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
Setting Up Your System
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
displays text that identifies the colors used. The following steps describe how to change a
particular level in a product:
1. Select a color for a particular level from the palette by clicking on a color on the Baron Chart.
2. Click on the level that you want to change (for example, level 7 of VIL).
3. Click OK to save your edit and to return to the Setup Colors menu.
You can change any MODIFIABLE color on the palette. To do so, double-click on the color to
open the Color Edit menu, which is described in section 2.5, Adjusting the Color Palette.
Changing a color in the palette will affect everything that uses that color.
Clicking OK saves any changes you have made. You must, however, select OK Save on the
Setup Colors menu to effect the changes. For example, if you click OK on the Baron Chart menu
and then click Cancel on the Setup Colors menu, you cancel the changes to the palette. The
changes to the color representations of product levels stay the same. To avoid confusion, it is best
either to click OK in both places or to click Cancel in both places.
2.8 Editing Colors for 256-Color Palettes
There are several new data
products that utilize a 256-color
palette rather than the normal 16
colors. These products can be
edited with a separate menu
called the Edit full color radar
palette menu. To access this
menu, select Setup > Data >
BaronChart256.
The box in the upper left corner
displays the names and product
codes of the currently existing
256-color palettes. The product
highlighted in this box displays
its palette in the center area.
The box to the right of the box containing the product names and codes displays the level number
and RGB values of the palette entry over which your cursor is currently positioned. For
reflectivity palettes, the dBZ value corresponding to that level also appears.
The Edit Color button below the palette area allows you to edit the colors for the palette entries.
See section 2.5, Adjusting the Color Palette, for information on using the Choose color menu.
The Add button lets you create a new 256-color palette. The palette will be black by default.
256-color palettes will not display properly if a precipitation type map is
currently displaying (see section 3.5.17, Displaying Precipitation Type Maps).
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