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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Davide--Your suggestion worked; thanks!<br></div></div></blockquote>It's always good to have a workaround. </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">
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Jennifer--I couldn't get your suggestions to work in a script. </div></div></blockquote>If you don't mind, I would like to follow up on why the direct approach isn't working for you. </div><div>Can you show the simplest possible script that illustrates this failure? </div><div>What version of GrADS are you using?</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">
However, I could get it to work in command line mode, but the
selected color would display only if datawarn was set to *on*; </div></div></blockquote>That's correct.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">if
it was off then it plotted the background color field like
before. </div></div></blockquote><div>I cannot duplicate this behavior. </div><div><br></div><div><div>'clear'</div><div>'d ps'</div><div>'set datawarn off'</div><div>'set ccolor 8'</div><div>'d const(ps,10)'</div><div><br></div><div>The second display command does not cover the existing plot with a constant field of any color. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'm not sure why that is, but thanks for your help also!<br></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">
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<blockquote cite="mid:4AEA5810-2276-48C2-9CB0-D5EB25843990@cola.iges.org" type="cite">To control the color of the constant field, use 'set
ccolor'. To disable drawing of the constant color entirely, use
'set datawarn off'.
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<div>On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Davide Sacchetti
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<div>the only trick I know is:<br>
- understand if the field is constant or not (by set
gxout stat: compare<br>
min and max)<br>
- if constant add a little varying field, eg.: if
mslp is constant<br>
display something like mslp +lon/10000<br>
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its' not clean but it's what I'm doing ...<br>
Davide<br>
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On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 08:50 -0400, Bob Kuligowski -
NOAA Federal wrote:<br>
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constant field usinggxout grfill it plots a <br>
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of using the appropriate color. Is there a <br>
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Centro Funzionale Meteo Idrologico di Protezione
Civile della Regione Liguria<br>
ARPAL Unità Tecnica Complessa di livello Regionale<br>
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tel: +39 010 6437535 fax: +39 010
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mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:davide.sacchetti@arpal.gov.it">davide.sacchetti@arpal.gov.it</a>
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