On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:24:31PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i've seen this happen before -- but i'm still not sure why it happens. > can you explain just a little bit more why this happens? You've only got 256 colors on the 8-bit display. If program A wants 50 of them to be shades of green, and program B wants to have 256 shades of grey, that's more than 256 colors. :) -bill!