CGPICKCOLORNAME

CGPICKCOLORNAME
Provides an interactive method of selecting a draw color name. The program is useful
for learning the color names available in the Coyote Graphics System.

Examples

To call the program from the IDL comamnd line::
IDL> color = cgPickColorName() & Print, color
To call the program from within a widget program::
color = cgPickColorName("red", Group_Leader=event.top) & Print, color

Author

FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING::
David W. Fanning
1645 Sheely Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA
Phone: 970-221-0438
E-mail: [email protected]
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com

History

Change History::
Written by: David W. Fanning, 31 August 2000.
Modified program to read colors from a file and to use more
colors on 24-bit platforms. 16 October 2000. DWF.
Added the COLUMNS keyword. 16 October 2000. DWF.
Fixed a small problem with mapping a modal widget. 2 Jan 2001. DWF
Now drawing small box around each color. 13 March 2003. DWF.
Added eight new colors. Total now of 104 colors. 11 August 2005. DWF.
Modified GUI to display system colors. 13 Dec 2005. DWF.
Added BREWER keyword to allow Brewer Colors. 15 May 2008. DWF.
Added all BREWER names to the default naming scheme. 3 July 2008. DWF.
Set a size for the color name label widget. Otherwise, the widget always
jumps back to the center of the display when I select a color on UNIX
machines. Also had to remove TLB updating with UPDATE keyword to avoid
tickling the same IDL bug. Sigh... 13 March (Friday) 2009.
Removed system color names, since these are no longer available in cgColor.
27 Nov 2010. DWF
Renamed cgPickColorName. 20 Oct 2012. DWF.
Added 12 colors suggested by Paul Krummel for people with color blindness. See the last line in
Figure 3 of `this reference <http://www.sron.nl/~pault/>`. 16 Jan 2015. DWF.

Library	Coyote

Version	July-2015