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NAME: AdjustPosition PURPOSE: This is a program for interactively adjusting the plot position coordinates. The result of the function is a four-element floating point array of normalized coordinates, suitable for passing to the POSITION keyword of most IDL graphics commands. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: position = AdjustPosition(startingPosition) OPTIONAL INPUTS: startingPosition - A four-element array of normalized coordinates of the form [x0, y0, x1, y1]. OUTPUTS: position - The adjusted plot position. A four-element array of normalized coordinates. INPUT KEYWORDS: GROUP_LEADER - The group leader of this program. This keyword is required to ensure modal operation when calling from another widget program. TITLE - The title of the window. "Adjust Plot Position in Window..." by default. XOFFSET - The X offset of the program on the display. Calculated from the upper left-hand corner of the display. YOFFSET - The Y offset of the program on the display. Calculated from the upper left-hand corner of the display. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: CANCEL - Returns a 1 if the user selects the Cancel button. Returns 0 otherwise. Note that if the use cancels, the "position" parameter is set to the value of the "startingPosition" parameter. DEPENDENCIES: Reqires FSC_FIELD and FSC_PLOTWINDOW from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/fsc_field.pro http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/fsc_plotwindow.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, March 2001.
(See adjustposition.pro)
:Description: Provides a way to display non-printable characters in widget elements. :Categories: Widgets :Params: str_in: in, required, type=string The input string that you wish to render on a widget element. :Keywords: example: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword to see an example of non-printable characters rendered in a Dialog_Pickfile widget. :Examples: Call the built-in example:: IDL> void = ANSI_Value(/EXAMPLE) :Author: Bernat Puigdomenech :History: Change History:: Written, 2 September 2011. Bernat Puigdomenech. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2011, Bernat Puigdomenech.
(See ansi_value.pro)
NAME: ARCSAMPLE PURPOSE: Given X and Y points that describe a closed curve in 2D space, this function returns an output curve that is sampled a specified number of times at approximately equal arc distances. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: ArcSample, x_in, y_in, x_out, y_out INPUT_PARAMETERS: x_in: The input X vector of points. y_in: The input Y vector of points. OUTPUT_PARAMETERS: x_out: The output X vector of points. y_out: The output Y vector of points. KEYWORDS: POINTS: The number of points in the output vectors. Default: 50. PHASE: A scalar between 0.0 and 1.0, for fine control of where interpolates are sampled. Default: 0.0. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 1 December 2003, based on code supplied to me by Craig Markwardt.
(See arcsample.pro)
NAME: ASINHSCL PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to perform an inverse hyperbolic sine function intensity transformation on an image. I think of this as a sort of "tuned" gamma or power-law function. The algorithm, and notion of "asinh magnitudes", comes from a paper by Lupton, et. al, in The Astronomical Journal, 118:1406-1410, 1999 September. I've relied on the implementation of Erin Sheldon, found here: http://cheops1.uchicago.edu/idlhelp/sdssidl/plotting/tvasinh.html I'm also grateful of discussions with Marshall Perrin on the IDL newsgroup with respect to the meaning of the "softening parameter", beta, and for finding (and fixing!) small problems with the code. Essentially this transformation allow linear scaling of noise values, and logarithmic scaling of signal values, since there is a small linear portion of the curve and a much large logarithmic portion of the curve. (See the EXAMPLE section for some tips on how to view this transformation curve.) AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: outputImage = ASINHSCL(image) ARGUMENTS: image: The image or signal to be scaled. Written for 2D images, but arrays of any size are treated alike. KEYWORDS: BETA: This keyword corresponds to the "softening parameter" in the Lupon et. al paper. This factor determines the input level at which linear behavior sets in. Beta should be set approximately equal to the amount of "noise" in the input signal. IF BETA=0 there is a very small linear portion of the curve; if BETA=200 the curve is essentially all linear. The default value of BETA is set to 3, which is appropriate for a small amount of noise in your signal. The value is always positive. NEGATIVE: If set, the "negative" of the result is returned. MAX: Any value in the input image greater than this value is set to this value before scaling. MIN: Any value in the input image less than this value is set to this value before scaling. OMAX: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 255. OMIN: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 0. RETURN VALUE: outputImage: The output, scaled into the range OMIN to OMAX. A byte array. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLES: Plot, ASinhScl(Indgen(256), Beta=0.0), LineStyle=0 OPlot, ASinhScl(Indgen(256), Beta=0.1), LineStyle=1 OPlot, ASinhScl(Indgen(256), Beta=1.0), LineStyle=2 OPlot, ASinhScl(Indgen(256), Beta=10.), LineStyle=3 OPlot, ASinhScl(Indgen(256), Beta=100), LineStyle=4 RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgScaleVector from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgScaleVector.pro Incorporates ASINH from the NASA Astronomy Library and renamed ASINHSCL_ASINH. http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/homepage.html MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 24 February 2006. Removed ALPHA keyword and redefined the BETA keyword to correspond to the "softening parameter" of Lupton et. al., following the suggestions of Marshall Perrin. 25 April 2006. DWF.
(See asinhscl.pro)
NAME: ASPECT PURPOSE: This function calculates and returns the normalized position coordinates necessary to put a plot with a specified aspect ratio into the currently active graphics window. It works on the display output window as well as in a PostScript output window. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: position = ASPECT(aspectRatio) INPUTS: aspectRatio: A floating point value that is the desired aspect ratio (ratio of heigth to width) of the plot in the current graphics output window. If this parameter is missing, an aspect ratio of 1.0 (a square plot) is assumed. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: MARGIN: The margin around the edges of the plot. The value must be a floating point value between 0.0 and 0.5. It is expressed in normalized coordinate units. The default margin is 0.15. WINDOWASPECT: The aspect ratio of the target window. If not provided, the value is obtained from the current graphics window. OUTPUTS: position: A four-element floating array of normalized coordinates. The order of the elements is [x0, y0, x1, y1], similar to the !P.POSITION system variable or the POSITION keyword on any IDL graphic command. EXAMPLE: To create a plot with an aspect ratio of 1:2 and a margin of 0.10 around the edge of the output window, do this: plotPosition = ASPECT(0.5, Margin=0.10) PLOT, Findgen(11), POSITION=plotPosition Notice this can be done in a single IDL command, like this: PLOT, Findgen(11), POSITION=ASPECT(0.5, Margin=0.10) MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, November 1996. Added better error checking, 18 Feb 1997, DWF. Added WindowAspect keyword. 10 Feb 2000. DWF Added double precision tolerance for aspectRatio. 9 NOV 2001 BT Officially retired in favor of cgAspect. 11 February 2013. DWF.
(See aspect.pro)
NAME: BINARY PURPOSE: This function is used to display a binary representation of byte, integer, and long integer values. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: output = Binary(theNumber) RETURN VALUE: output: A string array of 0s and 1s to be printed (normally), in a binary representation of the number. The number is represented with the highest bits on the left and the lowest bits on the right, when printed with the PRINT command. ARGUMENTS: theNumber: The number for which the user wants a binary representation. It must be BYTE, INT, or LONG. KEYWORDRS: COLOR: If this keyword is set, the binary representation always contains 24 bits of output. SEPARATE: If this keyword is set, the output is separated with space between each group of eight bits. EXAMPLE: IDL> Print, Binary(24B) 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 IDL> Print, Binary(24L) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 IDL> Print, Binary(24L, /COLOR) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 IDL> Print, Binary(24L, /COLOR, /SEPARATE) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, November 10, 2007. Fixed a problem with error handling. 13 March 2008. DWF.
(See binary.pro)
NAME: BITGET PURPOSE: Returns the bit value (0 or 1) of a specified bit in a supplied number. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: bitValue = BitGet(number, bit) INPUT_PARAMETERS: number: The input number. Should be a scalar integer. If not, it is converted to one by rounding. bit: The number of the bit you are interested in. A value between 0 and 63. If not supplied, all 64 bit values of the number are returned. May be an array of bit numbers. OUTPUT_PARAMETERS: bitValue: The value, 0 or 1, of the specified bit in the number. KEYWORDS: SILENT: If set, suppresses informational messages regarding rounding operations. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 14 June 2006.
(See bitget.pro)
NAME: BLOB_ANALYZER__DEFINE PURPOSE: The purpose of this routine is to create a system for analyzing regions of interest (ROIs) or (more commonly) "blobs" inside images. In particular, given a suitable image (this will require judgement on your part), the program will automatically select "blobs" or connected regions in the image and make it possible for you to analyze these blobs. An example program is provided to show you one way the program can be used. The code is a wrapper, essentially, for LABEL_REGION and HISTOGRAM, with a couple of my other image processing routines (FIND_BOUNDARY and FIT_ELLIPSE) used in a supporting role. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Analysis, Image Processing CALLING SEQUENCE: analyzer = Obj_New("BLOB_ANALYZER", image) INPUTS: image: A two-dimensional image array. To make this program memory efficient, a copy of the image is *not* stored in the object. You will be responsible for image operations outside this program. KEYWORDS: ALL_NEIGHBORS: Set this keyword to look at all eight neighbors when searching for connectivity. The default is to look for four neighbors on each side of the starting pixel. Passed directly to LABEL_REGION. MASK: A two-dimensional array, the same size as image, that identifies the foreground and background pixels in the image. Applying the mask should result in a bi-level image of 0s and 1s, where 1 identifies the blobs you wish to analyze. If a mask is not provided, the mask is created like this: mask = image > 0 SCALE: A one- or two-dimensional given the pixel scaling parameters. By default [1.0, 1.0]. If passed a scalar, the scale parameter is applied to both the X and Y directions of each pixel. Statistical output is reported with scaling unless the NOSCALE keyword is set. Scaling also effects the data that is output from the various methods. OBJECT METHODS: The following methods are provided. Please see the documentation header for each method for information on arguments and keywords that can be used with the method. FitEllipse: This method fits an ellipse to the blob. It returns information about the fitted ellipse, including the points that all the ellipse to be drawn. GetIndices: This method returns the indices for a particular blob in the image. GetStats: This method returns a structure containing statistics for a particular blob in the image. The structure is defined as follows: stats = {INDEX: indexNumber, $ ; The index number of this blob. COUNT: N_Elements(indices), $ ; The number of indices in this blob. PERIMETER_PTS: boundaryPts, $ ; A [2,n] array of points that describe the blob perimeter. PIXEL_AREA: pixelArea, $ ; The area as calculated by pixels in the blob. PERIMETER_AREA: perimeterArea, $ ; The area as calculated by the blob perimeter. (Smaller than pixel area.) CENTER: centroid[0:1], $ ; The [x,y] array that identifies the centroid of the blob. PERIMETER_LENGTH: perimeter_length, $ ; The perimenter length (scaled unless the NOSCALE keyword is set). SCALE: scale, $ ; The [xscale, yscale] array used in scaling. MINCOL: Min(xyindices[0,*]), $ ; The minimum column index in the blob. MAXCOL: Max(xyindices[0,*]), $ ; The maximum column index in the blob. MINROW: Min(xyindices[1,*]), $ ; The minimum row index in the blob. MAXROW: Max(xyindices[1,*])} ; The maximum row index in the blob. NumberOfBlobs: The number of blobs identified in the image. ReportStats: This methods reports statistics on every identified blob in the image. The report can be sent to the display (the default) or to a file. The format for the report works for most images, but you may have to change the format or override this method for your particular image. The reported statistics are basically the output of the GetStats and FitEllipse methods. Here is an example of statistical output from the example program below. INDEX NUM_PIXELS CENTER_X CENTER_Y PIXEL_AREA PERIMETER_AREA PERIMETER_LENGTH MAJOR_AXIS MINOR_AXIS ANGLE 0 426 107.89 9.78 106.50 98.00 37.56 12.15 11.29 -8.05 1 580 151.97 10.22 145.00 134.25 49.21 17.49 11.77 -0.99 2 812 266.29 15.36 203.00 190.75 52.56 17.88 14.65 -107.48 3 1438 204.53 43.29 359.50 344.13 70.23 21.68 21.12 -76.47 RESTRICTIONS: Requires programs from the Coyote Library. At the very least, those below are required. It is *highly* recommended that you install the entire library. FIT_ELLIPSE has been changed specifically for this release, so by sure you get a copy of that with this source code. The program currently works only with 2D bi-level images. EXAMPLE: To run an example program. Compile the file and type "example" at the IDL command line. IDL> .compile blob_analyzer__define IDL> example MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, Fanning Software Consulting, 17 August 2008. Ideas taken from discussion with Ben Tupper and Ben's program HBB_ANALYZER.
