>From: Craig Motell <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Hawaii
>Keywords: 199904072157.PAA22947 McIDAS-X mcenv EU
Craig,
This eamil contains responses to two of your inquiries. My comments
are interspersed throughout your original text.
>Dear Support I have script which works well. This script creates
>a new satellite AREA for me based on the differences between
>GOES bands 4 and 5 from AREA0007 and AREA0008 to create AREA0009
>(AREA0009 is just channels 4 - 5).
>
>When I try to add the "bar.k" command all heck breaks out.
>
>The trick is that I want to automate my product creation, then add
>color enhancement, color bar, lat/lon. mapping, etc.
>
>Below is my script (comments deleted):
>-------------------------------------------------------
>#!/bin/csh -xvf
>#
>set path = ( /home/sapo/cmotell /usr/local/bin /usr/local/SUNWspro/bin /usr/bi
> n /usr/ccs/bin /usr/bin /usr/X/bin /export/sapo2/mcidas/bin . )
>
>setenv MPATH /export/sapo2/mcidas
>setenv MCDATA ${MPATH}/workdata
>setenv MCPATH ${MCDATA}:${MPATH}/data
>
>mcenv -f 480x640 << 'EOF'
>wv.k 7 8 11
>imgdisp.k PRODUCT/IMAGES 1 "problem starts here!!!!
>bar.k 1 ORIENT=HOR LINT=15 LSIZE=6 COLOR=5
>exit
>'EOF' "user's guide uses EOF without [Aquotes
>exit 0
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Runtime results:
>------------------------------------------------------
>
>Opened area: 7
>Opened area: 8
>wv.k: FINISHED FILE=AREAOUT.A01
> Creating NAV files
>wv.k: FINISHED FILE=AREAOUT.ALT
>wv.k: FINISHED FILE=AREAOUT.ALN
>Done
>mcserv: illegal option -- R
>Usage is: mcserv [-diqrv] [-p portnum]
>
>-d become a daemon (sets -q)
>-q quiet mode
>-r use rhost based authentication
>-f force ftp authentication
>-v verbose mode
>-p to specify a port number to listen
>imgdisp.k: done
>bar.k: Cannot find dataset name or image
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I have tried following examples.
The error you are seeing is apparently being caused by running imgdisp.k
not bar.k. I have seen this once before. In that case, there was a typo
in the ~mcidas/.mcenv file. The other site's problem was a space
between an '=' sign and the values on the right hand side. For
instance, the following syntax is incorrect in Bourne shell scripts:
MCPATH= /home/mcidas/workdata:/home/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/help
^__ the space is the culprit
The following is the correct syntax:
MCPATH=/home/mcidas/workdata:/home/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/help
The first thing to check is the integrity of your ~/.mcenv file.
>Question:
>Can you tell me how to handle Mcidas commands that require "tv frames"
>while working outsite the mcidas environment? Or said differently,
>can you see a problem in my above script?
The problem is not in your script. It is probably in your .mcenv file.
My comment assumes that the PRODUCT/IMAGES dataset is going through
the remote ADDE server (i.e. if you do a 'DATALOC PRODUCT' from the
account you are running the command in, you will not see it being
resolved as a 'LOCAL-DATA' dataset.
One other quick word of advice on these scripts. If your environment
uses the Unidata recommendations for REDIRECTions and your dataset
is 'LOCAL-DATA', then you should 'cd' to the user's McIDAS working
directory first. This way the REDIRECTions will make sense to the
instance of 'mcenv' that is run. Unidata recommended REDIRECTions
contain constructs like:
REDIRECT ADD STRTABLE .
REDIRECT ADD LWPATH.NAM .
etc.
Here the '.' refers to the current working directory. If you do not
'cd ~user/mcidas/data' first, then these files may not be found
depending on what directory is current when the script is run.
>From address@hidden Wed Apr 7 21:53:55 1999
>In the directory /home/mcidas/data thee are lots of lookup
>or color enhancment tables (e.g., RADAR.ET).
>These files are binary. I looked through source code but couldn't
>find the program that would convert an ASCII palette (i.e.,
>color lookup table) to the binary format required by mcidas.
