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Areas in the FPGA Editor window (such as the User toolbar or the history area) are automatically assigned colors when the FPGA Editor window opens. These colors cannot be modified after an FPGA Editor session begins. Layers of objects in the Array window (for example, components, long lines, or selected objects) are also assigned colors when the FPGA Editor window opens. On a workstation or a PC, you can customize the layer colors that appear when you first open the FPGA Editor window, and you can modify these colors at any time during an FPGA Editor session.
On the workstation, you can change the color of the FPGA Editor windows in your .Xdefaults file. You can use any of the colors from the full palette supported by the X Window System. See your X Window System documentation for more information.
On the PC, the FPGA Editor windows use the standard system colors. You can change these colors by selecting the Display icon in the Control Panel. The default colors for some of the areas in the FPGA Editor window are shown in the following table.
| Window Area | Color |
|---|---|
| Background of Array window | Black |
| Background of World window | Black |
| Background of List window | White |
| Background of Menu bar | Standard System Colors |
| Background of History area toolbar | Standard System Colors |
| Background of User toolbar | Standard System Colors |
| Background of Command Line toolbar | Standard System Colors |
| Background of Status bar | Standard System Colors |
On a workstation or a PC, you can control the colors of layers of objects (such as sites, components, switchboxes) in the Array window. You can change the colors assigned when the FPGA Editor window opens, and also change colors during an editing session. When you change layer colors during an editing session, the changed colors are only valid for the current session.
When the FPGA Editor window opens, the system assigns default colors to object layers. You change these default colors by editing the fpga_editor.ini file. To change colors during an editing session, use the Command Line toolbar. Both of these procedures are described in this section.
Note: You can also modify a layer color by using a Layer Properties dialog box as described in the “Viewing and Changing Properties” section in the “Using the FPGA Editor” chapter.
At any time during an FPGA Editor session, you can change the color assigned to a specified layer by entering the Setattr command in the Command Line toolbar.
setattr layer layer_name color color
The layer_name variable specifies the name of a particular layer. Examples of types of layers are sites, components, switch boxes, pinwires, local lines, long lines, pips, routes, ratsnests, hilite, select, and text. Different layers are available for different device architectures.
The color variable specifies the color you want to use for a particular layer. Possible colors are black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, yellow, white, grey, dark blue, dark green, dark cyan, dark red, dark magenta, or olive.