AFPS Level 2b Specifications

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Environmental Research Laboratories

Forecast Systems Laboratory

AFPS Project

AFPS Level 2b Specifications
Level2b Specifications

1. Terminology

2. General Data Assumptions

2.1 New Model Available Dialog

3. General Layout of AFPS Grid Editors

4. Performance Characteristics

5. gfe Command line Arguments

6. Pane-Sizer Specifications

7. Main Menu Bar Specifications

7.2.1 Undo Capability

7.2.2 Delete Operations

7.2.3 Copy To/Copy From Operations

7.2.4 Copy All Times From/ Copy All Times To

7.2.5 Source Selection

7.3.2 Special Parameters

7.3.3 Update Parameters

7.4 Preferences Menu

7.4.1 Passover Mode for Time Block Editor Blocks

7.4.2 Passover Mode for Temporal Editor Blocks

7.4.3 Image Selected For Active in Spatial Editor

7.4.4 Link Editors During Edit Operations

7.5 Layout Menu

7.5.1 Find Parameter

7.5.2 Move Parameter To Top

7.5.3 Sort Time Block Editor By

7.5.4 Fit to Data

7.6 Services Menu

7.6.1 Interpolation Service

7.6.2 Break Lock Service

Spatial Editor Background

7.7.2 Mouse Info Box

7.7.3 Current Value Box

7.8 Procedures

7.9 Product Generation

8. Controller Area Specifications

8.1 Time Block Size

8.2 Current System Time

8.3 Sync/Async Mode

8.4 Group Identical Data Mode

8.5 Reference Set

8.5.1 Reference Set and Define Based On Value

8.5.2 Syntax Required in the Reference Set Dialog

8.5.3 Clear Reference Set

8.5.4 Toggle Reference Set

8.5.5 Save/Delete Reference Set

8.5.6 Saving the Reference Set Query

8.6 Temporal Editor Location

8.6.1 Location Dialog

8.7 Temporal Editor Overlay Mode

8.8 Temporal Editor Absolute/Relative Mode

8.9 Spatial Editor Tool Size

8.10 Spatial Editor Freehand Mode

8.11 Wind Edit Mode

8.12 Weather Edit Mode

8.13 Set Tool Value Dialog

8.14 Spatial Editor Tool Attribute Area

8.14.1 Delta Value Slider

8.14.2 Tool Value Indicator

8.15 Spatial Editor Edit Tool Palette

9. Time Scale Specifications

9.1 Appearance

9.2 System TimeRange

9.3 Horizontal Resize of Time Scale

9.4 Setting the Selection Time Range

9.5 Controlling the Spatial Editor Time

9.6 Other Actions Controlling the Time Scale

9.6.1 Actions on Time Block Editor that Affect the Time Scale

9.6.2 Actions on Menus that Affect the Time Scale

9.6.3 Actions on Spatial Editor that Affect the Time Scale

9.6.4 Actions on Temporal Editor that Affect the Time Scale

10. Cursor Specifications

10.1 Within the Time Block Editor

10.2 Within the Spatial Editor

10.3 Within the Temporal Editor

10.4 Within the Pane Sizer

11. Keyboard Bindings

12. Default Attributes

12.1 System Default Attributes

12.2 Time Block Editor Default Attributes

12.3 Time Scale Default Attributes

12.4 Spatial Editor Default Attributes

12.5 Temporal Editor Default Attributes

13. Time Block Editor Specifications

13.1 Time Block Editor Assumptions

13.2 Appearance

13.2.1 Time Blocks

13.2.2 Shadow Blocks

13.2.3 Selection State

13.2.4 Lock State

13.2.5 Data State

13.2.6 Data Displayed in Spatial Editor State

13.2.7 Time Block Editor Data Selector

13.3 Implicit Scrolling Behavior

13.4 Vertical Data Selector Scrolling

13.5 Time Block Editor Resize Behavior

13.6 Selection Method

13.6.1 Time Block Editor Data Selector

13.6.2 Dragging

13.6.3 Main Menu Group Selection

13.7 Duplicate Operations

13.8 Direct Inter-Parameter Copy (Duplicate)

13.9 Time Block Commands

13.10 Data Selector Commands

13.11 Spatial Viewer Mode

13.12 Popup Menu on Button 3 Over TimeBlocks

13.12.1 Undo

13.12.2 Direct Edit Mode

