Re: Question for Users: Interactive Mode

From: Hobbs, Will R (3244-CalTech) <William.R.Hobbs_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Tue Dec 21 2010 - 11:39:29 MST

Carl et al

Like some other users, I regularly use the interactive mode, mostly for 'quick and dirty' calculations or for playing with the behavior of a function/expression that I am putting into a larger script.

The main application of a fancier user interface that I would really use a lot would be the ability to easily change the aesthetics/look and feel of plots on the fly (i.e. without re-running an entire script every time I make changes). This is particularly true when preparing figures for publication, when like many others I am sure, I often spend a lot of time 'fiddling' with plots to get them looking how I want.

Will

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From: ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu [ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Carl Schreck [carl.schreck@noaa.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:39 AM
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Subject: Question for Users: Interactive Mode

I was just curious how many people use the interactive mode in NCL? I know it's quite popular in other languages like matlab and IDL, but I've always used almost exclusively as a scripting language.

Part of why I don't is because I usually need contributed.ncl, and you can only load that once. That makes it more a little difficult to call scripts in interactive mode, but there are ways around it. Anyway, just wondering...

     Thanks,
     Carl

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