Command Overview

The graphics command is used to set the color values to be used on a chart. These values are stored in the system registry and read at the time any chart is created. There are five color values which can be specified:

1. BorderColor
2. BackGround
3. Light
4. BarColor
5. TitleColor

Syntax

The command is entered on the command line as the command name as either "graphics" or the shorter ("gr") followed by one or more command parameters. Each command parameter consists of an argument name, immediately followed by an equal sign ("=") and then immediately followed by a value. Color values are entered as hexadecimal values in the standard RGB format, but without any prefix. As an alternative, the color name can be entered as text (enclosed in quotes, if it contains embedded spaces). For example, a value for blue might be entered as 3333FF (or as blue). Upper/lower case values for hex constants do not matter.

If the color name is enetered as text, then the RGB value is displayed on the status bar.

The following is a listing of all parameter values for the graphics command:

An example

The command to set (or update) the backgroundcolor to ff9966 and the title color to ff9900 is as follows

graphics background=ff9966 titlecolor=ff9900

Note: Color codes are from the Univeristy of Pittsburgh web site of color codes (http://www.pitt.edu/~nisg/cis/web/cgi/rgb.html)

Once a color code value has been defined using the graphics command, it will remain (unless changed again). The values are stored in the Windows registry.

Example of steps (note that all commands can be combined into one command, but are shown here for the purposes of illustration)

1. Set the border color to "dark olive green"

2. Set the bar color to "hunter green"

3. Set the background to "khaki3"

4. Set the light colors to "Khaki"

5. Set the title color to "medium forest green"

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7. The resulting chart

Examples of the various color themes are as follows (note that these can be customized to use different colors as required)

Default (Blue) as installed

Red

Green

Yellow

Spring

Autumn

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