On 2012-01-20 02:28-0800 phil rosenberg wrote: > As far as adding to the documentation is concerned, something that I found > quite confusing is that nowhere does it state that calls to > plcol0 or plcol1 change the current colour an this colour is then used for > all subsequent drawing actions until the colour is changed > again. Might I suggest a slight alteration to the second paragraph of the > "Setting Color" section. > > First replace the 1st sentence with: > > The PLplot colour model utilizes the concepts of a background color, a > current color and two color maps to allow the user to select > from a large range of colours. > > Then append the following to the end > > The user can change the background color by setting the index 0 color of > color map0 (as described in the section Color Map0) and can > change the current color by selecting any of the colors from either color map > using calls to plcol0 or plcol1. When the current color > is changed all subsequent drawing actions will utilise the new color until it > is changed again.
Thanks for those ideas. I have reworded that paragraph along the lines you mentioned. See revision 12137. That changed wording should propagate to the website the next time we make a release. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
