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Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 [message #83623]

Fri, 15 March 2013 14:05

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chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:57:47 PM UTC-6, David Fanning wrote:
> Teddy Allen writes:
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>> Looks like using LAYOUT instead of POSITION worked! I wish I knew
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>> why though...
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> Yes, my general experience with function graphics is that there are
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> always multiple ways to do something with the routines, only one of
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> which actually works. It is left as an an exercise for the user to
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> determine which one that is. The only pattern I've noticed is that the
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> right answer is generally not the one recommended by whatever
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> documentation you have found to read. :-)
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> In defense of function graphics, however, I will say that the version in
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> IDL 8.2.2 is the best yet, and I have noticed a significant speed-up in
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> performance lately. I still find them a bit confounding and I chafe at
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> these niggling "features" that *almost* allow you to do your work, but
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> not quite. For example, I think I might be quite happy to switch to
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> function graphics map projections if I could just label box axes
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> appropriately and if they didn't insist on warping my image.
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> Maybe by next year...
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
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> David Fanning, Ph.D.
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> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
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> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Hi David,
As you point out, clear, simple reproduce cases will go a long way towards getting any shortcomings fixed. :-)
-Chris

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		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 15 March 2013 14:05
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 15 March 2013 14:03
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:57
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: Teddy Allen on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:29
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:12
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: Teddy Allen on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:00
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: David Fanning on Thu, 14 March 2013 06:40
		Re: help with transparent plot in version 8.2.2 By: Brian Daniel on Thu, 14 March 2013 06:05

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