Re: FVWM: Re: Fvwm and its own ColorMaps

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_bae.bellcore.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:03:12 -0400

Brian Sayatovic <bjs_at_iti-oh.com> writes:
> I was thinking about his. I believe it owuld be useful to have a tool, simil
> ar
> to 'xcolor' (a mosaic of all f the colors in the colormap) that when a color
> is
> clicked, it would cycle that color through an eye catching predetermined
> pattern, showing outisde of its window where that color had been used. For
> example, blicking on 'black' and all of the text in the Fvwm Menus and
> ButtonBars, etc, would cycle colors indicating that they are e all using the
> same color cell. Is anything liek this available? I'm going ot go out on a
> limb and say this would be easy to write, even thoguh I have very limited X
> experience in relation to colormaps.

Its already been written and works remarkably like you describe. I
have a copy, and the comments indicate the author is Barry Solomon.
The program is called "colormap". I've had trouble re-finding it on
the net, if someone can find it, let me know where it is, as I have
some minor enhancements I'd like to give back to the author.

> Brian.
>
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