Re: Fwd: colors not displayed

Thank you very much, I didn't know that.
I completely forgot that the colormap is defined by default in the
.hlrulesfile, and mine (BlAqGrYeOrReVi200) doesn't have "pink", and other
colors I was trying to use.

Thank you again!

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 19:35, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:

> Rosa,
>
> In order to use a named color, it must be in your color map. If you are
> loading the "rainbow" colormap, for example, and try to use "pink" for some
> color resource, you won't get pink, but rather you'll get a color in your
> current color map that is closest to pink (white, in this case).
>
> To make sure you have pink in your color map, you can use
> gsn_merge_colormaps to merge the color map you want, along with the list of
> named colors you also want. Here's an example:
>
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_code.ncl"
> load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/gsn_csm.ncl"
>
> begin
> x = (/10.,20.,30.,40.,50.,60.,70.,80.,90./)
> y = (/0.,0.71,1.,0.7,0.002,-0.71,-1.,-0.71,-0.003/)
>
> wks = gsn_open_wks("x11","test")
> gsn_define_colormap(wks,"rainbow")
>
> res = True
> res@xyLineColor = "pink"
> res@xyLineThicknessF = 3.0
>
> ; Line will be white, not pink.
> plot = gsn_xy(wks,x,y,res)
>
> gsn_merge_colormaps(wks,"rainbow",(/"pink","orange"/))
> ; gsn_draw_colormap(wks)
>
> ; Now pink should show up.
> plot = gsn_xy(wks,x,y,res)
> end
>
>
>
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:12 PM, rosatrancoso wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> I have ncl version 5.1.1 running on a HP laptop with opensuse 11.2 64bits
>> (2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop).
>> Most of the colors specified are not plotted (e.g. "Pink", or its RGB
>> equivalent). These colors are the displayed with functions
>> "gsn_draw_named_colors" but not with "gsn_contour" or "gsn_csm_xy". In the
>> known bugs there's a reference to a difference between the colors in the
>> graphic and in the label, but this is not the case. How can I display these
>> colors?
>>
>> ncl -V
>> 5.1.1
>>
>> uname -a
>> Linux Lana 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Best regards
>> Rosa
>>
>>
>> <test_colors.ncl><uv300.nc><plt_test_colors.ps>
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