Some more info: 1. Displaying the GIMP gradient as a GIF in a Tk window shows the same "washed out" effect, where dark colors are too bright. 2. Using the pixel API to put and get back pixel colors in a photo always returns the expected RGB values. Whats displayed on screen is always unexpected (and verified with a screenshot) 3. The adjustment is non-linear, but the gamma...
2012-03-10 15:15:46 PST in Tk Toolkit
Marking invalid. Moving this bug to the Tk tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3501372&group_id=12997&atid=112997.
2012-03-10 14:42:33 PST in Tcl
While building a Tk app in Python on Mac OS X 10.7.3, I noticed the colors appear consistently "washed out" as if there is some sort of bad gamma correction going on under the hood. As a test, I write a very simple app that draws 1-pixel-high rectangles to a canvas with varying levels of intensity on each of the RGB channels, creating a black-to-white gradient. Second, I created a...
2012-03-10 14:39:52 PST in Tk Toolkit
Can't attach a second file. Here's the Python source: https://gist.github.com/80fa53032ec820d28950.
2012-03-09 01:28:28 PST in Tcl
While building a Tk app in Python on Mac OS X 10.7.3, I noticed the colors appear consistently "washed out" as if there is some sort of bad gamma correction going on under the hood. As a test, I write a very simple app that draws 1-pixel-high rectangles to a canvas with varying levels of intensity on each of the RGB channels, creating a black-to-white gradient. Second, I created a...
2012-03-09 01:26:10 PST in Tcl