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bug in CONTOUR [message #4416] Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00 Go to next message
paul is currently offline  paul
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I've discovered a bug in CONTOUR which occurs when you try to use
keywords C_LABEL and DOWNHILL at the same time. The bug has the
unfortunate side effect of corrupting your IDL session. So far it looks
like the bug is independent of platform -- it occurs on either our
DECSTATION or ALPHA workstations. Has anybody else ran across this
one? Does anyone know if its fixed in version 4.0?


Here is the session log: [IDL. Version 3.6 (ultrix mipsel)]
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;


IDL> lev=indgen(14) & c_label=replicate(0,14)

IDL> contour,dist(20),levels=lev,/down ; works fine

IDL> contour,dist(20),levels=lev,c_label=c_label ; works fine

IDL> contour,dist(20),levels=lev,/down,c_label=c_label ; bombs out
% Array has a corrupted descriptor: <No name>. ; IDL dumps core
% Execution halted at $MAIN$ (CONTOUR). ; if you try to
; do more work




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Re: bug in CONTOUR [message #4419 is a reply to message #4416] Wed, 31 May 1995 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
afl is currently offline  afl
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In article <3qichn$90t@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>, paul@crseo.ucsb.edu (Paul Ricchiazzi)
writes:
|>
|>
|> I've discovered a bug in CONTOUR which occurs when you try to use
|> keywords C_LABEL and DOWNHILL at the same time. The bug has the
|> unfortunate side effect of corrupting your IDL session. So far it looks
|> like the bug is independent of platform -- it occurs on either our
|> DECSTATION or ALPHA workstations. Has anybody else ran across this
|> one? Does anyone know if its fixed in version 4.0?
|>
|>
|> Here is the session log: [IDL. Version 3.6 (ultrix mipsel)]
|>
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
|>
|>
|> IDL> lev=indgen(14) & c_label=replicate(0,14)
|>
|> IDL> contour,dist(20),levels=lev,/down ; works fine
|>
|> IDL> contour,dist(20),levels=lev,c_label=c_label ; works fine
|>
|> IDL> contour,dist(20),levels=lev,/down,c_label=c_label ; bombs out
|> % Array has a corrupted descriptor: <No name>. ; IDL dumps
|> core
|> % Execution halted at $MAIN$ (CONTOUR). ; if you try to
|> |> ; do more
|> work


Or maybe IDL is confused about your use of the c_label keyword.
If all elements are zero, why not just omit the c_label keyword?
To test my theory, make c_label(3)=1 and re-run your code!

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Re: bug in contour [message #36072 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 10:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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R.G. Stockwell wrote:

> So, the combo of
> 1) xylog=1,
> 2) /fill or /cell,


> 3) particular range of values (i.e. it almost looks like there are no
> major ticks being plotted


Good idea

a workaround is to use ytickv and yticks. Then they are major ticks.


pro test_contour
erase
loadct,15
x=findgen(100)
y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
z=findgen(100,100)
CONTOUR,z,x,y,/ylog,ystyle=1,/fill,ytickv=[20,30,40,50],ytic ks=3
end


Reimar

>
> cause a bug in the axis labelling
>
> IDL 6.0, win2000
>
> -bob

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Re: bug in contour [message #36073 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 09:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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Richard G. French wrote:

