The order of the colors
in the list is important when you use default colors. For example,
the colors used for titles, axes, and surfaces in the G3D procedure
are assigned by default according to their position in the color list.
Note: Colors can be assigned to
graph elements in different orders by different devices such as Java
and ActiveX.
If you omit or reset
COLORS=,
SAS/GRAPH uses the default color list for the current device.
To explicitly reset the color list to the device default, specify
either
goptions colors=;
goptions colors=();
If you use default patterns
with a color list specified by COLORS= option, the patterns rotate
through every color in the list. If the color list contains only one
color, for example COLORS=(BLUE), the solid pattern is skipped and
the patterns rotate through only the appropriate default hatch patterns
for the graph.
Note: By default, if black is the
first color in a device's color list, default pattern rotation skips
black as a pattern color, but uses black as the area-outline color.
Thus, the outline color is never the same as an area's fill color.
Using COLORS= to change the color list changes this default pattern
behavior. When COLORS= is used, all colors in the specified color
list are used in color rotation, and the outline color is the first
color in the specified color list. Thus, the outline color will match
any area using the first color as its fill.