(See blob_analyzer__define.pro)
NAME: CAPFIRSTLETTER PURPOSE: Given a string, separates the parts by white space, commas, semi-colons, or colons. Each part has the first letter capitalized. The returned string has the capitalized parts separated by a space. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: capitalizedString = CatFirstLetter(theString) AUGUMENTS: theString: The input string. RETURN_VALUE: capitalizedString: The capitalized output string. There is a space between parts (words) of the input string. KEYWORDS: None. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 29 July 2005.
(See capfirstletter.pro)
NAME: Checkerboard PURPOSE: This function returns a 2D image, with boxes of alternating colors. Checkerboard images are useful in certain types of image processing procedures and for making blended image masks. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Image Processing CALLING SEQUENCE: board = Checkerboard() RETURN VALUE: board: A 2D long array of alternating colored boxes. ARGUMENTS: boxes: The number of boxes of alternating colors on each side of the resulting image. Must be an even integer greater than or equal to two. Optional. Default is 8 (normal checkerboard). INPUT KEYWORDS: BLACK: The value of the "black" boxes. By default, 0. WHITE: The value of the "white" boxes. By default, 255. XSIZE: The X size of the returned image. By default, 400. YSIZE: The Y size of the returned image. By default, 400. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLE: IDL> cgImage, Checkerboard() MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 26 September 2007, based on suggestions of JD Smith on IDL newsgroup 25-26 Septermber 2007.
(See checkerboard.pro)
NAME: CIndex PURPOSE: This is a program for viewing the current colors in the colortable with their index numbers overlayed on each color. On 24-bit systems you must click the cursor in the graphics window to see the colors in the current color table. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: CIndex INPUTS: None. INPUT KEYWORDS: BREWER: If this keyword is set, the BREWER colors will be loaded with the Change Colors button. (Assuming the brewer color table file, fsc_brewer.tbl, has been installed. OUTPUTS: None OPTIONAL OUTPUTS: None OUTPUT KEYWORDS: NOTIFYID: A two-element array containing the Change Colors button widget identifier and the identifier of the top-level base widget. This array is meant to be sent to an XCOLORS routine via its NOTIFYID keyword. This will allow instant updating of the CINDEX interface. COMMON BLOCKS: None SIDE EFFECTS: None RESTRICTIONS: Reqires XCOLORS and cgImage from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/xcolors.pro http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgImage.pro PROCEDURE: Draws a 31x25 set of small rectangles in 256 different colors. Writes the color index number on top of each rectangle. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, May 1995 Widgetized and made it work in 24-bit color. Colors are updated by clicking in window. 22 Oct 98. DWF Replace POLYFILL with TV command to avoid underflow error in Z-buffer. 8 March 99. DWF Fixed a problem with 24-bit devices with color decomposition ON. 15 Feb 2000. DWF. Added the NOTIFYID keyword, 15 Dec 2005. DWF. Added BREWER keyword, 19 May 2008. DWF. Replaced TV commands with cgImage, 12 June 2013. DWF.
(See cindex.pro)
NAME: CLIPBOARD PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to copy the contents of a graphics window to the clipboard for subsequent pasting into applications such as Photoshop or Powerpoint. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: CLIPBOARD, window_index OPTIONAL INPUTS: window_index: The window index number of the graphics window to copy. If absent, the current graphics window is used by default. KEYWORDS: All COLOR_QUAN keywords are allowed. In particular, if you are taking snapshots of line plots with few colors in them, you may get better results by calling the program with the CUBE=6 keyword set. Otherwise, white colors can sometimes be a bit gray. OUTPUTS: None. COMMON BLOCKS: None. DEPENDENCIES: Uses the IDLgrClipboard object introduced in IDL 5.2(?). PROCEDURE: Copies the window contents to a clipboard object. EXAMPLE: IDL> Window IDL> Plot, Findgen(11) IDL> CLIPBOARD RESTRICTIONS: May not work for all applications. Applications tested successfully include: Framemaker, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Excel, Microsoft Word. Converts 24-bit images to 2D images with color tables. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 24 October 2001. Added _EXTRA keyword to pass COLOR_QUAN keywords along. 28 Oct 2002. DWF.
(See clipboard.pro)
NAME: CLIPSCL PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to perform linear scaling (similar to BYTSCL) on image arrays. If differs from BYTSCL only in that a user-specified percentage of pixels can be clipped from the image histogram, prior to scaling. By default, two percent of the pixels are clipped. Clipping occurs at both ends of the image histogram. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: scaledImage = CLIPSCL(image, clipPercent) ARGUMENTS: image: The image to be scaled. Written for 2D images, but arrays of any size are treated alike. clipPercent: The percent of image clipping. Optional argument is set to 2 by default. Must be value between 0 and 49. Clipping occurs from both ends of image histogram, so a clip of 2 linearly scales approximately 96% of the image histogram. Clipping percents are approximations only, and depend entirely on the distribution of pixels in the image. For interactive scaling, see cgStretch. INPUT KEYWORDS: NEGATIVE: If set, the "negative" of the result is returned. OMAX: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 255. OMIN: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 0. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: THRESHOLD: A two-element array containing the image thresholds for clipping. RETURN VALUE: scaledImage: The output, scaled into the range OMIN to OMAX. A byte array. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLES: LoadCT, 0 ; Gray-scale colors. image = cgDemoData(22) ; Load image. TV, ClipScl(image, 4) RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgScaleVector from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgScaleVector.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 6 September 2007. Not sure what this program was doing, but not what I thought. I've reworked the algorithm to scale the data appropriately. 25 Oct 2011. DWF.
(See clipscl.pro)
NAME: ColorButtonBitmap PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to create a 24-bit bitmap that can be used to create a colored widget button. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Widget Programming CALLING SEQUENCE: bitmap = ColorButtonBitmap(theText) button = Widget_Button(tlb, Value=bitmap) REQUIRED INPUTS: theText - The text you wish to have on the button. OUTPUTS: bitmap - A 3xMxN byte array, representing a 24-bit image that is used as a button value. OPTIONAL KEYWORDS: BGCOLOR - The name of the background color. For example, 'Yellow', 'Tan', etc. The name must be compatible with names appropriate for cgColor. FGCOLOR - The name of the foreground color. For example, 'Navy', 'Black', etc. The name must be compatible with names appropriate for cgColor. DEPENDENCIES: Reqires cgColor from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgColor.pro EXAMPLE: tlb = Widget_Base(/Row, /Exclusive) button1 = Widget_Button(tlb, Value=ColorButtonBitmap('Button 1')) ; Normal button. button2 = Widget_Button(tlb, Value=ColorButtonBitmap('Button 2', FGCOLOR='YELLOW', BGCOLOR='NAVY')) button3 = Widget_Button(tlb, Value=ColorButtonBitmap('Button 3', BGCOLOR='YELLOW', FGCOLOR='NAVY')) Widget_Control, tlb, /Realize MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, May 25, 2007 based on code named BitmapForButtonText supplied to the IDL newsgroup by Dick Jackson: http://www.idlcoyote.com/tip_examples/bitmapforbuttontext.pro. Fixed a problem with foreground and background colors that caused them to work correctly only when color decomposition is on--as it should be :-). 6 May 2009.
(See colorbuttonbitmap.pro)
:Description: Returns a 1 if the two input colors refer to the same color, otherwise returns a 0. :Categories: Graphics Utility :Params: color_1: in, required, type=string/integer/long The first color to compare for "equality". color_2: in, required, type=string/integer/long The second color to compare for "equality". :Keywords: None. :Examples: Used to compare if two different colors are the same color:: IDL> Print, ColorsAreIdentical('white', cgColor('white')) IDL> Print, ColorsAreIdentical(252, !P.Color) IDL> Print, ColorsAreIdentical('white', '255') :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written, 24 December 2010. DWF. Fixed a typo when first color is INTEGER and second color is STRING. 3 Jan 2011. DWF. Added error handling for out of bounds color values. 25 May 2011. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2010, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See colorsareidentical.pro)
NAME: CONTRASTZOOM PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to demonstrate how to zoom an image "in place" and how to window and level (set "contrast and brightness") an image using object graphics functionality. The exercise involves using multiple views in an object graphics scene, and being able to interact with different views in different ways. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Widgets, Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: ContrastZoom, image REQUIRED INPUTS: None. The image "mr_knee.dcm" from the examples/data directory is used if no data is supplied in call. OPTIONAL INPUTS image: A 2D image array of any data type. OPTIONAL KEYWORD PARAMETERS: COLORTABLE: The number of a color table to use as the image palette. Color table 0 (grayscale) is used as a default. GROUP_LEADER: The group leader for this program. When the group leader is destroyed, this program will be destroyed. COMMON BLOCKS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: None. RESTRICTIONS: None. The Coyote Library program VCOLORBAR is included. EXAMPLE: To use this program with your 8-bit image data and a red-temperature color scale, type: IDL> ContrastZoom, image, Colortable=3 NOTES: The left image is used to "zoom" into a portion of the image. The aspect ratio of the sub-image is always preserved. To see the entire image, click and release the mouse button in this window. The center image is used to adjust the contrast and brightness (sometimes called the "window" and "level" of the image. Click and drag the mouse vertically to set contrast. Click and drag the mouse horizontally to set brightness. To return to original values (25% contrast and 75% brightness), click and release in the center image. The color bars shows the image values of the image. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, 18 November 2001. Added second colorbar to show the relationship of the clamped colors to the overall image values. 19 November 2001. DWF. Changed FSC_Normalize to cgNormalize to reflect new name. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See contrastzoom.pro)
NAME: CONVERT_TO_TYPE PURPOSE: Converts its input argument to a specified data type. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: result = Convert_To_Type(input, type) INPUT_PARAMETERS: input: The input data to be converted. type: The data type. Accepts values as given by Size(var, /TNAME) or Size(var, /TYPE). If converting to integer types, values are truncated (similar to FLOOR keyword below), unless keywords are set. OUTPUT_PARAMETERS: result: The input data is converted to specified data type. KEYWORDS: CEILING: If set and converting to an integer type, the CEIL function is applied before conversion. FLOOR: If set and converting to an integer type, the FLOOR function is applied before conversion. ROUND: If set and converting to an integer type, the ROUND function is applied before conversion. RESTRICTIONS: Data types STRUCT, POINTER, and OBJREF are not allowed. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 19 February 2006. Typo had "UNIT" instead of "UINT". 23 February 2009. DWF. Added CEILING, FLOOR, and ROUND keywords. 1 April 2009. DWF. Modified so that the "type" variable is not changed by the program. 5 May 2009. DWF.
