Re: [ferret_users] rainbow.spk as a default color

[Xi Chang <xi.chang01@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you. The current ferret version has a default color provided by Patrick, instead of rainbow.

Why you guys replace the default color? The rainbow version is much better and more visible.

Chang 

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 6:54 PM Ansley C. Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

In a Ferret session you can change your color palette by issuing the PALETTE command:

   PALETTE rainbow

which remains in effect until the end of the session or until another PALETTE command is issued.

To have this take effect for all of your PyFerret or Ferret sessions, put a PALETTE command into a .ferret startup file.

In fact  the means of setting the default color palette is that it is the file named "default.spk" in the directory where the color palette files reside. So if you don't share the Ferret installation with others who still may want the viridis to be the installed default, another method would be to make a copy of the palette you want as the default and name it "default.spk", and put that in a directory listed in the environment variable FER_PALETTE.

Ansley

On 8/29/2019 2:19 PM, Xi Chang wrote:

Hi Ferret_users,

I would like to get the "rainbow" ppt as my default colorbar. 

Can anybody tell me how to do that?

Thanks

Chang

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