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Re: Strange TITLE output using NG PLOT. [message #73835 is a reply to message #73832] Wed, 01 December 2010 12:46 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
lecacheux.alain is currently offline  lecacheux.alain
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On 1 déc, 21:44, alx <lecacheux.al...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On 1 déc, 21:10, Paul van Delst <paul.vande...@noaa.gov> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>
>> I have the following NG plot code in a loop:
>
>>   ; Begin detector loop
>>   FOR i = 0, n_detectors-1 DO BEGIN
>
>>     ....do some stuff here....
>
>>     ; Plot the data detector by detector for inspection
>>     IF ( Plot_Data ) THEN BEGIN
>>       osrf->Get_Property, Frequency=f, Response=r
>>       p = PLOT( f, r, $
>>                 TITLE=Sensor_Id+' ch.'+STRTRIM(Sensor_Channel[l],2), $
>>                 XTITLE='Frequency (cm!U-1!N)', $
>>                 YTITLE='Relative Response', $
>>                 COLOR=color[i MOD N_ELEMENTS(color)], $
>>                 OVERPLOT=i, $
>>                 /CURRENT )
>>     ENDIF
>>   ENDFOR  ; Detector loop
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>> This produces a plot (slowly, but surely) that contains all the necessary data. However, it would appear that the main
>> title is output again and again for each overplot. The x- and y-axis titles appear "normal", it's just the main plot
>> title that looks like a very thick magic marker was used to write it.
>
>> Here's a standalone example:
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>>   x = findgen(100)
>>   y = (x/10.0)^3
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>>   for i = 0, 31 do p = PLOT( x,y, $
>>                              TITLE='My x-y plot', $
>>                              XTITLE='x-axis', $
>>                              YTITLE='y-axis', $
>>                              OVERPLOT=i, $
>>                              /CURRENT )
>
>> Watch the "My x-y plot" title get bolder/thicker with each overplot. If you zoom in, the title gets redrawn to the
>> correct weight. But, if you hit the "undo" button, you get the original heavy weight result.
>
>> Has anyone else experienced this strange phenomena? Is it something I'm doing wrong, or the PLOT() function?
>
>> cheers,
>
>> paulv
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>> p.s. BTW, any interaction with my resulting plot is agonisingly slow. I.e. it took about 20seconds to render the
>> rubberband box and then redraw for a zoom in. My equivalent DG plot/overplot was almost instantaneous (to plot
>> initially, and to redraw when zooming in). The speed of NG redraws for "many" plots (in my case 32 with each plot
>> consisting of 10000's of points each) is embarrassing to behold. ITTVIS *has* to improve the performance of NG for it to
>> be taken seriously (and to any ITTVIS folks reading this, I *really* want to take it seriously). Otherwise it's just a
>> toy feature because its slowness makes it unusable for actual work. Sigh.
>
>> E.g. try the above standalone example, but with
>>   x = findgen(50000)
>>   y = (x/5000.0)^3
>> Maybe it's my machine or setup, but I can go get a coffee and it'll still be drawing when I get back.
>
> OVERPLOT in NG is not like OPLOT in DG: axes and labels are (re)drawn;
> only scale and range from first plot are kept. To ensure speed, you
> should use REFRESH=1 option :
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>   x = findgen(100)
>   y = (x/10.0)^3
>
>   p = PLOT( x,y, TITLE='My x-y plot', XTITLE='x-axis', YTITLE='y-
> axis'))
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x = findgen(100)
y = (x/10.0)^3
p = PLOT( x,y, TITLE='My x-y plot', XTITLE='x-axis', YTITLE='y-axis')
p.Refresh, /DISABLE
for i = 0, 31 do !Null = plot(x, y, OVERPLOT=p)
p.Refresh
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