Setting Colors in NUTS

Colors for the spectrum, axis, integrals, cursor, screen background and various fonts can be set in the nuts.ini file. 

The color of the spectrum can be changed while NUTS is running using the WC (which color) command.  The non-2-letter command colors can be used to set the color for the spectrum, screen background, axis and integral trace.  Command syntax is

colors background

which displays a color pallette for selecting background color.  Valid arguments for the colors command are 

real (this is the default if no argument is supplied) 
imag
axis
integral
background

The display can be changed from color to black and white either from the File/Page Setup menu selection, or with the commands BW (changes all colors to black) and CD (color display on).   Note that CD not only enables display of colors on the screen, but also sets the Print in Color option to TRUE.  

The option to print in color is set in the nuts.ini file or from the File/Page Setup menu.  The command MP (monochrome plot) can be used to turn off color printing.

The color of each spectrum in the Buffers subroutine can be set from the Edit menu in that subroutine.

The colors for each level of a contour plot are set in the nuts.ini file or can be entered while NUTS is running using the CR command.  Colors are set by entering numerical values for Red, Green and Blue.

In the dialog boxes to set fonts, there is an option for choosing the font color.

Included in the NUTS installation files for the Windows version is a useful program called colors.exe, which lets the user experiment with setting RGB values by showing the resulting colors, as shown below.  

Last updated 7/13/05.