Interfaces: PC and MAC and the screenGamma property...

[Alex Rice]

On Jan 3, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Which raises the obvious question:  When will Apple play nice and 
> adopt the
> predominant standard?

For graphics, print and video production Macs *are* the standard. FWIW 
SGIs also used a similar gamma- and they were used in graphics and 
video a lot. TV and Video production is just different than PC computer 
graphics I guess.

I'm not sure, but from what I've read, it's not as simple as twiddling 
a decimal number for the gamma somewhere in the system defaults.

<http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/GammaFAQ.html>
<http://www.poynton.com/PDFs/Mac_gamma.pdf>

Now AFAIK quickdraw is obsoleted and now the graphics API is 
Quartz+CoreGraphics, which does not use QuickDraw at all. Maybe the 
gamma model is the same?

> I hear they're finally considering a two-button mouse; is a universal 
> gamma
> setting so unthinkable?

Hating Macs today, Richard? Actually I use a 3 button scrollwheel mouse 
on all my Macs. But

Control-click == Right click

if you are ever using a 1 button mouse.

Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | 
<http://mindlube.com>

what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
to make machines that are disposable  -Ani DiFranco