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Dave, The best solution would be to comment out the nwx and ntrans options from the ntl launcher in the $NAWIPS/tables/ntl/ntl.tbl file if you want the color table functionality without the other program options. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, David J. Knight wrote: > Hi Chiz, > > > > Ntl will place a tool launcher on your screen and allocate the color map, > > or report a failure if you do not have enough colors available. By > > default, ntl will try to allocate 128 satellite colors, 33 gempak graphics > > colors and 16 radar colors = 177 total colors. If you have fewer > > than 177 colors available, then a message to how many colors are available > > will printed out by ntl. If your default visual is not 8 bit, then you > > will receive a NCALOC -46 message. > > Is it possible to have an individual program (like nsat for instance) > allocate all the colors it might need when started up. > Better, can you tell nsat how many colors to use when it > is started up from the command line? > > I'd rather not have people use ntl right now since we do not > have the pqact.conf set up for all its capabilities > (and frankly weather beats the heck out of the ntl equivalant > for our purposes). I'd rather not have users complain that > all functions do not work, and, I'd rather not go through > the trouble of making them all work... (right now nsat > and garp are the only non-standard gempak programs I tell > people about - we used to use ntrans a little as well, but > its limited capabilities quickly lost favour). I'm stongly > leaning toward only supporting the best apps for a particular > purpose rather than keeping them all alive... > > David > > > >