[Gvsig_english] New Color Ramps for gvSIG

[Benjamin Ducke]

Thanks for making these available, Kevin, they look great!
Some questions: what license are you putting these under? will it
be OK to redistribute them as part of gvSIG? Could you license
them under a Creative Commons license?

And to the developers: How is the order of palettes in both
raster colour tables and vector layer symbology determined?
Both raster and vector colour palette lists are in the same order,
and that order does not change between restarts of gvSIG, but
I cannot see where that order comes from.

It's not the order in which they are listed in the <palette_list>
tag in palettes.xml, it's also not the order in which the <palette ..>
items follow in the same file. It's also not the alphabetical order
of filenames. Is it the order in which the file system happens to 
have stored them? Maybe it would be a good idea to sort alphabetically 
instead?

Cheers,

Ben

----- Original Message -----
> Dear gvSIG Users,
> 
> I have created new color ramps for use in gvSIG. They replace the
> default color ramps.
> 
> To use the new color ramps:
> 1. Navigate to the gvSIG configuration folder.
> For Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\"username"\gvSIG
> For Linux: /home/"username"/gvSIG
> 
> 2. Replace the default "palettes.xml" file with the attached
> "palettes.xml" file.
> 
> 3. Delete the existing "ColorSchemes" and "colortable" folders.
> 
> 4. Start gvSIG.
> The "ColorSchemes" and "colortable" folders will be created with the
> new color ramps in them.
> 
> Notes: The color ramps are designed to work with both raster and
> vector data, although some are better for raster data and some are
> better for vector data.
> The number of classes in each ramp is in parenthesis as part of the
> ramp's name.
> In Windows the color ramps are ordered alphabetically and are pleasing
> to look at as a group when choosing a ramp. This is not true in Linux.
> I cannot figure out how Linux orders the ramps. They seem random and
> are not as pleasing to look at as a group.
> However, they are completely functional in Linux.
> 
> To restore the default color ramps delete the "palettes.xml" file, the
> "ColorSchemes" folder, and the "colortable" folder.
> Then restart gvSIG. The original "palettes.xml" file and folders will
> be recreated.
> 
> I hope you enjoy.
> 
> Kevin
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