Re: 20010106: 20010104: GEMPAK 5.6 & white bg drivers

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Unidata Support wrote:

> The color is set for that session....or as long as ntl is running
> with the shared color map installed. This will work with older
> versions of GEMPAK (and its more general than hardcoding the color
> into the device driver).

That sounds like it has the flexibility to do what I want.  I wonder
why I went to all the trouble of building those drivers.

> >I assume 'ncolor' is new with 5.6, since I don't have it currently.  Would
> >it set the background colors just for the 'n' apps, or would it work with
> >garp as well?
>
> If you are using "ntl" which installs the shared color map, then all
> programs will inherit the background color you set.

That's great news, since I didn't dare try to use the white bg drivers w/
garp or the n progs, so it sounds like ncolor will give us the same sort
of color customizability for the gui's that gpcolor does for the gempak
progs.

> The only thing I found that didn't work was with the 5.6 non-X "gif" driver
> which I did test using the gifw code in the $GEMPAK/source/driver/active
> directory. I had to directly change the code there.

Well hopefully we won't need to create these duplicate drivers now since
presumably using gpcolor with the standard gif driver would work OK.  I'm
going to install the 5.6 now and we'll see if we can live without any
modifications.  Thanks again.

Tom