Re: Label Bar Top Margin

From: Mary Haley <haley_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:54:41 -0600 (MDT)

Hi Jack,

I realize the documentation isn't very clear on this, but try a
negative value for opts_at_lbBottomMarginF and see if this works. You
can start with a value like -0.1.

--Mary

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Jack Glendening wrote:

>
> I'm using ContourPlot to create a label bar below a contour plot and
> am unable to control the amount of white space between the upper label
> bar perimeter and the actual colorbar. I'd like that space to be as
> small as possible but using the following (to generate a label bar
> without a title)
> opts_at_lbTopMarginF = 0.0
> opts_at_lbBottomMarginF = 0.0
> opts_at_lbTitleOn = False
> opts_at_lbTitleExtentF = 0.0
> opts_at_pmLabelBarOrthogonalPosF = 0.0
> still produces a plot with much more space than desired, per the
> attached example (with the label bar perimeter displayed).
>
> For a given plot I could over-ride this by altering attribute
> opts_at_pmLabelBarOrthogonalPosF but I expect that its ideal value would
> change when the area covered by the plot changes size or aspect ratio
> so I'd not like to use such kludgy adjustments if possible. Of course
> I could reduce that white space by reducing the entire height of the
> label bar using opts_at_pmLabelBarHeightF but that is also not ideal.
>
> The proper solution would be to simply reduce the distance between the
> top of the color bar and the top label bar perimter. From the
> documentation it would seem that I should be able to do exactly that
> using opts_at_lbTopMarginF and even reduce that top space to nothing by
> using "opts_at_lbTopMarginF = 0.0" - but that does not work for my case.
>
> Am I missing something ? Any ideas on how to reduce that whitespace ?
>
> Jack
>
>
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