Out of interest (in case Vince is still reading)...
My initial thought to solve the problem was to try -color(black*1.25)- to increase the intensity (or rather, in Stata 8, -bcolor(black*1.25)-), but this would not take the intensity above 80%. Any reason for this?
David
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Vince Wiggins,
StataCorp
Sent: 31 August 2005 19:21
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: bug in color(black) for twoway bar ?
David Airey <[email protected]> notes that the advice about getting
fully black bars from -graph twoway bar- that he received David Harrison
<[email protected]> and from Stata Technical Services were both
helpful, but a bit fiddly to make work.
> My apologies for assuming what I could not figure out in over an
> hour must be something wrong with Stata rather than me (!). Your
> advice was easier to implement that that of the Stata's tech help,
> which was rapidly in by inbox and also works, but there was a
> complication.
>
> In your command,
>
> graph twoway bar y x, barwidth(0.5) bstyle(none) color(black) ylabel(0
> (25)100)
>
> does not give filled black for me. I must instead say
>
> graph twoway bar y x, barwidth(0.5) bstyle(none) bfcolor(black) ylabel
> (0(25)100)
>
> neither color(black) nor blcolor(black) are paid attention to.
I think the apologies are most definitely ours.
There is an easy way to turn up the intensity of the fill from the default 80%
to 100%; simply add the -fintensity()- option. That should have been easy,
but it turns out we did NOT document the -fintensity()- option. In fact, it
is such a closely guarded secret that Stata's own Technical Services did not
know about it.
David's command would become,
. graph twoway bar y x, barwidth(0.5) fintensity(100) color(black)
ylabel(0(25)100)
We will update the help files to reflect this formerly secret option.
-- Vince
[email protected]
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