Re: 20000817: swapping black and white in a display?

• To: "Mattheus, Henner" <Henner.Mattheus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: 20000817: swapping black and white in a display?
• From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:44:49 -0500

Hi Henner,

> >can somebody give me a hint how i can get a white background and black axes
> >in a DisplayImpl?
> >up to now i only tried setting the background of displayImpl.getComponent()
> >to black but that didn't work.
> 
> You can change the colors of the background using
> DisplayRenderer.setBackgroundColor() method.  You can get the
> DisplayRenderer using display.getDisplayRenderer().  You might
> need to change the cursor color also (DisplayRenderer.setCursorColor())
> to get the cursor visible and also the readouts on the display if
> you set the bacground color to white.
> 
> You could also get the RendererControl for the renderer
> (display.getDisplayRenderer().getRendererControl) and use it's
> methods to change the characteristics of the display.
> 
> Test53 and Test54 in the examples directory show examples of
> changing the background, box and cursor colors.

To get black axis scales, use:

  float[] color = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f};
  xmap.setScaleColor(color);
  etc for ScalarMaps to XAxis, YAxis and ZAxis

Cheers,
Bill
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• References:
  • 20000817: swapping black and white in a display?
    • From: Don Murray