Filled Rectangle problems

[drunkahol]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone point me in the right direction to sort out this problem.

I am currently using rectangles to draw a bar chart representing the various orders to be fulfilled from a specific production run. So a specific production run is a rectangle running vertically on the screen and the orders within that run are the different rectangle widgets.

Until now, I have been setting up a colour scheme in the .ini file to give me 18 standard colours (21-38) and 18 selected colours (41-58). This enabled me to visually distinguish the orders with reasonable ease.

However, I am now told that the number of orders per production run can be up to around 40 and that I am to use 10 colours to identify certain customers orders.

The range of colours I had set up is no longer adequate for the job and increasing the number of colours makes many of them too similar to do a good job.

Is there any simple way of introducing a patterned fill to a rectangle?

I'm looking for the most simple solution out there and don't want to have to use external programs unless I absolutely have to.

Thanks

Duncan

 

[Norman Biggar]

Hi Duncan,
Glad to hear you're still in the land of the living.

Instead of using a rectangle, use an editor with no horizontal or vertical scroll-bar, set its background colour, height and width as appropriate, and then set it's screen-value to fill("x",1000). Other effects can be achieved using other fill characters.