Howdy there folks

I am trying to build a 256 color palette with custom colors and am
having major problems getting it to be realized.  I have followed the
examples in MSDN but to no avail.  The colors come back dithered and
the palette modifications are not detectible.  Help!  We have to get
these colors working.

Kevin Cranston

Did you call RealizePalette()?  If you didn't, that would cause the
problem.  If you did, did you set the palette as the foreground palette
when you are drawing?  (You probably did, since that is the default.)  If
the window you are drawing into is the topmost window (with the focus) and
you still get dithering the palette may be full).

I suggest you check out the excelent CDib example by Jeff Prosise in the
February issue of MSJ.  He covers a lot of these issues.  The best
discussion of palettes for Windows programming I have seen is in the book
'Animation Techniques in Win32' by Nigel Thompson.
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Ed