icut and RGB mode

Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB blbates at AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV
Fri Mar 1 01:58:20 AEST 1991


  When using icut (scrsave) it doesn't matter what mode the windows you
are saving are in.  Scrsave uses gl_readscreen, currently an undocumented
routine, which returns rgb values no matter what mode you're in.
  There is a known problem with gl_readscreen, if you try to save a full
screen width, 1280 pixels, the information returned by gl_readscreen is
garbaged.  The temporary fix for this is save images less than 1280 pixels
wide.  Hopefully, gl_readscreen will be fixed in the next release and
become a "supported" and documented routine.

	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 361
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates at aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates at aero8.larc.nasa.gov



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