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Re: Background color

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Mario wrote:
> Just a question:
> 
> Is it possible to set the background color so that both 4.6 and 4.4
> understand it?

Prior to 4.6 many [most?] terminals did not have a background color option.
So the terminal-independent way of forcing a solid background was

   set obj 999 rectangle behind from screen 0,0 to screen 1,1 \
               fillcolor rgb "white" 

That should work in both 4.4 and 4.6

	Ethan
 
> We have a problem with Maxima, which uses Gnuplot for plotting. With
> 4.6, we get errors due to old code, but if I update the interface to
> the new syntax, users with older Gnuplot versions will then have a
> similar problem.
> 
> Is there a work-around for this, please?
> 
> By the way, the web site with examples of Maxima's 'draw' package have
> been moved to sourceforge:
> 
> http://riotorto.users.sourceforge.net/gnuplot
> 
> The link in
> 
> http://gnuplot.info/links.html
> 
> points to the older place. Perhaps you can change it.
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Mario

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Background color Mario <xefaso@terra.es> - 2012-05-15 14:47 -0700
  Re: Background color sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-05-15 21:44 -0700
    Re: Background color Mario <xefaso@terra.es> - 2012-05-16 11:05 -0700
      Re: Background color sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2012-05-16 15:48 -0700
        Re: Background color Mario <xefaso@terra.es> - 2012-05-17 04:40 -0700
        Re: Background color Mario <xefaso@terra.es> - 2012-12-21 08:12 -0800

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