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Greetings,

A final note on this matter for anyone who may be interested.

Look at the color values in the images of my cats. In the correct example, all of the RGB color values are combinations of 0, 51, 102, 153, 204, and 255. That is posterization.

Regards,

Luisa Klose

Thank you, Bernd, for being candid, and not insulting my intelligence.

As I said, I will keep an eye on LiveCode.

And thank you for all your help over the last couple of weeks. I learned a lot.

Best wishes,

Luisa Klose

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Bernd,

It's still off. Thanks.

Luisa

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