Re: Change default value of system variable?

[Reimar Bauer <r.bauer(at)fz-juelich.de>]

"K. Bowman" wrote:
> 
> I prefer to plot with black lines on a white background, so in my
> idl_startup file I include
> 
> !P.BACKGROUND = COLOR_24('white')    ;Set background color to white
> !P.COLOR      = COLOR_24('black')    ;Set default draw color to black
> 


Dear Ken,

we have developed a plot environment to solve this and some other
problems.

The idea is to always initialize the device for each plot.
What's all have to be done to make a plot is shown below.


initialize 
open device
make plot
close device


initialize: (plotprepare)
* loads a predefined structure. This is used to store 
  setting in keywords for the plots
* The actual system variables are saved 
* The foreground and background color is set



open device:  (plotinit)
* defines the device sizes
* opens the output device
* loads the colortable



make plot (plotxy, plot2d, plotxy_2d, plot3d ...)
plot, contour  and so on


close device (plotend)
* the device is closed
* the saved system variables are restored




There are lots of wysiwyg functions included for positioning
of text or legend on screen. With one flag in the structure
the output is set from screen to Postsctipt. 


The plot environment is described in my publication 
There are lots of examples included.
http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html


The routines are downloadable here
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.html


regards 

Reimar

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Reimar Bauer 

Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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