my first impression with SGT

[Nihat Cubukcu <nc@weatherpredict.com>]

I  have produced very nice plots
with SGT with less than a week time. Many thanks to Donald and whoever
else worked on the whole package.  Whenever I have question, I send
out e.mail but at the same time keep working on it by myself and so far
 it is going great. I found it quite easy to navigate around the source
files to look for answer.  So far, I have had difficulty mainly on
placing  a shapefile or  some sort of coastline on a gridded
image. I had to create my own copy of JPlotLayout.setCoastline in order
to get this part fixed. I thing there is a bug at line

coastLayer_ = new Layer("CoastLine",
new Dimension2D(xSize_, ySize_));   in JPlotLayout. For some reason
xSize_ and ySize are  returning firstLayer's dimensions. 

My other trouble point was the color
bar ( which is still problem). I want to have color bar  with area_fill
 option too. I have created my own copy of JPlotLayout in order to
add this functionality in there.  I set up my own color table  as
int the following piece
        ColorMap
cmap = createColorMap(datar,ncontours); 
        gridAttr_
= new GridAttribute(GridAttribute.AREA_FILL_CONTOUR,cmap);
        gridAttr_.setColorMap(cmap);
        gridAttr_.setContourLevels(clevels);


where ncontours is my number of contours
and create ColorMap picks ncontours+2 colors when creating cmap. However,
 cmap that comes out  from calls to gridAttr.getColorMap  in
JPlotLayout is different. Or there is a place where cmap is modified to
original color table.  

Thanks again to  all who  took
in part in this project...
regards
nc