Re: reversing the legend

From: Mary Haley (haley AT XXXXXX)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 15:55:16 MST


>
> Hi there -
>
> It seems that legends in an XY plot are in a reverse order from what I would call intuitive. That is, the 0th Y datum "vector" is the last legend item while the Nth Y datum is the first. For example, if I use:
>
> Y = some 2-D array with the first dimension 3
> res@xyExplicitLegendLabels = (/"0","1","2"/)
> res@xyDashPatterns = (/0,1,2/)
> plot = gsn_xy(wks,Xaxis,Y,res)
>
> then the datum Y(0,:) is plotted with a solid line and label "0", but it is the last item in the legend whereas I want it to be the first.
>
> This can of course be avoided by just reversing everything, but that's a pain in the neck. I feel I am missing something easy here, but does anyone know of an easy way to reverse the legend?
>
> Cheers,
> Josh

Hi Josh,

I'm afraid there's no easy way to reverse the legend, as you
discovered. I'll find out from the developers if this is an easy
feature to add.

--Mary

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