20040129: available graphic Colors

Hello,

When running shell scripts invoking McIDAS, I am only able to draw
maps/etc. in about 12 unique colors.  I'm fairly certain that McIDAS has
a much larger palate than that.....any idea as to why this occurs?  My
mcevn command is the following:

Mcenv -f 1@540x720 -g 32 -I 128 << 'EOF'

Thanks,

Travis Martin
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:06:04 -0600
From: Rick Kohrs <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Colors

When you say 12 unique colors, what do you mean.  Is the map command 
failing?  If not, try using GU to define a new color.

GU MAKE 16 PINK

Rick

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:12:34 -0800
From: "Travis Martin" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>

I'll give that a shot.  What I mean is if I use, say MAP X 10 is gives
me a Salmon color but so does MAP X 26.  So the color pallet seems to
just wrap around on itself.  I'll use GU MAKE and see what I can come up
with. 

Thanks,
_____  
Travis Martin
Weathernews Americas Inc.

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:41:04 -0600 (CST)
From: John Benson <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: Colors

     The sum of the number of graphics levels and the number of
image color levels plus the cursor color and black add up to
256.  The number of colors dedicated to graphics is in the Ucword
UC_NUMBER_GRAPHICS.

    --johnb

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:05:30 -0800
From: "Travis Martin" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>

Thanks John, Rick's suggestion to simply use GU MAKE <some level> <some
color> worked beautifully.

  _____  


Travis Martin
Weathernews Americas Inc.