DISLIN bar chart labels

[stevecanfield at my-deja.com]

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
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>
>


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