Description Mike Wilson 2001-10-11 14:21:08 EDT

When you are using 16-bit colour depth, the gradient on the active View window is not gradual,
it is very 'rough'.  The colour is a smooth gradient on the native Active window bars however.

Steps to see:
1) set your colour depth to 16-bit
	- on a Windows platform, right-click on your desktop and select Properties
	- in the settings tab, you can change your colour depth from there
2) run eclipse and activate a View window

Note that the native shell bar of eclipse is a smooth gradient, but the gradient of the View isn't - 
it has very blocky steps.

Eclipse is smart enough to detect colour depth on startup so that if you have a 256-colour depth
it does not attempt the draw the colour gradient, instead it uses a single colour.  Perhaps the same
can be done for 16-bits and use a different algorithm to paint the colour gradient.


NOTES:

	McQ (01/06/2001 8:55:22 AM) -
		We will not get to this for June.

	McQ (26/06/2001 2:30:44 PM) -
		Would require adding dithering support to graphics.