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Re: window [message #46085 is a reply to message #44720]

Wed, 02 November 2005 18:37

Kenneth P. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <Pine.OSX.4.61.0511021840310.6909@gouda.local>,
Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, ChiChiRuiz@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi, I was wondering how to change the default when calling
>> "window". I'd like to have a white background with colored plots,
>> rather than the default black background with white-color plots.
>
> You can set !p.background to the index in the CT you want. Not sure
> about foreground.

To change the foreground color set !P.COLOR.

I wish it were possible to do this in my startup.pro and have it stick,
but if you change devices (to PS, for example) and then change back, it
reverts to the default white-on-black. (This could be solved by using
routines like Liam Gumley's PSON and PSOFF to handle the device changes.)

IDL Version 6.1, Mac OS X (darwin ppc m32). (c) 2004, Research Systems,
Inc.

IDL> print, !p.color, !p.background
16777215 0
IDL> !p.color = 0
IDL> print, !p.color, !p.background
0 0
IDL> set_plot, 'ps'
IDL> print, !p.color, !p.background
0 255
IDL> set_plot, 'x'
IDL> print, !p.color, !p.background
16777215 0

Since I generally want screen plots to look as much as possible like
Postscript output, I just set !P.COLOR and !P.BACKGROUND whenever I set
up a display window.

Is now a good time to make my perennial complaint that the PS driver
*really* needs to fully support 24-bit color?

Ken Bowman

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		Windows IDL DLM with Cygwin By: joeymu on Mon, 11 July 2005 16:02
		Re: Windows IDL DLM with Cygwin By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 13 July 2005 15:04
		Re: Windows IDL DLM with Cygwin By: joey on Wed, 13 July 2005 07:24
		Re: Windows IDL DLM with Cygwin By: Haje Korth on Wed, 13 July 2005 07:42
		Re: window By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 November 2005 15:04
		Re: window By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 03 November 2005 11:08
		Re: window By: ChiChiRuiz@gmail.com on Thu, 03 November 2005 07:57
		Re: window By: ChiChiRuiz@gmail.com on Thu, 03 November 2005 06:55
		Re: window By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 November 2005 22:57
		Re: window By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 November 2005 22:48
		Re: window By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 November 2005 22:47
		Re: window By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 02 November 2005 18:37
		Re: window By: Ken Mankoff on Wed, 02 November 2005 15:45

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