<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Joshua,<div>ncl-talk is the correct place for this question. I ran a script with the following resources in v6.3.0, 6.4.0 and 6.5.0 and I didn't receive an error message:</div><div><div>  res           = True</div><div>  res@mpFillOn = True<span style="white-space:pre">                 </span>  ; turn on the map filling resource</div><div>  res@mpFillColors = (/ "transparent","transparent","LightGray","transparent"/)<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>  ; color the continents gray</div><div>  res@mpMinLatF = -70.<span style="white-space:pre">                 </span>  ; set the minimum latitude = -70.</div><div>  res@mpMaxLatF = 70.<span style="white-space:pre">                    </span>  ; set the maximum latitude = 70.</div><div><br></div><div>  res@cnLevelSelectionMode = "ManualLevels"<span style="white-space:pre">    </span>; manually set the contour levels with the following 3 resources</div><div>  res@cnMinLevelValF  = -5.<span style="white-space:pre">                 </span>; set the minimum contour level</div><div>  res@cnMaxLevelValF  = 30.<span style="white-space:pre">                  </span>; set the maximum contour level</div><div>  res@cnLevelSpacingF = 5.<span style="white-space:pre">                    </span>; set the interval between contours</div><div>  plot = gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,x,res)    </div></div><div><br></div><div>Can you send to ncl-talk your complete resource list? </div><div>Adam</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:38 AM Joshua Lave <<a href="mailto:lave@ucar.edu">lave@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question, but I am attempting to run a script and am getting a strange error:<br><br><p class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">fatal:CvtStringGenArrayToColorIndexGenArray: Unable to convert string "LightGray" to requested type</span></p><p class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">warning:Error retrieving resource mpFillColors from args - Ignoring Arg<br><br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal">This is odd to me since I checked the available named colors and LightGray is one of them. I have not modified mpFillColors in any way in my script. Why am I getting this error and how can I fix it?</span><br></span></p><p class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></span></p><p class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Thank you,</span></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4965511873864174577gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Joshua Lave</div></div></div>
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