User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1.Overview
- 2. Setting Up Your System
- 2.1Setting Up Map Layers
- 2.2Setting Up Display Levels (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.3Adding Water-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.4Fixing Floods with Anti-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.5Editing the Places Database
- 2.6Adjusting the Color Palette
- 2.7Using the Baron Chart
- 2.8Editing Colors for 256-Color Palettes
- 2.9Customizing Font Displays
- 2.10Manipulating the Automatic Legend
- 2.11Using Overlays
- 2.12Setting Up Icons
- 2.13Points to Remember
- 3.Adjusting Views
- 3.1Using the View Main Panel
- 3.2Setting Map Parameters
- 3.3Editing Topographical Data
- 3.4Saving and Organizing Views
- 3.5Using the View Options
- 3.5.1Adding Text to a View
- 3.5.2Zooming In and Out From a View
- 3.5.3Pointing to Features on a View
- 3.5.4Panning on a View
- 3.5.5Labeling Streets with Street Spotter
- 3.5.6Controlling Display of Radar Data
- 3.5.7Utilizing TeleTrac
- 3.5.8Displaying Lightning Strikes on a View
- 3.5.9Displaying Storm Spotter( Van data
- 3.5.10Toggling High-Definition Data Processing
- 3.5.11Displaying NEXRAD forecast data
- 3.5.12Displaying Neighborhood Weather Net( Sensor Data
- 3.5.13Zooming to a Specific City
- 3.5.14Adding Fronts and Pressure Markers
- 3.5.15Creating Temporary Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.16Creating Fixed Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.17Displaying Precipitation Type Maps
- 3.5.18Saving the Current View as a Bitmap
- 3.5.19Printing the Current View
- 3.5.20Highlighting Your Spotter Network On-Air
- 3.5.21Displaying National Weather Service Warnings
- 3.5.22Displaying Wind Speed and Direction
- 3.6Points to Remember
- 4.Managing Storm Tracks
- 5.Using SEQUENCER
- 6.Controlling Your Radar
- Glossary
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Controlling Your Radar
One of the important issues to remember when adding a Baron Chart entry is that the Baron
Chart does not expect the elevation digit to be appended when you enter the product code. When
you right-click on a button in the NEXRAD panel, the product code that appears has the
elevation code appended.
For example, if you right-click on a button that is configured to display one-hour rain products,
you will see something like 4e Rain 1hr as the configuration text. Users often see this and
think they need to type 4e0 as the product code in the Baron Chart. In fact, the proper code is
4e since the extra 0 in the button configuration merely indicates that the product does not vary
with elevation.
6.3.4 Customizing Product and Time Marquees
The product info display panel allows
you to control the display of NEXRAD
product names and generation times on your views. Open this panel by
selecting Setup > Data > NexRad Stats.
Show product name toggles the display of the product name marquee.
The X and Y textboxes control how many pixels to the right and down,
respectively, from the upper left corner that the product name marquee
appears. The W field controls the width in pixels of the product name
marquee, while the H field controls the height in pixels of the marquee.
Show product generation time toggles the display of the product
generation time marquee.
The X and Y textboxes control how many pixels to the right and down,
respectively, from the upper left corner that the product generation time
marquee appears. The W field controls the width in pixels of the
product generation time marquee, while the H field controls the height in pixels of the
marquee.
Move together when dragging lets you move the product name marquee and the product
generation time marquee simultaneously. When you select this option and click OK, you can
move both displays at one time by left-clicking in an area on or between the product name
marquee and product generation time marquee (this area is defined by the corners of the
marquees that are farthest apart) and dragging the cursor to the new position. Otherwise, you can
reposition either display separately, by clicking and dragging.
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