James, I think you are missing something here. Google tells me ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_channel) that Microsoft makes use of this upper 8 bits. however, I found that X11 only uses these bits as part of XRender and RealVNC doesn't seem to support XRender. Am i correct? Thanks, Paresh On 6/20/08, James Weatherall <jnw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paresh, > > That means that your Windows desktop is using depth 24 at 32 > bits-per-pixel, > not depth 32 - depth refers to the number of bits of actual colour > information per pixel, while bits-per-pixel refers to the size of data > element used to store the pixel values. > > The standard format for the "Highest (32-bit)" setting in Windows is 8 bits > for each of the red, green and blue components, with the 8 remaining bits > unused(*). > > -- > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > (*) Actually, they might be used for alpha-channel, Z-buffer or other > auxilliary data, but in VNC-land, we normally just count the RGB bits > towards the "depth". > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: paresh masani [mailto:masaniparesh@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 20 June 2008 09:18 > > To: James Weatherall > > Cc: Corne Beerse; vnc-list@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc > > > > Yes James...I have set the screen resoulution to Higesh-32 bit color. > > > > Thanks, > > Paresh > > > > > > On 6/19/08, James Weatherall <jnw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Paresh, > > > > Are you sure that the machine on which you're using VNC > > Viewer supports > > depth 32, and not depth 24 at 32 bits-per-pixel? > > > > -- > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: paresh masani [mailto:masaniparesh@xxxxxxxxx] > > > Sent: 19 June 2008 14:32 > > > To: Corne Beerse > > > Cc: James Weatherall; vnc-list@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: Re: 24-bit color support to Xvnc > > > > > > Thanks a lot for much clarification. Means Xvnc will not > > > supprot 32bit color ever. Is it possible? because my > > > vncviewer can run at 32-depth but Xvnc doent support > > 32-depth. why?? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Paresh > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@xxxxxxxxxxx To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list