Re: Color problem with the AreaFill-option

Hi Michael,

This problem has been fixed for NCL 5.2.0. If you need a new version
of NCL immediately then let us know, but the release of 5.2.0 is
immanent.
  -dave

On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Baldauf Michael wrote:

> Dear NCL users,
>
> I have a problem with the 'AreaFill'-Option in the
> 'cnFillMode'-ressource.
>
> If I choose 'CellFill' for this ressource then I get correct colors
> in the filled contour plot which correspond
> to the label bar colors and to the labeled isolines
> (see attached figure w_CellFill_corr_colors.png).
> (the isoline drawing and labeling is correct. I could check this
> independently).
>
> But when I choose 'AreaFill' then the color bar and the isolines
> remain the same but the colors in the plot are confused
> (see attached figure w_AreaFill_false_colors.png).
>
> The ONLY difference in producing these two figures is the choice of
> 'AreaFill' and 'CellFill' in lines 143/144 of the attached script
> 'plot_grib_problem.ncl'
> (ok, and also different values for title ('titeltext') and graphics
> output filename ('file_kenn_plot'); this should be harmless, I
> assume).
>
> The problem occurs in the NCL-versions 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 on a Linux
> system.
>
> This behaviour sounds a bit like the 'known bugs' report
> 'Possible disparity in labelbar colors'.
> But here one can see it also in the .png (and .pdf)-graphics file
> and it is obviously not a problem of the labelbar.
>
> I must admit that I am a newcomer in NCL and this seems to be a
> problem
> a lot of people should have. Perhaps I use a very unusual
> combination of
>
> NCL-commands/ressources ...
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your help
>
> Michael
> <
> w_CellFill_corr_colors
> .png
> >
> <
> w_AreaFill_false_colors
> .png
> >
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