[ncl-talk] Add polyline, polygon, and polytext to a map generates two PNG files.

[David Brown]

Wei,
You should use a different set of resources for the poly functions
from the ones you use for the gsn_csm_map call.
 -dave

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Wei Huang <whuang at univ-wea.com> wrote:
> Adam,
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> I used gsn_add_* suite for the polylines, polygons, polytexts.
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> If I set:
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>    res                      = True
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>    res at gsnDraw              = False
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>   res at gsnFrame             = False
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> It can turn off (eliminate) the blank map, but later, there are a whole
> bunch of warning msgs,
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> warning:gsnDraw/gsnFrame is not a valid resource in graphic_style at this
> time.
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> This make it hard to read other msgs.
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> Thanks,
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> Wei Huang
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> From: Adam Phillips [mailto:asphilli at ucar.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 1:07 PM
> To: Wei Huang
> Cc: ncl-talk at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [ncl-talk] Add polyline, polygon, and polytext to a map
> generates two PNG files.
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> Hi Wei,
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> It depends on what functions/procedures you are using to draw your
> polylines/markers/text.. In all cases you should set gsnFrame = False in
> your res resource list.
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> I prefer the gsn_add_* suite of functions to do what you are doing as it
> allows paneling. For those functions you also need to add gsnDraw = False to
> your res resource list.
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> If you are just using gsn_text/gsn_polygon/gsn_polygon you can get away with
> not setting gsnDraw as is shown in polygon example #8 here:
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/polyg_8.ncl
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> Hope that helps!
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> Adam
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> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Wei Huang <whuang at univ-wea.com> wrote:
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> I am trying to add polyline, polygon, and polytext to a map, steps as below:
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>   res = ...
>   wks = ...
>    map = gsn_csm_map(wks, res)
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>  ;add lots of polylines, polygons, and polytexts to map
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> draw(map)
>  frame(wks)
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> It generates two PNG files. With the first just a map.
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> How can I remove the first blank map?
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> Thanks,
>
> Wei Huang
> whuang at univ-wea.com
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