LEGEND COLOR

LEGEND ... COLOR

Plot Control Command

Specifies the color of the legends to appear on subsequent plots.

The legends are the text which the analyst can position anywhere (via the LEGEND ... COORDINATES command) on a plot. The legends appear on all subsequent plots until blanked out (via a LEGEND command with no arguments) or until overridden with new legends. 100 such legends can be specified.

The legend colors hold for all subsequent plots until defaulted (via the LEGEND ... COLOR command with no arguments) or until overridden with new legend colors.

Dataplot provides two methods for specifying colors.

1. Colors can be defined by name (or by the corresponding index). Dataplot adopted it's named colors from the X11 project. Currently, 162 named colors and 100 levels of grayscale are supported. Grayscale can be specified with either G0, G1, ..., G100 (or -1, -2, ..., -100). Many older devices support only a limited number of colors. For these devices, unsupported colors will be mapped to one of the available colors. To specify a named color, see Syntax 1.

2. Most modern graphics devices support full RGB (RedBlueGreen) color. You can alternatively specify RGB colors by entering three integer values to represent the Red, Green and Blue components, respectively. These values should be in the range 0 to 255.

When setting the legend RGB color, Dataplot first checks if the device supports RGB colors. If not, the named color will be used. If the device does support RGB color, Dataplot will check if an RGB color has been specified. If yes, then that RGB color is used. If not, the named color will be used.

To see the list of supported named colors (with the associated index number), see

https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/refman1/ch11/homepage.htm

LEGEND <id> COLOR <color>
where <id> is an integer number or parameter in the range 1 to 100 that specifies the legend identifier;
and     <color> is the desired legend color.

LEGEND <id> RGB COLORS <red> <green> <blue>
where <id> is an integer number or parameter in the range 1 to 100 that specifies the legend identifier;
            <red> is a number or parameter that specifies the red component;
            <green> is a number or parameter that specifies the green component;
            <blue> is a number or parameter that specifies the blue component.

To turn off the RGB color, set the values to -1 (any negative value will work). Values greater than 255 will be set to 255.

LEGEND 1 COLOR YELLOW
LEGEND 2 COLOR BLACK
LEGEND 1 COLOR
LEGEND COLOR
LEGEND 1 RGB COLOR 220 109 88
LEGEND 2 RGB COLOR 175 238 238

A LEGEND ... COLOR command with no color reverts the color to default. Thus LEGEND 1 COLOR with no color reverts the color of legend 1 to default. A LEGEND ... COLOR command with no <id> refers to all 100 legends. Thus LEGEND COLOR BLUE assigns the color BLUE to all 100 legends. LABEL COLOR with no <id> and no color reverts all 100 legends to the default color.

All legend colors are black.

None

PLOT	=	Generates a data or function plot.
LEGEND	=	Specify the legends for subsequent plots.
LEGEND ANGLE	=	Sets the plot legend angles.
LEGEND CASE	=	Sets the plot legend cases.
LEGEND COORDINATES	=	Sets the plot legend locations.
LEGEND DIRECTION	=	Sets the plot legend directions.
LEGEND FONT	=	Sets the plot legend fonts.
LEGEND HW	=	Sets the plot legend heights and widths.
LEGEND JUSTIFICATION	=	Sets the plot legend justifications.
LEGEND SIZES	=	Sets the plot legend sizes.
LEGEND THICKNESS	=	Sets the plot legend line thicknesses.
CHARACTER COLOR	=	Sets the colors for plot characters.
LINE COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot lines.
SPIKE COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot spikes.
BAR FILL COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar fills.
BAR PATTERN COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar patterns.
BAR BORDER COLORS	=	Sets the colors for plot bar borders.
TITLE COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot title.
LABEL COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot labels.
LEGEND COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot legends.
BOX COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot boxes.
SEGMENT COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot segments.
FRAME COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot frame.
GRID COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot grids.
TIC COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot tics.
TIC LABEL COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot tic labels.
BACKGROUND COLOR	=	Sets the color for plot background.

Presentation Graphics

Pre-1987
2020/10: Support for RGB colors

 
. POLLUTION SOURCE ANALYSIS, LLOYD CURRIE, DATE--1990
. SUBSET OF CURRIE.DAT REFERENCE FILE
.
LET ID2 = DATA 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
SERIAL READ LEAD
164 426 59 98 312 263 607 497 213 54 160 262 547 325 419 94 70
END OF DATA
SERIAL READ POT
106 175 61 79 94 121 424 328 107 218 140 179 246 231 245 339 99
END OF DATA
.
CHARACTER X1 X2 Y1 Y2
CHARACTER COLOR RED RED BLUE BLUE
LINE BLANK ALL
LEGEND 1 X - POTASSIUM
LEGEND 2 Y - LEAD
LEGEND 1 COLOR RED
LEGEND 2 COLOR BLUE
.
TITLE DEMONSTRATE LEGEND COLOR COMMAND
LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 17
PLOT POT X ID2 AND
PLOT LEAD X ID2
    

 
. POLLUTION SOURCE ANALYSIS, LLOYD CURRIE, DATE--1990
. SUBSET OF CURRIE.DAT REFERENCE FILE
.
LET ID2 = DATA 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
SERIAL READ LEAD
164 426 59 98 312 263 607 497 213 54 160 262 547 325 419 94 70
END OF DATA
SERIAL READ POT
106 175 61 79 94 121 424 328 107 218 140 179 246 231 245 339 99
END OF DATA
.
CHARACTER X1 X2 Y1 Y2
CHARACTER COLOR RED RED BLUE BLUE
LINE BLANK ALL
LEGEND 1 X - POTASSIUM
LEGEND 2 Y - LEAD
LEGEND 1 COLOR RED
LEGEND 2 COLOR BLUE
LEGEND 1 RGB COLOR 220 109 88
LEGEND 2 RGB COLOR 175 238 238
.
TITLE DEMONSTRATE LEGEND RGB COLOR COMMAND
LET X = SEQUENCE 1 1 17
PLOT POT X ID2 AND
PLOT LEAD X ID2