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We just upgraded our IDL from version 2.3.2 to 3.6.1.a on our DEC 5000 ultrix system. One thing bothers me with the new version is the fonts and background color shown in the help menu (by typing ?) and in the color table (by typing xloadct) don't seem to be right. In specific, the color bar (using xloadct) is too long that it even shows an uncontrollable black bar attached to the color bar. The old version IDL did not have this problem. Does anyone have the same problem or Am I missing something? Thanks for your time. Tin-Su Pan
In article <32db4a$n93@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, pan@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tin-Su Pan) wrote: > We just upgraded our IDL from version 2.3.2 to 3.6.1.a on our DEC 5000 > ultrix system. One thing bothers me with the new version is the fonts > and background color shown in the help menu (by typing ?) and in the > color table (by typing xloadct) don't seem to be right. In specific, > the color bar (using xloadct) is too long that it even shows an > uncontrollable black bar attached to the color bar. The old version IDL > did not have this problem. Does anyone have the same problem or Am I > missing something? Thanks for your time. Tin-Su - I'm afraid it isn't entirely clear from your post, but what you seem to be seeing is that DECwindows Motif is not giving you the full 256 colors, but rather some smaller number (check by: print, !d.n_colors) after subtraction of the color table locations of the colors reserved to the Window Manager. We don't have any Ultrix systems anu more, but a typical number for OpenVMS AXP and OSF/1 AXP is 235, rather than 255, colors available. Hope this helps, Joe Gurman -- J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov | Federal employees are still prohibited from holding opinions while| | at work. Therefore, any opinions expressed herein are somebody | | else's. |
> (Tin-Su Pan) wrote: > We just upgraded our IDL from version 2.3.2 to 3.6.1.a on our DEC 5000 ultrix system. One thing bothers me with the new version is the fonts and background color shown in the help menu (by typing ?) and in the color table (by typing xloadct) don't seem to be right. In specific, the color bar (using xloadct) is too long that it even shows an uncontrollable black bar attached to the color bar. The old version IDL did not have this problem. Does anyone have the same problem or Am I missing something? Thanks for your time. > I'm afraid it isn't entirely clear from your post, but what you seem > to be seeing is that DECwindows Motif is not giving you the full 256 > colors, but rather some smaller number (check by: print, !d.n_colors) > after subtraction of the color table locations of the colors reserved to > the Window Manager. > > J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch/ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ I was not clear in my original message. In fact, I believe the whole color bar was displayed. However, because the fonts in the table were so big that the color bar was appended with some junk (black or color 0). This problem did not happen in running the old version IDL 2.3.2. Any pointer will be appreciated. TinSu