Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Deb Kerstiens) · Thu, 22 Feb 96 10:53:34 MST

Stephanie writes:

> And another opinion - 
> 
> The MEDM way is good though I would add an explanation of what it
> means to an easily accessible "help" display.
> 
> If the decision is to go with some sort of color coding, please
> please please let the color be configurable!  I was dismayed that
> the color chosen for when a color rule cannot be resolved is white
> and not configurable (on our system, magenta would be a better color
> leaving white to mean channel-cannot-be-connected though it would
> also be nice if the channel-not-connected color is configurable too,
> sigh).

The color model for edd/dm is currently based upon using colors that are in 
the "color map" for the display (or the external color palette.)  These 
colors are specified using RGB values, not the "named color" model. Although 
it is quite possible to allow color configurations as args, resources,
etc., I'd prefer not to do so.  Would it be sufficient to add a field to
the color rule configuration to allow selection of a color in the case that
color rules could not be resolved(just as one can select default fg and bg)?
In a similar fashion, what about allowing fg and bg color selection for 
"not connected" to be available as part of the "modify display attributes"?

Deb

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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