<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A better way to swap black/white backgroud/foreground is 'set display color white' or 'set display color black', followed by 'clear'. You can also try the 'set annot' command to control axis colors. --Jennifer<div><br><div><div><div>On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Johannes Dahl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi All,<br><br>Sorry for this presumably simple question. I'm trying to change the<br>background color from (default) black to white, using the 'set background'<br>command. This works fine, and to change the labels of the axes, I use<br>the x/ylopts keyword, which also works fine. However, the axes themselves<br>remain white (i.e., disappear given the white background). Is there an<br>option to adjust the axis color? If not, how do I teach GrADS to also<br>invert the axis colors if I switch the background from black to white?<br><br>Thank you all very much for your help!<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Johannes<br><br>PS: I've had minor problems sending this message -- my apologies in case<br>it happened to be sent it twice.<br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>