> On 8/19/03 11:11 AM, in article bhteob$a6fd$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>
>> Richard G. French wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/19/03 9:08 AM, in article bht7hc$akln$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
>>> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> we found a special bug in contour.
>>>>
>>>> We can't explain where the 1.3 at the yaxis comes from.
>>>>
>>>> This happens only by /fill not by fill=0 and not by /cell_fill.
>>>>
>>>> The value is alog10 of yrange[0]. If you change the yrange starting at
>>>> 40 then it is 1.6
>>>>
>>>> I have informed CREASO too.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>> Reimar
>>> I'm missing something, Reimar. I just ran test_contour and I don't get
>>> any contours on the screen at all. I'm not sure what you mean by the 1.3
>>> at the y axis - I get no labels at all on the axis tick marks - just the
>>> words 'test' along each axis. Please let me/us know how to illustrate
>>> the bug you mentioned.
>>>
>>> Dick French
>>
>> Dear Dick,
>>
>> this result which you desribe for the axis I would expect to have too but
>> I haven't.
>>
>> I believe you see no contours because you'll have no default colortable
>> loaded. I missed to add a line to load a colortable.
>>
>> I see on the xaxis no ticklabels only a title and on the y axis I got
>> one ticklabel the 1.3 and two times a title with a small distance.
>>
>> We have tried idl5.6 windows and idl6.0 beta Linux. Both the same
>> results.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Reimar
>>
>
> Dear Reimar - tried it again, loading a color table first. Still get the
> same result: no tick labels on either axis, and no contours. I am running
> IDL6.0 on Mac OS X10.2.
>
> Dick

Dear Dick,

that's good news and bad news. This seems to be another bug. What happens by
this example:


pro test_contour
erase
loadct,15
x=findgen(100)
y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
z=findgen(100,100)
CONTOUR,z,x,y, /ylog,ystyle=1,/fill
end

I see 1.3 in the middle of yaxis and filled contures.


Reimar

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Re: bug in contour [message #36074 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 09:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Richard French is currently offline  Richard French
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On 8/19/03 11:11 AM, in article bhteob$a6fd$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
"Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

> Richard G. French wrote:
>
>> On 8/19/03 9:08 AM, in article bht7hc$akln$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
>> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>> we found a special bug in contour.
>>>
>>> We can't explain where the 1.3 at the yaxis comes from.
>>>
>>> This happens only by /fill not by fill=0 and not by /cell_fill.
>>>
>>> The value is alog10 of yrange[0]. If you change the yrange starting at 40
>>> then it is 1.6
>>>
>>> I have informed CREASO too.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Reimar
>> I'm missing something, Reimar. I just ran test_contour and I don't get any
>> contours on the screen at all. I'm not sure what you mean by the 1.3 at
>> the y axis - I get no labels at all on the axis tick marks - just the
>> words 'test' along each axis. Please let me/us know how to illustrate the
>> bug you mentioned.
>>
>> Dick French
>
> Dear Dick,
>
> this result which you desribe for the axis I would expect to have too but I
> haven't.
>
> I believe you see no contours because you'll have no default colortable
> loaded. I missed to add a line to load a colortable.
>
> I see on the xaxis no ticklabels only a title and on the y axis I got
> one ticklabel the 1.3 and two times a title with a small distance.
>
> We have tried idl5.6 windows and idl6.0 beta Linux. Both the same results.
>
> regards
>
> Reimar
>

Dear Reimar - tried it again, loading a color table first. Still get the
same result: no tick labels on either axis, and no contours. I am running
IDL6.0 on Mac OS X10.2.

Dick
Re: bug in contour [message #36076 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 09:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998
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Reimar Bauer wrote:

> Richard G. French wrote:
>
>> On 8/19/03 9:08 AM, in article bht7hc$akln$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
>> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>
>>> we found a special bug in contour.
>>>
>>> We can't explain where the 1.3 at the yaxis comes from.
>>>
>>> This happens only by /fill not by fill=0 and not by /cell_fill.
>>>
>>> The value is alog10 of yrange[0]. If you change the yrange starting at
>>> 40 then it is 1.6
>>>
>>> I have informed CREASO too.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Reimar
>> I'm missing something, Reimar. I just ran test_contour and I don't get
>> any contours on the screen at all. I'm not sure what you mean by the 1.3
>> at the y axis - I get no labels at all on the axis tick marks - just the
>> words 'test' along each axis. Please let me/us know how to illustrate the
>> bug you mentioned.
>>
>> Dick French
>
> Dear Dick,
>
> this result which you desribe for the axis I would expect to have too but
> I haven't.
>
> I believe you see no contours because you'll have no default colortable
> loaded. I missed to add a line to load a colortable.
>
> I see on the xaxis no ticklabels only a title and on the y axis I got
> one ticklabel the 1.3 and two times a title with a small distance.
>
> We have tried idl5.6 windows and idl6.0 beta Linux. Both the same results.
>

I was to fast only linux 6.0 beta has no problems with the /cell_fill
method.

