tdplch

Draws a string in the plane of the reference parallelogram (for use with selected TDPACK routines).

Available in version 4.3.1 and later.

Prototype

	procedure tdplch (
		wks     [1] : graphic,  
		xpos    [1] : float,    
		ypos    [1] : float,    
		chrs    [1] : string,   
		size    [1] : float,    
		angle   [1] : float,    
		counter [1] : float     
	)

Arguments

An NCL workstation identifier for where you want to draw the surface. The wks identifier is one returned either from calling gsn_open_wks or calling create to create a Workstation object.

Input scalars specifying the parallelogram coordinates of a point relative to which the character string is to be positioned.

The string to draw.

A float scalar specifying the width of the characters to be used as a multiple of the X dimension of the reference parallelogram. If the reference parallelogram is not a square, distortion of the characters is to be expected: for example, if the reference parallelogram is twice as wide as it is high, then the same will be true of characters drawn by tdplch.

A float scalar specifying the angle, in degrees, at which the character string is to be drawn relative to the reference parallelogram (0 => in the direction of positive X, 90 => in the direction of positive Y, 180 => in the direction of negative X, and so on).

A float scalar specifying how the character string is to be centered relative to the point (xpos,ypos) within the reference parallelogram. If counter = -1, the leading edge of the character string will be placed at (xpos,ypos); if counter = 0, the center of the character string will be placed at (xpos,ypos); and if counter = +1, the trailing edge of the character string will be placed at (xpos,ypos). Other values may be used, with the logical results; for example, if counter = -.5, the point halfway between the leading edge and the center of the character string will be placed at (xpos,ypos).

Description

This routine is part of the low-level TDPACK package, which is a group of Fortran and C callable routines for projecting objects from a 3-dimensional coordinate system having U, V, and W axes to a 2-dimensional projection plane having X and Y axes and/or for drawing the projections of those objects. This can be referred to somewhat loosely as "drawing objects in three dimensions".

Please see the documentation on TDPLCH for a full description of this procedure.

See Also

Initialization routines: tdinit, tdpara, tdclrs

Parameter access routines: tdgetp, tdgtrs, tdsetp, tdstrs

Point transforming routines: tdprpt, tdprpa, tdprpi

Line drawing routines: tdline, tdlndp, tdlnpa, tdlpdp, tdcurv, tdcudp

Grid drawing routines: tdgrds, tdgrid

Label drawing routines: tdlbls, tdlbla, tdlblp

Surface drawing routines: tddtri, tdstri, tditri, tdmtri, tdttri, tdctri, tdotri, tdsort

Simplified interface routines: tdez2d, tdez3d

Examples

No examples are currently available for this function. Please see the documentation on TDPLCH for more information about this function.