BOX COLOR

BOX ... COLOR

Plot Control Command

Specifies the color for the frame of a box to appear on subsequent plots (as specified via the BOX ... COORDINATES command) or boxes generated by the BOX command. Up to 100 boxes can be specified with the BOX ... COORDINATES command.

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 box 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

BOX <id> COLOR <color>
where <id> is a box identifier (a number or parameter) in the integer range 1 to 100;
and     <color> specifies the desired color.

If no <id> is given, all 100 box colors will be set to the specified color.

BOX <id> RGB COLORS <red> <green> <blue>
where <id> is an arrow identifier (an integer number or parameter) in the integer range 1 to 100;
and     <red>, <green>, <blue> is a list of integer values that specifies the desired RGB box color.

If no <id> is given, all 100 box rgb colors will be set to the specified color.

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.

BOX 1 COLOR GREEN
BOX 2 COLOR BLUE
BOX 1 RGB COLOR 220 109 88
BOX 2 RGB COLOR 175 238 238

Boxes can be generated in two ways. You can use the BOX ... COORDINATES command to place boxes on subsequent plots or you can use the BOX command to draw one box immediately. The BOX COLOR command is used to specify the color of the box frame in either case. When the BOX command is used, the color is set to color of the first box (i.e., <id> is 1).

A BOX ... COLOR command with no arguments sets the box color to the default; thus BOX 1 COLOR with no arguments sets the color for box 1 to the default. A BOX ... COLOR command with no <id> refers to all 100 boxes; thus BOX COLOR GREEN sets the color green for all 100 boxes. Note also that BOX COLOR with no <id> and no arguments sets the default color for all 100 boxes.

All box borders are black.

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PLOT	=	Generates a data or function plot.
BOX	=	Draws a box (immediately).
BOX CORNER COORDINATES	=	Generate a box on subsequent plots.
BOX PATTERN	=	Sets the line styles for box borders.
BOX THICKNESS	=	Sets the line thicknesses for box borders.
BOX FILL COLOR	=	Sets the colors for box fill patterns.
BOX FILL GAP	=	Sets the spacings for box hatch patterns.
BOX FILL LINE	=	Sets the line types for box hatch patterns.
BOX FILL PATTERN	=	Sets the fill patterns for boxes.
BOX FILL THICKNESS	=	Sets the line thicknesses for box hatch patterns.
CHARACTER COLOR	=	Sets the colors for plot characters.
LINE COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot lines.
SPIKE COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot spikes.
BAR FILL COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar fills.
BAR PATTERN COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar patterns.
BAR BORDER COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar borders.
TITLE COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot title.
LABEL COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot labels.
LEGEND COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot legends.
ARROW COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot boxes.
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 colors

 
ERASE
BOX COLOR RED
BOX SHADOW HW 0 0
BOX 10 10 40 40
BOX COLOR BLUE
BOX 60 10 90 40
BOX RGB COLOR 175 238 238
BOX 10 60 40 90
BOX RGB COLOR 220 20 60
BOX 60 60 90 90