| Color Questions [message #19690] |
Thu, 13 April 2000 00:00  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Hi Folks,
Is it my imagination, or has there not been a color
question for which "Device, Decomposed=0" is the answer
for months now? You don't suppose the word has finally
gotten out, do you? Wow.
I'm working on my web page today. I think I'm going
to change the question of the Week/Month/Year to
"How can I access main-level variables from within
my program?".
Cheers,
David
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| Re: color question [message #19798 is a reply to message #19690] |
Tue, 25 April 2000 00:00  |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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R.Bauer (R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:
> sometimes the widget changes the graphics device to 0.
> It was pure accident that's I found this.
>
> I don't find DEVICE,SET_GRAPHICS_FUNCTION=0 in the widget code.
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> Which other reasons or programs are known to change the graphics
> function.
I've never known any program that changes the graphics function
and then leaves it there. At least none that are supplied in
the IDL distribution. :-)
I would be looking in one of the other user-written routines
used by this widget program if you can't find it in the
widget program code itself. This just reeks of programmer
error. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: color question [message #19800 is a reply to message #19690] |
Tue, 25 April 2000 00:00 |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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David Fanning wrote:
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> R.Bauer (R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de) writes:
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>> I have true_color mode and I have already set device,decomposed=0.
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>> If I start a widget sometimes the color table is destroyed and I have to
>> start a new idl session to get my colors back.
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>> Any ideas are welcome.
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> Start a new IDL session!? I can't imagine anything
> coming to that, *especially* on a 24-bit display.
> Did you try re-loading your color table? That should
> fix things, I soul think.
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> There are all kinds of ways color tables can be trashed.
> For example, some other program can load one. :-)
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> Normally in widget programs we have to protect our
> program's colors. This is usually done by setting up the
> colors just the way you want them in the widget definition
> module. Then getting the color vectors and storing them
> in your info structure. Finally, you load the color vectors
> at the same time you do a WSET to make sure you are drawing
> into the correct window. (You ARE doing a WSET, aren't you?
> You better be!) The code looks something like this:
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> WSet, info.windowIndexNo
> TVLCT, info.r, info.g, info.b, info.start
> ... graphics commands here....
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> The other way you can protect colors is to write and
> display colors in a DEVICE DECOMPOSED-INDEPENDENT fashion.
> See my GetColor and TVImage programs, for example.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
Thanks David,
sometimes the widget changes the graphics device to 0.
It was pure accident that's I found this.
I don't find DEVICE,SET_GRAPHICS_FUNCTION=0 in the widget code.
Which other reasons or programs are known to change the graphics
function.
Reimar
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