find color for end user

[aleplgr]

Hi! I defined this background color for a JTable and it works fine:
Color Pigment;
Pigment = new Color (242, 232, 232);
It's gray as I tested it in here :
http://www.shodor.org/stella2java/rgbint.html
and as can be seen for the proporcions of red, green and blue. And looks gray (exactlly the gray I'm looking for) when I run the application in my PC and others.

But when my end user tested it in it's own PC it is brown, how could be that?
I could ask the end-user to enter here
http://www.shodor.org/stella2java/rgbint.html
and find the rgb combination for him to find the gray but what else could I do?

[JosAH]

Hi! I defined this background color for a JTable and it works fine:
Color Pigment;
Pigment = new Color (242, 232, 232);
It's gray as I tested it in here :
http://www.shodor.org/stella2java/rgbint.html
and as can be seen for the proporcions of red, green and blue. And looks gray (exactlly the gray I'm looking for) when I run the application in my PC and others.

But when my end user tested it in it's own PC it is brown, how could be that?
I could ask the end-user to enter here
http://www.shodor.org/stella2java/rgbint.html
and find the rgb combination for him to find the gray but what else could I do?

Either your user is colorblind or he has a broken monitor. Maybe you can make
all colors user configurable?

kind regards,

Jos

[BigDaddyLH]

His monitor could be out of whack -- monitors do need to be calibrated. Also, what are his monitor color display settings? 32 bit, 16 bit, 256 colors? If you are writing a Swing application, for sh*ts and giggles you could use a JColorChooser to allow a user to choose their own colors on the fly.

ps. Your color (242, 232, 232) looks a little peachy to me. If you want a neutral gray have all three values the same.