13.12.3 Get Information Service

13.13 Other Objects Controlling the Time Block Editor

13.13.1 Spatial Editor Actions Causing Changes to Time Block Editor State

13.13.2 Time Scale Actions Causing Changes to Time Block Editor State

13.13.3 Menu Actions Causing Changes to Time Block Editor State

13.13.4 Temporal Editor Actions Causing Changes to Time Block Editor State

14. Spatial Editor

14.1 Spatial Editor Assumptions

14.2 Appearance

14.2.1 Data Display Area

14.2.2 Legend Area

14.2.3 Spatial Editor Data Selector Area

14.2.4 Time Step Selector

14.3 Display Algorithms

14.3.1 Graphic Color Algorithm

14.3.2 Visualization Algorithm

14.4 Map Backgrounds

14.5 Spatial Editor Data Selector Control

14.5.1 Data Selector Popup Menu

Display Attributes

Save and Revert Time Block

Contour Interval

14.6 Legend Control

14.7 Time Step Selector Control

14.7.1 Animation

14.8 Other Objects Controlling the Spatial Editor

14.8.1 Time Block Editor Actions Causing Changes to Data Selector State

14.8.2 Menu Actions Causing Changes to the Spatial Editor

14.8.3 Temporal Editor Actions Causing Changes to the Spatial Editor

14.8.4 Time Scale Actions Causing Changes to the Spatial Editor

14.9 Display Types for Spatial Editor

14.10 Automatic Creation of Data via Time Block Editor Direct Edit Mode

14.11 Implicit Scrolling of Edit Tools

14.12 Spatial Presentation Edit Tools

14.12.1 Mouse Button Assignments and Attribute Strings

14.12.2 Undo

14.12.3 Sample

14.12.4 Zoom

14.12.5 Temporal Location

14.12.6 Select Points (formerly the Point and Area tools)

Select and Deselect Point Operations

14.12.7 Push/Pull Without Taper

14.12.8 Push/Pull With Taper

Grid Modification Mode

Grid Creation Mode

15. Temporal Editor

15.1 Temporal Editor Assumptions

15.1.1 Representation of an Average Value

15.1.2 Editing Influence of "Representative Values"

15.2 Appearance

15.2.1 Data Display Area

15.2.2 Scale

15.2.3 Temporal Editor Data Selector

15.3 Display Algorithms

15.3.1 Graphic Color Algorithm

15.3.2 Visualization Algorithm

15.3.3 Overlay Algorithm

15.3.4 Initial Size of Data Panes

15.3.5 Fit To Data Algorithm

15.4 Vertical Temporal Editor Scrolling

15.5 Resizing of Individual Data Panes

15.6 Temporal Editor Resize Behavior

15.7 Scale Control

15.8 Temporal Editor Data Selector Control

15.8.1 Data Selector Popup Menu

Display Attributes

Move Parameter

15.9 Other Objects Controlling the Temporal Editor

15.9.1 Time Block Editor Actions Causing Changes to Temporal Editor

15.9.2 Spatial Editor Actions Causing Changes to Temporal Editor

15.9.3 Menu Actions Causing Changes to Temporal Editor

15.10 Display Types for Temporal Editor

15.10.1 Temporal Presentation Viewing

15.10.1.1 Time Bar

15.10.1.2 Color Bar

15.10.1.3 Time Bar and Color Bar with Wind Direction Indicator

15.10.1.4 Weather Color Bar

15.10.1.5 Vertical Color Bar

15.11 Implicit Scrolling of Edit Tools

15.12 Implicit Selection of Edit Tools

15.13 Editing Techniques

15.13.1 Implicit Selection of Parameter To Be Edited

15.13.2 Effect of Edits on the Temporal Editor

15.13.3 Mouse Button Assignments and Attribute Strings

15.13.4 Adjust Tool (non-weather)

15.13.5 Set Value Tool (weather)

15.13.6 Layer Tool (clouds)

16. API and Procedures

16.1 API

16.2 Global Commands

17. Configuration File

18. On-line Help

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Scope

18.3 Main-Menu-Bar Pulldown Menu

18.4 Help Window

19. Relevant Bugs

Last modified: Wed Aug 21 14:35:23 MDT

AFPS Level 2b Specifications

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