re xalloccolor fails to return nearest match in article slate mines colorado edu agallagh slate mines colorado edu gallagher andrea j writes posted for a friend okay i looked through the faqs and didn t see this but i know its come up before xalloccolor is supposed to do the following in order try to find an exact match read only color cell within hardware limits try to allocate a read only colorcell and set it to match and when all else fails return the colorcell with the best match from the read only colors already allocated in the colormap where did you hear this if it is printed in a book somewhere throw away the book according to the mit specs only the first are true ken lee klee synoptics com
