Re: 3.8 Specification Palette color ambiguity
Jon Watte <[email protected]>
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Peter Rosin wrote: >>> Huh? All 16 bits are significant. >> >> Which means high-justified. > > And low-justified. And centered. *All* bits are significant. You should > think about why you are not arguing for similar language for e.g. > red-max in PIXEL_FORMAT? > I'm not arguing for PIXEL_FORMAT because both the shift and the mask is well defined. One way to explain Color would be to say that the shift is 0 and the mask is 0xffff; that'd be clear and unambiguous no matter what the context. The reason I think this is not clear, is that there are so many different graphics specs all over the technology spectrum, and some of them only use the lower bits, based on what the resolution is -- for a 5:6:5 format, they'd use the lower 5 bits of red and blue, and the lower 6 bits of green. You can't assume that just because you think the way it current is defined is "right," (and I would agree) there won't be some other context within which a loose definition wouldn't be confusing. Sincerely, jw -- Revenge is the most pointless and damaging of human desires. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list