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Re: 20010425: Gempak- Consistent Colors - More info

John,

I'd appreciate any help you want to pass on. I have not changed these
core in_ library routines (note Mike is still running 5.4 at any rate-
but I don't think there are any differences in those routines since
5.4).

Steve

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, John W. Nielsen-Gammon wrote:

> Steve -
>    Did you implement my contributed modifications to the in subroutines
> into GEMPAK 5.6?  If not, I'll pass them along to Mike. They were designed
> to solve precisely his problem.  Here's the relevant exceprt from
> tamu.mods.2000:
> 
> src/gemlib/in/incint.f
> src/gemlib/in/inintc.f
> Sometimes it is desirable to associate particular contours with
> particular colors.  The original GEMPAK allows some degree of
> control through the option of specifying a list of contour levels
> or fill levels.  However, this is cumbersome and can often be
> prohibitive due to string length limits.  The new inintc.f allow
> the syntax min-max-interval for the contour interval (analogous
> to the specification of a range of vertical levels in other programs).
> When used in conjunction with a list of colors, contour "min" will
> always have color 1 (whether or not it exists), contour "min+interval"
> will always have color 2, etc.  The syntax may also be embedded within
> a list of contour levels (for example, cint=0.1;1;2-20-2 will draw
> contours (and assign colors) at contour levels 0.1, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.
> 
>                                         - John
> 
> >Mike,
> >
> >You can use gdplot in GEMPAK 5.4 with slightly different syntax. But, for 
> >those
> >using GEMPAK5.6, migrating to gdplot2 is suggested since it allows additional
> >vector/scalar plot type combinations using GDPFUN instead of separate GFUNC 
> >and
> >GVECT formulations.
> >
> >Steve Chiswell
> >Unidata User SUpport
> >
> >On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, hardimanm wrote:
> >
> >> From the responses I've gotten, obviously I left out one important but of
> >> info.  I should have mentioned that we are currently using Gempak
> >>version 5.4,
> >> not the latest upgrade, 5.6.  So certain programs (ie, gdplot2) are not
> >> available to me.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> -Mike
> >>
> >>
> 
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