[GRASS5] Hex equivalents of grass colors?

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Sun Apr 16 05:53:39 EDT 2006


Michel Wurtz wrote:

> The grass color sheme is quite old now... Even many years ago, it looked
> very poor.  Why not use the X-Windows (huge) list of color an introduce
> it in grass ?  There is quite a lot of tools to see/chose them...

The display drivers pre-allocate all of the standard colours. 
Enlarging the list would reduce the number of user-definable colourmap
entries on colour-mapped displays.

Also, the list in X11's rgb.txt (752 entries) wouldn't fit on a
256-colour display.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>




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