Quick Start Guide table of contents

Table of contents

QSG welcome
QSG table of contents
QSG roadmap
QSG credits and copyright

Table of NCAR Graphics examples
Examples: Pick a utility

Annotation examples

MapPlot example 1: How to add textual annotations to a map
TextItem example 8: How to create a TextItem annotation

App examples

App example 1: App objects and resource files

Basic examples

Basic example 1: How to draw a plot using default settings
Basic example 2: How to set the plot size and position and draw multiple plots in a single frame
Basic example 3: How to set resources
Basic example 4: How to select or change an output device
Basic example 5: How to manipulate colormaps
Basic example 6: How to size and position objects
Basic example 7: How to select a workstation device
XyPlot example 14: How to manipulate XyPlot data

ContourPlot examples

ContourPlot example 1: Drawing a contour plot using default settings
ContourPlot example 2: Basic features of a ContourPlot object
ContourPlot example 3: Overlaying a ContourPlot on LogLinPlot
ContourPlot example 4: Multiple contour plots on a single frame
ContourPlot example 5: Creating a map and contour overlay animation
ContourPlot example 6: Creating contour plots of NetCDF temperature data
ContourPlot example 7: Creating contour plots of NetCDF geo-potential height
ContourPlot example 8: ContourPlot animation of vertical temperature profile
ContourPlot example 9: ContourPlot of NetCDF surface pressure data
ContourPlot example 10: Refining a ContourPlot
ContourPlot example 11: Mixing low level and high level utilities

LabelBar examples

LabelBar example 1: How to create a labelbar using default settings
Labelbar example 2: How to create a labelbar with the default colormap

Legend examples

Legend example 1: How to create a legend using defaults
Legend example 2: How to create a legend and specify marker types
Legend example 3: How to create a legend and specify line types

MapPlot examples

MapPlot example 1: How to use basic MapPlot capabilities
MapPlot example 2: How to control individual map areas
MapPlot example 3: How to use masking with maps
MapPlot example 4: How to add textual annotations to a map

PlotManager examples

MapPlot example 3: How to use masking with maps
ContourPlot example 3: Overlaying a ContourPlot on LogLinPlot
ContourPlot example 5: Creating a map and contour overlay animation
XyPlot example 6: Using multiple lines, external data, and legends

TextItem examples

TextItem example 1: How to create a TextItem object with default settings
TextItem example 2: Creating text in a filled colored font with a bounding box
TextItem example 3: How to set the text background fill color
TextItem example 4: How to use function codes to set text characteristics
TextItem example 5: How to text height and angles
TextItem example 6: How to set text justification
TextItem example 7: How to set text spacing and aspect ratio
TextItem example 8: How to create a TextItem annotation

TickMark examples

TickMark example 1: How to create a TickMark object with default settings
TickMark example 2: How to create a TickMark object with bottom and left ticks turned on
TickMark example 3: How to reverse and change tickmark style

Title examples

Title example 1: How to create a main title with default settings
Title example 2: How to create a main title and X and Y axis titles with default settings
Title example 3: How to set Title font, color, and size resources

XyPlot examples

XyPlot example 1: How to create an XyPlot using default settings
XyPlot example 2: How to set XyPlot resources using a resource file
XyPlot example 3: How to set resources and axis coordinates
XyPlot example 4: How to create an XyPlot with multiple lines
XyPlot example 5: How to create an XyPlot with multiple lines using a CoordArrTable object
XyPlot example 6: Using multiple lines, external data, and legends
XyPlot example 7: Creating a scattergram
XyPlot example 8: Using irregular points to set a plot transformation
XyPlot example 9: Setting axis styles
XyPlot example 10: Overlaying an XyPlot on a MapPlot
XyPlot example 11: How to draw an XyPlot in an X window and an NCGM file
XyPlot example 12: How to incorporate the HLU library with your own X interface
XyPlot example 13: How to interactively retrieve coordinate locations from a plot
XyPlot example 14: How to manipulate XyPlot data
XyPlot example 15: Creating 'stacked' plots using the annotation feature

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