33.19.30 Colormap Dialog Box

The Colormap dialog box allows you to select and modify existing colormaps. See Section  29.2.5 for details.

Controls

Labels   allows you to customize the display of your colormap labels.

Show All   Enable this option if you want all the labels to show alongside the colormap. Disable if you want to skip some of the label displays.

Skip   sets the number of labels to be skipped.

Number Format   contains controls for changing the format of the labels on the color scale. These labels are the character strings used to define the color divisions at the left of the graphics window.

Type   sets the form of the labels. You may select from a drop-down list of options, including the following:

general   displays the real value with either float or exponential form based on the size of the number and the defined Precision.

float   displays the real value with an integral and fractional part (e.g., 1.0000), where the number of digits in the fractional part is determined by Precision.

exponential   displays the real value with a mantissa and exponent (e.g., 1.0e-02), where the number of digits in the fractional part of the mantissa is determined by Precision.

Precision   defines the number of fractional digits displayed in the labels.

Colormap   contains controls for the colormap size and scale, and for selection of a defined colormap.

Log Scale   enables the use of a logarithmic scale for the color scale (rather than the default decimal scale). See Section  29.2.5 for details.

Colormap Size   specifies the number of distinct colors in the colormap. You may specify from 2 to 100 colors.

Currently Defined   contains a drop-down list of all pre-defined colormaps and all custom colormaps defined by you. Select the colormap to be used from this list.

Edit...   opens the Colormap Editor dialog box, in which you can create a custom colormap.