20011101: cygwin & GEMPAK

Paula,

The message you get looks like window server is in 24 bit.
GEMPAK will only work if the X server you are running provides 
the default defpth of 8 bits.

I have not tested anything with Cygwin yet since we don't have
a general testbed set up at this time. I did receive 
a message from Steve Danz that he was running under cygwin
(built and running on cygwin) so it is possible to run the X server 
on Cygwin in the 8 bit depth.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: Paula <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200111011930.fA1JUr106319

>Chiz,
>
>Do you have any info on how to deal with the "available colors" issue with 
>GEMPAK and a Cygwin port from my workstation?  I am not trying to compile 
>and run GEMPAK on my MS machine, I just want to be able to view the 
>graphics I generate remotely... the error messages when I try to run ntl 
>(with no Netscape or other color-hogging program running) say something like
>
>....a bunch of virtual binding errors....
>
>Resource File: /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.6/resource/Ntop
>      graphic, satellite, radar -- 33 95 20
>      request total number of colors = 148
>X Error of failed request: 86(X_AllocColorCells)
>Value in failed request: 0x0
>Serial number of failed request: 346
>
>
>I can run Netscape remotely and see a gazillion color version on my windows 
>machine.  I can run GEMPAK programs remotely, I just don't get to see my 
>mappys.
>
>Any info is appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Paula Hennon
>