Re: [ferret_users] color contours and label color in overlay

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryo,
Yes, this is a bug which cropped up in v6.1, or somewhere around then.  
We do have a fix for it, and that fix is in the next release, which I 
expect to make public this week.  Thanks for the report, and I do like 
your explanation that it might have been the phase of the moon! 

Ansley

Ryo Furue wrote:
> Ferret users,
>
> I'm wondering how to stop Ferret from changing label
> colors.  For example,
>
>   set data levitus_climatology
>   fill/k=1 temp
>   contour/k=1/color=green/nolabel/ov salt
>
> This script gives green labels.  I don't know
> which of the following is the reason,
>
> 1) NOLABEL doesn't work with overlay.
> 2) color=green changes the color of existing labels.
> 3) the phase of the moon.
>
> But, anyway, this is a problem, especially when
> you want to overlay white contours. . . .
>
> A simple work around is to add another overlay
> of missing values with color=black:
>
>   contour/k=1/color=black/nolabel/ov salt + 1/0
>
> I'm using
>
>         NOAA/PMEL TMAP
>         FERRET v6.1
>         Linux(g77) 2.6.9-22. - 03/26/08
>         13-May-09 13:53
>
> Regards,
> Ryo
>