>From: address@hidden >Organization: Oregon State University >Keywords: 200007131800.e6DI0rT09575 WXP McIDAS AREA Wayne, >Will the AREA files that pnga2area create still be readable by the commmand >xsat from WXP? They should be, but I won't guarantee it since I have no control over the WXP code that reads AREA files. >I haven't seen anything in the documentation to indicate otherwise, but would >like to be sure. Since the output of a png2area invocation is a standard McIDAS AREA file, any application that correctly deals with AREA files should be able to read. The question, of course, is whether or not WXP was written to fully support the McIDAS AREA file format. I have found over the years that folks that have written their own code to do things with AREA files somehow seem to only implement part of the work needed to correctly support AREAs. The good news is that the AREA file format is well and completely documented. A good online reference is the McIDAS Application Programmer's Manual: McIDAS Programmer's Manual http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mug/prog_man/prog_man.html Chapter 7 - Format of the Data Files http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mug/prog_man/Current/progman-116.HTML#11044 If you are not yet getting and decoding the CIMSS images, I can provide one or more to you so you can see if your current WXP code can display it/them. >Thanks, You are welcome. >Wayne Gibson >Oregon State University Tom Yoksas
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