topic Problem in setting Legend Background Color:SGPLOT in Graphics Programming

Problem in setting Legend Background Color:SGPLOT

Sami — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 04:44:36 GMT

Hi,

I need a solution to set Background color YELLOW on SGPLOT:

-I am using SAS 9.2 and creating PNG.

-However,I have tried to solve it via PROC TEMPLATE but it not working?

proc template;

define style styles.default ;

parent = styles.Journal;

style GraphLegendBackground / color=Yellow;

style GraphFonts /

'GraphDataFont' =("Arial",10pt)

'GraphUnicodeFont' = ("Arial",6.5pt)

'GraphValueFont'=("Arial",7.0pt,bold)

'GraphLabelFont'=("Arial",8.2pt,bold)

'GraphFootnoteFont' = ("Arial",8pt)

'GraphTitleFont' = ("Arial",10pt,bold)

'GraphAnnoFont' = ("Arial",10pt);

end;

run;

-But not changing LEGEND Background Color, all other stuffs are okay from that figures.

Thanks in advance

Re: Problem in setting Legend Background Color:SGPLOT

DanH_sas — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:18:13 GMT

It looks like your creating a circular dependency. Normally, the JOURNAL style inherits from DEFAULT, but here you have overridden DEFAULT and inherited from JOURNAL. Try this instead:

proc template;

define style styles.myjournal ; /* different name */

parent = styles.Journal;

style GraphLegendBackground / color=Yellow;

style GraphFonts /

'GraphDataFont' =("Arial",10pt)

'GraphUnicodeFont' = ("Arial",6.5pt)

'GraphValueFont'=("Arial",7.0pt,bold)

'GraphLabelFont'=("Arial",8.2pt,bold)

'GraphFootnoteFont' = ("Arial",8pt)

'GraphTitleFont' = ("Arial",10pt,bold)

'GraphAnnoFont' = ("Arial",10pt);

end;

run;

ods pdf file="output.pdf" style=myjournal; /* or whatever ODS destination you are using */

< your program >

ods pdf close;

Hope this helps!

Dan

Re: Problem in setting Legend Background Color:SGPLOT

Sami — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:42:01 GMT

It not worked on after using on:

ODS LISTING GPATH="XX" style=myjournal;

ODS LISTING CLOSE

Re: Problem in setting Legend Background Color:SGPLOT

Jay54 — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:19:46 GMT

It is worth pausing to consider if this is a good idea. Color perception is not absolute, but relative to the background. We know that a gray color swatch in black background looks white, and the same gray color in a white background looks black. We intentionally use the same background color as the "Wall" color for the legend, so the colors used in the graph are seen against the same background in the legend. Changing the legend background color to something different from the wall color could have an adverse impact on the perception of the colors.