From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: GRX VESA driver
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:24:47 +0100
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Tom St Denis schrieb:
> > when you switch back and forth from DOS box to Windows (Alt TAB)
> > the color table / color palette using 256 GrCells is spoiled.
> > i.e. not the contents of the Cells are disturbed, but their resulting color
> > on the screen.
> I believe windows changes the hardware palette when you switch modes.  What
> mode is your desktop in?
sure that is the reason. I tried all the modes available on my machine.
But I still wonder how Allegro programmers
(and some others) avoided this problem:

to get me right: I don't need switching ATL TAB, but my clients want to :(

Thanks for reply.

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