Barco Nio 5MP, System Manual

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Software installation
44 System manual Nio 5MP
•Static Gray Palette including standard system colors
•Static Gray Palette with NO system colors
Overview
In system configurations that include a color display in
addition to the BarcoMed Nio display(s), we recommend
that you set the color display as the primary monitor,
with the colors setting on the “Settings” tab of the
Windows Display Control Panel set to the highest
possible color depth (e.g. 32 bits-per-pixel “true color”)
supported by the color display’s controller. The colors
setting for Barco grayscale displays should default to 256
colors (8 bits per pixel). The palette mode for the Barco
grayscale displays should be set to “Static Gray palette
mode with NO system colors”. This guarantees that
the all of the 256 gray levels available for GDI graphics
will be present, and also eliminates the danger that
colors will change when focus moves among different
applications.
If your system configuration does not include a color
display we recommend using the “Static Gray Palette
including Standard System Colors” option instead of this
one. This is due to the fact that some applications
assume that the first and last 10 entries of the palette
are the standard system colors. In this palette mode,
these entries are made up from entries in the bottom or
the top of the gray ramp.
User modifiable color palette
This option allows applications to modify the palette con-
tents dynamically. As indicated by figure 21 on page 45,
this mode reserves the first 10 and last 10 entries in the
palette for the Windows operating system, but applica-
tions can manipulate the middle 236 entries. This is the
standard palette mode as configured by Windows.