[ncl-talk] Wondering why frame size is changing

[Barry Lynn]

Thank you.

I will check the "zone" issue as I determined that the use of the main
title is causing the issue.

Barry

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:

> One thing I'd like to add: the main title can be moved closer to the plot
> by setting:
>
> res at pmTitleZone = 4
>
> There's some complicated code under the hood that NCL uses to try to
> figure out the proper position of the main title, based on whether or not
> the top axis has tickmark labels and/or tickmark lines.  Sometimes it gets
> this wrong, and this "zone" resource allows you to fix this. You may need
> to play with the number (zone=0 is the center of the plot, zone=1 is a
> special zone, zone=2 is just outside the plot, zone=3 is further outside
> the plot, etc.)
>
> If you want to read more about zones, see:
>
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/HLUs/Classes/
> PlotManager.shtml#PlotManager-Location-Control-Model
>
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Adam Phillips <asphilli at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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>> Adam Phillips
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-- 
Barry H. Lynn, Ph.D
Senior Lecturer,
The Institute of the Earth Science,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Tel: 972 547 231 170
Fax: (972)-25662581

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