19990826: Color Allocation

Dave,

The best solution would be to comment out the nwx and ntrans options from
the ntl launcher in the $NAWIPS/tables/ntl/ntl.tbl file if you want the
color table functionality without the other program options.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, David J. Knight wrote:

> Hi Chiz,
> > 
> > Ntl will place a tool launcher on your screen and allocate the color map,
> > or report a failure if you do not have enough colors available. By
> > default, ntl will try to allocate 128 satellite colors, 33 gempak graphics
> > colors and 16 radar colors = 177 total colors. If you have fewer
> > than 177 colors available, then a message to how many colors are available
> > will printed out by ntl. If your default visual is not 8 bit, then you
> > will receive a NCALOC -46 message.
> 
> Is it possible to have an individual program (like nsat for instance)
> allocate all the colors it might need when started up.
> Better, can you tell nsat how many colors to use when it
> is started up from the command line?
> 
> I'd rather not have people use ntl right now since we do not
> have the pqact.conf set up for all its capabilities
> (and frankly weather beats the heck out of the ntl equivalant
> for our purposes). I'd rather not have users complain that
> all functions do not work, and, I'd rather not go through
> the trouble of making them all work... (right now nsat
> and garp are the only non-standard gempak programs I tell
> people about - we used to use ntrans a little as well, but
> its limited capabilities quickly lost favour). I'm stongly
> leaning toward only supporting the best apps for a particular
> purpose rather than keeping them all alive...
> 
> David
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