MPGLTY(3NCARG)

💅 MPGLTY — the NCAR Graphics line-type detector ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the NCAR Graphics manual, and its whole personality is one tiny question: "hey, what kind of line are we drawing rn?" 🎀 If you're deep in MPLNDM doing line-processing stuff and you need to know whether the line in your hands is a coastline, a country border, or some county-level situation, this is your girl. Let's get into it. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

MPGLTY</purgle> — Retrieves the type of the line currently being drawn by MPLNDM.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

CALL MPGLTY (ILTY)

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✨ C-BINDING SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_mpglty (int *ilty)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

• ILTY — an output variable of type INTEGER. It comes back holding the type of the line, and the vibes are as follows:
  1. 1 → a line separating land from water 🌊
  2. 2 → a line separating one "continent" from another (as, for example, Africa from Eurasia, North America from Central America, or Central America from South America)
  3. 3 → a line separating one country from another
  4. 4 → a line separating one state from another
  5. 5 → a line separating one county from another

and here's the plot twist, bestie: if the current line is used on more than one level — like, say, a portion of the California coastline, which is used on all five levels — then ILTY will be the smallest of the numerical values that apply. So it's giving "lowest number wins," fr fr. 💅

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🌈 C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 🌈

The C-binding argument description is the same as the FORTRAN argument description. No cap. ✨

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👑 USAGE 👑

MPGLTY may be called from within a line-processing routine whose name is used in a call to MPLNDM to retrieve, in ILTY, the type of the line being processed. This information may be used to determine how the line is to be drawn. 🎨

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

Use the ncargex command to see the following relevant example: mpex11. go look at it, it's cute 🫶

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⭐ ACCESS ⭐

To use MPGLTY or c_mpglty, load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — preferably in that order. Don't fight the order, she knows what she's doing. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Online: ezmap, ezmap_params, mapaci, mapbla, mapblm, mapdrw, mapeod, mapfst, mapgci, mapgrd, mapgrm, mapgtc, mapgti, mapgtl, mapgtr, mapint, mapiq, mapiqa, mapiqd, mapiqm, mapit, mapita, mapitd, mapitm, maplbl, maplmb, maplot, mappos, maproj, maprs, maprst, mapsav, mapset, mapstc, mapsti, mapstl, mapstr, maptra, maptri, maptrn, mapusr, mapvec, mpchln, mpfnme, mpgetc, mpgeti, mpgetl, mpgetr, mpiaty, mpifnb, mpilnb, mpiola, mpiosa, mpipai, mpipan, mpipar, mpisci, mplnam, mplndm, mplndr, mplnri, mpname, mprset, mpsetc, mpseti, mpsetl, mpsetr, supmap, supcon, ncarg_cbind

yes, that's a whole lotta friends. it's giving group chat with 70 members. read them all, bestie, they're all valid. 🌸

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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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and that's the whole page!! This one's from the UNIX manual, the NCAR Graphics collection, dated April 1998, and its source is MPGLTY(3NCARG). slay, go detect some line types 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