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Re: Change default value of system variable? [message #23912 is a reply to message #23825]

Mon, 26 February 2001 07:45

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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"Kenneth P. Bowman" wrote:
> Thanks for nothin' everybody! I *know* I can set the stupid background
> and foreground colors explicitly! I'm not a newbie! All I want to do
> is set the stinkin' program so that whenever I pop up a window, even if
> I'm just doodlin' around at the command prompt, it doesn't default to
> that ugly white on black thing.

How about including this in your startup file:

tvlct, 255B, 255B, 255B, 0
tvlct, 0B, 0B, 0B, !d.table_size - 1
device, decomposed=0

You should get black on a white background by default:

plot, indgen(10)

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 23 February 2001 16:43
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 23 February 2001 11:56
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 23 February 2001 11:14
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 23 February 2001 10:00
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: davidf on Fri, 23 February 2001 09:21
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: davidf on Fri, 23 February 2001 09:11
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: Liam E. Gumley on Mon, 26 February 2001 07:45
		Re: Change default value of system variable? By: davidf on Fri, 23 February 2001 18:43

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