| Colors again! [message #16000] |
Tue, 22 June 1999 00:00 |
Harald Frey
Messages: 41
Registered: March 1997
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Hi all,
colors are driving me crazy in IDL. But please, do not answer the
problem would
go with device,decomposed=0. It's not true, at least not in this case.
I'm
working in
IDL> print,!version
{ sparc sunos unix 5.1 Apr 13 1998}
My idl_startup.pro file contains the device,decomposed=0 line and after
starting
IDL I get the information
IDL> print, 'Number of colors is ', !d.n_colors
Number of colors is 256
IDL> plot,findgen(200)
IDL> print,!d.n_colors
106
After any plot command the number of available colors is cut by more
than half, and this number changes from day to day between 118 and 104,
maybe depending on
the weather. Everything changes if I start a second IDL session in
parallel. If
I forget about the first session, I can always work with 256 colors in
the
second session. The only real pain is that the screen becomes completely
black
whenever I work in a plot-window. Clicking back into the terminal window
gives me the screen back, but then the colors in the plot window are
complete garbage.
It may be a problem of my machine and not of IDL. If I force my CDE
Style
Manager-Color to "Most Colors for Applications" then I get 211 colors in
IDL but
the screen looks very colorless. Right now it is set to "More Colors
for
Applications".
I work primarily with images and even if I don't really need all 256
colors I would like to have something like 200 fixed for all sessions.
Any suggestions?
Harald Frey
hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu
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