Re: using gsn_contour_shade

Hi Danny,
I am surprised that didn't work. Can you send ncl-talk your script?
Thanks, Adam

On 10/04/2012 12:17 PM, Daniel Barandiaran wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Just tried your suggestion, and still get no map. I know I can always
> go the route of specifying contour fill colors and explicitly setting
> contour levels, but would like to be able to use the shading function,
> seems much more elegant. What now?
>
> Danny
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli@ucar.edu
> <mailto:asphilli@ucar.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi Danny,
> You are on the right track with using the *DrawOrder resources. (I
> assume that this was just a typo in the email, but make sure you
> capitalize the P in "PostDraw".) As you do not want to fill the
> map, and all you want is the map outline to be drawn last, try
> setting re@mpOutlineDrawOrder = "PostDraw".
>
> For a list of the DrawOrder resources:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/draworder.shtml
>
> If setting mpOutlineDrawOrder doesn't work let ncl-talk know.
> Adam
>
>
> On 10/04/2012 12:06 PM, Daniel Barandiaran wrote:
>> Hi NCLers,
>>
>> I was just trying to use the gsn_contour_shade function, if the
>> following way:
>>
>> opt = True
>> opt@gsnShadeFillType = "color"
>> opt@gsnShadeHigh = 2
>>
>> plot(0) = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,psiJASclim(2,:,:),res)
>> plot(0) = gsn_contour_shade(plot(0),-999.,0.,opt)
>>
>> and when I run it, the contour filling overlays the map,
>> rendering the map invisible. I tried setting res@mpFillDrawOrder
>> = "postDraw", but then the map elements cover up the shading that
>> was drawn with gsn_contour_shade. I don't even necessarily want
>> the map to be filled in, I just want to see the continental
>> outlines. Any ideas? Just in case this matters, I am running
>> NCL version 6.0.0.
>>
>> Danny Barandiaran
>>
>>
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