This application loads the standard palette  of colours to fill the portion of the current graphics device’s  colour table which is reserved for the palette. The palette comprises 16 colours and is intended to provide coloured annotations, borders, axes, graphs etc. that are unaffected by changes to the lookup table  used for images.

The standard palette is as follows 0: Black 1: White 2: Red 3: Green 4: Blue 5: Yellow 6: Magenta 7: Cyan 8–15: Black

DEVICE = DEVICE (Read)

paldef

This loads the standard palette into the reserved portion of the colour table of the current graphics device.

paldef xwindows

This loads the standard palette into the reserved portion of the colour table of the xwindows device.

• The effects of this command will only be immediately apparent when run on X windows which have 256 colours (or other similar pseudocolour devices). On other devices (for instance, X windows with more than 256 colours) the effects will only become apparent when subsequent graphics applications are run.

KAPPA: PALENTRY, PALREAD, PALSAVE.