The second option on the menu is the PARAMETER widget. With this widget you can change the radar field, the scale used to display the field, and the colors used in the display.
Closes the widget without accepting any changes made while it was open.
Frames are numbered with the top left being 1,top right 2, bottom left 3 and bottom right frame 4. This number shows the frame in which the widget was brought opened from
Closes the widget accepting the changes made while it was open. Any changes made in a widget will not show up in the frame(s) until they are re-displayed. To do this click on the = sign in the control bar for each window you made changes in. Also clicking on the colored box at the bottom of the control bar will cause all windows with the same colored box to update. The color of the box is a code to show which frames are locked together. See Arrow Buttons for more details on the displaying tools.
The number buttons on the right side of the widget refer to the display frames. The numbers which are highlighted in pink are the frames that will receive the changes made from this widget when closing with the accept button. You can use the mouse to click on and off each number except the frame in which the widget was brought up from.
Shows the radar derived fields that are contained in the data. Common fields are: DZ (reflectivity), VE (velocity), SW (spectral width).Choose a field to display in this frame(s) by clicking on it. When a parameter is selected from this list and accepted by closing the window with the accept button, the default palette for this parameter will be used by Solo.
Gives a list of current palettes. The list to the right of the arrow shows the fields which use this palette as its default. From this window a palette can be chosen to override the default. What is a Palette? A palette contains the center and increment values as well as the color information associated with the field. Any changes to the parameters in this widget will make them the default of the palette selected when the widget is closed with accept. However, they will remain the default only until the current solo session is closed. You must save the frame information to a file in order for the information to be retained.
This is located just below the frame number. It shows the number of colors in the current color table and the range of the displayed data. This range is a function of the number of colors and the center and increment of the data. For the parameter widget displayed in this guide, the data range goes from -27.5 to 57.5 (dbZ in this case). It also shows that 17 colors are used to display this range.When ACCEPT is clicked solo will scan this area for changes to the min and max values and use them if they have been changed. It is also acceptable to completely clear the area by typeing ^K when the cursor is all the way to the left and then type the min and max value for the color bar. These two values need be seperated by a space.
Gives you the ability to add a new field for which the current palette becomes the default. This will be useful in future releases where editing of the data will be available.The editor will have the capability of copying fields to new user defined field names. This enables you to avoid destroying the original data.To create the new default palette link go to Name in the Parameter widget and change it to desired new name. Now click on the "Add Name To Palette" button and hit Accept.
Gives the name of the current field selected from the PARAM LIST.
Shows the name of the palette currently selected.
This is the data value which will be used as the center of the scale on the color bar located at the bottom of each frame. Changing and accepting this will cause it to be retained in the current palette until it is changed again or the program is exited.
Changes the increment value for each color on the color bar. Changing and accepting this will cause it to be retained in the current palette until it is changed again or the program is exited.
Brings up a new widget which contains all the different color settings for the displayed data. Changing anything in this widget will also be retained by the palette until exiting the program.
Brings up a list all of the current color tables that are available in the directory. The default directory should be pathed to the Solo supplied color tables. See directory for information on changing to a new location.
Gives the units of the field last accepted in the parameter widget or initially displayed in the frame the widget was produced from.
Indicates a range of the data that will be colored with the EMPHASIS color. UPPER <= LOWER implies no emphasis range. This is useful for singling out the location of certain values in the data.
This is the path in which the color tables can be found. This defaults to the directory of the solo supplied color tables. You can edit this to get color tables from other locations. See File for details on how to create your own color tables.
File name of selected color table. To create your own color table copy one of the solo supplied color tables over to a new file and/or directory. Edit the colors and number of colors to make a new table. Copying one of the solo supplied color tables is useful as a guide to creating a new table but not required.
The color used to display the emphasis range. What colors are available? X windows has a standard list of colors that it supports. Type showrgb at the prompt to get a list of the colors that can be used in Solo.
Color used to show data that lies outside of the current data display range. See Data Range for details on what the current display range is.
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Color used to show areas were there is no data.
Color used for displaying grid.
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