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Re: FSC_COLORBAR [message #77409]

Thu, 01 September 2011 14:28

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Bob writes:

> I really like cgColorbar but it needs two small changes
> to really work right. These are to change the default format
> to '' and divisions to 0 (ie, let plot choose). See below
> for a diff. If you try the following with the default
> and modified version it will be clear why these are
> better defaults:

I guess a definition of "work right" depends on what
you do with it. cgColorbar has "worked right" for me
for quite a few years. :-)

Getting a color bar to "work right" is probably why
IDL never provided one. This routine, probably more
than most, allows you to do pretty much everything
that needs to be done. In that sense, it probably
works OK, at the very least.

But, you may be right. I know I chose the default
format of "I0" specifically so that it would be "wrong"
in some instances so that people would have to go
looking for how to make it right. After I did that,
and people discovered that there was actually
documentation in the file(!), my support calls went
way down. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: David Fanning on Thu, 01 September 2011 14:28
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: Bob[4] on Thu, 01 September 2011 14:12
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 August 2011 16:45
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: Jeff[2] on Wed, 31 August 2011 16:37
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 August 2011 15:49
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: Vito on Wed, 31 August 2011 15:20
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: David Fanning on Wed, 31 August 2011 13:40
		Re: FSC_COLORBAR By: Bob[4] on Thu, 01 September 2011 14:36

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