Series: Color Bar Ticks

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Subtab menu: Mode | Range/Bins | Style | Error Bars | Color Bar | Color Bar Ticks

Use the Color Bar Ticks tab to set the display of the ticks on the Color Bar tab.

Some controls only appear for certain plots or with certain options selected.

Control Name Use/Options
Tick Font Sets the font options for the color bar ticks.
  • Face -- select the font face

  • Size -- select the font size

Max # Sets the maximum number of ticks.
Position Sets the position of the tick.
  • Outside -- outside the axis lines
  • Inside -- inside the axis lines
  • None -- no ticks
Length Sets the length of the tick.
Width Sets the width of the tick.
Color Sets the color of the tick.
Tick Labels Determines if the tick labels are shown.
  • On -- display tick values
  • Off -- do not display tick labels
Angle Sets the angle for the tick labels.
  • [0]/-/+/slider -- scale is -180 to 180; also "auto" by dragging all the way to the left
Exponents Set how exponents are displayed in the color bar.
  • 000 -- none
  • e+6 -- e
  • E+6 -- E
  • x106 -- power
  • k/M/G -- SI (1G)
  • k/M/B -- B (1B)
Show Exp Sets when to show exponents in the color bar.
  • All
  • First
  • Last
  • None
Tick Prefixes Sets a prefix for the tick values.
  • [] -- accepts any text
Tick Suffixes Sets a suffix for the tick values.
  • [] -- accepts any text
... Sets when to show prefixes/suffixes in the color bar.
  • All
  • First
  • Last
  • None
Custom format Sets the tick format on the color bar for plots that don't have all the settings available.
  • [] -- accepts any text

See Also Data Explorer