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Available Fill Patterns and Line Patterns

The colors may be specified as a known X-lib color, or as a '#rrggbb' color.  There are only a few allowed fill patterns and line patterns that may be used. If additional patterns are designed, you will need to contact the developers. The available fill patterns are:

WHOLE

WIDE

SCATTERED

WIDE_SCATTERED

ISOLATED

TRANS_25PC_45DEG

TRANS_25PC_135DEG

SELECTED_AREA

DUALCURVE

CURVE

VERTICAL

CROSS

HORIZONTAL

BIGCROSS

You can see examples of the fill patterns here.

The available line patterns are:

SOLID

DASHED

DOTTED

DASHED_DOTTED

Selected Color and Pattern

Defines the color and pattern used in the Grid Manager to indicate a time selection.

Selected_color = 'LightSkyBlue'
Selected_fillPattern = 'TRANS_25PC_45DEG'

 
 

Time Scale Lines Color and Pattern

Defines the color and pattern of the time scale lines in the Grid Manager and Temporal Editor.

TimeScaleLines_color = 'Blue'
TimeScaleLines_pattern = 'DOTTED'

 
 

Editor Time Line Color, Pattern, and Width

Defines the color, width, and pattern used for the editor time line that runs through the Grid Manager and Temporal Editor.

EditorTimeLine_color = 'Yellow'
EditorTimeLine_width = 2
EditorTimeLine_pattern = 'DOTTED'

 
 

Current System Time Indicator Color

Defines the color used by the Grid Manager to indicate the current system time.

CurrentSystemTime_color = 'Green'

 
 

Lock Colors and Patterns

Defines the colors used in the Grid Manager to indicate that a time period is locked by you, or by another person.

LockedByMe_color = 'forestgreen'
LockedByMe_pattern = 'WHOLE'
LockedByOther_color = 'tomato2'
LockedByOther_pattern = 'WHOLE'

 

Time Block Colors

Defines the visible and active colors used in the Grid Manager to indicate when a grid block is either visible and/or active.

TimeBlockVisible_color = 'Yellow3'
TimeBlockActive_color = 'Yellow'
TimeBlockInvisible_color = 'Gray75'
TimeBlockPreview_color = 'Cyan'

 
 

Edit Area Color and Border Width

Defines the color and border width used to indicate the Edit Area on the spatial editor.

ReferenceSet_color = 'Gray80'
ReferenceSet_width = 0

 
 

Initial Width of Grid Manager

The initial width of the grid manager when starting the GFE is specified in pixels.  This number may be adjusted as an office desires.  It is not recommended to go above 600 since there would be display problems on laptop computers.

Defines the initial horizontial size of the grid manager when first starting the GFE in pixels.

TimeScale_horizSize = 350

 
 

Initial Legend Mode

The legend mode, upon startup, may be specified as 'GRIDS', 'MUTABLE', 'ACTIVE', 'MAPS', or 'SETIME'.  The default mode is 'GRIDS'.  'GRIDS' shows all grids in the legend; 'MUTABLE' shows changed weather elements; 'ACTIVE' shows actively displayed weather elements; 'MAPS' shows maps; and 'SETIME' shows the spatial editor time.

Note that while running the GFE, you can change the legend mode with a MB3 (over the grid)->Legends->'Hide', 'Show Fcst Weather Elements', 'Show Active Weather Elements' or 'Show Map'.

LegendMode = 'GRIDS'

 

Initial Grid Manager Mode

The initial Grid Manager mode, upon startup, may be specified as 'Normal', 'History', 'Saved', 'Modified', 'Published', or 'Sent'.  In 'Normal' mode, the Grid Manager shows all grid blocks as "gray", except for those which are displayed or active in the spatial editor.  In 'History' mode, the Grid Manager color-codes each grid block to indicate its data source and whether it has been modified.  'Saved' mode color codes the blocks based on the last time the grid was saved.  'Modified' mode color codes the blocks based on the last time the grid was modified.   'Published' color codes the blocks based on the last published time.  'Sent' color codes the blocks based on the last time the grid was sent via Intersite Coordination.

