[ncl-talk] different labels than contour interval

[Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate)]

Thanks again, Kyle.  Using the LabelStrings works (and is easiest).  One 
note: in later versions of NCL (>= 6.1.0), you need to set 
lbLabelAutoStride = False to get this to work (as the docs clearly state).

On 11/13/14 9:46 AM, Kyle Griffin wrote:
> Since the lbLabelValues (not a real resource, but I'll refer to the
> concept of that anyway) is controlled by the contour plot it's
> associated with, you'd have to forcibly change the plot. You also have
> the option of creating your own label bar from scratch and attaching it,
> but that's even more of a hassle than the explicit strings with the
> trade off of being able to control every aspect of the label bar without
> affecting the plot.
>
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/labelbar.shtml
>
> Example 5 is essentially the level of control we're taking with editing
> some of the parameters in general, but Example 10 would be a completely
> independent label bar. Example 12's positioning advice would also be
> relevant should you decide to go down that route.
>
>
> Kyle
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Kyle S. Griffin
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> Room 1421
> 1225 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706
> Email: ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu <mailto:ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu>
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate)
> <don.murray at noaa.gov <mailto:don.murray at noaa.gov>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks, Kyle.  I tried the stride, but it doesn't allow you to set
>     the start/end points.
>
>     And, I was hoping to avoid the explicit lbLabelStrings, but maybe
>     that's the best solution.  It would be nice if there was a
>     lbLabelValues attribute to go along with lbLabelStrings, like there
>     is for the tick marks.
>
>     Don
>
>     On 11/13/14 9:25 AM, Kyle Griffin wrote:
>
>         Hi Don,
>
>         You can explore the controls over the label bar labels
>         (lbLabelxxxxx) at:
>
>         https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/__Document/Graphics/Resources/__lb.shtml#lbLabelAlignment
>         <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/Resources/lb.shtml#lbLabelAlignment>
>
>         lbLabelStride = 5 would work to give you only every 5 on the
>         color bar.
>
>         A bit more time consuming would be to explicitly set the
>         lbLabelStrings
>         =
>         (/"","","","","10","","","",""__,"","","","","","","20",......__./)
>         which
>         should also get the job done - you might also need to set
>         lbLabelStride
>         = 1 to make sure the strings apply to the correct labels.
>
>
>
>         ------------------------------__----------
>         Kyle S. Griffin
>         Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
>         University of Wisconsin - Madison
>         Room 1421
>         1225 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706
>         Email: ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu <mailto:ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu>
>         <mailto:ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu <mailto:ksgriffin2 at wisc.edu>>
>
>         On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate)
>         <don.murray at noaa.gov <mailto:don.murray at noaa.gov>
>         <mailto:don.murray at noaa.gov <mailto:don.murray at noaa.gov>>> wrote:
>
>              Hi-
>
>              I've read through the label bar examples, but I'm not
>         finding the
>              answer, so I'll ask here.
>
>              I have a dataset that I'm drawing with filled contours,
>         defined as:
>
>                  res at cnLevelSelectionMode = "ManualLevels"
>                  res at cnMinLevelValF    = 5.
>                  res at cnMaxLevelValF    = 65.
>                  res at cnLevelSpacingF   = 1
>
>              over a colormap with 241 values.
>
>              For the label bar, I'd like to just have labels every 10 units
>              (10,20,30,40,50,60), but I'm not sure how to set the label
>         values.
>
>              I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but help is appreciated.
>
>              Thanks.
>
>              Don
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