DISLIN bar chart labels

[stevecanfield at my-deja.com]

Five minutes after I posted the last message, I figured this out for
myself.

All you have to do is add:
dislin.angle(90)	# rotate 90 degrees
dislin.txtjus('RIGHT')	# right justify the text

Sorry for the wasted bandwidth...

Steve

In article <8ufkqk$ue9$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  stevecanfield at my-deja.com wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  One additional question- is there any way
to
> get the text rotated 90 degrees?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> In article <3A090FE9.E0E959AB at linmpi.mpg.de>,
>   Helmut Michels <michels at linmpi.mpg.de> wrote:
> > stevecanfield at my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> > > I've been playing with DISLIN plotting some bar charts in Python
and
> I
> > > am having trouble with custom X-axis labels (using the mylab
call).
> > >
> > > The documentation says only 20 user-defined labels are allowed.
> I've
> > > made a couple of sample graphs and confirmed that it does not
print
> any
> > > labels after the 20th tick.  Can anybody suggest a workaround?
> > >
> > > I have some charts that need approximately 30 bars and DISLIN
seems
> to
> > > do pretty much exactly what I want, except for the labels problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
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> >
> > A workaround is to write the labels directly on the X-axis.  It's
very
> > easy. All you need is the length of the labels in plot units for
> centering
> > them,
> > the position of the labels on the X-axis and the distance of the
> labels
> > from the X-axis. The length of labels can be calculated with the
> function
> > nlmess, the position of the major ticks on the X-axis can be
returned
> by
> > nxposn and the default distance of labels from an axis is 48 plot
> units
> > (see the functions
> > ticlen and labdis).
> > The following example plots the labels 'A1', 'A2', ... 'A10' on the
> > X-axis.
> >
> > ---------
> > #!/usr/bin/env python
> > import dislin
> >
> > clab = ['A1', 'A2', 'A3', 'A4', 'A5', 'A6', 'A7', 'A8', 'A9', 'A10']
> >
> > dislin.metafl ('cons')
> > dislin.disini ()
> > dislin.pagera ()
> > dislin.complx ()
> >
> > # suppressing the default labels on the X-axis
> > dislin.setgrf ('ticks', 'name', 'ticks', 'ticks')
> > dislin.graf (0., 9., 0., 1., 0., 5., 0., 1.)
> >
> > ny = dislin.nyposn (0.);
> > for i in range (0, 10):
> >   nl = dislin.nlmess (clab[i]);
> >   nx = dislin.nxposn (i);
> >   dislin.messag (clab[i], nx - nl/2, ny + 48)
> >
> > dislin.disfin ()
> > --------
> >
> >  Helmut Michels
> >   Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie  Phone: +49 5556 979-334
> >   Max-Planck-Str. 2                   Fax  : +49 5556 979-240
> >   D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau           Mail : michels at linmpi.mpg.de
> >   DISLIN Home Page:  http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin
> >
> >
>
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>


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