Screen 0 palette problems under Windows XP?

[Paul Panks]

Hello,

I am running Windows XP and for some odd reason when I attempt
to use PALETTE to turn the entire screen blue, the program
decides it is better to have the screen stay as it is. Any ideas? This is for SCREEN mode 0.

The code is similar to:

cls
SCREEN 0
PALETTE 15,1:?"This is a test."

Regards,

Paul

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[Paul Panks]

Ok, nevermind. It works under fullscreen mode, but for some odd
reason when I switch the same program to run in a WINDOWed text
area, the screen defaults to black, even after a PALETTE statement
to turn the screen blue has been issues.

Paul


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Few cats act their age, while
most just cough up furballs.

[Lance Edmonds]

It's a documented behavior of all versions of Windows.

In windowed mode, Windows does not try to query the VGA card's palette state to obtain the palette information, since it would be "highly inefficient" (or words to that effect).

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PowerBASIC Support
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