[ncl-talk] horizontal (floating) bar chart: changing individual label colors and using gsnXRefLine to indicate the average of each bar?

[Rugenstein Maria]

Hi all, 

I’m trying to ascribe the same color to the bar and its label in a horizontal (floating) bar chart. 

colors = (/“red”,”blue”,”green”/)
do i=0,nbars-1
  res at gsnXYBarChartColors = colors(i)  	<=========== works
  res at tmYRLabelFontColor = colors(i)		<=========== doesn’t work
  …
  overlay(base_plot,max_plot(i))
end do

Further, I'm wondering how to make use of the gsnXRefLine resource to indicate the average of each bar with a dot or a line. Is there any way to either shrink the gsnXRefLine down to the individual bar itself or have the whole RefLine transparent everywhere except black within its specific bar? Or do I have to parse all the different gsnXRefLines for each bar to individual polymarkers? 

Attached my script — it’s a close variation of your example bar_horz_13.ncl and produces the pdf plot, which is attached as well. 

Thanks for helping out!
Maria

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