Palette Utilization Demonstration

ID: Q97352

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1

SUMMARY

This article discusses basic palette awareness, such as what it takes for an application to use palettes correctly in the Microsoft Windows graphical environment, by covering these areas:

Responding to palette-related messages

Managing palette-based bitmaps

Managing multiple palettes in one application

Using the Clipboard with palettes

MORE INFORMATION

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

~ PALAWARE.EXE

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

The reader should be familiar with basic palette use for painting operations. This article is not about the Palette Manager, and the level of detail is limited to the very basics of the palette managing process. A sample application, MULTIPAL, is included on the Microsoft Developer Network CD to illustrate the use of multiple palettes in a single application.

MULTIPAL is also included with the PALAWARE technical article located in the Microsoft Software Library.

MULTIPAL is a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) extension to the DIBIT sample program that accompanies the "Using DIBs with Palettes" technical article. MULTIPAL allows you to display multiple DIBs with multiple palettes and handles palette messaging from both the system perspective and the application perspective. The MDI skeleton is taken from the BLANDMDI program that is included in the Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) version 3.1 Software Development Kit (SDK). MULTIPAL achieves device independence by using palettes at all times, regardless of the type of device being used.

To see the application in action, open several color-intensive 8-bit device-independent bitmaps (DIBs) at the same time and change the active DIB window. To see the application's interaction with the rest of the system, run another application that uses palettes (another instance of MULTIPAL will do).

Additional query words: 3.10 softlib MULTIPAL.EXE

Keywords : kbfile kbsample kb16bitonly kbSDKWin16
Version : WINDOWS:3.1
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo