Re: inconsistencies with set colorsequence

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 24 March, 2014 22:30:45 Juhász Péter wrote:
> I saw that in parallel with the new "set colorsequence" command, the
> default color sequence was also changed.
> 
> However, it seems that the change was not reflected everywhere:
> 
> consider the command
> 
> do for [i=1:10] { set obj i rect from i,i to i+1,i+1 fs solid 1.0 border
> lt i fc lt i lw 3}
> 
> With the current CVS this produces rectangles with their borders colored
> according to the new sequence, but their interiors according to the old.

Huh.   
But it seems that was already broken in 4.6.
So it needs to be fixed, but it has nothing to do with recent changes. 

> I've tried to fix this by adding a call to load_linetype in set_obj
> (where it parses the fillcolor attribute), but apparently that was not
> enough or I wasn't doing it right.
> 
> Somewhat related:
> "show colorsequence" currently shows the same info as "show colornames".

That's because there was already a command "show colors".
Keep it or get rid of it?

I don't think "show colorsequence" would be useful by itself, since
it doesn't tell you what the current linetype definitions are, only what
they started out as.

	Ethan