24-bit color support to Xvnc

[paresh masani]

James,

I think you are missing something here. Google tells me (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_channel) that Microsoft makes use of this
upper 8 bits. however, I found that X11 only uses these bits as part of
XRender and  RealVNC doesn't seem to support XRender. Am i correct?

Thanks,
Paresh


On 6/20/08, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote:
>
> Paresh,
>
> That means that your Windows desktop is using depth 24 at 32
> bits-per-pixel,
> not depth 32 - depth refers to the number of bits of actual colour
> information per pixel, while bits-per-pixel refers to the size of data
> element used to store the pixel values.
>
> The standard format for the "Highest (32-bit)" setting in Windows is 8 bits
> for each of the red, green and blue components, with the 8 remaining bits
> unused(*).
>
> --
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
>
> (*)  Actually, they might be used for alpha-channel, Z-buffer or other
> auxilliary data, but in VNC-land, we normally just count the RGB bits
> towards the "depth".
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: paresh masani [mailto:masaniparesh "at" gmail.com]
> > Sent: 20 June 2008 09:18
> > To: James Weatherall
> > Cc: Corne Beerse; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc
> >
> > Yes James...I have set the screen resoulution to Higesh-32 bit color.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paresh
> >
> >
> > On 6/19/08, James Weatherall <jnw "at" realvnc.com> wrote:
> >
> >       Paresh,
> >
> >       Are you sure that the machine on which you're using VNC
> > Viewer supports
> >       depth 32, and not depth 24 at 32 bits-per-pixel?
> >
> >       --
> >       Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
> >
> >
> >       > -----Original Message-----
> >       > From: paresh masani [mailto:masaniparesh "at" gmail.com]
> >       > Sent: 19 June 2008 14:32
> >       > To: Corne Beerse
> >       > Cc: James Weatherall; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> >       > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc
> >       >
> >       > Thanks a lot for much clarification. Means Xvnc will not
> >       > supprot 32bit color ever. Is it possible? because my
> >       > vncviewer can run at 32-depth but Xvnc doent support
> > 32-depth. why??
> >       >
> >       > Thanks,
> >       > Paresh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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