On 28 Dec 2005 06:56:39 -0800, "Rob McDonald"
<rob.a.mcdonald@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :
>Does anyone have any suggestions for accomplishing this? I'd rather
>not make the user specify colors at runtime.
have a look at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html
There are all kinds of packages. Surely one will do what you want off
the shelf. If not, you can simply create your own colour schemes for 1
to 10 colours. If you wanted to get really fancy you could use
http://mindprod.com/products.html#WAVELENGTH
You could divide the spectrum evenly and it will generate you the
colours.

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Rob McDonald - 29 Dec 2005 04:08 GMT
There are enough special little features that I want, that I think it
will be easier to start from scratch. I'll take a look at them to see
if any of them have a color selection routine I can borrow.
The spectrum routine is really neat, but just about the exact opposite
of what I want. If you start at one point in the rainbow and march
along in one direction, then neighboring boxes will be virtually
indistinguishible. Instead, I need to jump around in the spectrum in
some way... I may have a lot of contributors, so each box will be set
up with a listener, so when you hover over it, it will tell you which
contributor it is. (One of those little features I don't think typical
packages will have.)
Rob