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Re: Is there a way to keep axis text from scaling? [message #17529]

Sat, 30 October 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Mark Hadfield (m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz) writes:

>> axistext->setproperty, font=self.complexPlotFont, $
>> Recompute_Dimensions=2
>
> This works for the axis title but not for the tick text, i.e. the following
>
> oaxis->GetProperty, TICKTEXT=ticktext
> ticktext->SetProperty, RECOMPUTE_DIMENSIONS=2
>
> has no effect. An extra keyword to IDLgrAxis::Init, allowing this behaviour
> to be overridden, would be nice.

Unless I completely misunderstand what I am seeing, it
appears to work for *all* the text on the axis. Do you
have an example that doesn't work, Mark? I'm using
IDL 5.2.1.

> (My news server refused to post this message because there is more included
> text than new. So here's some more new text:
> ABCDEFGHABCDEFGHABCDEFGHABCDEFGHABCDEFGHABCDEFGHABCDEFGHABCD EFGHABCDEFGHABCD
> [etc.]

Uh, I think you can turn this off under the Global
Options/Replying tab, Mark. But I always appreciate
learning about other innovative solutions. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Is there a way to keep axis text from scaling? By: davidf on Sat, 30 October 1999 00:00
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