Select Color
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Dialog Box: Select Color [various dialogs].

This dialog allows color selection from the current 16-color palette, and also allows selection of a custom color. The Custom button calls up a system standard color-picking dialog.

The red, green and blue values are given below each color box, to the right of the radio button. These values are on a scale of 0-255, as used by Windows.

It is usually best to use one of the 16 colors in the palette, because 1) the 256-color or 8-bit display palette is derived from these colors, and faces of shaded crystals will be forced to one of these colors anyway at plot time; and 2) display and output are usually more satisfactory when simple colors, such as those in the default palette, are used.

The default colors selectable in this dialog may be changed in the Palette dialog (Settings menu).