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Re: window colour maps [message #9934] Tue, 23 September 1997 00:00
David Foster is currently offline  David Foster
Messages: 341
Registered: January 1996
Senior Member
Peter Gallagher wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to select a separate colour map for several
> windows? I am currently working with 2 windows; I want one window
> with a black and white colour map and the other with a red temp.
> colour table.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

If you need both windows viewed simultaneously with their own
colormaps, and you don't mind using half the available colors
for each, then Liam's solution is the way to go.

If you want to assign each window it's own complete colormap,
and have that colormap restored when the cursor moves into the
window, you can use the KBRD_FOCUS_EVENTS keyword when you
create your draw widgets. You'll have to have a unique EVENT_PRO
for the events from each of your draw widgets. Then in these
event processing procedures put something like:

PRO draw1_event, event

name = strmid(tag_names(event, /structure_name), 7, 1000)

case (name) of

"KBRD_FOCUS": begin

; Entering program area so load colors
if ( event.enter eq 1) then $
loadct, 0, /silent

end
...

END

You should check out David Fanning's XWINDOWS routine, as it is
a good example of this technique, though he does it slightly
differently. I believe his web page has a tutorial on this as well:

http://www.dfanning.com

Hope this helps.

Dave
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Re: window colour maps [message #9938 is a reply to message #9934] Tue, 23 September 1997 00:00 Go to previous message
Liam Gumley is currently offline  Liam Gumley
Messages: 473
Registered: November 1994
Senior Member
Peter Gallagher wrote:

> Does anyone know how to select a separate colour map for several
> windows? I am currently working with 2 windows; I want one window
> with a black and white colour map and the other with a red temp.
> colour table.

It's pretty easy: just split the color table in half as shown below.

;------------------------------------------
pro test

;- create two windows and save their window ids

window, /free
w1 = !d.window
window, /free
w2 = !d.window

;- assign colors for window 1

bottom1 = 0L
ncolors1 = !d.table_size / 2

;- assign colors for window 1

bottom2 = ncolors1
ncolors2 = !d.table_size - ncolors1

;- display an image in the first window with a greyscale color table

wset, w1
loadct, 0, bottom = bottom1, ncolors = ncolors1
tv, bytscl( dist(256), top = ncolors1 - 1 ) + byte( bottom1 )

;- display an image in the second window with a red/white color table

wset, w2
loadct, 3, bottom = bottom2, ncolors = ncolors2
tv, bytscl( dist(256), top = ncolors2 - 1 ) + byte( bottom2 )

end
;------------------------------------------

Cheers,
Liam.
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