Thanks,
Your suggestion of what to do next (provide you an image) solved the
mystery. The minus sign is only not shown in X11- when I produce a
.pdf image the minus sign is there.
Thanks.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Melissa,
>
> It would help if you could provide an image that shows the problem.
>
> It could be that the labelbar is running off the side of the page, or maybe
> into the plot itself, and so you are unable to see the minus signs.
>
> I do know that the wrf_xxxx codes try to set a bunch of labelbar resources
> in order to position it correctly with respect to the plot. It's possible that
> one of these settings is causing your minus signs to disappear. But, until
> I can see sample image, I'm not sure if this is the issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Mary
>
> On Mar 23, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Melissa Anne Pfeffer wrote:
>
>> I'm using the following code and my scale bar, which goes from -400 -
>> 800, does not show the negative signs, so it looks like 300 200 100 0
>> 100 200 ...
>> Can you please tell me how to get the - signs to appear? Even with
>> the default res@cnExplicitLabelBarLabelsOn = "False" the - signs are
>> not appearing.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Melissa
>>
>> res = True
>> pltres = True ; Plot resources
>> pres = True
>> delete(i)
>> i=0
>> plot = new(1,graphic)
>> contourq=new(1,graphic)
>>
>> res@cnFillOn = True
>> res@cnFillMode = "CellFill"
>> res@cnRasterSmoothingOn=False
>> res@cnSmoothingOn =False
>> res@gsnSpreadColors = True
>> res@cnLinesOn = False
>> res@InitTime = False
>> res@ValidTime = False
>> res@Footer = False
>> res@tiXAxisString = "Latitude [deg N]"
>> res@tiYAxisString = "Height [m]"
>> res@tmYLMode= "Explicit"
>> res@tmYLLabelStride = 6
>> res@tmYLValues= (/ispan(0,(dimsizes(NICE(i,:,i))-1),1)/)
>> res@tmYLLabels=(/floattoint(z_ave(i,:,0))/)
>> res@tmXBMode= "Explicit"
>> res@tmXBValues= (/ispan(0,(dimsizes(NICE(i,i,:))-1),1)/)
>> res@tmXBLabels=
>> (sprintf("%6.4g",(fspan(min(XLAT(i,:)),max(XLAT(i,:)),(floattoint(dimsizes(NICE(i,i,:)-1)/1)+1)))))
>> res@tmXBLabelStride = 6
>> res@tmXBAutoPrecision = False
>> res@tmXBPrecision = 1
>> res@gsnDraw = False ; do not draw picture
>> res@gsnFrame = False ; do not advance frame
>> res@lbTitlePosition = "Bottom"; move scale bar
>> label to right instead of default top
>> pltres@NoTitles = True
>> pltres@PanelPlot = True
>> pltres@gsnDraw = False ; do not draw picture
>> pltres@gsnFrame = False ; do not advance frame
>> gsn_merge_colormaps(wks,"WhViBlGrYeOrRe","BlWhRe") ; merge two color maps
>> ; colors for difference plots
>> res@gsnSpreadColorStart = 110 ; now start at color
>> res@gsnSpreadColorEnd = 200 ; and end at color
>> ; colors for not difference plots
>> ;res@gsnSpreadColorStart = 2 ; start at 4
>> ;res@gsnSpreadColorEnd = 102 ; end at 15
>> res@cnExplicitLabelBarLabelsOn = "True"
>> delete(res@lbLabelStrings)
>> res@lbLabelStrings = sprinti("%4.1i",ispan(-300,800,100))
>> ; Format the labels
>>
>> NICEdiff@description = "NICE"
>> plot(0) = wrf_contour(a[i],wks,NICEdiff(i,:,:),res)
>>
>> ;*******************************************
>> ; create panel resources
>> ;*******************************************
>>
>> pres@gsnFrame = False ; save panel until
>> both ready
>> pres@PanelPlot = True
>> pres@gsnFrame = False
>> pres@gsnPanelTop = 0.9 ; draw from left
>> edge to center
>> pres@gsnPanelLabelBar = False ; commom label bar
>> pres@gsnPanelCenter = True
>> pres@gsnPaperOrienation = "Portrait"
>>
>> ;*******************************************
>> ;make title
>> ;*******************************************
>>
>> text1 = create "text1" textItemClass wks
>> "txString" : "Double - Ref"
>> "txPosXF" : 0.53
>> "txPosYF" : 0.84
>> "txFontHeightF" : 0.018
>> end create
>>
>> draw((/text1/))
>> gsn_panel(wks,plot,(/1,1/),pres); 1rows, 1 columns
>> frame(wks)
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