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Re: 19991029: changing Ntrans default background color

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  • Subject: Re: 19991029: changing Ntrans default background color
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:18:20 -0800 (PST)
Steve,

I have partially figured out what went wrong with this suggestion

> The way to globally change the background color for the xw background is
> to change the first color in $GEMTBL/colors/coltbl.xw prior to
> launching ntl.

Ntrans, when launched from ntl, launches
/home/disk/ldm/NAWIPS-5.4.12/bin/sol/ntrans ($GEMEXE/ntrans), but the
background comes out black.  When launched from the command line, the
exact same executable, $GEMEXE/ntrans, now comes out with a white
background!  The ntl invocation of ntrans seems to utilize the color
table in $NAWIPS_TABLES/nawips.clr (which does not appear to have a
way to set the background color), while the standard, command-line
invocation uses the color table in $GEMTBL/colors/coltbl.xw.

Clear as mud to me now.


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