Re: Draw order in PyNGL

Yes to your other question; set cnInfoLabelOn to False.
 -dave

On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:21 PM, charlie koven wrote:

> Thanks for the info. Ii thin kthat what I was really doing wrong (in addition to the point you raised) was calling Ngl.draw(plot) after the polyline were drawn, which I am guessing drew a second contour over the polyline.
>
> One other question: when overlaying contours on top of a contour map, is there a way to suppress the box that says "contour from x to y by z" box? It tried setting the lbLabelBarOn resource to False but that didn't do it.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie Koven
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:01 PM, David Brown <dbrown@ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
> I assume you are setting the resource in the call to Ngl.polyline. It's a bit counter-intuitive perhaps but tfPolyDrawOrder is a resource belonging to the plot object that you draw the polyline on.
> I think you can set it either for the resource argument of Ngl.contour_map or you can use an explicit Ngl.set_values on the map object return value of Ngl.contour_map.
> We may be able to make this more convenient in the future by extracting from the Ngl.polyline res argument behind the scenes and then setting it for the plot argument.
> -dave
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> On Mar 5, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Charlie Koven wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to draw a polyline on top of a contour_map, and can't seem to be able to get the draw order right--it is consistently drawing the polyline under the map, so I have to go into the figure in Illustrator afterwards and manually rearrange the orders.
> >
> > I tried setting tfPolyDrawOrder = "PostDraw" but got this error:
> > warning:tfPolyDrawOrder is not a valid resource in GraphicStyle at this time
> >
> > Is there another way of setting this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charlie Koven
> >
> >
> >
> > Charlie Koven
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