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Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting [message #66552 is a reply to message #66486]

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Gell wrote:
> I usually do something like the following when I have to pass data to
> a callback routine.
> Change the lowticks routine as follows:
>
>
> FUNCTION lowticks, axis, index, value, format=format
> common qqlowticks, sFormat
> if n_elements(sFormat) eq 0 then sFormat='("!C",f7.3)' ;;
> initialize state memory
> if keyword_set(format) ne 0 then begin
> sFormat=format
> return, 0
> endif
>
> RETURN, STRING( value, FORMAT = sFormat
> END
>
> Then, prior to using lowticks as the value of the xtickformat keyword
> argument, you set the
> format string,
>
> nDummy=lowticks(format='(F7.3)'
>
> plot, ..., xtickformat=lowticks
>
> Hope this helps.

Thanks David. I try to not use common blocks where possible, but I will file it away in
case I can't get the other suggestions to work.

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: David Gell on Thu, 21 May 2009 05:27
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: David Fanning on Wed, 20 May 2009 20:14
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: Mark[1] on Wed, 20 May 2009 16:40
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: David Gell on Wed, 20 May 2009 05:29
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: lbnc on Tue, 19 May 2009 23:56
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 21 May 2009 14:38
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: David Gell on Fri, 22 May 2009 11:42
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 21 May 2009 14:14
		Re: Using [XYZ]TICKFORMAT for dynamic formatting By: Mark[1] on Thu, 21 May 2009 15:28

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