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   PalView is a "free-ware" utility which allows the hardware color palette of
the video display device to be monitored in real-time. It displays the colors
that the hardware palette is currently set to, and will show any color changes
as they happen. PalView can also display information about the individual
color entries of the hardware color palette.

   PalView was designed to be used exclusively with the Presentation Manager's
(PM) Palette Manager subsystem. PalView will run only on Palette Manager
systems supporting 256 colors. Most SVGA, XGA, and 8514A drivers support 256
color Palette Manager; most notably, VGA and 24-bit true-color systems do
*not*. If you have a question as to whether your system supports Palette
Manager at 256 colors, consult your video card manufacturer, or the developer
of the video device driver.

   The Palette Manager subsystem allows the "limited resource" of the hardware
color palette to be fairly shared among PM applications which may want to set
the hardware color palette to their own liking. PalView displays the results
of the Palette Management subsystem's arbitration of palette requests as they
happen.

   The capabilities of PalView make it both a fun utility for the casual 
computer user and a handy debugging aid for the serious graphics application 
developer. PalView was designed so that it can be run continuously, constantly 
monitoring the color palette, with negligible impact on the total system 
performance. The serious graphics developer or aficionado my want to have 
PalView be a permanent fixture of their PM/WPS desktop.

   PalView provides an extensive help system that contains information about
both the program operation and color palettes in general.


HOW TO GET IT GOING:

   1) Start up PALVIEW.EXE. Note that for the help system to work, the help
      file, PALVIEW.HLP, must be either in the default startup directory or
      in the "HELP" path.

   2) PalView does not have a standard menubar for the user to select actions;
      it instead has a "popup" context menu. The context menu may be pulled up
      by right clicking in the client area of the window. This assumes that
      the mouse action for context menu popup has not be changed from the
      default in the OS/2 System Setup folder.

   3) The help system may be accessed either from the context menu, or by
      pressing F1 whenever the control/window of interest has the focus (i.e.
      pressing F1 when an entry box has the focus will pull up help about that
      box).  The help system contains complete documentation on the
      functioning of PalView.


That should be enough to get you going. Hopefully, PalView is fairly
intuitive.

Please send me any comments, suggestions, or questions that you have to:

  John D. Webb
  Compuserve:  71075,1117
  Internet:    71075.1117@compuserve.com


           (c) Copyright 1994, John D. Webb. All rights reserved.

 
          
                  