>Question: 1) Is there a way to make your own enhancement tables
>to use with EU REST command?
The EU command is still the application to look toward. EU MAKE
"sets the enhancement" (see online help for EU).
The easiest way to generate a McIDAS BATCH script that will setup
your enhancement table is to:
o use EU TABLE to list out an enhancement that has some similarity with
the one you want to create
o specify the DEV=T fname keyword on the EU LIST incvocation above
to save the output into an ASCII TEXT file
o cd to your McIDAS working directory (that is where the text file will
be created)
o use your favorite text editor and add the EU MAKE invocations to
the beginning of each line
Here is a quickie example:
EU TABLE RADAR DEV=T ENHANCE.BAT
The contents of ENHANCE.BAT will look like:
Brightness Blue Green Red
min max min max min max min max
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 29 0 0 150 150 0 0
30 30 127 127 127 127 127 127
31 38 0 0 150 150 0 0
39 49 0 0 152 152 0 0
50 51 0 0 255 152 0 0
52 56 0 0 152 152 0 0
57 69 0 0 255 255 0 0
70 90 0 0 150 150 0 0
91 94 0 0 255 255 0 0
95 132 255 255 0 0 0 0
133 171 0 0 255 255 255 255
172 209 0 0 0 0 255 255
210 215 0 0 0 0 252 252
216 227 252 252 252 252 252 252
228 247 255 255 255 255 255 255
248 252 252 252 252 252 252 252
253 255 0 0 0 0 0 0
SEE: Done...EOF Encountered.
Edit this file and:
o delete the first three lines (Brightness...; min max...; --- --- ...)
o add EU MAKE to the beginning of each line:
EU MAKE 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0
EU MAKE 19 29 0 0 150 150 0 0
EU MAKE 30 30 127 127 127 127 127 127
EU MAKE 31 38 0 0 150 150 0 0
EU MAKE 39 49 0 0 152 152 0 0
EU MAKE 50 51 0 0 255 152 0 0
EU MAKE 52 56 0 0 152 152 0 0
EU MAKE 57 69 0 0 255 255 0 0
EU MAKE 70 90 0 0 150 150 0 0
EU MAKE 91 94 0 0 255 255 0 0
EU MAKE 95 132 255 255 0 0 0 0
EU MAKE 133 171 0 0 255 255 255 255
EU MAKE 172 209 0 0 0 0 255 255
EU MAKE 210 215 0 0 0 0 252 252
EU MAKE 216 227 252 252 252 252 252 252
EU MAKE 228 247 255 255 255 255 255 255
EU MAKE 248 252 252 252 252 252 252 252
EU MAKE 253 255 0 0 0 0 0 0
Now you have a BATCH file that can recreate the RADAR enhancement. Then
you need to adjust the min/max brightness levels (columns 3 and 4) and
corresponding Blue Green and Red gun values (columns 5,6 7,8 9,10)
to the values you desire.
You set the color levels in a frame displaying the image of interest
by running BATCH:
BATCH "ENHANCE.BAT
Once you have edited ENHANCE.BAT to your satisfaction and restored the
values to a frame, you can create the new enhancement by once again
using the EU command:
EU SAVE <enhancement_name>
NOTE: You should NOT overwrite an enhancement that is contained in the
distribution (i.e. "enhancement_name" should not match any enhancement
file name in the distribution) since it will be overwritten the next
time a McIDAS installation is made. Instead, you should create a new
name for your custom enhancement.
I hope that these responses help...
Tom
>From address@hidden Tue Apr 13 22:23:58 1999
Tom, has always thankyou for your help.
You predicted that I had a problem running my script because of my
mcenv file and because I had a space in a bourne shell.
I think my problem could of been a combination of incorrect file
paths, but it was not a space problem. One note, I have not yet
isolated the problem but I changed a line from:
mcenv -f 480x640 << 'EOF' "as per our my earlier email"
to
MCPATH=$MCPATH PATH=$PATH mcenv << 'EOF' "as per an earlier email you
wrote as found in your email
archive"
This change allows my script to run. If I found the exact error I will
let you know.
Sincerely,
Craig Motell
Craig Motell
University of Hawaii
2525 Correa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-8302
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