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Re: scaling idlGrAxis ticks? [message #54431] Fri, 08 June 2007 08:41
Laurens is currently offline  Laurens
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David Fanning wrote:
> Laurens writes:
>
>> Temperature is raising which makes my head do weird things, forget stuff
>> etc :)
>> I'm having a normal idlGrPlot object which looks good. But when I put
>> different data in it, my axis gets reformed in a bad way :(
>> Have had this before and then the answer was to play with
>> recompute_dimensions. Well, that works fine for the labels, but an
>> idlGrAxis object doesn't have a recompute_dimensions function :(
>>
>> Did I miss something here or is it not the sun?
>
> I'm guessing, but I would use TICKTEXT to get the axis
> annotation text object, then set the proper RECOMUTE_DIMENSIONS
> value on that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
You're the man ;)
Re: scaling idlGrAxis ticks? [message #54432 is a reply to message #54431] Fri, 08 June 2007 07:51 Go to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Laurens writes:

> Temperature is raising which makes my head do weird things, forget stuff
> etc :)
> I'm having a normal idlGrPlot object which looks good. But when I put
> different data in it, my axis gets reformed in a bad way :(
> Have had this before and then the answer was to play with
> recompute_dimensions. Well, that works fine for the labels, but an
> idlGrAxis object doesn't have a recompute_dimensions function :(
>
> Did I miss something here or is it not the sun?

I'm guessing, but I would use TICKTEXT to get the axis
annotation text object, then set the proper RECOMUTE_DIMENSIONS
value on that.

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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