| Re: X-windows black on white [message #5110] |
Mon, 09 October 1995 00:00 |
rivers
Messages: 228
Registered: March 1991
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In article <45b7tc$naj@cpca3.uea.ac.uk>, t.osborn@uea.ac.uk (T.Osborn) writes:
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> Hi
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> I want to have a white background with black foreground as the default when
> using the X device. By having a file called init.pro containing the lines
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> !p.background=255
> !p.color=0
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> and having the environment variable IDL_STARTUP set to init, whenever I begin
> an IDL session, the above lines are executed and any X plots come out as I
> want. But if I ever issue the command set_plot,'X' (e.g., after producing
> some output with set_plot,'PS', IDL switches back to a black background
> with a white foreground.
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> Is there any way to specify that the default should be the other way round?
> Can I somehow specify the !D.FLAGS system variable to do this? If so, how?
>
This should work, since the SET_PLOT command does not change your color table.
Note, however, that if you do imaging, that the first and last colors will be
reversed.
TVLCT, 0, 255, 255, 255
TVLCT, 255, 0, 0, 0
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