Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition By Brent B. Welch
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Chapter 48. Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0
Color Allocation and tk colormodel
In Tk 3.6 color allocations could fail if the colormap was full. In this case Tk would revert its colormodel to monochrome and only use black and white. The tk colormodel command was used to query or set the colormodel. In Tk 4.0 color allocations do not fail. Instead, the closest possible color is allocated. Because of this, the tk colormodel operation is no longer supported. Use the winfo visual command which is described on page 540, to find out the characteristics of your display,
