TICKS(3NCARG)

TICKS 💅✨

okay bestie, so we're in the NCAR GRAPHICS section of the manual, and today's main character is TICKS from 3NCARG. she's a lil vintage — she lets your program control how long tick marks are and which way they point. but lowkey? she's been superseded by TICK4, and you should be using that one instead. no cap. 💖

SYNOPSIS 🎀

CALL TICKS(LMJR,LMNR)

that's it. two args. she's simple like that. ✨

C-BINDING SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ncarg/ncargC.h>

void c_ticks (int lmjr, int lmnr)

yep, the C girlies get their own version and honestly? slay. 💅

DESCRIPTION 🌸

• LMJR and LMNR — okay so for these two, the manpage is literally just pointing you at the TICK4 man page. the description lives over there, bestie. go read that one. it's giving "see also my cooler sibling." 😭

C-BINDING DESCRIPTION 🧚

the C-binding argument descriptions are the same as the FORTRAN argument descriptions. same energy, different language. periodt. 💜

USAGE 🌈

the statement

CALL TICKS (LMJR,LMNR)

is equivalent to

CALL TICK4 (LMJR,LMNR,LMJR,LMNR)

see how she just passes LMJR,LMNR twice into TICK4? that's the whole trick. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

ACCESS 🔥

to use TICKS or c_ticks, you gotta load the NCAR Graphics libraries ncarg, ncarg_gks, and ncarg_c — and preferably in that order. don't switch up the order on her, she's sensitive. 🫶

SEE ALSO 💀

online, go check out: gridall, gridall_params, gacolr, gagetc, gageti, gagetr, gasetc, gaseti, gasetr, grid, gridal, gridl, halfax, labmod, perim, periml, tick4, ncarg_cbind. that's a whole friend group right there. 🙈

COPYRIGHT ⭐

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

bestie if you're still calling TICKS in 2024... please switch to TICK4. she said it herself. not trying to be mean, just trying to be real. 💀💖

and that's the whole page!! 🌟 this one came from the UNIX corner of the manual, dated March 1993 — yeah, she's been around a minute, and she still ate. TICKS(3NCARG) out. mwah. 💅🎀🦋