Re: color spread in gsn_labelbar_ndc

From: Mary Haley (haley AT XXXXXX)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 08:02:57 MDT

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    >
    > Dear NCL users:
    >
    > I am trying to add a labelbar to a plot. I can do this.
    > However, I would like to use gsnSpreadColors. I
    > can't seem to get this work. I attached my script and
    > and a .txt file that contains the set of colors that define
    > my color map.Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
    > Thank you,
    > Matt
    >

    Dear Matt,

    The "gsnSpreadColors" resource only works with contours and vectors,
    and then the color information is automatically picked up by the
    labelbar, when you use the labelbar associated with the plot.

    Since you are trying to create a labelbar separately, it will not
    recognize the "gsnSpreadColors" resource on its own. It will just pick
    up the first "n" colors in your color map ("n" is 7 in your case,
    which is the number of boxes). To get your labelbar colors to span the
    color map, you need to set the "lbFillColors" resource.

    To do this, you first need to know how many colors are in your color
    map, and then you need to calculate a nice stride value that will give
    you this many colors spaced evenly throughout the color map.

    For example, to use part of your code:

      ...
      cmap = RGBtoCmap("$HOME/bin/Ncl/greyscale.rgb") ; greyscale
      gsn_define_colormap(wks,cmap)
    ;
    ; Calculate a "nice" span of colors.
    ;
      nboxes = 7 ; # of labelbar boxes
      clen = dimsizes(cmap(:,0)) ; # of colors in colormap
      stride = ((clen-1) - 2) / nboxes ; Start at color index 2 and end
                                            ; near color index clen-1.
      fill_colors = ispan(2,clen-1,stride)
      ...

      lbres = True
      lbres@lbAutoManage = False
      lbres@lbFillColors = fill_colors
      ...
      gsn_labelbar_ndc(wks,nboxes,lblabels,0.3,0.05,lbres)

    Let me know if this doesn't work for you.

    --Mary
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