Note that while running the GFE, you can change the grid manager mode through the Toolbar's Grid Manager Mode button. 

InitialGMDisplayMode = 'Normal'

Number of Quick Set Buttons

The number of quick set buttons may be defined by the user.  At present there is a limit of 7.  Entering a number greater than 7 will result in only 7 quick set buttons being displayed.

QuickSetButtons = 4

 

Menu Item Limit Prior to Cascade

Sets the maximum number of menu items before any menu will cascade with a 'More >'. Do not place a decimal point after the number.

MaxMenuItemsBeforeCascade = 30

 
 

Office Domain Expansion

The office domain is calculated from the domains of all weather elements that are loaded into the GFE.  The actual domain displayed on the GFE spatial editor may be expanded in order to provide "white space" around the grid.  The percentage of expansion is defined via four different Office_Domain_expand variables.  By default, the percentage is 10% in each of the four directions. Note that these values are not absolute, just hints.  The aspect ratio of the GFE spatial editor will take these numbers into account, but may not use the exact values.

OfficeDomain_expandLeft = 10
OfficeDomain_expandRight = 10
OfficeDomain_expandTop = 10
OfficeDomain_expandBottom = 10

 
 

Location of Edit Action Dialog

The initial location of the edit action dialog can be set.  The location is in absolute screen coordinates with (0,0) in the upper left of the display (not relative to the GFE window).  To view the Edit Action Dialog in lower left corner, set Ycoord to 600.

EditActionDialog_Xcoord = 99
EditActionDialog_Ycoord = 74

 
 

Initial Layout of Grid Manager and Temporal Editor

The user can control whether the GFE initially comes up in horizontial or vertical mode.  By default, the temporal editor and grid manager are placed above the spatial editor. The user will either specify "OnTop", which is the default, or "OnLeft".

GM_TE_Layout = "OnTop"

 
 

Temporal Editor Weather Elements

Default setting for temporal editor weather elements.  Choices are 'ALL' ,  all weather elements are displayed in the temporal editor, 'ALL_NOISC' ,  all weather elements except for ISC (intersite coordination elements) are displayed in the temporal editor, 'MUTABLE' (default), just the mutable weather elements (e.g., Fcst) are displayed in the temporal editor,  'ACTIVE', just the single active weather element is displayed in the temporal editor, and 'VISIBLE', all visible elements in the grid manager are also displayed in the temporal editor.

TemporalEditorWEMode = "MUTABLE"

Grid Manager Last Saved, Published, Sent, and Modified Configuration

This section is used to configure the grid manager colors and times when the Grid Manager mode is in one of the "Last Display Modes".  The entries are parallel lists of colors and times.  If the last save, modified, published, sendISC time is less than the given time (in minutes), then that color is used to display the box.   The default if the last xxx time is greater than the final "minutes" in the list, is Gray75.

Modified_minutes = [60, 180, 360, 720, 1440, 2880 ]
Modified_colors = ["#0bc71e", "#60c7b8", "#417fc7", "#e17c10",
  "#ebdf00", "#e11a00"]
                                                                               
Saved_minutes = [60, 180, 360, 720, 1440, 2880 ]
Saved_colors = ["#0bc71e", "#60c7b8", "#417fc7", "#e17c10",
  "#ebdf00", "#e11a00"]
                                                                               
Published_minutes = [60, 180, 360, 720, 1440, 2880 ]
Published_colors = ["#0bc71e", "#60c7b8", "#417fc7", "#e17c10",
  "#ebdf00", "#e11a00"]
                                                                               
Sent_minutes = [60, 120, 180, 240, 300, 360]
Sent_colors = ["#0bc71e", "#60c7b8", "#417fc7", "#e17c10",
  "#ebdf00", "#e11a00"]

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