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Re: xloadct: color table from file persists [message #72494 is a reply to message #72360]

Tue, 07 September 2010 09:25

Michael Galloy
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On 9/6/10 8:51 PM, Manodeep Sinha wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> xloadct seems to remember the colors from a non-default color table
> from an earlier call. I am using IDL 8.0 on Linux (I tested on IDL 7.1
> and it had the same behavior) and the display is TrueColor.
>
> Here is the sequence of commands:
>
> xloadct,file='path/to/brewer.tbl' (and choose some color table)
> .
> .
> xloadct
>
> The last xloadct command displays the color names from the ITT
> supplied colors1.tbl but the colors themselves are from brewer.tbl.
> Regular loadct does not have this behavior (I used David's cindex to
> verify the loaded colors).
>
> I did put in a device,decomposed=0 call before the first call to
> xloadct. xloadct is the correct IDL 8.0 version in the utilities sub-
> directory.
>
> Is there any reason that xloadct is designed to behave this way or is
> something horribly wrong with my IDL setup?

Since LOADCT and XLOADCT get there color tables from the same place
(unless the FILE keyword is used), I'm not sure what is going on.

Does a restart of IDL get the correct colors? There are some COMMON
blocks involved, maybe they are getting screwed up in some way?

Mike
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		xloadct: color table from file persists By: manodeep@gmail.com on Mon, 06 September 2010 19:51
		Re: xloadct: color table from file persists By: manodeep@gmail.com on Tue, 07 September 2010 10:12
		Re: xloadct: color table from file persists By: Michael Galloy on Tue, 07 September 2010 09:25

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