(See convert_to_type.pro)
NAME: CW_DRAWCOLOR PURPOSE: This compound widget is used to place a label or color name next to a color patch. Clicking on the color patch allows the user to select another color AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: colorpatchID = CW_DrawColor(parent) REQUIRED INPUTS: parent - The identifier of a parent base widget. OUTPUTS: colorpatchID - The widget identifier of the top-level base of this compound widget INPUT KEYWORDS: COLOR - The name of the color to be displayed. Color names come from cgPickColorName. COLUMN - Set this keyword to stack widgets in a column. Default is in a row. EVENT_FUNC - The name of an event handler function for this compound widget. EVENT_PRO -The name of an event handler procedure for this compound widget. INDEX - An index number where the color should be loaded. !D.Table_Size-2, by default. FILENAME - An optional input to cgPickColorName specifying different colors. See the cgPickColorName documenation for the file format. LABEL_LEFT - Set this keyword to have the label text aligned on the left of the label. Default is to center. LABEL_RIGHT - Set this keyword to have the label text aligned on the right of the label. Default is to center. LABELSIZE - This is the X size of the label widget (containing the label) in device coordinates. Default is natural size. LABELTEXT - This is the text on the label. Example, "Background Color", etc. TITLE - This is the title on the cgPickColorName program that allows the user to select another color. UVALUE - A user value for the widget. XSIZE - The xsize (in pixel units) of the color patch. By default, 20. YSIZE - The xsize (in pixel units) of the color patch. By default, 20. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: OBJECT - The object reference. Use this to call methods, etc. OBJECT PROCEDURE METHODS: Set_Value -- this method takes one argument, the new color name. It will change the color of the widget if it has already been realized. Get_Value -- this method returns the color name the widget is displaying DEPENDENCIES: Reqires cgColor and cgPickColorName from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgColor.pro http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgPickColorName.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, March 2001. Fixed a problem with self object cleanup. 7 March 2006. DWF. Allow addition to already realized widget hierarchies, October 2007. L. Anderson. Added set_value and get_value methods to the widget can be updated after being realized. October 2007. L. Anderson. Added option to pass filename on to cgPickColorName. October 2007. L. Anderson
(See cw_drawcolor.pro)
NAME: DIRPATH PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to return a device-independent name of a directory. It is similar to the IDL-supplied FILEPATH routine, except that a file name is not required. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utility. CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> theDirectory = DIRPATH('examples') IDL> Print, theDirectory C:\IDL\IDL56\examples INPUTS: subDirectory: This is a string argument containing the name of the sub-directory you wish to use. It can be a string array of sub-directory names. By default, the subDirectory is set to ['examples', 'data']. To only return the Root_Directory, set the subDirectory to a null string (""). KEYWORDS: ROOT_DIRECTORY: The name of the root directory to use. By default, the root directory is set to !DIR. OUTPUTS: The machine-independent directory path. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 28 April 2003.
(See dirpath.pro)
NAME: ErrorLogger__Define PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to log program errors or text messages during program execution as an aid to debugging such a program at a later date. The ErrorLogger program is written as an object so that it will persist in the IDL session until it is destroyed. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: errorLogger = Obj_New("ErrorLogger") ARGUMENTS: filename: The name of the error log file. If not provided, a default name will be created, based on the current system time. (Optional) KEYWORDS: ALERT: The default behavior of the error logger is simply to write text to a file. But if the ALERT keyword is set, the program will alert the user via a message dialog that an error has occurred when using the AddError method. Default is 0. (Input) DELETE_ON_DESTROY: If this keyword is set, the error log file will be deleted when the ErrorLogger object is destroyed, but only if the ErrorLogger object is not in an error state at that time (error status = 2). Default is 0. (Input) NOCLUTTER: Believe it or not, some people who use an ErrorLogger prefer that an error log file is never left behind. (They prefer that the program act like cgErrorMsg.) For those people, the NOCLUTTER keyword provides a way for them to automatically set the ALERT and DESTROY_ON_DELETE keywords to 1. It also prevents the error logger from ever setting the error status to 2. Thus, when the ErrorLogger is destroyed, the file is always deleted. Default is 0. When set, overrides ALERT and DELETE_ON_DESTROY settings. (Input) NOTRACEBACK: Set this keyword to suppress traceback information in the error log output and in any alerts issued by the program. Default is 0. (Input) TIMESTAMP: Set this keyword if you wish a time stamp to be appended to the provided filename. Otherwise, the filename is used as defined. Default filenames always have a timestamp appended to the file name. (Input) METHODS: AddError: Adds an error text string or array to the error log file. By default, it will add the HELP, LAST_MESSAGE=1, /TRACEBACE traceback information to the file. (Procedure) AddText: Adds a text string or array to the error log file. (Procedure) ClearLog: Erases all the text currently in the error log file. (Procedure) CloseFile: Closes the currently open error log file. (Procedure) Flush: Forces a write of any current information to the disk (Procedure) GetProperty: Gets properties of the object. (Procedure) LastMessage: Returns the last message text written into the error log file. (Function) OpenFile: Opens the error log file for writing. (Function) PrintLastMessage: Writes the last message text written into the error log file to standard output. (Procedure) Status: Returns the current status of the error logger. (0 - waiting for input, 1 - normal operation, 2 - error operation.) (Function) SetProperty: Sets properties of the object. (Procedure) SetStatus: Sets the current status of the error logger. Normally not used by the user, but used internally. (Procedure) MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, November 2009. Modified and expanded the way errors are written into the log file and displayed. Also made it possible to automatically delete the log file when the object is destroyed, if the error logger is not in an error state at the time. Added DELETE_ON_DESTROY and NOTRACEBACK keywords to the INIT and SetProperty methods. 28 Jan 2010. DWF. Modified default filenames so that I am now guaranteed to get unique file names by using cgTimestamp program from the Coyote Library. 8 Feb 2010. DWF. Added NOCLUTTER keyword. 15 February 2010. DWF. Added PRINT keyword to AddText method to allow users to log statements that should also be printed easily to a file. 17 February 2010. DWF. Small documentation changes to the program. 22 June 2010. DWF. Made a change so that the file is not opened until something needs to be written to it. 22 June 2010. DWF. Added FLUSH method and keyword IMMEDIATE to the INIT method (defaults to 1) which will immediately flush the log information to disk when log information is added to the object. This will prevent missing information that is buffered when a program crashes. Matt Savoie suggestion. DWF, 10 Sept 2010. Now calling cgTimeStamp rather than TimeStamp to avoid problems with IDL code. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See errorlogger__define.pro)
NAME: FIND_BOUNDARY PURPOSE: This program finds the boundary points about a region of interest (ROI) represented by pixel indices. It uses a "chain-code" algorithm for finding the boundary pixels. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics, math. CALLING SEQUENCE: boundaryPts = Find_Boundary(indices, XSize=xsize, YSize=ysize) OPTIONAL INPUTS: indices - A 1D vector of pixel indices that describe the ROI. For example, the indices may be returned as a result of the WHERE function. OUTPUTS: boundaryPts - A 2-by-n points array of the X and Y points that describe the boundary. The points are scaled if the SCALE keyword is used. INPUT KEYWORDS: SCALE - A one-element or two-element array of the pixel scale factors, [xscale, yscale], used to calculate the perimeter length or area of the ROI. The SCALE keyword is NOT applied to the boundary points. By default, SCALE=[1,1]. XSIZE - The X size of the window or array from which the ROI indices are taken. Set to !D.X_Size by default. YSIZE - The Y size of the window or array from which the ROI indices are taken. Set to !D.Y_Size by default. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: AREA - A named variable that contains the pixel area represented by the input pixel indices, scaled by the SCALE factors. CENTER - A named variable that contains a two-element array containing the center point or centroid of the ROI. The centroid is the position in the ROI that the ROI would balance on if all the index pixels were equally weighted. The output is a two-element floating-point array in device coordinate system, unless the SCALE keyword is used, in which case the values will be in the scaled coordinate system. PERIM_AREA - A named variable that contains the (scaled) area represented by the perimeter points, as indicated by John Russ in _The Image Processing Handbook, 2nd Edition_ on page 490. This is the same "perimeter" that is returned by IDLanROI in its ComputeGeometry method, for example. In general, the perimeter area will be smaller than the pixel area. PERIMETER - A named variable that will contain the perimeter length of the boundary upon returning from the function, scaled by the SCALE factors. EXAMPLE: LoadCT, 0, /Silent image = BytArr(400, 300)+125 image[125:175, 180:245] = 255B indices = Where(image EQ 255) Window, XSize=400, YSize=300 TV, image PLOTS, Find_Boundary(indices, XSize=400, YSize=300, Perimeter=length), $ /Device, Color=cgColor('red') Print, length 230.0 MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, April 2002. Based on an algorithm written by Guy Blanchard and provided by Richard Adams. Fixed a problem with distinction between solitary points and isolated points (a single point connected on a diagonal to the rest of the mask) in which the program can't get back to the starting pixel. 2 Nov 2002. DWF Added the ability to return the perimeter length with PERIMETER and SCALE keywords. 2 Nov 2002. DWF. Added AREA keyword to return area enclosed by boundary. 2 Nov 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with POLYFILLV under-reporting the area by removing POLYFILLV and using a pixel counting method. 10 Dec 2002. DWF. Added the PERIM_AREA and CENTER keywords. 15 December 2002. DWF. Replaced the cgErrorMsg routine with the latest version. 15 December 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem in which XSIZE and YSIZE have to be specified as integers to work. 6 March 2006. DWF. Fixed a small problem with very small ROIs that caused the program to crash. 1 October 2008. DWF. Modified the algorithm that determines the number of boundary points for small ROIs. 28 Sept 2010. DWF.
(See find_boundary.pro)
NAME: Fit_Ellipse PURPOSE: This program fits an ellipse to an ROI given by a vector of ROI indices. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics, math. CALLING SEQUENCE: ellipsePts = Fit_Ellipse(indices) OPTIONAL INPUTS: indices - A 1D vector of pixel indices that describe the ROI. For example, the indices may be returned as a result of the WHERE function. OUTPUTS: ellipsePts - A 2-by-npoints array of the X and Y points that describe the fitted ellipse. The points are in the device coodinate system. INPUT KEYWORDS: NPOINTS - The number of points in the fitted ellipse. Set to 120 by default. SCALE - A two-element array that gives the scaling parameters for each X and Y pixel, respectively. Set to [1.0,1.0] by default. XSIZE - The X size of the window or array from which the ROI indices are taken. Set to !D.X_Size by default. YSIZE - The Y size of the window or array from which the ROI indices are taken. Set to !D.Y_Size by default. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: CENTER -- Set to a named variable that contains the X and Y location of the center of the fitted ellipse in device coordinates. ORIENTATION - Set to a named variable that contains the orientation of the major axis of the fitted ellipse. The direction is calculated in degrees counter-clockwise from the X axis. AXES - A two element array that contains the length of the major and minor axes of the fitted ellipse, respectively. SEMIAXES - A two element array that contains the length of the semi-major and semi-minor axes of the fitted ellipse, respectively. (This is simple AXES/2.) EXAMPLE: LoadCT, 0, /Silent image = BytArr(400, 300)+125 image[180:245, 125:175] = 255B indices = Where(image EQ 255) Window, XSize=400, YSize=300 TV, image PLOTS, Fit_Ellipse(indices, XSize=400, YSize=300), /Device, Color=cgColor('red') MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, April 2002. Based on algorithms provided by Craig Markwardt and Wayne Landsman in his TVEllipse program. Added SCALE keyword and modified the algorithm to use memory more efficiently. I no longer have to make huge arrays. The arrays are only as big as the blob being fitted. 17 AUG 2008. DWF. Fixed small typo that caused blobs of indices with a longer X axis than Y axis to misrepresent the center of the ellipse. 23 February 2009.
