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Re: No colors when plotting [message #8171 is a reply to message #8155]

Wed, 12 February 1997 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Burke Prause <bprause@campra.phys.nd.edu> writes:

> I run IDL on a Sun Ultra1, model 170E, Creator3D. When plotting data
> (eg. any ofthe routines described in chapter 14 of the user guide)
> I can only get black and white output. The "colors = ...." seems to have
> no effect. I can use colortables for image visualization.
>
> Does anybody have suggestions where the problem might be?

Sounds strange. I'd like to know how many colors IDL
*thinks* it is using:

IDL> Print, !D.N_Colors

I'm going to guess that the answer is over 256. If it is,
start up IDL and before you do anything else, type this:

IDL> Device, Pseudo=8

See if that helps.

Cheers!

David

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		Re: No colors when plotting By: Tim Patterson on Thu, 13 February 1997 00:00
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