Hi Dave, As you say, running in pseudocolor mode fixes the problem. I have on my desk since a few years a paper by Microsoft proposing a color scheme for compatibility between applications. Systems like Netscape follow these recommendations. Implementing the scheme would imply backward incompatibility in the color numbers. Rene Brun David Bailey (Antares Post Graduate) wrote: > > Hi all, > > There was a message to roottalk some time ago > (http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/2430.html) on eXceed colour > map configuration and TrueType fonts. > > On trying to display a canvas with text in (or colours in may case), the > message "Error in <RootX11ErrorHandler>: BadValue (integer parameter out of > range for operation) (XID: 16249847)" was produced and the terminal froze. > The solution was to run in Pseudocolour mode and it was asked if anyone else > had similar problems. For me (eXceed 6.0, WinNT 4.0 running Root 2.26/00 4th > October under RH Linux 6.1 on an Intel PII) this change to Pseudocolour > worked except that when running ROOT at the same time with other > applications which use several colours (the RH Gnome desktop for one), most > of the ROOT colours weren't available so plots I'd made previously lose half > of their content. > > Is there a way around this via eXceed configuration? It was suggested at the > time of the original message (Oct 99) that a coded workaround could be > made...? ROOT is a great tool but there are odd occasions when I want to run > other apps as well. ;) > > Thanks for your help, > > Dave Bailey > > -------------------------------------------/ > - David Bailey : Antares post-Graduate / > - Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory / > - Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH /------/ > - (01865) 273395 /----------/ d.bailey2@physics.ox.ac.uk > --------------------/ http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~daveb
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