Re: labelbar position and title of a plot

hi Mary,
It works nicely. thanks for the simplest solution.

regards,

arindam

Mary Haley wrote:
>
> Hi Arindam,
>
> The reason why the title is shifting up whenever you move the labelbar up
> is that the title is trying to stay outside the "zone" of the labelbar.
> There's something called the PlotManager in NCL that places all
> the various graphical objects (titles, labelbars, tickmarks, and the plot
> itself) in different "zones" and then tries to manage these zones so
> that the various objects don't run into other. For example, the plot
> itself is zone 0 (or 1, I can't remember which). The tickmarks want to
> be right outside the plot area, so they are in zone 1. The labelbar
> is then outside that zone (zone 2) and so on.
>
> The easy answer then, is to hard-code which zone to put the title
> in. You can do this with the "pmTitleZone" resource. Try setting
> it to 2 in your case. I think the default is 3 or maybe even 4.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Arindam Chakraborty wrote:
>
>> dear Users,
>> I was trying to position the labelbar of a filled (shaded) contour
>> plot using pmLaberBarParallelPosF etc resources. There are multiple
>> panels positioned by vpXF etc resources. A single vertical labelbar
>> is desired. Surprisingly, the vertical (y) position of the plot title
>> is shifted up when the upper edge of the labelbar crosses the upper
>> edge of the panel. For now, I could fix the problem by positioning
>> the labelbar against a panel which is in the upper row with a
>> negative value for pmLabelBarParallelPosF, but posting this mail to
>> know if there's any inconsistency in the resources settings in my
>> script. I'm attaching an example script to illustrate the problem.
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> arindam
>>
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>> ARINDAM CHAKRABORTY
>> Department of Meteorology
>> Florida State University
>> Tallahassee, FL-32306, USA
>> Tel: 850-644-3524 (Dept)
>> 850-524-0717 (Cell)
>> Fax: 850-644-9642
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 ARINDAM CHAKRABORTY
 Department of Meteorology
 Florida State University
 Tallahassee, FL-32306, USA
 Tel: 850-644-3524 (Dept)
      850-524-0717 (Cell)
 Fax: 850-644-9642
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