(See fit_ellipse.pro)
NAME: FIXED_MAP_GRID PURPOSE: The MAP_GRID procedure draws the graticule of parallels and meridians, according to the specifications established by MAP_SET. MAP_SET must be called before MAP_GRID to establish the projection type, the center of the projection, polar rotation and geographical limits. CATEGORY: Mapping. CALLING SEQUENCE: MAP_GRID INPUTS: NONE OPTIONAL INPUTS: NONE KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BOX_AXES: Surround the map window with a "box" style axes with annotations, outside the box, where the parallels intersect the sides, and the meridians intersect the bottom and top edges of the box. The border of the box is drawn in alternating foreground and background colors, with color changes at each intersection with a parallel or meridian. This keyword determines the thickness of the box's border, in millimeters. If LABEL is not explicitly specified, it defaults to 1 when this keyword is present. If this feature is selected, be sure to leave enough room around the map window for the annotation, usually by specifying the XMARGIN and YMARGIN keywords to MAP_SET. See the example below. CHARSIZE: The size of the characters used for the labels. The default is 1. COLOR: The color index for the grid lines. FILL_HORIZON: Fills the current map_horizon. HORIZON: Draws the current map horizon. INCREMENT: Determines the spacing between graticle points. GLINESTYLE: If set, the line style used to draw the grid of parallels and meridians. See the IDL User's Guide for options. The default is dotted. GLINETHICK: The thickness of the grid lines. Default is 1. LABEL: Set this keyword to label the parallels and meridians with their corresponding latitudes and longitudes. Setting this keyword to an integer will cause every LABEL gridline to be labeled (i.e, if LABEL=3 then every third gridline will be labeled). The starting point for determining which gridlines are labeled is the minimum latitude or longitude (-180 to 180), unless the LATS or LONS keyword is set to a single value. In this case, the starting point is the value of LATS or LONS. LATALIGN: This keyword controls the alignment of the text baseline for latitude labels. A value of 0.0 left justifies the label, 1.0 right justifies it, and 0.5 centers it. LATDEL: The spacing in degrees between parallels of latitude in the grid. If not set, a suitable value is determined from the current map projection. LATS: The desired latitudes to be drawn (and optionally labeled). If this keyword is omitted, appropriate latitudes will be generated with consideration of the optional LATDEL keyword. If this keyword is set to a single value, drawn (and optionally labeled) latitudes will be automatically generated as [...,LATS-LATDEL,LATS,LATS+LATDEL,...] over the extent of the map. The single valued LATS is taken to be the starting point for labelling (See the LABEL keyword). LATLAB: The longitude at which to place latitude labels. The default is the center longitude on the map. LATNAMES: An array specifing the names to be used for the latitude labels. By default, this array is automatically generated in units of degrees. This array can be a string array or numeric, but should not be of mixed type. When LATNAMES is specified, LATS must also be specified, but the number of elments in the two arrays need not be equal. Extra LATNAMES are ignored, while LATNAMES not supplied are automatically reported in degrees. LATNAMES can be used when LATS is set to a single value. It this case, the LATS used will start at the specified latitude and progress northward, wrapping around the globe if appropriate. Caution should be used when using LATNAMES in conjunction with a single LATS, since the number of visible latitude gridlines is dependent on many factors. LONALIGN: This keyword controls the alignment of the text baseline for longitude labels. A value of 0.0 left justifies the label, 1.0 right justifies it, and 0.5 centers it. LONDEL: The spacing in degrees between meridians of longitude in the grid. If not set, a suitable value is determined from the current map projection. LONLAB: The latitude at which to place longitude labels. The default is the center latitude on the map. LONS: The desired longitudes to be drawn (and optionally labeled). If this keyword is omitted, appropriate longitudes will be generated with consideration of the optional LONDEL keyword. If this keyword is set to a single value, drawn (and optionally labeled) longitudes will be automatically generated as [...,LONS-LONDEL,LONS,LONS+LONDEL,...] over the extent of the map. The single valued LONS is taken to be the starting point for labeling (See the LABEL keyword). LONNAMES: An array specifing the names to be used for the longitude labels. By default, this array is automatically generated in units of degrees. This array can be a string array or numeric, but should not be of mixed type. When LONNAMES is specified, LATS must also be specified, but the number of elments in the two arrays need not be equal. Extra LONNAMES are ignored, while LATNAMES not supplied are automatically reported in degrees. LONNAMES can be used when LONS is set to a single value. It this case, the LONS used will start at the specified longitude and progress eastward, wrapping around the globe if appropriate. Caution should be used when using LONNAMES in conjunction with a single LONS, since the number of visible longitude gridlines is dependent on many factors. MAP_STRUCTURE: Set this keyword to a !MAP structure, as returned from MAP_PROJ_INIT. If this keyword is set then the gridlines are passed through MAP_PROJ_FORWARD and the resulting lines are drawn using Cartesian coordinates. If this keyword is not set then it is assumed that MAP_SET has been called to set up a map projection. NO_GRID: Set this keyword if you only want labels but not gridlines. ORIENTATION: Specifies the clockwise angle in degrees from horizontal of the text baseline that the labels should be rotated. Note, that the rotation used in MAP_SET is also clockwise, but XYOUTS is normally counterclockwise. T3D: Set this keyword to indicate that the generalized transformation matrix in !P.T is to be used. If not present, the user-supplied coordinates are simply scaled to screen coordinates. ZVALUE: Sets the Z coordinate, in normalized coordinates in the range of 0 to 1, at which to output the continents. Note - This keyword has effect only if keyword T3D is set and the transformation is stored in !P.T OUTPUTS: Draws gridlines and labels on the current map. EXAMPLE: map_set,10,20,23.5,/cont,/ortho,/horizon ; establish a projection lats=[-65,-52,-35,-20,-2.59,15,27.6,35,45,55,75,89] ; choose the parallels to draw map_grid,lats=lats,londel=20,lons=-13,label=2,lonlab=-2.5,latlab=7 ;draw the grid Make a map with a grid surrounded by a box style axis: map_set, /STEREO, 40, -90,scale=50e6,/CONTINENTS, XMARGIN=3, YMARGIN=3 map_grid, /BOX_AXES, COLOR=3, CHARSIZE=1.5 ; MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: SVP, May, 23 1996. DMS, Feb, 1996 Note that this version plots all gridlines unless a 4 element LIMIT was specified to MAP_SET. SVP, Nov 1996 Changed over !map1 (new IDL5 maps) SVP, May 1996 Map_Grid used to live inside of map_set.pro, now it lives here. SVP, May 1996 Changed LABEL to determine the skip between labelled gridlines. Also, added the LATS and LONS keywords to give complete control over where the labels go. SVP, Sept 1996 Added LATNAMS,LONAMES, and ORIENTATION keywords DMS, Nov, 1996 Rev 2 of maps. DMS, Jul, 1997 Added Box Axes CT, Jan 2004: Added MAP_STRUCTURE keyword. Renamed the function FIXED_MAP_GRID with fixed at lines 555-556 and 664-665 as described here: http://www.dfanning.com/map_tips/missinggrid.html. This is required to get proper grid output in some applications, but it breaks other code.
(See fixed_map_grid.pro)
NAME: FLOATS_EQUAL PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to compare two floating-point values or arrays to determine if the values or arrays are equal. Arrays are equal if they have the same number of elements, and each element is equal. To learn why determing if floats are equal is hard (and probably not done correctly in this program), please read the following article:: http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: result = FLOATS_EQUAL(array_1, array_2) ARGUMENTS: array_1 Any single or double precision value or array. Required parameter. array_2 Any single or double precision value or array. Required parameter. KEYWORDS: ULP UNIT in the LAST PLACE. It is the gap or difference between two floating point numbers in the last digit that can distinguish the two numbers. Must be a positive integer. Set to 1 by default. Set to a larger value if you suspect accumulative round-off errors in your arrays. RETURN VALUE: result Set to 1 if the arrays are equal, which means that the arrays have the same number of elements and each element is equal to the same element in the other array. Set to 0 if the arrays are not equal. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLE: IDL> a = Findgen(11) IDL> b = Findgen(11) IDL> Print, Floats_Equal(a,b) 1 IDL> b[4] = b[4] + 0.0001 IDL> Print, Floats_Equal(a,b) 0 RESTRICTIONS: None. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 29 August 2007. Fixed a problem when using large numbers with the TOTAL command by setting the INTEGER keyword. 22 June 2011. DWF.
(See floats_equal.pro)
NAME: FPUFIX PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to examine a variable and fix problems that will create floating point underflow errors. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: fixedData = FPUFIX(data) ARGUMENTS: data : A numerical variable to be checked for values that will cause floating point underflow errors. Suspect values are set to 0. KEYWORDS: None. RETURN VALUE: fixedData: The output is the same as the input, except that any values that will cause subsequent floating point underflow errors are set to 0. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLES: data = FPTFIX(data) RESTRICTIONS: None. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, from Mati Meron's example FPU_FIX. Mati's program is more robust that this (ftp://cars3.uchicago.edu/midl/), but this serves my needs and doesn't require other programs from Mati's library. 24 February 2006.
(See fpufix.pro)
This procedure cleans up any open graphics windows and widget windows for versions of IDL prior to IDL 8. :Categories: Utility :Keywords: all: in, optional, type=boolean, default=1 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up windows of all types. cg: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up only Coyote Graphics windows. dg: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up only Direct Graphics windows. :Examples: For example, to destroy all windows on the display:: IDL> FSCCleanup7 :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Written, 6 October 2012. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2012, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See fsccleanup7.pro)
This procedure cleans up any open graphics windows and widget windows for versions of IDL from IDL 8 onward. :Categories: Utility :Keywords: all: in, optional, type=boolean, default=1 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up windows of all types. cg: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up only Coyote Graphics windows. dg: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up only Direct Graphics windows. fg: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword if you wish to clean up only Function Graphics windows. :Examples: For example, to destroy all windows on the display:: IDL> FSCCleanup8 :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Written, 6 October 2012. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2012, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See fsccleanup8.pro)
NAME: FSC_COLORBAR__DEFINE Note: The name of the routine has been changed from COLORBAR__DEFINE on 25 Sept 2010 to avoid conflicts with an IDL 8.0 routine of the same name. See the article "IDL 8 Name Conflicts" here: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ng_tips/idl8_name_conflicts.html PURPOSE: The purpose of this routine is to implement a FSC_COLORBAR object class. The ColorBar is rendered in the direct graphics system. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: colorbar = Obj_New("FSC_COLORBAR") INPUTS: All inputs to the program are via keyword parameters. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: Background: Background color. This is the color with which the colorbar is erased. The default color is !P.Background. Bottom: Bottom color index of colors allocated to colorbar. Charsize: Character size of annotation. Default is 1.0. Color: Color of annotation and outline. Default is !P.Color. Font: Font to use for annotation. Default is -1, Hershey fonts. Format: Format of annotation. Default is "(F8.2)". Major: The number of major tick intervals. Default is 5. Minor: The number of minor tick intervals. Default is 2. MinusOne: Set this keyword to choose MinusOne keyword on the Congrid command that resizes the colorbar into the window. NColors: The number of colors allocated to colorbar. Default is (256 < !D.N_Colors). Neighbor: Set to indicate Nearest Neighbor sampling for Congrid. Default is 0 (Bilinear). Position: The position of colorbar in normalized coordinates. Default for a horizontal colorbar is [0.15, 0.88, 0.85, 0.95]. Default for a vertical colorbar is [0.88, 0.15, 0.95, 0.85]. These defaults are designed for a 400 by 400 window. Range: The data range on colorbar. Default is [0, 255]. TickLen: The length of tick marks. Default is -0.1 TickV: Locations for the tick marks in data units. This is the same as the [XY]TickV keyword. Default is to do what IDL would do normally. Vertical: Set this keyword if you want a vertical colorbar. Default is horizontal. XEraseBox: A five-element vector of X points (normalized) for erasing the colorbar plot. Normally this keyword will not have to be used. The program uses the plot REGION for erasing. But larger character sizes can result in annotation going outside the region enclosed by the plot. If that is the case, then use this keyword along with YEraseBox to specify a larger-than-normal erasure area. The points are sent to the POLYFILL command for erasing. POLYFILL, xEraseBox, yEraseBox, /Normal, Color=background YEraseBox: A five-element vector of Y points (normalized) for erasing the colorbar plot. OBJECT METHODS: Clamp: This procedure method allows the color bar range to be "clamped" to a particular data range. Draw: This procedure method draws the colorbar in the display window. The ERASE keyword to this method will erase the current colorbar (by calling the ERASE method) before drawing the colorbar in the display window. colorbar->Draw Erase: This procedure method erases the colorbar object in the window. It accomplishes this by performing a POLYFILL in the background color. This method is primarily useful for interactive graphics display devices. colorbar->Erase GetProperty: This procedure method allows one to obtain the current state of the object via the keyword parameters listed above. colorbar->GetProperty, Range=currentRange, Title=currentTitle Print, currentRange, currentTitle SetProperty: This procedure method allows one to set the properties of the colorbar object via the keywords described above. In addition, a DRAW and ERASE keyword are provided so that the colorbar can be immediately drawn when the new property is set. colorbar->SetProperty, Range=[500, 15000], /Erase, /Draw COMMON BLOCKS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: The display window is not erased first. RESTRICTIONS: None. EXAMPLE: To create a colorbar, use it, then destroy it, type: colorbar = Obj_New("FSC_COLORBAR", Title='Colorbar Values', Range=[0,1000],$ Format='(I4)') Window LoadCT, 5 colorbar->Draw colorbar->SetProperty, Range=[0,500], /Erase, /Draw Obj_Destroy, colorbar MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, Fanning Software Consulting, 26 November 1998. Added Horizontal keyword to SetProperty method and fixed problem in going from Vertical to Horizontal color bars. 29 Nov 1998. DWF. Added LoadCT method and current color table index to object. 6 December 1998. Fixed a bug dealing with nearest neighbor resampling. 30 Mar 1999. DWF. Fixed a bug with how NCOLORS and BOTTOM keywords interacted. 29 Aug 1999. DWF. 10 Oct 99. Modified the program so that current plot and map coordinates are saved and restored after the colorbar is drawn. DWF. 26 May 2000 Added {XY}TICKV capability to the draw method. This required adding TickV to the object data structure, and to the INIT, GetProperty and SetProperty methods. Changed default tick length to -0.1. DWF (and Jack Saba) 18 Nov 2001. Added Clamp method. DWF. 25 September 2010. Renamed to FSC_Colorbar__Define to avoid conflict with a Colorbar__Define program introduced with IDL 8.0. DWF.
