> I have recently discovered a problem with color usage
> in a multi-panel figure of bar plots. The output and
> related files are attached. If you look at the ps
> file, you'll see that the rightmost 2 or 3 (of 7) bars
> in each plot are not always the same color. The left
> side ones seem to be ok. I've experimented a little
> with the color set but didn't have time to draw any
> definitive conclusions.
>
> This was originally run on a Mac with OS 10.2 and ncl
> a031. I just upgraded to 10.3 and the problem remains.
> I can fairly easily try it on a Sun, too, if that would
> help debug.
>
> I used this figure in a talk last week but had to go
> through fixing the bars in Illustrator first -- not
> something I want to make a habit of!
>
> thanks,
> dave
>
Hi Dave,
What's going on is that one set of colors are being used for the bars
above the reference line, and the same set of colors are being used
for the colors below the reference line. You'll notice that the colors
start with firebrick, red, orange, green navy, and blue. So, the first
bar above the reference line will be firebrick, and ditto for the first
bar below the reference line, and so on.
To get around this, you can use the resource,
"gsnXYBarChartColors2". Just use it in place of
"gsnXYBarChartColors". It essentially tells NCL to use one set of
colors for all the bars, regardless of whether they fall above or
below the reference line. For a description of this resource, see
example 6 at:
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/csm/support/CSM_Graphics/bar.shtml
This resource was added in the latest version of NCL, so you'll need
to download this before it will work, or else I can get you a new copy
of gsn_code.ncl/gsn_csm.ncl with this resource.
--Mary
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