User`s guide

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide
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Figure 16 - Broadcast Display Attributes
6.13 General Display Settings
Menu Shortcut: Modify Display X General Display
Settings
General display settings change all of the display settings at
the same time. Reference Table 5 - General Display
Settings.
Display Setting Description
Time and Date
Display
Specify date and 24-hour vs. 12
hour format
Background Color
Specify the display panel
background color
Font Settings
Changes the font setting for all of
the displays.
Display Colors
Changes all of the display colors
at the same time.
Language Preference
Virtual Weather Station provides
limited foreign language support.
To change the titles to the
language of choice, edit each
individual display.
Scroll Display
Ideal for monitoring the display
on a television or closed circuit.
You can display weather images
on the entire desktop and
automatically scroll.
Snap to Grid Pixels
Specify the grid resolution for
aligning the weather display
Display Setting Description
images.
Average Display
Preferences
Allows you to chose between a
one hour filtered average, the
daily average, the monthly
average or the yearly average on
the display.
Table 5 - General Display Settings
6.13.1 Full Screen Display
To use the full screen display, double click anywhere on
the background of the desktop (other than a weather
element). To return to the normal display, hit any key.
Figure 17 - General Display Settings
6.14 Database
Menu Shortcut: Settings X Database Settings
Virtual Weather Station generates a database for storing
data for plotting and graphing. This data is stored in a
comma separated file located in the following directory
path:
\VWS\data\dbase.csv
where csv stands for "comma separated value". This
database can be viewed, edited and deleted.
6.14.1 Database Timer
A database timer allows you to customize how often data is
written to the database. The database is limited to 20,000
records, so the recommended minimum database timer is
10 minutes.
Once the database reaches 20,000 records, is automatically
resized to 15,000 records. A backup record of the database
is stored in the following file: