SEGMENT COLOR

SEGMENT ... COLOR

Plot Control Command

Specifies the color for the line segments to appear on subsequent plots.

Segments are straight lines that the analyst can position anywhere on the plot. The segments appear on all subsequent plots until blanked out or overridden with new segment coordinates. The segment colors hold for all subsequent plots until defaulted or overridden with new colors. Up to 100 such line segments can be specified.

Segments are most typically used in legend boxes to identify curves. 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 segment 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

SEGMENT <id> COLOR <color>
where <id> is an integer number or parameter in the range 1 to 100 that specifies the segment identifier;
and     <color> is a character string or index number that specifies the desired color.

SEGMENT <id> RGB COLORS <red> <green> <blue>
where <id> is an integer number or parameter in the range 1 to 100 that specifies the segment identifier;
            <red> is a number or parameter that specifies the red component;
            <green> is a number or parameter that specifies the green component;
and     <blue> is a number or parameter that specifies the blue component.

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.

SEGMENT 2 COLOR GREEN
SEGMENT 2 COLOR BLUE

A SEGMENT ... COLOR command with no arguments reverts the line segment color to default; thus SEGMENT 1 COLOR with no arguments reverts the color for line segment 1 to default. A SEGMENT ... COLOR command with no <id> refers to all 100 line segments; thus SEGMENT COLOR GREEN assigns the color green to all 100 line segments. SEGMENT COLOR with no <id> and no arguments reverts the color to default for all 100 line segments.

All line segments are drawn in black.

None

SEGMENT COORDINATES	=	= Specify a segment location.
SEGMENT PATTERN	=	Specify the line type for a segment.
SEGMENT THICKNESS	=	Specify the line thickness for a segment.
LEGEND	=	Specify a legend for a subsequent plot.
ARROW COORDINATES	=	Specify the location of an arrow.
BOX COORDINATES	=	Specify the location of a box.

Presentation Graphics

Pre-1987
2020/11: Support for RGB colors

 
. 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
LET N = SIZE LEAD; LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 N
.
LINE COLOR RED BLUE
LINE THICKNESS 0.3 ALL
SEGMENT 1 COORDINATES 17 87 22 87
SEGMENT 2 COORDINATES 17 83 22 83
SEGMENT 1 COLOR RED
SEGMENT 2 COLOR BLUE
SEGMENT THICKNESS 0.3
LEGEND 1 COORDINATES 23 86
LEGEND 1 POTASSIUM
LEGEND 2 COORDINATES 23 82
LEGEND 2 LEAD
TITLE DEMONSTRATE SEGMENT COLOR
PLOT POT LEAD VS X
    

 
. 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
LET N = SIZE LEAD; LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 N
.
LINE COLOR RED BLUE
LINE RGB COLOR 220 109 88 175 238 238
LINE THICKNESS 0.3 ALL
SEGMENT 1 COORDINATES 17 87 22 87
SEGMENT 2 COORDINATES 17 83 22 83
SEGMENT 1 COLOR RED
SEGMENT 2 COLOR BLUE
SEGMENT 1 RGB COLOR 220 109 88
SEGMENT 2 RGB COLOR 175 238 238
SEGMENT THICKNESS 0.3
LEGEND 1 COORDINATES 23 86
LEGEND 1 POTASSIUM
LEGEND 2 COORDINATES 23 82
LEGEND 2 LEAD
TITLE DEMONSTRATE SEGMENT RGB COLOR
PLOT POT LEAD VS X