SAS/SPECTRAVIEW Software User's Guide

Controlling the Color Palette

The following topics explain how to save your color customizations, how to load a saved color palette, and how to reset the color palette to its default specifications.

Saving Color Specifications to a File

You can save your color specifications for all color palette items, such as tick marks, labels, response value ranges, and so on. Then you can load the stored palette file to apply to a current image. To save color specifications:

Select [Palette].
Select [Data ramp].
Select [Store]. The software prompts you for a filename.
Enter a filename in the text window. The software saves the file to the directory from which you invoked SAS/SPECTRAVIEW. You cannot specify a different directory in which to save the file.

The software saves your color specifications for all color palette items, not just the data ramp.

Loading Color Specifications Stored in a File

Once you have saved color specifications in a file, you can load the stored palette file to apply to an image. Note that when you saved the file, the software saved it to the directory from which you invoked SAS/SPECTRAVIEW. To load that file, you must invoke SAS/SPECTRAVIEW from that location or copy the saved file to the appropriate location.

To load a stored palette file:

Select [Palette].
Select [Data ramp].
Select [Load]. The software prompts you for a filename.
Enter the filename in the text window.

The software loads the saved color specifications and applies them to the current session.

Resetting the Color Palette

To reset the current color palette to default colors, select the [Reset] global button, then [Palette]. The software highlights [Palette], indicating that you need to confirm the request. To confirm, select [Palette] again.

When you reset the color palette, the software returns all currently assigned colors to their defaults. Stored palette files are not affected.

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