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Re: Monitor color depth


  • Subject: Re: Monitor color depth
  • From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:34:45 -0400

Dale -

I had the most current version of Jon's CommandsX, 3.0d3, and it didn't have the "set screens to" command in its dictionary. On the off chance that Jon had changed it without changing the version number I just downloaded and installed it again. It *still* doesn't have that command in its dictionary. The command is documented in the JonsCommandsDocs.html file that came with the osax, but that file hasn't changed since Jon's Commands 2.1.2.

If you've used the "set screens to" command in OS X I'd really like to know how you've done it. When I code it into a script it's not taken as a command. Instead, "screens" is compiled as an ordinary variable.

Marc [09/24/03 1:28:58 PM]

On 09/24/03 at 7:19 AM, Dale wrote:
Jon's Commands X 3.0 for Mac OS X still has the set screens to command. Download the package and check out the documentation it's worked for me using Mac OS X 10.2.

Cheers

Dale

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:07 AM, Dale Gillard wrote:

Marc K. Myers <email@hidden> wrote:

From: Dale Gillard <email@hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:35:17 AM America/Detroit
To: email@hidden
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Monitor color depth

Download Jon's Commands X 3.0 for Mac OS X. It's a scripting
addition,
and as far as I know, was also the only way to change the monitor
resolution via AppleScript in Mac OS 9 as well.

See <http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/>.

Cheers

Dale

Marc K. Myers recently 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.

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?

I'm running OS X 10.2.6 on a G4 tower.

TIA

Jon's Commands for earlier versions of the Mac OS included a "set
screens to" command. The OS X version does not appear to have that
command. Have you found a way around this?

Marc [09/23/03 2:10:56 PM]


The OS X version also has the 'set screens to' command. I downloaded it only 2
months ago and use it for this purpose. I'm away from my Mac at the moment but
I'll double check this and let you know.

Cheers.

Dale Gillard
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