Re: ANY SUGGESTIONS - IE 6.0 has problems with 1 Bpp color under C

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1. You'd have to campaign for a QFE, then, and build that into your OS.

2. Possible, I guess. I don't have any browser source except that for the
main application. It doesn't show what the browser control does to draw the
background.

Paul T.

"WAB2" <WAB2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The display is only 1 bpp (i.e. no grey scale at all) with a very simple
> controller. The palette can't be changed. The spftware driver's palette is
> 0=Black & 1=White which is the same as the haedware controller. Even if
> the
> software palette is incorrect, I should be able to force it to something
> else. However, I can't.
>
> Only the client area of the browser behaves this way. It's as if the
> background color were initalized to zero/black prior to entering a case
> statement based upon bpp, but there's no 1 bpp case. So it falls through
> maintaining it's black initialized setting.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:
>
>> 1. The JPEG thing has been around for a *long* time and isn't likely to
>> be
>> fixed. The only work-around is to not have the display driver look like
>> a
>> monochrome display. If you are using a mono LCD panel, most of them can
>> handle 16 gray scales. You'd alter the display driver to configure that
>> in
>> the display controller. You could try to get MS to fix this JPEG
>> rendering
>> error by calling the support number which you can find in the PB Help
>> menu.
>>
>> 2. No idea on this at all. I use a mono panel (well, it's set for 256
>> gray
>> shades). It doesn't suffer from this sort of problem. Maybe your
>> palette
>> is wrong? Maybe the hardware palette programmed into the controller is
>> mapping white to black (you could try drawing a white rectangle in a test
>> program to check that out)?
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>> "WAB2" <WAB2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:F1D7A78E-B12A-489A-8766-0756EB2ED04E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > I'm developing a browser shell using IE 6.0 under CE 5.0. My HW
>> > platform
>> > has
>> > a monochrome (i.e. 1 bit per pixel color). I fixed some defects in the
>> > display drive, but it's working fine now. Unfortunately I don't appear
>> > to
>> > have access to the IE source code.
>> >
>> > Basically I'm having two problems with IE's webpage rendering engine.
>> > 1. It crashes due to a memory alignment fault when it tries to display
>> > a
>> > jpeg. All other image formats seem OK. This is a similar symthom to the
>> > driver problems I fixed.
>> > 2. The background is always black. Text and images (other than jpegs)
>> > are
>> > OK. Even if you try to force it to white with registry settings or in
>> > the
>> > HTML page itself, the background is always black. Also objects in the
>> > background like lines are rendered properly for a black background
>> > (i.e.
>> > as
>> > white).
>> >
>> > Is any one else aware of these problems?
>> > Is there a work around?
>> > Is the source code available somewhere?
>> > Any advice at all?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>>
>>
>>


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