Palette and PaletteMode properties

Hello everybody. I am a VB6 newbie. There are two properties of the form object that I really can't understand, Palette and PaletteMode. I hear that setting PaletteMode to vbCustom, one can assign Palette to a bitmap containing the desired palette. However, it seems like VB ignores these proprieties. As a matter of fact:

1) If I load a bitmap into Form.Picture and then I load a black and white picture into Form.Palette (PaletteMode being set to vbCustom), Form.Picture stays as before, it doesn't become a black and white picture.

2) I thought it was because I have a true color display, so I tried running VB under 256-color emulation, but things didn't change.

4) I ultimately tried setting Form.PaletteMode to vbCustom and leaving Form.Palette empty, but still Form.Picture didn't change.

Anybody can explain all this?

Thank you,
Dichelson

See if this MSDN documentation sheds some light
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...59(VS.60).aspx

Thank you, I already had a look at that page, but it simply says what I expected those properties to be for. Actually, when I tried to use them, I found out what I said in the starting post, that is, there seems not to be a way to change the palette in practice. Of course, this is not much of a problem with today's true-color displays, but it can make a difference if you want to implement some special color changes...