Re: Monitor color depth
Re: Monitor color depth
- Subject: Re: Monitor color depth
- From: Joshua See <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:06:56 -0500
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 03:11 PM, Marc K. Myers wrote:
I asked this question several days ago and didn't get any responses,
so I thought I'd throw it into the mix again.
Sometimes I'm just a little slow getting emails out.
I'd like to be able to script a change in monitor color depth. I have
some old software that requires 256 colors, so I want to switch from
millions to 256 and back again. Does anyone know how to do it?
In OS 9, the university I work at used an osax based solution, but for
X you have two command line choices, setDisplay and cscreen. Cscreen is
smarter, but setDisplay will change refresh rate while Cscreen won't.
The "smarter" remark is due to the fact that setDisplay will go ahead
and set resolutions that the monitor can't actually display, and has no
provision for warning the users of this.
<
http://www.pyehouse.com/lynn/cscreen.dmg>
The command line help is the only documentation.
<
http://macosxlabs.org/tools_and_scripts/script_archive/scripts/
miscellaneous/university_of_utah/SetDisplay.hqx>
setDisplay is distributed as source, read to source to learn how to use
it.
I'm running OS X 1.2.6 on a G4 tower.
So is this the version of OS X for 128K macs?
--
Sincerely,
Joshua See
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