D3PLOT 22.1

User Defined Colours

User-Defined Colours

The lower rows show the user-defined colours. There can be up to 150 user-defined colours.

Click on a user-defined colour to apply it, or click on an empty slot to create a new user-defined colour.

User-defined colours can be used in the dialogue input by specifying their name.

In T/HIS user-defined colours can be used in FAST-TCF.

Creating

To create a new user colour click on an empty slot. This maps a colour palette.

The colour can be edited a number of ways:
  • Using sliders to set the red, green and blue value,
  • Inputting a hex colour code,
  • Clicking on the colour wheel and cone, or
  • Using sliders to set the hue, light and saturation levels.

When you create a colour it is applied.



Editing

Hover over a user colour to edit it. You have the choice to change the name of the colour, Edit it, or Delete it.

The user-defined colours are given the standard name, for example "user_1". They can be renamed. The name must start with a letter and gets set to all lower case. If the name is not unique, a number will be appended to it, for example "green_1".

Edit maps the colour palette. If you edit a colour it is then applied.

Delete removes a colour. The colour is no longer available when you next open the colour popup.

Saving

The user-defined colours can be saved. The same user-defined colour are then available when you next run D3PLOT or T/HIS.

The user-defined colours are stored in the user_colours.xml file. If the user has permission to modify things in the INSTALL directory, the user is given the option to either save the user colours to the INSTALL directory (which is sometimes visible to multiple users) or their HOME directory.

Alternatively, the preference user_colour_file can be set to specify an .xml file.

When D3PLOT or T/HIS is next started the user_colours.xml file is read in.

If the same colour, for example "user_1", is defined in the user_colours.xml file in both the INSTALL and HOME directory, the HOME directory user_colours.xml file takes precedence.

If the preference user_colour_file has been set, any user_colours.xml file in the HOME directory is ignored. If a colour is also defined in the user_colours.xml file in the INSTALL directory, the user_colour_file .xml file takes precedence.

For T/HIS, if a user colour was previously set-up using a preference, for example this*user_colour1 , and that colour slot is also defined in a user_colours.xml file, the user_colours.xml file takes precedence.


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