TICK4(3NCARG)

✨ TICK4 ✨

okay bestie, listen up 💖 this one lives in the NCAR Graphics crew, it's called TICK4, and it's literally the glow-up button for your tick marks — it lets your program take the wheel and control both the length and the direction of them. no more letting the plotter decide your aesthetic. periodt. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

CALL TICK4 (LMJX, LMNX, LMJY, LMNY)

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🦋 C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_tick4 (int lmjx, int lmnx, int lmjy, int lmny)

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea 🫖 — every single argument is measured in plotter address units (PAUs, iconic abbreviation, iykyk). and by default, one PAU is 1/1023rd of the width of the plotter frame. that's the standard, no cap.

⚠️ heads up bestie: a call to the SPPS routine SETI will change the definition of a PAU. those calls are no longer recommended, but the possibility still exists. so like… it's there, it's just not the move. 🙈

LMJX and LMNX — (input expressions of type INTEGER) these are the lengths, in plotter address units, of the major and minor ticks on the X axis. the default values are 12 and 8. cute, right? 💖

LMJY and LMNY — (input expressions of type INTEGER) same energy, but for the Y axis: the lengths, in plotter address units, of the major and minor ticks. default values are also 12 and 8. 🎀

and now the plot twist 🌈 — by default, tick marks point inward. but if you want them pointing outward, you just throw a negative value at LMJX, LMNX, LMJY, and LMNY. negative = outward. that's the whole trick, bestie. ✨

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🧚 C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 🧚

the C-binding argument descriptions are the same as the FORTRAN argument descriptions. same vibe, different syntax. 💜

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⭐ USAGE ⭐

this routine lets you set the current value of Gridall parameters. and if you want the full menu of everything available in this utility, go read the gridall_params man page. it's giving encyclopedia, but make it useful. 📚

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

use the ncargex command to see the following relevant example: tgrida.

that's it. that's the example. go look at it. 👀

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👑 ACCESS 👑

to use TICK4 or c_tick4, load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order. yes, order matters, don't be chaotic about it. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Online: gridall, gridall_params, gacolr, gagetc, gageti, gagetr, gasetc, gaseti, gasetr, grid, gridal, gridl, halfax, labmod, perim, periml, ticks, ncarg_cbind.

Hardcopy: NCAR Graphics Fundamentals, UNIX Version

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright (C) 1987-2009 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it, go make some gorgeous ticks 🎀 and as a lil sign-off: this one's from NCAR Graphics, dated March 1993, on UNIX — vintage but still serving. bye bestie, ily, slay 🦋💜✨