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Re: 19991207: xw/gf color table

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  • Subject: Re: 19991207: xw/gf color table
  • Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:46:27 -0700
Chiz,

Thanks bud. You the man....as always!

Steve

P.S. Will miss you at Goddard on Friday
due to extended illness. Bummer!

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Steve Chiswell wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> There is a way to override the default table using the
> environmental variable: GEMCOLTBL
> to specify an alternate color table, such as:
> setenv GEMCOLTBL coltbl.ramp
> 
> (You probably have my $GEMTBL/colors/coltbl.ramp which is
> an example of a green through yellow color ramp I used
> for some precipitable water plots).
> 
> Setting an alternate color table works if you are not running "ntl" on 
> the X server you are drawing to (eg, if you have xvfb for scripts to
> generate their gifs to, then this works great...otherwise, ntl on your
> desktop provides the shared colormap and  the program does not even
> read the color table).
> 
> Alternatively, you can set you script to use gpcolor and define your colors
> in you script.
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Steven L. Mullen wrote:
> 
> > Chiz,
> > 
> > Is there simple way to direct the xw/gf driver
> > to different color tables other than the default
> > one, e.g. in a simple manner similar to setting
> > LUTFIL=, when running a gdplot script? I
> > have spent most of the afternoon reading
> > the archived email and did not finding
> > anything that seemed to fit the bill
> > 
> > Thanks for bearing with me,
> > Steve
> > 
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> > 
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