category plot legend with bar stroke

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Thu, 07/31/2014 - 10:29 am

I'm using igorpro 6.34A on a mac to make category plot. I use a color table (rainbow16) to color the bars and then add legends for each bar. What I find is that when I choose to use bar stroke (black), the legends will all be the color (all black) of the bar stroke color instead of the color table, while the fill-in of each bar still use the color table I choose. One way, I think, to correct this is to stack another graph, but is there other ways for this?
You can select the style of one point of the trace using something like:

Legend "\\s(mywave[3]) symbol drawn at point 3"


instead of the usual:

Legend "\\s(mywave) symbol drawn at point 0"


--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

July 31, 2014 at 02:27 pm - Permalink

[quote=JimProuty]You can select the style of one point of the trace using something like:

Legend "\\s(mywave[3]) symbol drawn at point 3"


Jim, this is what I'm doing. It works without Bar Stroke, but select Bar Stroke all the legends is the same then.

August 11, 2014 at 08:42 am - Permalink

wwzhang2 wrote:

Jim, this is what I'm doing. It works without Bar Stroke, but select Bar Stroke all the legends is the same then.


Make sure your Legend's "Symbol Min Thickness" is a small number, like 1. If it is too large, the legend marker stroke will overprint the fill.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

August 11, 2014 at 11:15 am - Permalink

JimProuty wrote:
wwzhang2 wrote:

Jim, this is what I'm doing. It works without Bar Stroke, but select Bar Stroke all the legends is the same then.


Make sure your Legend's "Symbol Min Thickness" is a small number, like 1. If it is too large, the legend marker stroke will overprint the fill.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.


I still can't make it work. I attach an example for the problem.

thanks
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August 11, 2014 at 01:27 pm - Permalink

Turn off the bar stroke to allow the current versions of Igor to draw the filled bar color in the legend.

Or (if you are brave) download the "nightly build" which will have this bug fixed tonight (so download tomorrow).

http://www.wavemetrics.net/Downloads/latest

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

August 13, 2014 at 03:31 pm - Permalink

JimProuty wrote:
Turn off the bar stroke to allow the current versions of Igor to draw the filled bar color in the legend.

Or (if you are brave) download the "nightly build" which will have this bug fixed tonight (so download tomorrow).

http://www.wavemetrics.net/Downloads/latest

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.


Thank you

August 14, 2014 at 06:28 am - Permalink