(See fsc_colorbar__define.pro)
NAME: FSC_COLORSELECT PURPOSE: The purpose of this compound widget is to provide a means for selecting a new color or color table in a widget program. The program consists of a label, a non-editable text widget, and a button to make a color or color table selection interactively. (See the example program.) AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. CALLING SEQUENCE: objectRef = FSC_COLORSELECT(parent, Title='Annotate Color ", Color='red') INPUT PARAMETERS: parent -- The parent widget ID of the compound widget. Required. INPUT KEYWORDS: BREWER: Set if you want Brewer color tables, rather than the normal IDL color tables. This requires the file fsc_brewer.tbl to be in your IDL path. CFONT: Set to the name of a font to display the color name in. COLOR: The name of the color to be displayed in the widget. If color is not used, or if it is set to a null string, then the widget will allow selection of a color table, instead of a color name. CT_INDEX: The color table index number you wish to use. The actual name of the color table will be displayed in the widget. EVENT_FUNC: Set this keyword to the name of an Event Function. If this keyword is undefined and the Event_Pro keyword is undefined, all compound widget events are handled internally and not passed on to the parent widget. EVENT_PRO: Set this keyword to the name of an Event Procedure. If this keyword is undefined and the Event_Func keyword is undefined, all compound widget events are handled internally and not passed on to the parent widget. FRAME: Set this keyword to put a frame around the compound widget. LABELALIGN: Set this keyword to align label text. [0-center (default), 1-left, 2-right]. LABELFONT: The font name for the text in the Label Widget. LABELSIZE: The X screen size of the Label Widget. NAME: A scalar string name of the object. (Default = ''.) SCR_XSIZE: The X screen size of the compound widget. SCR_YSIZE: The Y screen size of the compound widget. STYLE: The "style" of the text in the Text Widget. A value of 0 (the default) capitalizes the first letter in the name. A style of 1 uses all lowercase. A style of 2 uses all uppercase. TITLE: The text to go on the Label Widget. UVALUE: A user value for any purpose. XSIZE: The X size of the Text Widget. In addition, any keyword defined for WIDGET_TEXT, but not defined here (e.g., SENSITIVE), is passed along without inspection to the text widget. Use of "extra" keywords is discouraged. COMMON BLOCKS: None. RESTRICTIONS: None. EVENT STRUCTURE: All events are handled internally unless either the Event_Pro or Event_Func keywords are used to assign an event handler to the compound widget. event = { FSC_ColorSelect_Event, $; The name of the event structure. ID: 0L, $ ; The ID of the compound widget's top-level base. TOP: 0L, $ ; The widget ID of the top-level base of the hierarchy. HANDLER: 0L, $ ; The event handler ID. Filled out by IDL. Color: "", $ ; The name of the current color or color table. Index: 0L, $ ; The color table index selected if color tables are used. Brewer: 0L, $ ; A flag that indicated Brewer color tables are being used. NColors: 0L, $ ; The number of colors used for the color table. ObjRef:Obj_New()} ; The "self" object. GETTING and SETTING VALUES: Almost all the properties of the widget can be obtained or set via the object's GetProperty and SetProperty methods (described below). But since traditional compound widgets have the ability to get and set the value of the compound widget, this capability is implemented as special methods: Get_Color/Set_Color and Get_Color_Index/Set_Color_Index. To get the color of the widget, do this: color = objectRef->Get_Color() To set the color of the widget, do this: objectRef->Set_Color, 'blue'. Valid colors are those returned by FSC_Color. Getting and setting the color table index number works similarly. EXAMPLE: An example program is provided at the end of the FSC_COLORSELECT code. To run it, type these commands: IDL> .Compile FSC_COLORSELECT IDL> Example DEPENDENCIES: Requires the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/coyoteprograms.zip MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 26 JULY 2010.
(See fsc_colorselect.pro)
NAME: FSC_DROPLIST PURPOSE: The purpose of this compound widget is to provide an alternative to the DROPLIST widget offered in the IDL distribution. What has always annoyed me about a droplist is that you can't get the current "value" of a droplist easily. This compound widget makes this and other tasks much easier. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. CALLING SEQUENCE: droplistObj = FSC_Droplist(parent, Title='Animals: ", Value=['Dog'. 'Cat', 'Coyote'], Index=2) The return value of the FSC_Droplist (droplistObj in this example) is an object reference. Interaction with the droplist will occur through object methods. INPUT PARAMETERS: parent -- The parent widget ID of the compound widget. Required. INPUT KEYWORDS: Any keyword that is appropriate for the Widget_Droplist function can be used. In addition, these keywords are explicitly defined. EVENT_FUNC -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Handler Function. EVENT_PRO -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Handler Procedure. FORMAT -- A format specifier for the "format" of the values in the droplist. INDEX -- The index number of the current selection. SPACES -- A two-element array that indicates the number of blank spaces to be added to the the beginning and end of the formatted values. If a single number is provided, this number of blank spaces is added to both the beginning and the end of the value. TITLE -- The title of the droplist widget. UNAME -- The user name of the droplist widget. (Only available in IDL 5.2 and higher.) UVALUE -- The normal "user value" of the droplist. VALUE -- An array of the droplist "selections". May be any data type. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EVENT STRUCTURE: An event is returned each time the droplist value is changed. The event structure is defined like this: event = { FSC_DROPLIST_EVENT, $ ; The name of the event structure. ID: 0L, $ ; The ID of the compound widget's top-level base. TOP: 0L, $ ; The widget ID of the top-level base of the hierarchy. HANDLER: 0L, $ ; The event handler ID. Filled out by IDL. INDEX: 0L, $ ; The index number of the current selection. SELECTION:Ptr_New() $ ; A pointer to the current selection "value". SELF:Obj_New() } ; The object reference of the compound widget. PUBLIC OBJECT METHODS: GetID -- A function with no arguments that returns the widget identifier of the droplist widget. droplistID = droplistObj->GetID() GetIndex -- A function with no arguments that returns the index number of the current droplist selection. currentIndex = droplistObj->GetIndex() GetSelection -- A function with no arguments that returns the current droplist selection. currentSelection = droplistObj->GetSelection() GetUValue -- A function with no arguments that returns the "user value" of the compound widget i.e., the value set with the UVALUE keyword). myUValue = droplistObj->GetUValue() GetValues -- A function with no arguments that returns the "values" or "selections" for the droplist. possibleSelections = droplistObj->GetValues() Resize -- A procedure that sets the X screen size of the droplist. It is defined like this: PRO Resize, newSize, ParentSize=parentSize The "newSize" keyword is the new X screen size. If this argument is missing, the screen X size of the compound widget's parent is used. The parentSize keyword is an output keyword that returns the X screen size of the compound widget's parent. droplistObj->Resize, 400 Note that not all devices (e.g., X Windows devices) support droplist resizing. SetIndex -- A procedure that sets the current droplist selection based on the given index. This is equivalent to Widget_Control, droplistID, Set_Droplist_Select=newIndex droplistObj->SetIndex, newIndex SetSelection -- Whereas a regular droplist widget can only be set by index number, this compound widget can also be set by a "selection". The new selection can be any data type and corresponds to one of the "values" of the droplist. droplistObj->SetSelection, newSelection SetValues -- Sets the possible selections of the droplist widget. The CurrentIndex keyword will allow the current index of the selection to be changed to: newChoices = ['dog', 'cat', 'coyote'] droplistObj->SetValues, newChoices, CurrentIndex=2 EXAMPLE: An example program is provided at the end of the FSC_DROPLIST code. To run it, type these commands: IDL> .Compile FSC_DROPLIST IDL> Example MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W Fanning, 17 Jan 2000. DWF. Added FORMAT and SPACES keywords 28 April 2000. DWF. Fixed a small problem with event processing when the EVENT_FUNC keyword was used. 29 Dec 2000. DWF. Attached the UNAME value to the TLB of the compound widget instead of to the droplist widget itself. 11 Jan 2001. DWF. Fixed a problem when the droplist was part of a modal widget and used the EVENT_PRO keyword. 27 Oct 2003. DWF. Added a SetValue method for setting all the values in the droplist at once. 12 Nov 2004. DWF. Fixed type on line 346/ 6 Feb 2008. DWF.
