Re: How (can one?) does one pass coordinate info to a label commandwithina go file?

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lev,

Try using grave accents (immediate mode evaluation):
http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/Users_Guide/v50/chapter7.html#immediate
mode

    label  `360+$2`  `1+$1` 0 0 0.3 @P9$3

    - steve

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Lev Tarasoff wrote:

> I'm trying to make a go file to map out numbered base sites, but
> the label command doesn't seem to accept coordinate info as passed
> variables, ie I'm trying:
>
> eg:
> go labp xcoord ycoord label
>
> ..
> label  360+$2  1+$1 0 0 0.3 @P9$3
>
> and nothing shows up (and no error message). Again, as you probably
> all know by now, I'm running on RH linux 6.0. The text label gets
> passed okay (ie if I set the coordinates within the go file, it works
> okay). Also, I've noted that all the go files included with ferret
> use label only with /nouser, which wouldn't be of use for me.
>
> thanks
>
> Lev Tarasoff -  Dept of Physics, University of Toronto,
>                 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7
>                 Tel (416)-946-3019  Fax (416)-978-8905
>                 email: lev@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca

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