| Re: Interesting IDLgrContour Bug [message #21777] |
Thu, 21 September 2000 20:17  |
Harold Cline
Messages: 13
Registered: September 2000
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I will be investigating this.
Harold Cline
RSI
Pavel Romashkin wrote:
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> David Fanning wrote:
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>> Yes, and I got a nice note back saying they were
>> very busy and that perhaps if I worked on the problem
>> longer I could solve it myself.
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> I would be *very* careful with a reply like that. Because one possible
> workaround a person could find on his own is to start using some other
> software. But again, they gave this advice to David, who, as they very
> well know, is addicted to IDL worse than RSI themselves :-)
> Cheers,
> Pavel
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| Re: Interesting IDLgrContour Bug [message #21811 is a reply to message #21806] |
Tue, 19 September 2000 22:00  |
Harold Cline
Messages: 13
Registered: September 2000
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Hi David,
Did you report this to tech support yet?
Cheers,
Harold Cline
RSI
home:hjcline@home.com
work:harold@rsinc.com
David Fanning wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I ran into an interesting little IDLgrContour bug today
> that gave me a few hours of fun. Apparently, the
> contour algorithm cannot see positive data that is less
> than 1. As a result, it reports the contour range incorrectly.
> Here is a very short example:
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> ; Create test data.
> data = Dist(40)
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> ; Normalize the Y values from 20 to 39 to be less than 0.
> data[*,20:39] = data[*,20:39]/Max(data)
>
> ; Create contour plot.
> x = findgen(40)
> y = findgen(40)
> theContour = Obj_New('IDLgrContour', data, Geomx=x, Geomy=y)
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> ; Get the Y range of the data.
> theContour->GetProperty, YRange=theBadRange
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> ; Print it. Expect 0 to 39.
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> Print, theBadRange
> 0.000000 19.8495
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> Whoops! Of course, this will cause the scaling to be
> completely off when you go to put the plot into your
> view.
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> The work around is to get the contour range from
> the X and Y vectors. I don't think too many people
> will run into this, but it can be distracting. :-)
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> I've tested this in IDL 5.3.1 and IDL 5.4 beta on
> Windows NT 4.0.
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> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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