Re: !x.crange and !x.tickV

[Kevin Ivory <Kevin.Ivory(at)linmpi.mpg.de>]

Steve Sanders wrote:
> The fact that !x.crange stores the plot range of the last plot made is
> very convenient: it means that users can take advantage of IDL's
> built-in algorithm to calculate "nice" plot ranges without composing our
> own algrithms.  If !x.tickV could similarly store the tick values for
> the last plot, that would be convenient too.  Anyone know of a way to do
> that?

Try [xyz]tick_get keyword to plot:

IDL> plot, findgen(10), xtick_get=xtick, ytick_get=ytick
IDL> print,xtick
      0.00000      2.00000      4.00000      6.00000      8.00000      10.0000
IDL> print,ytick
      0.00000      2.00000      4.00000      6.00000      8.00000      10.0000

Best regards
Kevin
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