[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Veronica...

["McQ" <mike_wilson@xxxxxxx>]

It will look however images rendered by the platform look. AWT uses it's own
internal dithering code.

McQ.

"Randy Hudson" <someone@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <Veronika_Irvine@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > It is true that the ImageData will be created and the code will run
> > without exception.  The ImageData is treated as if the depth is
supported.
> >  What happens is that when you create an Image from this ImageData, the
> > data will be converted to match the depth of the display.  You will not
> > get an error but your image may look ugly if the colours aren't
available.
>
> I would expect this to look no uglier than it would in AWT, correct?  If I
> load a true color image in AWT, and paint it in 8-bit mode, I can hardly
> tell that the image is dithered and not true-color.
>
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