User Guide

The image above shows three buttons in the Palette column. Click on
one of them. For example, the button for Colored Background. The Col
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or windowopensnow.
On the left an 8 x 8 matrix is visible that contains already 16 pre-defined
colors. There are alternating eight 'normal' colors with their correspond
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ing eight highlight colors. A color of the palette at position x can be
giventhecorrespondinghighlightcoloratpositionx+8.
In order to define new values select an unused box of the matrix and ad
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just the new color with the help of the color selection area and the satu
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ration bar on the right. Click Set Color to apply your color. Now select a
new color box in the matrix and repeat the procedure for the next color.
Youmayalsoentervaluesfor Red, Green, Blue or Hue, Sat, Va l directly.
ColorWindow:DefiningColors
The image above shows four further pairs of colors (normal and corre
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spondinghighlightcolorverticallyarranged).
In order to change the color palette for an editor window select the ap
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propriate Background inthemenu Options/UserInterface.
Alternatively the color definition and change of palette can be made in a
scriptfileorinthecommandline.
SETPALETTE<index><rgb>
defines a color, where the color value has to be given hexadecimal.
Example:
SETPALETTE00xFFFF00
sets the background color (entry 0) to yellow (corresponds to the deci
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mal RGB value 255 255 0 which is hexadecimal FF FF 00). Hexadecimal
valuesaremarkedbyaleading 0x.
Toactivatetheblackcolorpalettetypeinthecommandline:
SETPALETTEBLACK
The new palette will become visible after refreshing the drawing area
withtheWINDOWcommand.
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PrinciplesforWorkingwithEAGLE