LABEL COLOR

...LABEL COLOR

Plot Control Command

Specifies the color of the labels to appear on subsequent plots.

The labels are the text which appear below the bottom horizontal frame line and outside of the vertical frame lines. They typically define the variables/axes which are being plotted. The label colors hold for all subsequent plots until defaulted (via the ...LABEL COLOR command with no arguments) or until overridden with new label colors. The analyst can define colors for all 5 plot labels:
1. 3 below the bottom horizontal frame;
2. 1 to the left of the left vertical frame;
3. 1 to the right of the right vertical frame line.

The label is specified by the prefix in the 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 label RGB 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

<prefix>LABEL COLOR <color>
where <color> specifies the desired color;
and     <prefix> is one of the following:

X1 refers to the first horizontal label
X2 refers to the second horizontal label
X3 refers to the third horizontal label
X refers to the first horizontal label
Y1 refers to the left vertical label
Y2 refers to the right vertical label
Y refers to the left and right vertical labels
no prefix refers to all 5 axis labels.


The specification of each individual label with a different color is rare. The most common form (by far) for this command is the last one (with no prefix) which defines the color uniformly for all 5 labels.

<prefix>LABEL RGB COLOR <red> <green> <blue>
where <red> is a number or parameter that specifies the red component;
            <green> is a number or parameter that specifies the green component;
            <blue> is a number or parameter that specifies the blue component;
and     <prefix> is one of the following:

X1 refers to the first horizontal label
X2 refers to the second horizontal label
X3 refers to the third horizontal label
X refers to the first horizontal label
Y1 refers to the left vertical label
Y2 refers to the right vertical label
Y refers to the left and right vertical labels
no prefix refers to all 5 axis labels.


The specification of each individual label with a different color is rare. The most common form (by far) for this command is the last one (with no prefix) which defines the color uniformly for all 5 labels.

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.

Y1LABEL COLOR BLUE
YLABEL COLOR BLUE
LABEL COLOR YELLOW
LABEL COLOR WHITE
LABEL RGB COLOR 238 238 75

All label colors are black.

None

A ...LABEL COLOR command with no arguments reverts the color to default. Thus X1LABEL COLOR with no arguments reverts the first horizontal axis label to default. A ...LABEL COLOR command with no prefix refers to all 5 labels. Thus LABEL COLOR BLUE assigns the color BLUE to all 5 labels. LABEL COLOR with no prefix and no arguments reverts all 5 labels to default.

PLOT	=	Generates a data or function plot.
LABEL	=	Specifies the labels for the plot axes.
LABEL AUTOMATIC	=	Sets automatically generated labels.
LABEL CASE	=	Sets the case (upper/lower) for labels.
LABEL DISPLACEMENT	=	Sets the distance from the frame to the labels.
LABEL FONT	=	Sets the plot label fonts.
LABEL SIZE	=	Sets the size (height) for plot labels.
LABEL THICKNESS	=	Sets the line thickness for plot labels.
TEXT	=	Writes a text string.
TITLE	=	Sets the plot title.
LEGEND	=	Sets the plot legends.
FRAME	=	Sets the on/off switch for the plot frame.
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.
LEGEND COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot legends.
BOX 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
2020/10: Added support for RGB color

 
. POLLUTION SOURCE ANALYSIS, LLOYD CURRIE, DATE--1990
. SUBSET OF CURRIE.DAT REFERENCE FILE
.
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
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TITLE DEMONSTRATE LABEL COLOR
X1LABEL LEAD
Y1LABEL POTASSIUM
X1LABEL COLOR RED
Y1LABEL COLOR BLUE
CHARACTER CIRCLE
CHARACTER SIZE 1.5
LINE BLANK ALL
PLOT POT VS LEAD
    

 
. POLLUTION SOURCE ANALYSIS, LLOYD CURRIE, DATE--1990
. SUBSET OF CURRIE.DAT REFERENCE FILE
.
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
.
TITLE DEMONSTRATE LABEL RGB COLOR
X1LABEL LEAD
Y1LABEL POTASSIUM
X1LABEL COLOR RED
Y1LABEL COLOR BLUE
X1LABEL RGB COLOR 220 109 88
Y1LABEL RGB COLOR 175 238 238
CHARACTER CIRCLE
CHARACTER SIZE 1.5
LINE BLANK ALL
PLOT POT VS LEAD