Color mapping

 

The color mapping program supports 8, 16, and 24 bit color systems.

The basic color mapping program defines up to 10 different colors for each of the five default basic color schemes; all but two of the basic scheme colors (wheat background and light blue background) come from the WEB color palette. The advanced color mapping program can define up to 22 unique colors for each session. Access to the color mapping program is controlled with a resource. See the following for valid resource values:

advanced

The user is allowed to remap their colors for 5250 emulation sessions. The user can use either basic color mapping or use advanced color mapping.

basic

The user is allowed to use the basic portion of the colormapper program. Basic is the default resource setting. Basic color mapping allows the user to choose between five basic background and foreground color schemes.

disable

The user is not allowed to change the colors of the emulation sessions. The color map menu item in the Option menu is grayed out and can not be selected.

disable_and_hide

The user is not allowed to change the colors of their emulation sessions. The pull down menu is not displayed in the Option menu.

Each emulation session has a session name, determined at 5250 session initialization. The session name contains the name of the host that the session is connected to and a session number into that host (1-99). The session name enables the user to use multiple color maps for multiple 5250 emulation sessions. Basic color mapping allows you to choose from the following default color schemes:

• black background

• light grey background

• dark grey background

• light background

• light blue background

Advanced color mapping allows the user to control the color of the following individual components of an emulator session (default color listed in parentheses):

1. 5250 menu bar foreground (black)

2. 5250 menu bar background (grey)

3. 5250 window background (black)

4. 5250 pushbutton background (dark grey)

5. 5250 blue text (blue)

6. 5250 green text (green)

7. 5250 pink text (pink)

8. 5250 red text (red)

9. 5250 turquoise text (turquoise)

10. 5250 white text (white)

11. 5250 yellow text (yellow)

12. 5250 cursor color (white)

13. 5250 mouse color (white)

14. 5250 rule line color (blue)

15. 5250 status line foreground (turquoise)

16. 5250 status line background (black)

17. 5250 monochrome image foreground (black)

18. 5250 monochrome image background (white)

19. Assist programs window background (grey)

20. Assist programs group box background (light grey)

21. Assist programs scrollable list/entry field background (off white)

22. Assist programs foreground (black)

If you create a new advanced color scheme and want to save the changes, the you will be prompted for a name of the color scheme. The color scheme name will be displayed when using basic color mapping. Blanks are allowed in the color map name.

A saved color map file immediately applies to the 5250 session the color mapping program was started from. Other emulator sessions must be exited and restarted to pick up the new colors.

 

Parent topic:

X resources for the iSeries Access for Linux emulator