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30 | Installing the Board and Driver in a PC
Palette options with multiple displays
The SelectPalette and RealizePalette functions in the
Microsoft Developer's Network, or MSDN, work across all
flat-panel displays if the primary panel is palettized. The
palettes of all palettized devices are synchronized. If, however,
the primary panel is not palettized, the SelectPalette and
RealizePalette
ground, and palettized devices are not synchronized.
Desktop icons
The palette specifications of the primary display determine
how desktop icons are drawn. For example, the desktop icons
appear gray on a color screen if the primary display is set to
a gray palette.
This table defines the palette options that work on primary
and secondary displays (see the first and second columns).
The third column indicates whether the palette combination
of the primary and secondary displays works.
Primary Display
Commodity board at
16 bits per pixel (bpp)
Commodity board at
16 bpp
Commodity board at
16 bpp
Dynamic gray
Dynamic gray
Dynamic gray
functions select the palette into the back-
Secondary Display
Dynamic gray
Static gray
Nonlinear gray
Commodity board at
16 bpp
Dynamic gray
Static gray
Combination OK?
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
(Cont.)
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