BAR BORDER COLOR

BAR BORDER COLOR

Plot Control Command

Specifies the border color for bars on subsequent plots.

Dataplot defines the points on a plot by "traces". A trace is a set of points that are drawn with the same attributes. For example,
PLOT Y1 X1 AND
PLOT Y2 X2


has two traces. The first is the points defined by Y1 and X1 and the second is the points defined by Y2 and X2. Attributes can be set for up to 100 traces.

Dataplot provides two methods for specifying colors.

1. Colors can be defined by name (or by the corresponding index). Dataplot adopted it's named colors from the X11 project. Currently, 162 named colors and 100 levels of grayscale are supported. Grayscale can be specified with either G0, G1, ..., G100 (or -1, -2, ..., -100). Many older devices support only a limited number of colors. For these devices, unsupported colors will be mapped to one of the available colors. To specify a named color, see Syntax 1.

2. Most modern graphics devices support full RGB (RedBlueGreen) color. You can alternatively specify RGB colors by entering three integer values to represent the Red, Green and Blue components, respectively. These values should be in the range 0 to 255.

When setting the bar border color, Dataplot first checks if the device supports RGB colors. If not, the named color will be used. If the device does support RGB color, Dataplot will check if an RGB color has been specified. If yes, then that RGB color is used. If not, the named color will be used.

To see the list of supported named colors (with the associated index number), see

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/refman1/ch11/homepage.htm

BAR BORDER COLORS <color 1> <color 2> ... <color n>
where <color 1>, ..., <color n> specify the desired line colors.

Up to 100 such bar border colors may be specified.

BAR BORDER RGB COLORS <red-1> <green-1> <blue-1> ...
                        <red-n> <green-n> <red-n>
where <red-1>, <green-1>, <blue-1>, ..., <red-n>, <green-n>, <blue-n> is a list of integer values that specify the desired RGB bar border colors.

Up to 100 such triplets of color values can be specified.

To turn off the RGB color, set the values to -1 (any negative value will work). Values greater than 255 will be set to 255.

BAR BORDER COLOR BLACK RED BLUE
BAR BORDER COLOR GREEN GREEN GREEN
BAR BORDER COLOR BLACK ALL
BAR BORDER COLOR ALL BLACK
BAR BORDER COLOR
BAR BORDER RGB COLOR 220 109 88 240 220 160
BAR BORDER RGB COLOR 220 109 88 ALL

The BAR BORDER COLOR command with no arguments sets the bar border color to default for all traces. The BAR BORDER COLOR command with the word ALL before or after the specified color assigns that bar border color to all traces; thus BAR BORDER COLOR BLACK ALL or BAR BORDER COLOR ALL BLACK plots bar borders as black for all traces.

The BAR, SPIKE, CHARACTER, and LINE switch all work independently of each other. That is, a plot point can be a line, a character, a spike or a bar or any combination of the above.

All bar borders are set to black and RGB colors are off

None

PLOT	=	Generates a data or function plot.
CHARACTERS	=	Sets the character types for plot points.
LINES	=	Sets the line types for plot points.
SPIKES	=	Sets on/off switches for plot spikes.
BAR	=	Sets on/off switches for plot bars.
BAR BORDER LINE	=	Sets the types for bar border lines.
BAR BORDER THICKNESS	=	Sets the thickness for bar border lines.
BAR BASE	=	Sets the base locations for bars on plots
BAR FILL	=	Sets the on/off switches for plot bar fills.
BAR DIMENSION	=	Sets the bar dimensions to 2d or 3d.
BAR DIRECTION	=	Sets the bar directions (H/V).
BAR PATTERN	=	Sets the types for bar fill patterns.
BAR WIDTH	=	Sets the widths for plot bars.
LINE COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot lines.
CHARACTER COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot characters.
SPIKE COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot spikes.
BAR PATTERN COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar patterns.
BAR FILL COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bars.
TITLE COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot title.
LABEL COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot labels.
LEGEND COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot legends.
BOX COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot boxes.
ARROW COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot arrows.
SEGMENT COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot segments.
FRAME COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot frame.
GRID COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot grids.
TIC COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot tics.
TIC LABEL COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot tic labels.
BACKGROUND COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot background.

Presentation Graphics

Pre-1987
2020/11: Support for RGB color

 
LET CARTER = DATA 66 30 11 43 44 41 35 82 54 36
LET REAGAN = DATA 26 54 84 47 51 51 52 14 36 55
LET X = DATA 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 10 11 12
LET X1 = X - 0.22
LET X2 = X + 0.22
.
XLIMITS 1 12
XTIC OFFSET 1 1
MAJOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 12
MINOR XTIC MARK NUMBER 0
Y1LABEL PERCENT
YLIMITS 0 100
MAJOR YTIC MARK NUMBER 11
MINOR YTIC MARK NUMBER 1
.
LINE BLANK BLANK
BAR ON ON
BAR WIDTH 0.2 ALL
BAR BORDER THICKNESS 0.3 ALL
.
BAR BORDER COLOR G20 G80
TITLE DEMONSTRATE BAR BORDER GREYSCALE COLOR
PLOT CARTER X1 AND
PLOT REAGAN X2
    

.
BAR BORDER COLOR RED BLUE
TITLE DEMONSTRATE BAR BORDER COLOR
PLOT CARTER X1 AND
PLOT REAGAN X2
    

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BAR BORDER COLOR 220 109 88 240 220 160
TITLE DEMONSTRATE BAR BORDER RGB COLOR
PLOT CARTER X1 AND
PLOT REAGAN X2