Quote Originally Posted by wysota
Defining the palette is the responsibility of the graphics system, not the application itself. In some environments it is possible to "hijack" the palette, but it causes all other applications to look horrible. You should avoid tweaking the palette.
I know you're right, but leaving the graphics system do the thing turns out in having it do the wrong choice on my target 256 color environment.
Anyway, thank you for your answer. I will do further investigation to avoid playing with the palette.

RS