CHARACTER COLORS

CHARACTER COLORS

Plot Control Command

Specifies the colors of the characters to appear at the plot points of each trace 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 character 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

CHARACTER COLORS <color 1> <color 2> ... <color n>
where <color 1>, ..., <color n> specify the desired character colors.

Up to 100 such character colors may be specified.

CHARACTER 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 character 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.

CHARACTER COLORS RED BLUE RED
CHARACTER COLORS RED RED BLUE BLUE
CHARACTER COLORS ALL YELLOW
CHARACTER COLORS YELLOW ALL
CHARACTERS COLORS
CHARACTER RGB COLORS 220 109 88 240 220 160
CHARACTER RGB COLORS 220 109 88 ALL

The CHARACTER COLORS command with no arguments sets the character color to default for all traces. The CHARACTER COLORS command with the word ALL before or after the specified color assigns that color to the characters on all traces; thus CHARACTER COLOR GREEN ALL or CHARACTER COLOR ALL GREEN assigns the color green to the characters on all traces.

All character colors are set to black and RGB colors are off.

None

PLOT	=	Generates a data or function plot.
CHARACTERS	=	Sets the types for plot characters.
CHARACTER ANGLE	=	Sets the angles for plot characters.
CHARACTER AUTOMATIC	=	Specifies a variable to be used as the arguments to the CHARACTER command.
CHARACTER CASE	=	Sets the cases for plot characters.
CHARACTER FILL	=	Sets the fill switches for plot characters.
CHARACTER FONT	=	Sets the fonts for plot characters.
CHARACTER HW	=	Sets the heights and widths for plot characters.
CHARACTER JUSTIFICATION	=	Sets the justifications for plot characters.
CHARACTER OFFSET	=	Sets the offsets for plot characters.
CHARACTERS SIZES	=	= Sets the sizes for plot characters.
CHARACTER THICKNESS	=	Sets the thicknesses for plot characters.
CHARACTER WIDTH	=	Sets the widths 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.
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.

Graphics

Pre-1987
2020/11: Support for RGB colors

 
. POLLUTION SOURCE ANALYSIS, LLOYD CURRIE, DATE--1990
. SUBSET OF CURRIE.DAT REFERENCE FILE
.
LET ID2 = DATA 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
SERIAL READ LEAD
164 426 59 98 312 263 607 497 213 54 160 262 547 325 419 94 70
END OF DATA
SERIAL READ POT
106 175 61 79 94 121 424 328 107 218 140 179 246 231 245 339 99
END OF DATA
LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 17
.
CHARACTER CIRCLE CIRCLE SQUARE SQUARE
CHARACTER FILL ON ALL
LINE BLANK ALL
LEGEND FONT SIMPLEX
LEGEND 1 CIRC() - POTASSIUM
LEGEND 2 SQUA() - LEAD
.
CHARACTER COLOR G10 G90 G10 G90
TITLE DEMONSTRATE GRAYSCALE CHARACTER COLOR COMMAND
PLOT POT X ID2 AND
PLOT LEAD X ID2
    

CHARACTER COLOR RED BLUE RED BLUE
TITLE DEMONSTRATE CHARACTER COLOR COMMAND
PLOT POT X ID2 AND
PLOT LEAD X ID2
    

CHARACTER RGB COLOR 175 238 238 220 20 60 175 238 238 220 20 60
TITLE DEMONSTRATE CHARACTER RGB COLOR COMMAND
PLOT POT X ID2 AND
PLOT LEAD X ID2