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Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW [message #75518 is a reply to message #75517]

Tue, 22 March 2011 21:13

willettk
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Registered: October 2006

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On Mar 22, 10:09 pm, Kwill <wille...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 22, 10:01 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
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>> Kwill writes:
>>> I was excited to learn today of David's Coyote Graphics packages, and
>>> downloaded them on both my laptop and desktop. I'm getting very
>>> puzzling results on one machine (but not the other). When I set the /
>>> WINDOW keyword in cgplot, cgcolor will not work for overplotting in
>>> color, displaying all subsequent points in a dark grey.
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>>> My example:
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>>> IDL> cgplot, indgen(10),color=cgcolor("Dodger Blue"), /window
>>> IDL> cgplot, indgen(10)+1, color=cgcolor("Hot Pink"), /window, /over
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>>> This results in one blue and one grey line plotted on the screen. I do
>>> not have any color problems when the /WINDOW keyword is not set.
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>>> I tried an identical series of commands on my laptop: it runs
>>> perfectly, producing both a blue and pink line. Both of my machines
>>> run IDL Version 7.1.1, Mac OS X (darwin x86_64 m64) on Snow Leopard
>>> 10.6.4.
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>>> I'm baffled as to why this would be different between my two machines,
>>> but hopeful that I'm doing something wrong and that CGCOLOR plays
>>> nicely with the resizeable window in CGPLOT. Any ideas?
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>> What happens if you use ADD instead of WINDOW on the second
>> command?
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>> IDL> cgplot, indgen(10),color=cgcolor("Dodger Blue"), /window
>> IDL> cgplot, indgen(10)+1, color=cgcolor("Hot Pink"), /add, /over
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>> Cheers,
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>> David
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>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> I get the same result (greyness) with /ADD.
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> - thanks,
> KW

Whoops - but in David's second post, he correctly identified the
problem. It works fine when I don't call cgcolor twice - although I'm
still puzzled why it worked on one machine and not the other. Problem
solved for me, though.

Thanks!

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		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: David Fanning on Wed, 23 March 2011 20:22
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 23 March 2011 16:49
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: David Fanning on Wed, 23 March 2011 05:32
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: Foldy Lajos on Wed, 23 March 2011 04:12
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 March 2011 22:02
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: willettk on Tue, 22 March 2011 21:13
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: willettk on Tue, 22 March 2011 21:09
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 March 2011 21:07
		Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 March 2011 21:01

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