| Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #25899] |
Wed, 25 July 2001 07:57  |
Sdavis
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Craig Markwardt wrote:
> Sean Davis <sdavis@nis.lanl.gov> writes:
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>> Well, I know we have all struggled with colors in IDL at one point
>> or another, but I am currently having a problem which is beyond the
>> usual frustrations people have with colors in IDL.
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>> Essentially, when I make a plot, the colors are in black and white
>> until i click on the upper-bar of the window that i'm interested
>> in seeing. Then, if there are any colors, the will be shown only as
>> long as my mouse is over the window of interest!!!
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>> This seems like a flaw in Gnome, because I can re-login using the
>> FVWM window manager and everything works fine.
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> The answer may be that (a) you have an 8-bit display; and (b) Gnome
> uses up all of the colors in your color table, while FVWM does not.
> If your graphics card is capable, you may be able to investigate
> moving up to 24-bit, but you will need someone experienced in
> configuring your X-server. Don't choose 16-bit or you'll be sorry.
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Well, I do have 24-bit color so that rules that out. Maybe Gnome uses up all
of the colors, which still doesn't make
sense because the colors can be seen by me clicking on the window of
interest.
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> Craig
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> P.S. Sean, I prefer carriage returns and no HTML. In other words,
> what ever Microsoft hath given you, taketh it away. :-) As for gaudy
Microsoft hath nothing giveth to me in the first place.
> signatures, well, whatever.
>
yes ... whatever. heaven forbid one be creative.
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| Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #25903 is a reply to message #25899] |
Tue, 24 July 2001 16:55  |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869
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Sean Davis <sdavis@nis.lanl.gov> writes:
[reformatted for the bleary-eyed]
> Well, I know we have all struggled with colors in IDL at one point
> or another, but I am currently having a problem which is beyond the
> usual frustrations people have with colors in IDL.
>
> Essentially, when I make a plot, the colors are in black and white
> until i click on the upper-bar of the window that i'm interested
> in seeing. Then, if there are any colors, the will be shown only as
> long as my mouse is over the window of interest!!!
>
> This seems like a flaw in Gnome, because I can re-login using the
> FVWM window manager and everything works fine.
The answer may be that (a) you have an 8-bit display; and (b) Gnome
uses up all of the colors in your color table, while FVWM does not.
If your graphics card is capable, you may be able to investigate
moving up to 24-bit, but you will need someone experienced in
configuring your X-server. Don't choose 16-bit or you'll be sorry.
Craig
P.S. Sean, I prefer carriage returns and no HTML. In other words,
what ever Microsoft hath given you, taketh it away. :-) As for gaudy
signatures, well, whatever.
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| Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #25906 is a reply to message #25904] |
Tue, 24 July 2001 13:56 |
Sdavis
Messages: 12
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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i can see my post fine :) ... and thats actually a guitar and a fish in
my signature
<p>"Pavel A. Romashkin" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>For some reason, in my news reader I can not see
the above posting
<br>without having to horizontally scroll through the window long ways.
And
<br>for the life of mine, Sean, I can't figure out what those funny
<br>characters are supposed to mean in the signature section. Looks kind
of
<br>like a CAD design of the internal combustion engine. Is it my Netscape
<br>or is it Gnome, too?
<p>Cheers,
<br>Pavel</blockquote>
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| Re: Color Problems in IDL for Linux (Gnome) [message #25930 is a reply to message #25899] |
Sun, 29 July 2001 00:24 |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Sean Davis wrote:
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> Craig Markwardt wrote:
>
>> Sean Davis <sdavis@nis.lanl.gov> writes:
>> [reformatted for the bleary-eyed]
>>> Well, I know we have all struggled with colors in IDL at one point
>>> or another, but I am currently having a problem which is beyond the
>>> usual frustrations people have with colors in IDL.
>>>
>>> Essentially, when I make a plot, the colors are in black and white
>>> until i click on the upper-bar of the window that i'm interested
>>> in seeing. Then, if there are any colors, the will be shown only as
>>> long as my mouse is over the window of interest!!!
>>>
>>> This seems like a flaw in Gnome, because I can re-login using the
>>> FVWM window manager and everything works fine.
>>
>> The answer may be that (a) you have an 8-bit display; and (b) Gnome
>> uses up all of the colors in your color table, while FVWM does not.
>> If your graphics card is capable, you may be able to investigate
>> moving up to 24-bit, but you will need someone experienced in
>> configuring your X-server. Don't choose 16-bit or you'll be sorry.
>>
>
> Well, I do have 24-bit color so that rules that out. Maybe Gnome uses up all
> of the colors, which still doesn't make
> sense because the colors can be seen by me clicking on the window of
> interest.
>
Dear Sean,
how much colors do you really have by idl.
Please show us !d.n_colors.
If you have only 256 colors then I belive you have some problems
by your idl_startup.
regards
Reimar
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Reimar Bauer
Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
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read something about linux / windows
http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html
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