<div dir="ltr">Hi Rick:<div><br></div><div>I have implemented this and hopefully it will solve the problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Title = time_var + " strokes = " + sum_light</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>res@gsnFrame<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= False</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>plot_t<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= gsn_csm_contour_map(wks,terrain_only,res) <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; create the terrain plot</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">; txres <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>= True <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>; already defined.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txres@tx</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">FontHeightF</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> = 0.027</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">; page coordinates are normalized. go from 0->1 not 0->8" etc.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">gsn_text_ndc(wks,Title,0.04,0.96,txres) ; text appears at the top of the mapped page.</span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>txres@tx</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;background-color:rgb(224,228,9)">FontHeightF</span><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> = 0.010 ; reset back to original value for city names.</span></p></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 7:43 PM Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Barry,</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know for certain what's going on, but I speculate its the PlotManager trying to account for the different lengthed titles. One thing that comes to mind is taking over the job of drawing the title yourself. That is, set res@tiMainString = "", and then using gsn_text_ndc() to draw the label. This gets the PlotManager out of the picture. See example text_2.ncl at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/text.shtml" target="_blank">http://ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/text.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note the setting of gsnFrame=False, and the explicit call to frame(wks)</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe someone has a better approach to this issue, but I hope that helps...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Rick</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:13 AM Barry Lynn via ncl-talk <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu" target="_blank">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi:<div><br></div><div>I used NCL to create these maps.</div><div><br></div><div><a id="gmail-m_-7939921945495038468gmail-m_6132993638895768255gmail-watch-url" href="https://youtu.be/Zn17yiKcWbs" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(244,244,244)" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Zn17yiKcWbs</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem is when the number of observed lightning events changes, the map size is resized from one map interval to the next if the number skips up or down from 1000 to 999, for example. I don't believe that the panel size is changing, only the map within.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your suggestions,</div><div><br></div><div>Barry<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D<div><div>Senior Associate Scientist, Lecturer,</div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Institute of the Earth Science, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Tel: 972 547 231 170</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Fax: (972)-25662581</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></span></div><div>C.E.O, Weather It Is, LTD<br>Weather and Climate Focus<br><a href="http://weather-it-is.com" target="_blank">http://weather-it-is.com</a><br>Jerusalem, Israel<br>Local: 02 930 9525<br>Cell: 054 7 231 170<br>Int-IS: x972 2 930 9525<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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