Re: curve colors

Will,

I tried both, and they all works!

Thanks a lot for your help!

Cheryl

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Will Hobbs <Will.Hobbs@utas.edu.au> wrote:

> Ah, that's your problem; NCL uses the xyLineColor (singular) resource
> ONLY if res@xyMonoLineColor has been set to True.
>
> There's a couple of possible solutions:
>
> First possibility (probably easiest)
>
> > res@xyLineColors = (/"red","green","blue"/)
> > plot = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,y,res)
> > res@xyLineColors (0) = "brown" ;only change first element of
> the colour array
> > plot2 = gsn_csm_xy(wks, x2,y2,res) ; single line will be plotted using
> first element of xyLineColors array
>
> Other possibility
>
> > res@xyLineColors = (/"red","green","blue"/)
> > plot = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,y,res)
> >delete(res@xyLineColors) ;don't know if you need to
> do this, maybe try without for your own interest
> >res@xyMonoLineColor = True
> > res@xyLineColor = "brown"
> > plot2 = gsn_csm_xy(wks, x2,y2,res) ; single line will be plotted using
> first element of xyLineColors array
>
>
> Either of these should work
>
> Will
>
> From: cheryl Ma <xiaoyancloud@gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, 14 December 2012 11:03 AM
> To: Will Hobbs <will.hobbs@utas.edu.au>
> Cc: "ncl-talk@ucar.edu USERS" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: curve colors
>
> Will,
>
> Thanks. In my case, the array of line colors is the NOT in same size.
> The first one has 3, and second has 1 only. I tried something as below,
> but the curve color from the array 2 follow the color for array 1, i.e. red.
>
> anything wrong?
>
> res@xyLineColors = (/"red","green","blue"/)
> plot = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,y,res)
>
> res@xyLineColor = "brown"
> plot2 = gsn_csm_xy(wks, x2,y2,res)
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Will Hobbs <Will.Hobbs@utas.edu.au>wrote:
>
>> Cheryl
>>
>> Just change the xyLineColors resource between plotting the first and
>> second plot. This will work as long as the array of line colors is the same
>> size (if not, you would have to delete() and reset the resource):
>>
>> > res@xyLineColors = (/"red","green","blue"/)
>>
>> > plot1 = gsn_csm_xy(wks,x,y,res)
>>
>> > res@xyLineColors = (/"brown","violet","magenta"/)
>>
>> > plot2 = gsn_csm_xy(wks, x2,y2,res)
>>
>> Will
>>
>> From: cheryl Ma <xiaoyancloud@gmail.com>
>> Date: Friday, 14 December 2012 10:23 AM
>> To: "ncl-talk@ucar.edu USERS" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
>> Subject: curve colors
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I use one set of data to plot 3 curves by call
>> plot = gsn_xy(wks,x,y,res)
>>
>> then I want to use another set of data to plot one more curve on the
>> same plot.
>> plot = gsn_xy(wks,x2,y2,res)
>>
>>
>> My question is that 3 curve colors have been set in the first call
>> gsn_xy, how to set the different colors to the more curves from the second
>> data set? I tried to set the color by change the color with
>> res@xyLineColors = (/line_col1,line_col2/)
>> but this will change the colors for both the data from second sets of
>> data and first sets of data.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>

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