Re: [Gnuplot-info] Trying to get boxes to have different colors for border and interior

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

Sorry, I forgot to mention. I am working w/ Gnuplot 5.4 patchlevel 2
on Linux. Terminal type is 'qt'.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 5:46 PM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm working with boxes and I'd like to see if I can arrange for
> the line around the border of the box to be a different color than the
> interior of the box.
>
> I tried the following and I expected it to draw boxes which have a red
> interior and blue border:
>
> plot '-' with boxes fillstyle solid 0.1 linewidth 3 linecolor 'blue'
> fillcolor 'red'
> 0.2 0.3 0.1
> 0.4 0.8 0.1
> 0.6 0.4 0.1
> e
>
> but what I see is that the border is red as well as the interior.
>
> When I try it without fillcolor,
>
> plot '-' with boxes fillstyle solid 0.1 linewidth 3 linecolor 'blue'
> 0.2 0.3 0.1
> 0.4 0.8 0.1
> 0.6 0.4 0.1
> e
>
> the border is blue, as expected (and the interior is also blue, as
> expected, since the documentation for boxes says that the fillcolor
> defaults to the linecolor if not otherwise specified).
>
> Looking at the documentation for boxes, it doesn't seem to say
> anything about how the border color is determined, and also doesn't
> seem to say anything about the linecolor parameter, except to say
> fillcolor defaults to linecolor.
>
> Is the observed behavior for the first example to be expected, or is
> it a bug? Is there a way to get the border and the interior to be
> different colors?
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed on this, I appreciate your help.
>
> Robert Dodier