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Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? [message #78726 is a reply to message #78723]

Tue, 13 December 2011 10:20

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Avian writes:

> I'm trying to create a legend with al_legend, and I thought i was following all the rules, but I just can't get the symbols in the legend to come up as anything other than whatever symbol I just used to plot the last line of data with.
>
> In this example, legtxt is a 8-dimensional string array
>
> clrs=['black','red','org5','blue','grn4','orange','violet',' dodger blue']
> sym=[16,16,16,16,16,16,16,16]
> AL_legend,legtxt,psym=sym,color=clrs,pos=[65,0.5],box=0,/WIN DOW
>
> (I've also tried "colors" as the keyword instead of "color")
>
> All my symbols in the legend end up as the same color and shape as the command I last used on the plot to overplot data with. What am I missing?

Not sure. I'm certainly getting different colors in my
graphics window when I try your code. Are your Coyote
and NASA Astronomy Libraries up to date? This is the
usual (>85%) reason for difficulties. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: Avian on Tue, 13 December 2011 13:14
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 December 2011 13:12
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: Brian Wolven on Tue, 13 December 2011 12:52
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 December 2011 12:40
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 December 2011 12:29
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: Avian on Tue, 13 December 2011 11:59
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 December 2011 11:43
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: Avian on Tue, 13 December 2011 11:24
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 December 2011 11:13
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: Avian on Tue, 13 December 2011 10:40
		Re: What am I doing wrong with al_legend? By: David Fanning on Tue, 13 December 2011 10:20

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