ANNOUNCE: new XDRIVER released!

GRASS GRASS user
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Dear GRASS community,

today we can proudly present the new XDRIVER with
*true* 24bit support! We are grateful to Roberto Flor
(ITC-Irst , Trento, Italy), who updated the original
driver software and the d.mon module.

Features:

- Choose color depth yourself... full support up to 24bit now
- New parameter "nlev" for d.mon module.
   Using this parameter you will define the number of color levels
   per color channel. Example:
           nlev=8: means 8 level per channel (Red, Green, Blue)
           nlev=256: equal to 24bit GRASS monitor
             (takes some time to allocate memory)
        
   You will use the d.mon as follows to get a 24bit truecolor GRASS
   Monitor:
           d.mon start=x0 nlev=256
           got a TrueColor (Read-Only!) Visual
           ncolors: 16777216
           allocating memory...
           Graphics driver [x0] started

The radiometric quality is great!

Watch an example and get the source code as well as precompiled
binaries here:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/xdriver.html

Best regards

  Markus Neteler

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On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 05:07:58PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:

today we can proudly present the new XDRIVER with
*true* 24bit support! We are grateful to Roberto Flor

Congratulations.
Thanks to Roberto and thanks for informing us.

Watch an example and get the source code as well as precompiled
binaries here:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/xdriver.html

The example image is in gif format. :slight_smile:
That means it only supports 256 colors.
Well it is still a resonable example, because these 256 colors can be
choosen from a greater number.
Still an PNG picture (not using indexed colors) would be indeed show
24bit. (Sideplug: more people should considere this nice graphic format
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/ )

:wink:
  Bernhard

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