(See fsc_droplist.pro)
NAME: FSC_FIELD PURPOSE: The purpose of this compound widget is to provide an alternative to the CW_FIELD widget offered in the IDL distribution. One weakness of the CW_FIELD compound widget is that the text widgets do not look editable to the users on Windows platforms. This program corrects that deficiency and adds some features that I think will be helpful. For example, you can now assign an event handler to the compound widget, ask for positive numbers only, and limit the number of digits in a number, or the number of digits to the right of a decimal point. The program is written as a widget object, which allows the user to call object methods directly, affording even more flexibility in use. This program replaces the earlier programs FSC_INPUTFIELD and COYOTE_FIELD. The program consists of a label widget next to a one-line text widget. The "value" of the compound widget is shown in the text widget. If the value is a number, it will not be possible (generally) to type alphanumeric values in the text widget. String values behave like strings in any one-line text widget. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. TYPICAL CALLING SEQUENCE: fieldID = FSC_FIELD(parent, Title="X Size:", Value=256, Object=fieldObject, Digits=3) INPUT PARAMETERS: parent -- The parent widget ID of the compound widget. Required. INPUT KEYWORDS: COLUMN Set this keyword to have the Label widget above the Text widget. The default is to have the Label widget in a row with the Text widget. CR_ONLY Set this keyword if you only want Carriage Return events returned to your event handler. If this keyword is not set, all events are returned. Setting this keyword has no effect unless either the EVENT_PRO or EVENT_FUNC keyword is used. DECIMAL Set this keyword to the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in floating point or double precision numbers. Ignored for STRING values. DIGITS Set this keyword to the number of digits permitted in integer numbers. EVENT_FUNC Set this keyword to the name of an event handler function. If this keyword is undefined and the Event_Pro keyword is undefined, all compound widget events are handled internally and not passed on to the parent widget. EVENT_PRO Set this keyword to the name of an event handler procedure. If this keyword is undefined and the Event_Func keyword is undefined, all compound widget events are handled internally and not passed on to the parent widget. FIELDFONT The font name for the text in the text widget. FRAME Set this keyword to put a frame around the compound widget. FOCUS_EVENTS Set this keyword to enable event generation for keyboard focus events. Ignored unless EVENT_FUNC or EVENT_PRO keywords are specified. HIGHLIGHT Set this keyword to highlight the existing text if the widget gain the keyboard focus. This keyword MUST be set for tabbing to work naturally in IDL 6.2 and higher. LABEL_LEFT Set this keyword to align the text on the label to the left. LABEL_RIGHT Set this keyword to align the text on the label to the right. LABELFONT The font name for the text in the label widget. LABELSIZE The X screen size of the label widget. NAME A string containing the name of the object. The default is ''. NOEDIT Set this keyword to allow no user editing of the input text widget. NONSENSITIVE Set this keyword to make the input text widget non-sensitive. POSITIVE Set this keyword if you want only positive numbers allowed. SCR_XSIZE The X screen size of the compound widget. SCR_YSIZE The Y screen size of the compound widget. TITLE The string text placed on the label widget. UNDEFINED Set this keyword to the value to use for "undefined" values. If not set, then !Value.F_NAN is used for numerical fields and a NULL string is used for string fields. This applies to values obtained with the GET_VALUE method or the GET_VALUE function. UVALUE A user value for any purpose. VALUE The "value" of the compound widget. Any type of integer, floating, or string variable is allowed. The data "type" is determined automatically from the value supplied with this keyword. Be sure you set the type appropriately for your intended use of the value. XSIZE The X size of the text widget in the usual character units. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: OBJECT Set this keyword to a named variable to receive the compound widget's object reference. This is required if you wish to call methods on the object. Note that the object reference is also available in the event structure generated by the widget object. Note that the object reference will be necessary if you want to get or set values in the compound widget. COMMON BLOCKS: None. RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgDblToStr from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgdbltostr.pro EVENT STRUCTURE: All events are handled internally unless either the Event_Pro or Event_Func keywords are used to assign an event handler to the compound widget. By default all events generated by the text widget are passed to the assigned event handler. If you wish to receive only Carriage Return events, set the CR_Only keyword. event = { FSC_FIELD_EVENT, $ ; The name of the event structure. ID: 0L, $ ; The ID of the compound widget's top-level base. TOP: 0L, $ ; The widget ID of the top-level base of the hierarchy. HANDLER: 0L, $ ; The event handler ID. Filled out by IDL. OBJECT: Obj_New(), $ ; The "self" object reference. Provided so you can call methods. VALUE: Ptr_New(), $ ; A pointer to the widget value. TYPE:"" ; A string indicating the type of data in the VALUE field. } Note that if the field is "empty", the VALUE will be a pointer to an undefined variable. You should check this value before you use it. You code will look something like this: IF N_Elements(*event.value) EQ 0 THEN $ Print, 'Current Value UNDEFINED.' ELSE $ Print, 'Current Value: ', *event.value GETTING and SETTING VALUES: Almost all the properties of the widget can be obtained or set via the object's GetProperty and SetProperty methods (described below). Traditional compound widgets have the ability to get and set the "value" of the compound widget identifier (e.g., fieldID in the calling sequence above). Unfortunately, it is impossible to retreive a variable in this way when the variable is undefined. In practical terms, this means that the undefined variable must be set to *something*. You can determine what that something is with the UNDEFINED keyword, or I will set it to !VALUES.F_NAN for numerical fields and to the null string for string fields. In any case, you will have to check for undefined variables before you try to do something with the value. For a numerical field, the code might look something like this: fieldID = FSC_FIELD(parent, Title="X Size:", Value=256, Object=fieldObject, Digits=3) currentValue = fieldObject->Get_Value() IF Finite(currentValue) EQ 0 THEN Print, 'Value is Undefined' ELSE Print, currentValue Additional examples are provided in the numerical example fields in Example Program below. Setting the value of the compound widget is the same as calling the Set_Value method on the object reference. In other words, these two statements are equivalent. fieldObject->Set_Value, 45.4 Widget_Control, fieldID, Set_Value=45.4 The data type of the value is determined from the value itself. Be sure you set it appropriately. OBJECT PROCEDURE METHODS: GetProperty -- This method allows various properties of the widget to be returned via output keywords. The keywords that are available are: CR_Only -- A flag, if set, means only report carriage return events. DataType -- The data type of the field variable. Decimal -- Set this keyword to the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in FLOATVALUE and DOUBLEVALUE numbers. Digits -- Set this keyword to the number of digits permitted in INTERGERVALUE and LONGVALUE numbers. Event_Func -- The name of the event handler function. Event_Pro -- The name of the event handler function. Has_Focus -- Set to 1 if the text widget currently has the keyboard focus. Highlight -- The highlight flag. NoEdit -- The NoEdit flag. NonSensitive -- The NonSensitive flag. Undefined -- The "value" of any undefined value. UValue -- The user value assigned to the compound widget. Value -- The "value" of the compound widget. Name -- A scalar string name of the object. Resize -- This method allows you to resize the compound widget's text field. The value parameter is an X screen size for the entire widget. The text widget is sized by using the value obtained from this value minus the X screen size of the label widget. objectRef->Resize, screen_xsize_value Set_Value -- This method allows you to set the "value" of the field. It takes one positional parameter, which is the value. objectRef->Set_Value, 5 SetProperty -- This method allows various properties of the widget to be set via input keywords. The keywords that are available are: CR_Only -- Set this keyword if you only want Carriage Return events. Decimal -- Set this keyword to the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in FLOAT and DOUBLE numbers. Digits -- Set this keyword to the number of digits permitted in INTERGER and LONG numbers. Event_Func -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Function. Event_Pro -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Procedure. Highlight -- Set this keyword to highlight the existing text when the widget gets the keyboard focus LabelSize -- The X screen size of the Label Widget. Name -- A scalar string name of the object. (default = '') NoEdit -- Set this keyword to make the text widget uneditable NonSensitive -- Set this keyword to make the widget nonsensitive Scr_XSize -- The X screen size of the text widget. Scr_YSize -- The Y screen size of the text widget. Title -- The text to go on the Label Widget. UValue -- A user value for any purpose. Value -- The "value" of the compound widget. XSize -- The X size of the Text Widget. SetTabNext -- This method allows you to specify which field to go to when a TAB character is typed in the text widget. See the Example program below for an example of how to use this method. OBJECT FUNCTIONS METHODS: Get_Value -- Returns the "value" of the field. No parameters. Will be undefined if a "number" field is blank. Should be checked before using: IF N_Elements(objectRef->Get_Value()) NE 0 THEN Print, Value is: ', objectRef->Get_Value() GetID -- Returns the widget identifier of the compound widget's top-level base. (The first child of the parent widget.) No parameters. GetLabelSize -- Returns the X screen size of the label widget. No parameters. GetTextID -- Returns the widget identifier of the compound widget's text widget. No parameters. GetTextSize -- Returns the X screen size of the text widget. No parameters. PRIVATE OBJECT METHODS: Although there is really no such thing as a "private" method in IDL's object implementation, some methods are used internally and not meant to be acessed publicly. Here are a few of those methods. I list them because it may be these private methods are ones you wish to override in subclassed objects. MoveTab -- This method moves the focus to the widget identified in the "next" field, which must be set with the SetTabNext method. No parameters. Called automatically when a TAB character is typed in the text widget. Text_Events -- The main event handler method for the compound widget. All text widget events are processed here. ReturnValue -- This function method accepts a string input value and converts it to the type of data requested by the user. Validate -- This function method examines all text input and removes unwanted characters, depending upon the requested data type for the field. It makes it impossible, for example, to type alphanumeric characters in an INTEGER field. EXAMPLE: An example program is provided at the end of the FSC_FIELD code. To run it, type these commands: IDL> .Compile FSC_Field IDL> Example MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 18 October 2000. Based heavily on an earlier FSC_INPUTFIELD program and new ideas about the best way to write widget objects. Added LABEL_LEFT, LABEL_RIGHT, and UNDEFINED keywords. 29 Dec 2000. DWF. Modified the way the value is returned in the GET_VALUE method and the GET_VALUE function. Modified Example program to demonstrate. 30 Dec 2000. DWF. Added NOEDIT and NONSENSITIVE keywords, with corresponding SETEDIT and SETSENNSITIVE methods. 19 Jan 2001. DWF. Actually followed through with the changes I _said_" I made 29 Dec 2000. (Don't ask....) 13 June 2001. DWF. Added GetTextSize and GetLabelSize methods for obtaining the X screen size of the text and label widgets, respectively. 21 July 2001. DWF. Fixed a problem in SetProperty method where I was setting self.xsize, which doesn't exist. 24 April 2002. DWF. Small modification to the SetEdit method. 6 August 2003. DWF. Added Highlight keyword. Ported Focus_Events keyword from fsc_inputfield.pro. Updated documentation. 17 November 2004. DWF and Benjamin Hornberger Added Has_Focus keyword to the GetProperty method. 18 November 2004. Benjamin Hornberger Fixed bug in GetProperty method (set value to *self.undefined if *self.value is undefined. 24 Feb 2004. Benjamin Hornberger Modified FOCUS_EVENTS keyword handling so that *all* focus events are now passed to specified event handlers. Check event.select to see if the widget is gaining or losing focus. 10 August 2005. DWF. Added new tabbing functionality, introduced in IDL 6.2. To use tabbing functionality natually, the HIGHTLIGHT keywords must be set. See included EXAMPLE program for details. 10 August 2005. DWF. Added functionality to covert double precision values to strings properly. 30 Nov 2005. DWF. Set the default fonts to be the current widget font, rather than the default widget font. 4 Oct 2008. DWF. Fixed a problem with validating a float or double value when it was written with exponential notation. 2 April 2010. DWF.
