CDisplay(Ex) problems solved (?)

As you may or may not know, I use a program called pnqnqi to compress my PNG release files. It's an image quantizer that I found produces slightly smaller files than Photoshop's built-in Save For Web or other PNG optimization programs; the release archives are about 3-5% smaller. They all save grayscale images to indexed images, which are significantly smaller, because manga pages only have a small range of colors.

However, as I (and a few other scanlators) have painfully learned, CDisplay has a bizarre problem with indexed images that have transparency. Through some testing, I found out the problem was that any palette color with an alpha value of less than 255 is displayed as fully transparent. I have no idea why it does that.

People who use Save For Web can just make sure that the Transparency check-box isn't checked. For pngnqi, there's no option to disable transparency, so I used to just turn the alpha channel off with ImageMagick after I compressed it. Now I've "solved" the problem by changing line 599 in pngnq.c:

rwpng_info.trans[remap[x]] = map[x][3];

to

rwpng_info.trans[remap[x]] = 255;

This completely disables transparency. You'll need any flavor of gcc along with libpng and zlib to compile it. Strangely enough, I don't see a perceptible difference between the images, other than it works in CDisplay.

On a somewhat related note, does anyone have a better Hello World tutorial for OpenCL than ATI's? I was thinking of rewriting certain parts of pngnqi in OpenCL to try to make it faster and to start learning GPGPU programming, but it would hard if I can't even get the first example up and running in the first place.