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Configuring Display Settings on Windows NT | 51
Color palette
The color palette displays 8 bits of color (3 bits of red, 3 bits of
green, and 2 bits of blue).
You can change the pixel depth for color display through
the Settings tab in the Display Properties dialog box. Click
Palette Options and select Color Palette.
Dynamic gray palette
The dynamic gray palette reserves the first and last 10 entries in
the palette for the Windows NT operating system, but you can
manipulate the middle 236 entries. Your application can create a
256-entry gray ramp in any 8-bit driver by calling the Windows
API function SetSystemPaletteUse() , but doing so causes all
icons to be redrawn in black and white.
The dynamic gray palette accommodates gray-mapped Windows
colors for the first and last 10 palette entries.
Nonlinear static gray palette
The nonlinear static gray palette sets the first and last 10 palette
entries to gray-mapped Windows colors. The middle 236 entries
are ramped in ascending order, excluding the first and last
10 palette entries. Windows applications that use the first and
last 10 palette entries as Windows colors display correctly on
the screen.
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