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Re: 8.* graphics [message #78975 is a reply to message #78974]

Tue, 17 January 2012 09:53

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Russell writes:

> Okay, so I'm trying my hand at the new graphics features in IDL 8,
> mostly because doing this in the classic direct graphics way is
> incredible painful and (according to the help pages) the new stuff
> should be able to knock this one out of the park. Famous last words,
> I know. So here's the problem:
>
> I'm trying to make a figure for an upcoming proposal where I want to
> show a series of transmission curves (as a function of wavelength)
> with the area under each curve shaded a different color. Many of
> these curves have small overlaps with adjacent bands, and I'd like to
> have the shading be the transparency (a la red+blue = purple). It
> seems that plot.pro (the function not the procedure) is ready and
> willing to do this, but I desperately need the x-axis to be displayed
> as a log (so xlog=1b). However! the shading and transparency is
> completely gone when I set xlog=1b! AAGGHH! Am I crazy, does anyone
> know anything about this?

Well, one of, uh, several problems that hopefully will
be corrected in the next version. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: 8.* graphics By: Russell[1] on Tue, 17 January 2012 11:56
		Re: 8.* graphics By: lecacheux.alain on Tue, 17 January 2012 10:54
		Re: 8.* graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 January 2012 11:05
		Re: 8.* graphics By: Russell[1] on Tue, 17 January 2012 10:55
		Re: 8.* graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 January 2012 10:33
		Re: 8.* graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 January 2012 10:29
		Re: 8.* graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 January 2012 10:22
		Re: 8.* graphics By: Russell[1] on Tue, 17 January 2012 09:47
		Re: 8.* graphics By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 January 2012 09:53

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