Reimar


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email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
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Re: bug in contour [message #36077 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 08:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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Richard G. French wrote:

> On 8/19/03 9:08 AM, in article bht7hc$akln$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
> "Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> we found a special bug in contour.
>>
>> We can't explain where the 1.3 at the yaxis comes from.
>>
>> This happens only by /fill not by fill=0 and not by /cell_fill.
>>
>> The value is alog10 of yrange[0]. If you change the yrange starting at 40
>> then it is 1.6
>>
>> I have informed CREASO too.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Reimar
> I'm missing something, Reimar. I just ran test_contour and I don't get any
> contours on the screen at all. I'm not sure what you mean by the 1.3 at
> the y axis - I get no labels at all on the axis tick marks - just the
> words 'test' along each axis. Please let me/us know how to illustrate the
> bug you mentioned.
>
> Dick French

Dear Dick,

this result which you desribe for the axis I would expect to have too but I
haven't.

I believe you see no contours because you'll have no default colortable
loaded. I missed to add a line to load a colortable.

I see on the xaxis no ticklabels only a title and on the y axis I got
one ticklabel the 1.3 and two times a title with a small distance.

We have tried idl5.6 windows and idl6.0 beta Linux. Both the same results.

regards

Reimar


--
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/
============================================================ ======
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http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro. html
Re: bug in contour [message #36078 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 07:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
R.G. Stockwell is currently offline  R.G. Stockwell
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"Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
news:bht7hc$akln$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de...
> Dear all,
>
>
> we found a special bug in contour.
>
> We can't explain where the 1.3 at the yaxis comes from.
>
> This happens only by /fill not by fill=0 and not by /cell_fill.
>
> The value is alog10 of yrange[0]. If you change the yrange starting at 40
> then it is 1.6
>
> I have informed CREASO too.
>
> regards
>
> Reimar

Yep, it quacks like a bug.
It seems that the ytickname is being ignored in that situation.

Also, I do see the same type of problem with the /cell keyword
(the following prints "19" on the y-axis, and not where the y-axis should
have a value of 19).

pro test_contour
erase
x=findgen(100)
y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
z=randomn(seed,100,100) ;random looks pretty imho
CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,/cell
end


also interesting,
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[16,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
prints a "16"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[17,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
prints "17"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[18,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
printms "18"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[19,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
also prints "18"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[20,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
prints "19"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[22,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
prints,"20"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[10,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
behaves as expected
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[40,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
prints,"2"
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,ylog=1,yr=[40,100],/cell,ytickname=string(find gen(10))
behaves properly

also, to switch x and y, the bug appears on the x axis
> CONTOUR,z,y,x,xlog=1,xr=[20,90],/cell,ytickname=string(findg en(10))
prints,"19" on the x axis.

So, the combo of
1) xylog=1,
2) /fill or /cell,
3) particular range of values (i.e. it almost looks like there are no major
ticks being plotted

cause a bug in the axis labelling

IDL 6.0, win2000

-bob
Re: bug in contour [message #36080 is a reply to message #4416] Tue, 19 August 2003 06:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Richard French is currently offline  Richard French
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On 8/19/03 9:08 AM, in article bht7hc$akln$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de,
"Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> we found a special bug in contour.
>
> We can't explain where the 1.3 at the yaxis comes from.
>
> This happens only by /fill not by fill=0 and not by /cell_fill.
>
> The value is alog10 of yrange[0]. If you change the yrange starting at 40
> then it is 1.6
>
> I have informed CREASO too.
>
> regards
>
> Reimar
I'm missing something, Reimar. I just ran test_contour and I don't get any
contours on the screen at all. I'm not sure what you mean by the 1.3 at the
y axis - I get no labels at all on the axis tick marks - just the words
'test' along each axis. Please let me/us know how to illustrate the bug you
mentioned.