(See fsc_field.pro)
NAME: FSC_FILESELECT PURPOSE: The purpose of this compound widget is to provide a means by which the user can type or select a file name. The program is written as an "object widget", meaning that the guts of the program is an object of class FSC_FILESELECT. This is meant to be an example of the obvious advantages of writing compound widget programs as objects. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. CALLING SEQUENCE: filenameID = FSC_FileSelect(parent) INPUT PARAMETERS: parent -- The parent widget ID of the compound widget. Required. INPUT KEYWORDS: Event_Pro -- The event handler procedure for this compound widget.By default: "". Event_Func -- The event handler function for this compound widget. By default: "". If neither EVENT_PRO or EVENT_FUNC is defined, program events are handled internally by the compound widget. DirectoryName -- The initial name of the directory. By defaut: current directory. Filename -- The initial file name in the filename text widget. Filter -- The file filter. By default: "*". Frame -- Set this keyword for a frame around the compound widget. LabelFont -- The font for the label widget. By default: "". LabelName -- The text on the label widgt. By default: "Filename: ". LabelSize -- The X screen size of the label widget. By default: 0. MustExist -- A flag that indicates selected files must exist. By default: 0. NoMaxSize -- A flag to prohibit automatic text widget sizing. By default: 0. If this keyword is not set, the compound widget will automatically resize itself to the largest widget in its parent base widget. It will do this by changing the size of the text widgets holding the file and directory names. Read -- Set this keyword to have file selection for reading a file. By default: 1. SelectDirectory -- The default directory for file selection. In other words, this is the default directory for DIALOG_PICKFILE, which is accessed via the BROWSE buttons. SelectFont -- The font for the "Browse" button. By default: "". SelectTitle -- The title bar text on the file selection dialog. By default: "Select a File...". TextFont -- The font for the filename text widget. By default: "". UValue -- User value for any purpose. Write -- Set this keyword to open a file for writing. By default: 0. XSize -- The X size of the text widget holding the filename. By default: StrLen(filename) * 1.5 > 40. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: ObjectRef -- Assign this keyword to an output variable that will hold the internal object reference. With the object reference you can call object methods to easily change many properties of the compound widget. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EVENT STRUCTURE: All events are handled internally unless either the Event_Pro or Event_Func keywords are used to assign an event handler to the compound widget. All events generated by the text widgets are passed to the assigned event handler. event = { CW_FILESELECT, $ ; The name of the event structure. ID: 0L, $ ; The ID of the compound widget's top-level base. TOP: 0L, $ ; The widget ID of the top-level base of the hierarchy. HANDLER: 0L, $ ; The event handler ID. Filled out by IDL. Basename: "", $ ; The base filename without directory specifiers. Filename: "", $ ; The fully qualified filename. Directory: "", $ ; The name of the current file directory. } EXAMPLE: An example program is provided at the end of the FSC_FILESELECT code. To run it, type these commands: IDL> .Compile fsc_fileselect IDL> Example Or, if you want to obtain the object reference, type this: IDL> Example, theObject Now you can call the object's methods. For example: IDL theObject->SetProperty, XSize=150 GETTING and SETTING VALUES: So as not to disrupt the accepted paradigm in using compound widgets, you can use the return value of the FSC_FILESELECT function with WIDGET_CONTROL to get and set the "value" of the widget. Widget_Control, filenameID, Set_Value='C:\RSI\IDL52\DATA\cyclone.dat' The program will automatically separate the file name portion of the value from the directory portion and put things in the correct text widgets. Similarly, you can get the "value" of the widget: Widget_Control, filenameID, Get_Value=theValue Print, theValue C:\RSI\IDL52\DATA\cyclone.dat The return value is the fully qualified file path to the file. USING OBJECT METHODS to CHANGE PROGRAM PROPERTIES: If you obtain the object reference, you have a great deal more control over the properties of the compound widget. You obtain the object reference by calling the function like this: filenameID = FSC_FILESELECT(parent, ObjectRef=theObject) OBJECT PROCEDURE METHODS: GetProperty -- This method allows various properties of the widget to be returned via output keywords. The keywords that are available are: DirectoryName -- The current directory. Event_Func -- The name of the event handler function for this compound widget. Event_Pro -- The name of the event handler procedure for this compound widget. Filename -- The current base filename. Filter -- The current file filter. LabelName -- The text on the label widget. LabelSize -- The X screen size of the label widget. MustExist -- A flag that indicates selected files must exist to be selected. Parent -- The parent widget of the compound widget. Read=read -- The file selection for reading flag. SelectTitle -- The title bar text on the file selection dialog. TLB -- The top-level base of the compound widget. UValue -- The user value of the compound widget. Write -- The file selection for writing flag. XSize -- The X size of the text widget holding the filename. LabelSize -- This method makes sure that the directory name and file name labels are the same size. Normally, this procedure is called internally. No parameters. MatchSize -- This method resizes the compound widget so that it is as long as the the longest widget in the parent base widget. This is done automatically upon realization unless the NOMAXSIZE keyword is set. The method aids in writing resizeable widget programs. SetProperty -- This method allows various properties of the widget to be set via input keywords. The keywords that are available are: DirectoryName -- The current directory. Event_Func -- The name of the event handler function for this compound widget. Event_Pro -- The name of the event handler procedure for this compound widget. Filename -- The current base filename. Filter -- The current file filter. LabelName -- The text on the label widget. LabelSize -- The X screen size of the label widget. MustExist -- A flag that indicates selected files must exist to be selected. Read -- The file selection for reading flag. SelectTitle -- The title bar text on the file selection dialog. UValue -- The user value of the compound widget. Write -- The file selection for writing flag. XSize -- The X size of the text widget holding the filename. TextSelect - Allows you to create a selection in filename text widget. See the documentation for the SET_TEXT_SELECT keyword to Widget_Control. selection -- A two-element array containing the starting position and selection length. OBJECT FUNCTION METHODS: GetFileName -- Returns the fully qualified filename. No parameters. GetTLB -- Returns the top-level base ID of the compound widget. No Parameters. Inspect_DirectoryName -- Inspects the directory name for correctness. Requires one positional parameter. directoryName -- The name of the directory from the directory text widget. textSelection -- The current text selection position. At the moment all this does is remove any blank characters from either end of the directory name and makes sure the last character of the directory name does not end in a subdirectory specifier (except for VMS). Inspect_Filename -- Inspects the file name for correctness. Requires one positional parameter. filename -- The name of the file from the filename text widget. textSelection -- The current text selection position. At the moment all this does is remove any blank characters from either end of the file name MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 21 NOV 1999. Fixed bug in File Name selection button. 18 MAR 2000. DWF. Fixed an error in which directory the Browse buttons should start searching. 29 SEP 2000. DWF. Previously returned events only for typing in text widgets. Now Browse button events are also returned. 29 SEP 2000. DWF. Fixed a bug in setting the file filter. 29 SEP 2000. DWF. Removed the Directory Browse button 10 AUG 2002. DWF. Added cgErrorMsg to error handling. 10 AUG 2002. DWF. Changed the ability to specify a file filter as a string array, instead of just as a scalar string. This required the use of a pointer, which meant that I had to remove the FILTER field from the CW_FILESELECT event structure to avoid likely memory leakage. This is a dangerous change because it means programs that relied on this (I expect there are very, very few) will break and it goes against my philosopy of keeping my programs backward compatible. Let me know if you have problems. In testing, I discoved no problems in my own code. 31 OCT 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with DIALOG_PICKFILE that sometimes allowed users to change directories without selecting a file. 3 Nov 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with widget resizing with the help of Bob Portman that had plagued me from the beginning. Thanks, Bob! 5 August 2003. DWF Added TEXTSELECT method. 5 Aug 2003. DWF. Had to add FORWARD_FUNCTION statement to get error handler compiled when using DIRECTORY keyword. 24 Nov 2003. DWF. Fixed a problem with too many events going to an event handler specified with the EVENT_PRO or EVENT_FUNC keyword from the text widget. Now only Carriage Return events are passed on to the user-specified event handler. 8 July 2004. DWF. Replace all "\" characters with "/" characters in directory names. 8 Januay 2006. DWF. Set the default fonts to be the current widget font, rather than the default widget font. 4 Oct 2008. DWF.
(See fsc_fileselect.pro)
NAME: FSC_INPUTFIELD PURPOSE: The purpose of this compound widget is to provide an alternative to the CW_FIELD widget offered in the IDL distribution. What has always bothered me about CW_FIELD is that the text widgets do not look editable to the users on Windows platforms. This program corrects that deficiency and adds some features that I think would be helpful. For example, you can now assign an event handler to the compound widget. The program is written entirely as an object. A companion program, COYOTE_FIELD, has much the same functionality, but is written as a traditional compound widget. The point of writing the same program in two different ways is to give you the opportunity to compare and contrast the two methods. I personally think there is no substitute for the power of object programs. :-) AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. CALLING SEQUENCE: objectRef = FSC_INPUTFIELD(parent, Title='X Size: ", Value=256, /IntegerValue) INPUT PARAMETERS: parent -- The parent widget ID of the compound widget. Required. INPUT KEYWORDS: Column -- Set this keyword to have the Label Widget above the Text Widget. CR_Only -- Set this keyword if you only want Carriage Return events. Note that no events are returned unless the EVENT_PRO or EVENT_FUNC keywords are also used. Decimal -- Set this keyword to the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in FLOATVALUE and DOUBLEVALUE numbers. Digits -- Set this keyword to the number of digits permitted in INTERGERVALUE and LONGVALUE numbers. DoubleValue -- Set this keyword if you want DOUBLE values returned. Event_Func -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Function. If this keyword is undefined and the Event_Pro keyword is undefined, all compound widget events are handled internally and not passed on to the parent widget. Event_Pro -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Procedure. If this keyword is undefined and the Event_Func keyword is undefined, all compound widget events are handled internally and not passed on to the parent widget. FieldFont -- The font name for the text in the Text Widget. FloatValue -- Set this keyword for FLOAT values. Focus_Events -- Set this keyword if you only want text events when the keyboard focus is moved out of the text widget. Note that no events are returned unless the EVENT_PRO or EVENT_FUNC keywords are also used. Frame -- Set this keyword to put a frame around the compound widget. IntegerValue -- Set this keyword for INTEGER values. LabelAlign -- Set this keyword to align label text. [0-center (default), 1-left, 2-right]. LabelFont -- The font name for the text in the Label Widget. LabelSize -- The X screen size of the Label Widget. LongValue -- Set this keyword for LONG values. Name -- A scalar string name of the object. (default = '') Positive -- Set this keyword if you want only positive numbers allowed. Row=row -- Set this keyword to have the Label beside the Text Widget. (The default.) Scr_XSize -- The X screen size of the compound widget. Scr_YSize -- The Y screen size of the compound widget. StringValue -- Set this keyword for STRING values. (The default.) Title -- The text to go on the Label Widget. UValue -- A user value for any purpose. Value -- The "value" of the compound widget. XSize -- The X size of the Text Widget. In addition, any keyword defined for WIDGET_TEXT, but not defined here (e.g., SENSITIVE), is passed along without inspection to the text widget. Use of "extra" keywords is discouraged. COMMON BLOCKS: None. RESTRICTIONS: None. EVENT STRUCTURE: All events are handled internally unless either the Event_Pro or Event_Func keywords are used to assign an event handler to the compound widget. By default all events generated by the text widget are passed to the assigned event handler. If you wish to receive only Carriage Return events, set the CR_Only keyword. event = { FSC_INPUTFIELD_EVENTS, $ ; The name of the event structure. ID: 0L, $ ; The ID of the compound widget's top-level base. TOP: 0L, $ ; The widget ID of the top-level base of the hierarchy. HANDLER: 0L, $ ; The event handler ID. Filled out by IDL. ObjRef: Obj_New(), $ ; The "self" object reference. Provided so you can call methods. Value: Ptr_New(), $ ; A pointer to the widget value. Type:"" ; A string indicating the type of data in the VALUE field. } ; Values are "INT", "LONG", "FLOAT", "DOUBLE", or "STRING". GETTING and SETTING VALUES: Almost all the properties of the widget can be obtained or set via the object's GetProperty and SetProperty methods (described below). But since traditional compound widgets have the ability to get and set the value of the compound widget, this capability is implemented as special methods. To get the value of the field, do this: value = objectRef->Get_Value() To set the value of the field, so this: objectRef->Set_Value, value, /IntegerValue The proper keyword should be used to set the data type of the value. If a keyword is not used, the data type is determined from the value itself. OBJECT PROCEDURE METHODS: GetProperty -- This method allows various properties of the widget to be returned via output keywords. The keywords that are available are: CR_Only -- A flag, if set, means only report carriage return events. DataType -- The data type of the field variable. Decimal -- Set this keyword to the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in FLOATVALUE and DOUBLEVALUE numbers. Digits -- Set this keyword to the number of digits permitted in INTERGERVALUE and LONGVALUE numbers. Event_Func -- The name of the event handler function. Event_Pro -- The name of the event handler function. Positive -- Indicates if the Positive number flag is set (1) or not (0). UValue -- The user value assigned to the compound widget. Value -- The "value" of