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Re: cgcolor, cgplot, and /WINDOW [message #75521 is a reply to message #75520]

Tue, 22 March 2011 21:01

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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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.
>
> My example:
>
> IDL> cgplot, indgen(10),color=cgcolor("Dodger Blue"), /window
> IDL> cgplot, indgen(10)+1, color=cgcolor("Hot Pink"), /window, /over
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?

What happens if you use ADD instead of WINDOW on the second
command?

IDL> cgplot, indgen(10),color=cgcolor("Dodger Blue"), /window
IDL> cgplot, indgen(10)+1, color=cgcolor("Hot Pink"), /add, /over

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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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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