Re: [ferret_users] veckey format: length limit?

["William S. Kessler" <William.S.Kessler@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryo -

I'm pretty sure the vector key label (including both the numerical  
value and any added text) is limited to 11 characters total. It's not  
much to work with. Actually, you are lucky. I have seen longer vector  
labels crash Ferret (v5.7 on a Mac).

Billy

On Mar 10, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Ryo Furue wrote:

> Hi Ferreters,
>
> I'm wondering if this problem is due to a limit in the length
> of veckey format:
>
> set data coads_climatology
> vector/aspect/l=1/set uwnd,vwnd
>   ppl veckey,`($xaxis_min)-6`,`($yaxis_min)-15`,,(1PE6.0,'' (cm^2/s) 
> ^1^/^2'')
> ppl vector
>
> I expected to see a label like "8.0E+02 (cm^2/s)^{1/2}",
> but the final number "2" was missing.  When I removed the blank
>
>
>   . . . ,,(1PE6.0,''(cm^2/s)^1^/^2'')
>
> that worked.
>
> A related question is, are font specifications allowed in a veckey
> format such as "@AS[@SRcm^2 . . ."?  This seems to partially
> work . . .  (I wanted a square bracket in this case.)
>
> Regards,
> Ryo