that changed in the final days regarding gray scale was this: We used to, for gray scale, pump down equal quantities of red, green, and blue, so that even on a color monitor you would see grey. We were asked (an understatement... we got a CLD) to change it so that it was possible to drive only the green wire. It seems that on certain combinations of hardware, driving the unused wires caused garbage in the other lines. If you were using a color monitor, this could have caused your picture to turn from grey to green. Otherwise, I don't understand it. I suggest a QAR...this very code is being worked on at this very moment (by someone else) for DW V3. Burns | |||||
| 3380.4 | Done | WIKKIT::WARWICK | Trevor Warwick | Mon Oct 01 1990 14:54 | 2 |
OK, this is V5 QAR number 3310....
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