Planar DOME Md4/PCI Installation Manual page 63

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Nonlinear static gray palette
The nonlinear static gray palette sets the first 10 and last 10
palette entries to gray-mapped Windows colors. The mid-
dle 236 entries are ramped in ascending order, excluding
the first 10 and last 10 palette entries. Windows applica-
tions that use the first 10 and last 10 palette entries as
Windows colors display correctly on the screen.
Although the nonlinear static gray palette provides correct
colors for applications using the Windows palette, colors
display incorrectly if the application assumes that a static
palette is always ramped.
Applications cannot set the nonlinear static gray palette.
They must read the palette from the operating system and
use it when drawing directly to the framebuffer.
Calibration with nonlinear static gray palette
To run the DOME Calibration System with the nonlinear
static gray palette, you need Calibration TQA 2.0 or later
software.