[ncl-talk] Wondering why frame size is changing

[Adam Phillips]

Hi Barry,
Without being able to run your script it is difficult to say why the plots
are changing sizes. My first guess would be a change in the size of your
titles, subtitles, tickmark labels, or labelbar, and that at first glance
doesn't seem to be the case. (If I had to guess it would have to do with
the labelbar, but that's just a guess.) You might have to go through a few
rounds of debugging. I would try to following:
1 - Set vpWidthF = 0.6, vpHeightF = 0.6, vpXF = 0.2 and vpYF = 0.8. These
should be the defaults, but setting them just in case will not hurt.
2 - Move the labelbar to the bottom. If that fixes it you might want to
draw the labelbar manually. (See the labelbar example page.)
3 - Comment out pmTickMarkDisplayMode = "Always" as that shouldn't be
needed anyway.
4 - Try not setting he lbTitleString or setting lbTitleOn = True
5 - No need to call gsn_panel when you are only drawing one panel, set
gsnDraw and gsnFrame = True and remove all references to panres and the
gsn_panel call.
6 - Set gsnCenterString / gsnLeftString / gsnRightString = "".
7 - set tiMainOn = False to turn off the main title.

In summary, I am recommending simplifying your script to check to see what
is causing the issue. Keep removing items (resources) until the issue
resolves, and then investigate..
Hope that helps!
Adam


On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:48 AM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello:
>
> The program attached maps GFS precipitation amounts.
>
> Please be aware that it reads in the times from an external file instead
> of off the metadata (which can be done).
>
> Anyway, when the times are listed at 0200 and 0800 the maps sizes are
> smaller than when listed as 1400 and 2000.
>
> Each contains 4 digits for the time.
>
> I am hoping someone can suggest why my map sizes are changing.
>
> Oh, just to make things really interesting.  When the month turns from Feb
> to Mar, the maps sizes remain the same (the date day is 1).
>
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