Couple of features

[ghansham]

Hi joleen
Thanks for quick reply. A few things to add, there is no impact of changing range or checking auto-scale checkbox on main display window, impact is only on the vertical cross section tab of display control window. The results are confusing you are right in saying that. Another thing from user friendliness point of view I feel that both of them should be in cross-section tab and not display tab. User has to switch between tabs to see the results. I hope that makes some sense.

[joleenf]

Hi Ghansham,

That is a good point. It would be easier for the auto-scale and range control to be in the display tab.

Joleen

[ghansham]

Hi All

These are the first cut snapshots of the developed capability.
I have provided two combo-boxes one for each axis.
User can select for xaxis:
1. Distance
2. Latitude
3. Longitude
And for yaxis, user can select:
1. Altitude
2. Pressure
As per Tom R Sir's suggestion, I added another combo-box to allow user
to select (Pressure Coordinate System):
1. Standard Atmosphere Coordinate System
2. Vis5D Log Pressure coordinate System

When user selects the pressure on y-axis, then only the above coordinate system
is enabled.
A few things to add from my side. I think clip view at box does not work well for
Vertical cross-sections. If someone can confirm that there is some issue in this.

Another interesting thing I am trying is to do probing of vertical atmosphere.
If that happens it will be really good. Meanwhile I am planning to shift the
Change vertical range and auto-scale position from "Settings" Tab to Display Tab.
This functionality has also some issues. I will try to address possibly.
It makes more sense. Joleen agrees on that.


Kindly provide feedback. It will really help to improve upon the control.

regards
Ghansham

[tomw]

Hello Ghansham!

These plots look very nice...thanks for doing this! I have just two, small comments:

1. Perhaps the "pressure" vertical coordinate should go from large values on the bottom to small values on top.

2. The "clip view at box" should not be there -- the problem of course is that the "box" does not contain the axes labels, so they would be removed.

Best regards and thanks for your continued contributions!!

[ghansham]

Hi Sir..

Thanks for the valuable feedback.
I am struggling to invert the yaxis only..

Ghansham

[jamallax89]

Thanks for sharing

[ghansham]

Hi All...

Today got sometime to enhance the control..
As per TomW Sir's feedback, I have inverted the yaxis when pressure values are plotted.
The high pressure values come at lower side and higher pressure values comer on upper side.
In addition I have added a couple things:
Now the Vertical Axis Range Selection and Auto-Scale are in Display Tab and not Settings tab.
This allows user to change the range and see the result without switching between the tabs.
Tried to improve the change range functionality and auto-scale too..
Another one is probing the cross-section.
When the user moves mouse pointer over the cross-section he can see the x-coordinates (distance or lat or lon,
whichever is selected) y-coordinates (altitude or pressure whichever is selected).
And if the user clicks the center mouse button, he/she can probe the value of displayed parameter in the
vertical cross-section. I have tried to keep it on the same pattern as is applicable for MapDisplay.
If somebody has a better idea. we can try that too...

Kindly provide feedback....

See attached snapshots.

regards
Ghansham

[joleenf]

Ghansham,

Will this be available in the latest nightly or as a plugin?

Joleen

[ghansham]

Hi Joleen...


Well I would say neither of them. The reason is I had to to do modifications in core IDV abstract classes
to get it running.

Anyways I can send the java classes if someone can integrate it. One of the way could be to fork a branch on git.
I am not very well versed with it.. So that holds me from doing that.

Anyways I am looking forward to some feedback from all of you.

regards
Ghansham

[tommy.jasmin]

Ghansham - if you get me the modified files, I can integrate, test, and submit Pull Request to IDV.
You can just email them if that's easiest. If any issues integrating I will contact you.