Dick French
Re: bug in contour [message #36151 is a reply to message #4416] Thu, 21 August 2003 06:46 Go to previous message
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"Reimar Bauer" <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message
news:bi2g1b$b450$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de...
> Dear Chris,
>
> someone from CREASO informed me that this bug does not occure with IDL6.0
> windows.
...
> Reimar
>
> --
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> email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/
> ============================================================ ======
> a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro. html



The bug does indeed appear in idl6.0 on windows (win2000).

Cheers,
bob
Re: bug in contour [message #36152 is a reply to message #4416] Thu, 21 August 2003 06:03 Go to previous message
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Chris Lee wrote:

> In article <bhtlgr$ao62$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de>, "Reimar Bauer"
> <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>
>
>> R.G. Stockwell wrote:
>>
>>> So, the combo of
>>> 1) xylog=1,
>>> 2) /fill or /cell,
>>
>>> 3) particular range of values (i.e. it almost looks like there are no
>>> major ticks being plotted
>> Good idea
>> a workaround is to use ytickv and yticks. Then they are major ticks.
>> pro test_contour
>> erase
>> loadct,15
>> x=findgen(100)
>> y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
>> z=findgen(100,100)
>> CONTOUR,z,x,y,/ylog,ystyle=1,/fill,ytickv=[20,30,40,50],ytic ks=3 end
>> Reimar
>>
>>> cause a bug in the axis labelling
>>> IDL 6.0, win2000
>>> -bob
>>
>
> The bug is caused by IDL plotting in log coordinates for the axis, 1.3
> is alog10(20). Try giving the contour a range between 11 and 99, the
> number you get on the axis is alog10(min_range)
>
> pro contour_test
> x=findgen(100)
> y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
> z=findgen(100,100)
> number=14
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,/ylog,ystyle=1,/fill,yrange=[number,max(y)]
> ;the axis will show 1.14 for number=14
> end
>
> For some reason, this only happens with when using /fill (I don't see a
> problem using /cell_fill) and when the range is less than one unit in
> log_10 space (1->10,10->100, 100->1000 etc.). Setting 'number=9' above
> fixes the problem, but doesn't lood good.
>
> --
> Chris.

Dear Chris,

someone from CREASO informed me that this bug does not occure with IDL6.0
windows.

with idl6.0beta linux I have this bug.

I will get 6.0 soon. But if you or someone else could confirm this bug in
the 6.0 version then you should do a request to RSI or CREASO.


Reimar

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Re: bug in contour [message #36153 is a reply to message #36072] Thu, 21 August 2003 01:37 Go to previous message
Chris Lee is currently offline  Chris Lee
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In article <bhtlgr$ao62$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de>, "Reimar Bauer"
<R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote:


> R.G. Stockwell wrote:
>
>> So, the combo of
>> 1) xylog=1,
>> 2) /fill or /cell,
>
>> 3) particular range of values (i.e. it almost looks like there are no
>> major ticks being plotted
> Good idea
> a workaround is to use ytickv and yticks. Then they are major ticks.
> pro test_contour
> erase
> loadct,15
> x=findgen(100)
> y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
> z=findgen(100,100)
> CONTOUR,z,x,y,/ylog,ystyle=1,/fill,ytickv=[20,30,40,50],ytic ks=3 end
> Reimar
>
>> cause a bug in the axis labelling
>> IDL 6.0, win2000
>> -bob
>

The bug is caused by IDL plotting in log coordinates for the axis, 1.3
is alog10(20). Try giving the contour a range between 11 and 99, the
number you get on the axis is alog10(min_range)

pro contour_test
x=findgen(100)
y=findgen(100)/99.*70+20
z=findgen(100,100)
number=14
CONTOUR,z,x,y,/ylog,ystyle=1,/fill,yrange=[number,max(y)]
;the axis will show 1.14 for number=14
end

For some reason, this only happens with when using /fill (I don't see a
problem using /cell_fill) and when the range is less than one unit in
log_10 space (1->10,10->100, 100->1000 etc.). Setting 'number=9' above
fixes the problem, but doesn't lood good.

--
Chris.
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