Re: Trying to get boxes to have different colors for border and interior

Hi,


The border properties can be set via the 'set fill style' command, where 
a linetype can be specified, so you have either to use the linetype 
which has the desired color as a default, or to redefine a particular 
linetype with the parameters you need.

I managed to get the expected result this way (I'm using gnuplot 5.4.4):

1) redefine one of the default linetypes with the desired parameters 
(line color, line width and even dash type)
      set linetype 1 lc 'blue'  lw 3 # dt 2

2) redefine the fill style in order that it uses the desired linetype 
(fillcolor can't be defined here)
      set style fill border lt 1 # or 'noborder' for a box without border

3) plot your data by specifying the fill color only (the border presence 
and properties depending of the parameters of the previous 'set style 
fill' command:
      plot '-' w boxes fs solid 0.1 fc 'red'
      0.2 0.3 0.1
      0.4 0.8 0.1
      0.6 0.4 0.1
      e


Laurent

Le 19/02/23 à 02:46, Robert Dodier a écrit :
> 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
>
>
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