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Re: CONTOUR: how to get rid of that zero tick name? [message #71197 is a reply to message #71196]

Mon, 07 June 2010 06:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Timm Weitkamp writes:

> I would like to make a CONTOUR plot with self-defined tick names, like
> in this example (where the x tick names are user-defined):
>
> IDL> contour, dist(3), [-1,0,1], [-1,0,1], xticks=3, xtickv=[-1,0,1],
> xtickname=['a', 'b', 'c']
>
> That should work, I thought. But it doesn't. What happens is tha IDL
> overplots a zero ("0") over the "b". (See screenshot of the plot at
> <http://www.sendspace.com/file/0uhh4q>.)
>
> Does this happen on other IDL installations than mine? Is it a bug? A
> feature? And, above all: how can I get rid of this behavior? Any help
> appreciated.

You have a mismatch between the number of tick *intervals*
you specify (with TICKS) and the number of tick names
you provide. If you provide three tick names, then you
only want two tick intervals. If you put XTICKS=2 this
will work the way you expect it to work.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: CONTOUR: how to get rid of that zero tick name? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 07 June 2010 16:10
		Re: CONTOUR: how to get rid of that zero tick name? By: David Fanning on Mon, 07 June 2010 15:26
		Re: CONTOUR: how to get rid of that zero tick name? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 07 June 2010 15:12
		Re: CONTOUR: how to get rid of that zero tick name? By: Timm Weitkamp on Mon, 07 June 2010 06:39
		Re: CONTOUR: how to get rid of that zero tick name? By: David Fanning on Mon, 07 June 2010 06:28

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