Editing of classifier palette

The Palette tab contains the classifier palettes. The classifier can have one or more palettes. For example, nautical charts have several palettes for displaying charts at different times of the day.

Each classifier palette has its own name (up to 31 characters).

The choice of a palette is made from the list of names of palettes.

The number of colors is common for all palettes of the classifier (options: 16, 32, 64, 256).

To change the number of colors, select the appropriate value from the list. By reducing the number of colors, objects using the removed colors will be drawn in black.

In addition to palettes in RGB colors, the classifier contains a mandatory palette in CMYK colors.

Below the color table are fields for entering colors from the keyboard. A color can be entered into the RGB palette as RGB components, into the CMYK palette as CMYK components. In the № field indicates the index of the color selected in the palette.

Inside each color, the number of classifier objects is written, the appearance of which is formed using this color. The lower part of the dialog displays the objects that are created with the specified color.

By double-clicking the left mouse button on the color rectangle in the palette, you can replace the original color with the selected one. The new color is selected by executing the standard Color selection dialog. You can also select a color using the Change color button .

To delete a palette, click the Delete button . If there is only one palette or «Standard» is selected, then it is not deleted.

To create a new palette in the classifier, click the Add button . This creates a new palette, which has a standard name (palette) with a number in the list. The colors in the new palette are completely copied from the currently selected palette. Edit the name in the list of palette names and specify the color of each rectangle by calling the standard dialog (double-click) or through the Change color button .

If you need to clean up the colors in the palette, you can use the Clean with white color mode. This will make all the colors in the palette white.

The Save as button allows you to save the currently selected palette to an RGB file. To import a palette, there is a Load button .

The Move color to unused place button allows the selected color in the palette, assigned to several objects or not, to be moved to the place of a color that has not yet been assigned to any object. For example, let's say we want to reduce the number of colors in the palette to 16, but the palette has green at index 17 assigned to 10 objects. If you simply change the number of colors in the palette to 16, then the green color in 10 objects will be replaced by black. There is a free brown color at index 8 that has no objects assigned to it. Select green color with index 17, select mode , select free brown color with index 8. In this case, the colors are swapped (indexes). You can then reduce the number of colors in the palette without affecting the display of objects.

The Replace color in objects button allows you to change the color in the display of objects from one to another. At the same time, for all objects of the classifier in which the selected color is used for display in screen view or in print view, it will be replaced with a new color from the palette. In this case, the place of colors (indexes) in the palette will not change. The color that will be replaced in the objects will become free.

The Copy color to CMYK palette button allows you to transfer the selected color from the RGB palette to the CMYK palette to the appropriate cell.

The Copy color to RGB palette button allows you to transfer the selected color from the CMYK palette to the RGB palette.

The Save of changes made to colors going on when another palette is selected or when switching to another tab of the Classifier Editor. In this case, the program issues a request for confirmation or refusal from save.

The Classifier palette with named colors button allows you to create a new palette with named colors. This allows you to store additional information about colors.