the compound widget. Name -- A scalar string name of the object. Resize -- This method allows you to resize the compound widget's text field. The value parameter is an X screen size for the entire widget. The text widget is sized by using the value obtained from this value minus the X screen size of the label widget. objectRef->Resize, screen_xsize_value Set_Value -- This method allows you to set the "value" of the field. It takes one positional parameter, which is the value. objectRef->Set_Value, 5 Keywords available are these to set the type of the data. If keywords are not used, the data type is determined from the value. DoubleValue -- Set this keyword if you want DOUBLE values returned. FloatValue -- Set this keyword for FLOAT values. IntegerValue -- Set this keyword for INTEGER values. LongValue -- Set this keyword for LONG values. StringValue -- Set this keyword for STRING values. (The default.) SetProperty -- This method allows various properties of the widget to be set via input keywords. The keywords that are available are: CR_Only -- Set this keyword if you only want Carriage Return events. Decimal -- Set this keyword to the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in FLOATVALUE and DOUBLEVALUE numbers. Digits -- Set this keyword to the number of digits permitted in INTERGERVALUE and LONGVALUE numbers. DoubleValue -- Set this keyword if you want DOUBLE values returned. Event_Func -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Function. Event_Pro -- Set this keyword to the name of an Event Procedure. FloatValue -- Set this keyword for FLOAT values. IntegerValue -- Set this keyword for INTEGER values. LabelSize -- The X screen size of the Label Widget. LongValue -- Set this keyword for LONG values. Name -- A scalar string name of the object. (default = '') Positive -- Set this keyword to indicate only positive numbers are allowed. Scr_XSize -- The X screen size of the text widget. Scr_YSize -- The Y screen size of the text widget. Sensitive -- Set to 1 to make the widget sensitive, and to 0 to make it insensitive. StringValue -- Set this keyword for STRING values. (The default.) Title -- The text to go on the Label Widget. UValue -- A user value for any purpose. Value -- The "value" of the compound widget. XSize -- The X size of the Text Widget. SetTabNext -- This method allows you to specify which field to go to when a TAB character is typed in the text widget. See the Example program below for an example of how to use this method. OBJECT FUNCTIONS METHODS: Get_Value -- Returns the "value" of the field. No parameters. Will be undefined if a "number" field is blank. Should be checked before using: IF N_Elements(objectRef->Get_Value()) NE 0 THEN Print, Value is: ', objectRef->Get_Value() GetID -- Returns the widget identifier of the compound widget's top-level base. (The first child of the parent widget.) No parameters. GetLabelSize -- Returns the X screen size of the label widget. No parameters. GetTextID -- Returns the widget identifier of the compound widget's text widget. No parameters. GetTextSize -- Returns the X screen size of the text widget. No parameters. PRIVATE OBJECT METHODS: Although there is really no such thing as a "private" method in IDL's object implementation, some methods are used internally and not meant to be acessed publicly. Here are a few of those methods. I list them because it may be these private methods are ones you wish to override in subclassed objects. MoveTab -- This method moves the focus to the widget identified in the "next" field, which must be set with the SetTabNext method. No parameters. Called automatically when a TAB character is typed in the text widget. Text_Events -- The main event handler method for the compound widget. All text widget events are processed here. ReturnValue -- This function method accepts a string input value and converts it to the type of data requested by the user. Validate -- This function method examines all text input and removes unwanted characters, depending upon the requested data type for the field. It makes it impossible, for example, to type alphanumeric characters in an INTEGER field. EXAMPLE: An example program is provided at the end of the FSC_INPUTFIELD code. To run it, type these commands: IDL> .Compile FSC_InputField IDL> Example NOTES: IDL 6.2 introduced new TAB behavior, which broke the previous TAB behavior. New TAB behavior is now supported, but FOCUS_EVENTS *must* be set on the widget for the new TAB events to behave properly. See the EXAMPLE program for examples. DEPENDENCIES: Requires cgDblToStr from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgdbltostr.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 23 NOV 1999. Added DECIMAL and DIGITS keywords, 2 Jan 2000, DWF. Changed the calling sequence to that of a function rather than an object creation call. This is more familiar to users of compound widgets. 4 Jan 00. DWF. Added GetID and Resize methods. 7 Jan 00. DWF. Added the Positive keyword and functionality. 12 Jan 00. DWF Modified (slightly) the behavior on deleting characters. 12 Jan 00. DWF. If a number field is blank, the Get_Value method will now return an undefined variable. Be sure you check this value before you use it for something! 17 Jan 00. DWF. Fixed a small typo: "aveDecimal" to "haveDecimal". 10 March 2000. DWF. Added the ability to tab between FSC_INPUTFIELD widgets with the SetTabNext, MoveTab, and GetTextID methods. 31 July 2000. DWF. Added NAME field property, a scalar string name for the object 2 AUG 2000 BT Added ObjRef field to the FSC_FIELD event structure and added field selection for the TAB events added 31 July. 7 AUG 2000. DWF Added GetTextSize and GetLabelSize methods for obtaining the X screen size of the text and label widgets, respectively. 30 Jan 2001. DWF. Added FOCUS_EVENTS keyword and fixed a problem with the event structure. Also added better error handling. 5 January 2003. DWF. Fixed a small problem in which input values were cast to strings inadvertently. 9 January 2004. DWF. Fixed a small problem with error messages and using EVENT_FUNC. 14 January 2004. DWF. Fixed a problem when setting ROW keyword. 23 February 2004. DWF. IDL 6.2 introduced new TAB behavior, which broke the previous TAB behavior. New TAB behavior is now supported, but FOCUS_EVENTS *must* be set for the new TAB events to behave properly. 10 August 2005. DWF. Modified to covert double precision values to strings properly. 30 November 2005. DWF. Added POSITIVE keyword to SETPROPERTY and GETPROPERTY methods. 25 February 2006. DWF. Set the DYNAMIC_RESIZE keyword on the label widget. 25 February 2006. DWF. Added SENSITIVE keyword to SetProperty documentation. 10 November 2006. DWF. Fixed a small problem in which doubles were not being initialized correctly due to an inadvertant extra line of code. 3 July 2007. DWF. Fixed a small problem with input validation when the input is of BYTE type. 1 Oct 2008. DWF. Set the default fonts to be the current widget font, rather than the default widget font. 4 Oct 2008. DWF. Fixed a problem with validating a float or double value when it was written with exponential notation. 2 April 2010. DWF.
(See fsc_inputfield.pro)
NAME: FSC_PLOTWINDOW PURPOSE: The purpose of this compound widget is to create a resizeable "plot window" inside a larger "page window". I'm not sure it has any value except as a utility routine for the PostScript configuration object FSC_PSCONFIG__DEFINE, but it's a neat program anyway. :-) AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utility routine for FSC_PSCONFIG__DEFINE. CALLING SEQUENCE: plotwindowObject = CW_PlotWindow(parent) REQUIRED INPUT PARAMETERS: parent - The parent base widget of this compound widget. RETURN VALUE: plotwindowObject - The object reference of the compound widget. KEYWORDS: COLOR - If set, display the window in "color". This is the default on 24-bit devices. DEBUG - Set this keyword to turn traceback error handling on in the error handling code. EVENT_PRO - The event procedure for the widget. Required for events to be generated. Otherwise, all events are handled internally. LANDSCAPE - If set, display the page in landscape mode. Otherwise the page is display in portrait mode. PAGESIZE - The "pagesize" of the widget. Possible values are: "LETTER", "LEDGER", "LEGAL", "A4", and "DISPLAY". UNITS - A string indicating INCHES or CENTIMETER units. DEVICE units represented by a null string, "". UVALUE - A user value for the caller of this program. WINDOWCOLOR - A three-element array specifying the background window color (RGB). WINDOWSIZE - The size of the "window" on the page. A four-element array of normalized coordinates in the form [x0, y0, x1, y1]. EVENT STRUCTURE: The event structure that is returned from this compound widget is defined like this, where the sizes and offsets locate the target "window" on the page in normalized units: event = {ID:0L, TOP:0L, HANDLER:0L, XSize:0.0, YSize:0.0, XOffset:0.0, YOffset:0.0} MODIFICATIONS: Written by David Fanning, 31 January 2000. Fixed a small bug that prevented it working on Macintosh computers. 26 Sept 2000. DWF. Added a "DISPLAY" page size, so the program can be used to position plots and other graphics in a display window. The "page area" will have the same aspect ratio is the current graphics window. 17 March 2001. DWF. Changed some of the tolerances for "closeness" from 0.1 to 0.025 to allow smaller sizing for colorbars and other small objects. 6 July 2005. DWF.
(See fsc_plotwindow.pro)
NAME: FSC_PSCONFIG__DEFINE PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to implement an object that can keep track of--and allow the user to change--the current configuration of the PostScript device. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. DOCUMENTATION: Complete documentation for the FSC_PSCONFIG object, including keyword and method descriptions, and example programs using the object can be found on the Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming web page: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/docs/fsc_psconfig.html Or, if you would prefer, you can download a self-contained PDF file: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/docs/fsc_psconfig.pdf KEYWORDS: Any keyword accepted by the FSC_PSCONFIG object can be used with this program. Here are a few of the most popular keywords. Bits_per_Pixel - The number of image bits saved for each image pixel: 2, 4, or 8. The default is 8. Color - Set this keyword to select Color PostScript output. Turned on by default. Decomposed - Set this keyword to 0 to select indexed color and to 1 to select decomposed color. DefaultSetup - Set this keyword to the "name" of a default style. Current styles (you can easily create and add your own to the source code) are the following: "System (Portrait)" - The normal "default" system set-up. Also, "System". "System (Landscape)" - The normal "default" landscape system set-up. "Centered (Portrait)" - The window centered on the page. Also, "Center" or "Centered". "Centered (Landscape)" - The window centered on the landscape page. Also, "Landscape". "Square (Portrait)" - A square plot, centered on the page. "Square (Landscape)" - A square plot, centered on the landscape page. "Figure (Small)" - A small encapsulated figure size, centered on page. Also, "Encapsulated" or "Encapsulate". "Figure (Large)" - A larger encapsulated figure size, centered on page. Also, "Figure". "Color (Portrait)" - A "centered" plot, with color turned on. Also, "Color". "Color (Landscape)" - A "centered" landscape plot, with color turned on. Directory - Set this keyword to the name of the starting directory. The current directory is used by default. Encapsulated - Set this keyword to select Encapsulated PostScript output. Turned off by default. European - This keyword has been depreciated in favor of METRIC. Filename - Set thie keyword to the name of the PostScript file. The default is "idl.ps". Inches - Set this keyword to indicate sizes and offsets are in inches as opposed to centimeters. Set by Metric keyword by default. Landscape - Set this keyword to select Landscape page output. Portrait page output is the default. Language_Level - Set this keyword to select the Language Level interpreter. Default is 1. Metric - Set this keyword to indicate metric mode (i.e., A4 page and centimeter units). Turned off by default. PageType - Set this keyword to the "type" of page. Possible values are: "Letter" - 8.5 by 11 inches. (Default, unless the Metric keyword is set.) "Legal" - 8.5 by 14 inches. "Ledger" - 11 by 17 inches. "A4" - 21.0 by 29.7 centimeters. (Default, if the Metric keyword is set.) XOffset - Set this keyword to the X Offset. Uses "System (Portrait)" defaults. (Note: offset calculated from lower-left corner of page.) XSize - Set this keyword to the X size of the PostScript "window". Uses "System (Portrait)" defaults. YOffset - Set this keyword to the Y Offset. Uses "System (Portrait)" defaults. (Note: offset calculated from lower-left corner of page.) YSize - Set this keyword to the Y size of the PostScript "window". Uses "System (Portrait)" defaults. In addition, the following keywords can be used: CANCEL -- An output keyword that will be set to 1 if the user chooses the Cancel button on the form. It will be 0 otherwise. FONTINFO -- Set this keyword is you wish to have font information appear on the form. The default is to not include font information. FONTTYPE -- Set this keyword to a named variable that will indicate the user's preference for font type. Values will be -1 (Hershey fonts), 0 (hardware fonts), and 1 (true-type fonts). This keyword will always return -1 unless the FONTINFO keyword has also been set. GROUP_LEADER -- Set this keyword to a widget identifier of the widget you wish to be a group leader for this program. EXAMPLE: A simple sequence of using the object would look something like this: psObject = Obj_New("FSC_PSCONFIG") psObject->GUI psKeywords = psObject->GetKeywords() thisDevice = !D.Name Set_Plot, 'PS' Device, _Extra=psKeywords cgImage, image Device, /Close_File Set_Plot, thisDevice Obj_Destroy, psObject Note that the object can also be called from the cgPS_Config interface: psKeywords = cgPS_Config() OTHER PROGRAMS NEEDED: The following programs are required to run this one: fsc_droplist.pro fsc_fileselect.pro fsc_field.pro fsc_plotwindow MODIFICATIONS: Written by David W. Fanning, 31 January 2000. Added capability to call GUI methods when the current graphics device doesn't support windows. Device is restored when the GUI exits. 11 May 2000. DWF. Changed the default value for the Color keyword to 1. 16 May 2000. DWF. Fixed a bug where filename changed when switching Setups. 8 AUG 2000. DWF. Fixed a bug when saving setup in Landscape mode. 8 AUG 2000. DWF. Added the ability to Get and Set the object's name via the SetProperty and a very abbreviated GetProperty method. Also added a GetName method. 26 SEP 2000. DWF. Fixed a problem in which the proper configuration was not restored if in Landscape mode. 20 Nov 2000. DWF. Made a number of modifications at the request of Martin Schultz. 4 Dec 2000. DWF. Fixed a bug when setting file and directory names with the SetProperty method. 18 Dec 2000. DWF. Fixed a small problem in initializing the page size properly. 3 Jan 2001. DWF. Corrected a problem that resulted from a change to FSC_DROPLIST. 6 Jan 2001. DWF. Added the ability to restore the font type instead of always reverting to !P.Font. 7 Jan 2001. DWF. Increased the length of the file/directory name fields. 7 Jan 2001. DWF. Fixed another problem with Landscape mode interacting with A4 paper size. 7 Jan 2001. DWF. Seems I only half fixed the previous problem. :-( 26 April 2001. DWF. Forgot to update program to reflect change in FSC_FIELD. