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Re: setting default background color, etc [message #8900]

Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

Andy Loughe
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Registered: November 1995

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Melissa Nischan wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am very new to IDL, and have what I believe should be a basic
> question (but I couldn't find anything in the FAQ about it): when I start
> IDL and plot something, I always get white on a black background. I
> discovered that if I set !p.background I can change that, but I was
> wondering how do I set the default background to be something other than
> black? It's a pain to have to set it each time. (I use IDL on a
> UNIX machine)
>
> thanks,
> Melissa
> nischan@ll.mit.edu

Put

!p.background = preferred_color_index

into a startup file that is automatically run when entering idl.

In Unix, IDL_STARTUP contains the name of this startup file.

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