Angela, I'm afraid you have exhausted my very limited knowledge of the internal workings of Artemis. I will have to leave this question to the experts. Kim?
Julian. Angela Baldo wrote: > > Hi Julian, > > Thanks for your rapid response! > > I realize I can set any *single* color to anything from 0-255 on the RGB > map, and I have enjoyed resetting the colors in this way. What I want > to do is slightly different; I would like to be able to define more than > 20 *preset* colors in the options file. > > Do you have any suggestions for this? The maximum number of preset > colors seems to be 20. > > Thanks, > > anja > > Julian Parkhill wrote: > > >"Angela M. Baldo" wrote: > > > > > >>Hi everyone, > >> > >>I have a couple of questions about setting colors. > >> > >>The development version of the manual > >>>(http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/current_manual/options-descriptions.html#OPTIONS-COLOUR) > >>says that we can set up to 18 colors (0-17). I have managed to set 20 > >>(0-19). Is this a fluke, or is the manual wrong? > >> > >>Also, I was wondering, is there a way we can define more than 20 colors, > >>if we want them? Maybe build that in to a later version? I've been > >>experimenting with shading certain results, and it comes out Very Nice. > >> > >> > > > >Anja, > > > >You can specify any possible colour using RGB attributes: > > > >from the manual: > > > >Each feature displayed in Artemis can be given a colour. The available > >colours are set in the options file (see Chapter 4) and are assigned to > >a > >feature by adding a /colour qualifier (see the section called Edit > >Selected Features in Chapter 3). Currently there are two ways of > >specifying > >feature colours. The first way uses a single number. For example red is > >colour 2, so adding /colour=2 as a feature qualifier will make that > >feature > >red. The second way is to specify the red, green and blue components of > >the colour. Each of the components can take values from 0 to 255, with > >255 > >being the most intense. For example /colour=255 0 0 is another way to > >give a feature the colour red. If no /colour qualifier is set for a > >feature > >a default colour is used (the default colours are also specified in the > >options file). > > > >Julian. > > > > > > -- > Angela M. Baldo, PHD > Microbial Food Safety > USDA-ARS ERRC > 600 East Mermaid Lane > Wyndmoor, PA 19038-8598 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: (215) 233-6587 > Fax: (215) 233-6581 -- Dr. Julian Parkhill The Sanger Institute mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Tel: +44(0)1223 494975, Fax: +44(0)1223 494919 Hinxton http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/Microbes Cambridge http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/parkhill CB10 1SA, UK
