Re: Horizontal dotted lines using PLOTS [message #20686] |
Wed, 19 July 2000 00:00 |
Declan Vogt
Messages: 11 Registered: January 1998
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I'm using IDL Version 5.1 on Windows NT 4, and see the same problem as
Oliver, when running his code. For what it's worth, I'm running 1024x768
in 8 bit colour, I don't know if that has a bearing on the problem.
Declan
Pavel Romashkin wrote:
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> I have used the exact commands you provided, and I see perfect dashed
> lines on white background. No funny L-shaped dots.
> IDL Version 5.3 (MacOS PowerMac)
> Cheers,
> Pavel
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> Oliver Smith wrote:
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>> Okay maybe I'm being too much of a perfectionist but this is really
>> annoying.
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>> I use dotted lines to box an area of interest, line width is two pixels. A
>> solid white line is first plotted then a dotted black line plotted on top of
>> the first. A vertical line drawn this way looks great, but a horizontal line
>> is not so good; the dots that make up the black line are not square, but 'L'
>> shaped.
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>> [ snip - snip ]
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>> IDL Version 5.3.1 (Win32 x86). (c) 2000, Research Systems, Inc.
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>> IDL> plot, findgen(100)
>> IDL> plots, [20,20], [10,80], linestyle = 0, color = 255, thick = 2, /data
>> IDL> plots, [20,20], [10,80], linestyle = 1, color = 0, thick = 2, /data
>> IDL> plots, [20,80], [10,10], linestyle = 0, color = 255, thick = 2, /data
>> IDL> plots, [20,80], [10,10], linestyle = 1, color = 0, thick = 2, /data
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>> The horizontal line ends up looking very poorly defined if it is drawn on
>> top of a relatively light coloured background.
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>> So can anyone reproduce this, and can anyone come up with a work-around
>> without changing the thickness of the lines?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Oliver Smith
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Re: Horizontal dotted lines using PLOTS [message #20695 is a reply to message #20686] |
Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00  |
promashkin
Messages: 169 Registered: December 1999
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I have used the exact commands you provided, and I see perfect dashed
lines on white background. No funny L-shaped dots.
IDL Version 5.3 (MacOS PowerMac)
Cheers,
Pavel
Oliver Smith wrote:
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> Okay maybe I'm being too much of a perfectionist but this is really
> annoying.
>
> I use dotted lines to box an area of interest, line width is two pixels. A
> solid white line is first plotted then a dotted black line plotted on top of
> the first. A vertical line drawn this way looks great, but a horizontal line
> is not so good; the dots that make up the black line are not square, but 'L'
> shaped.
>
> [ snip - snip ]
>
> IDL Version 5.3.1 (Win32 x86). (c) 2000, Research Systems, Inc.
>
> IDL> plot, findgen(100)
> IDL> plots, [20,20], [10,80], linestyle = 0, color = 255, thick = 2, /data
> IDL> plots, [20,20], [10,80], linestyle = 1, color = 0, thick = 2, /data
> IDL> plots, [20,80], [10,10], linestyle = 0, color = 255, thick = 2, /data
> IDL> plots, [20,80], [10,10], linestyle = 1, color = 0, thick = 2, /data
>
> The horizontal line ends up looking very poorly defined if it is drawn on
> top of a relatively light coloured background.
>
> So can anyone reproduce this, and can anyone come up with a work-around
> without changing the thickness of the lines?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver Smith
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