Re: Typo in error statement from DrawGrid

Hi Dan,

You are correct that the error message for the Y Axis grid is wrong. It will be fixed for the next version of NCL.
 -dave

On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Daniel Adriaansen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to get some feedback on what I believe is a typo in an error statement printed by DrawGrid.
>
> I was creating an XY plot, and attempting to put major gridlines for both the X and Y axis on the plot. At the same time, I was also controlling whether or not tick marks were on. Here is an example:
>
> res@tmXMajorGrid = True
> res@tmYMajorGrid = True
>
> res@tmXTOn = False
> res@tmXBOn = False
> res@tmYROn = False
> res@tmYLOn = False
>
> NCL says the following:
>
> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> warning:DrawGrid: Either XBOn or XTOn must be set in order to draw an XAxis grid
> warning:DrawGrid: Either XBOn or XTOn must be set in order to draw an XAxis grid
>
> So I turned on the top tickmarks on the X axis (res@tmXYOn = True) and NCL says this:
>
> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> warning:DrawGrid: Either XBOn or XTOn must be set in order to draw an XAxis grid
>
> I think it would make more sense if that said:
> warning:DrawGrid: Either YLOn or YROn must be set in order to draw a YAxis grid
>
> I've attached a script so you can play with the resources and see what is happening. I am running NCL-6.0.0, on Linux Debian Squeeze (system info below):
>
> Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 03:41:26 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> -Dan
>
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