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Re: Forcing a background colour? [message #4624] Thu, 29 June 1995 00:00
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In article <tnf-2706951540250001@192.171.169.125>, tnf@ub.nso.ac.uk (Tom
Forrester) writes:
|> Can any one help?
|>
|> I am new to IDL and I am plotting an image with the "map_image" comand
|> after seting the colour table using loadct 33. This gives me a dark blue
|> background to the rest of the window (i.e. where the image isn't), I would
|> like this area to be white. I have tried the keyword "background" and
|> various other things. Does anyone have any other suggestions please.
|>
|> Thanks
|> Tom

Try...

IDL> desired_color = 44 ; For example
IDL> !p.background = desired_color
IDL> erase


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