Colors: Color attributes in HicEst

• color definition

  for foreground and background is by the sum of
  • 1 = blue
  • 2 = green
  • 4= red
  • 8 = bright
  • 16 = soft
  • for example:
    • 0 = black
    • 3 = cyan = blue + green
    • 5 = magenta = blue + red
    • 6 = yellow = green + red
    • 7 = white = blue + green + red
    • 15 = bright + white
    • 22 = soft + yellow
• for DeCoRation and Panel Foreground decimal places can define line style and line width
• for DLG, DeCoRation, and Panel Backgroundcolor decimal places define background style and background hatch
• colors 24 to 31 can be freely defined by the function RGB:
  • RGB(128, 0, 0, 25) ! define color nr 25 as 128/255 red

• global color definition

  : menu Options > Colors > Redefine
• default background color is bright white = 15
• default foreground color is black = 0

• AXIS(Backcol = RGB(255,127,63))
• ! XY-system background is 100%red + 127/255 green + 63/255 blue
• WRITE(WINdowhandle=hnr, ForeColor=0, BaCkcolor=7)
• ! write to window black on darkwhite
• DLG(BaCkcolor=1, Edit=something, ForeColor=4, BackColor=6)
• ! border color dark blue, edit red on yellow