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dirkd
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Setting default plot color


I want to teach my pupils to make function plots in Cinderella as simply as possible. Is it possible to change the default color for function plots from blue to, say, red, without using the extended syntax of the plot command? Some setting in the inspector-window that I missed?

I would like to change the default color so that using the f(x)-button on the toolbar, typing x[^2 in the dialog box, and closing with the [plot] button results in a red parabola. That would make it easy to combine several plots in different colors on the same page.

I know I can type plot(x[^2,linecolor->red(1)), then close the dialog box with [evaluate], but that seems a lot more complicated.

(btw: how can I use [^]-symbols in a message without the forum software putting everything in between in a box?)
 
on: Sat 04 of Nov, 2006 [15:20 UTC] reads: 107329

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dirkd
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Re: Setting default plot color
on: Wed 15 of Nov, 2006 [22:05 UTC]
I can reply to my own post. My pupils discovered by themselves that you can add a color command to the formula, without using the plot()-command (which they don't know about) explicitly. What I mean is that activating the [f(x)]-tool, typing
x*x,color->red(1)

and closing the dialogbox with the [Plot]-button results in a red parabola being plotted. That is fine for me. I just wanted to avoid having to explain the subtle differences between the [Plot]-button and the [Evaluate]-button.

I still don't know if it is possible to change the default plotcolour (which is blue) permanently.



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