Re: [gtk-list] Re: how to convert windows RGB color to GdkColor

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer cs nmsu edu>]

   old color       new color
   dec  hex        dec hex
	0   00          0   0000
	1   01         257  0101
	2   02         514  0202
   ...
   63   3f        16191  3f3f
   ...
   254  fe        65278  fefe
   255  ff        65535  ffff

Another subscriber sent me prive e-mail that made sense to me -- to
map 00..ff into 0000..ffff as uniformly as possible, you multiply by
257 rather than 256 (this is also effectively what Rick was saying).
That's equivalent to the shift-and-add being discussed.  Sorry, all.
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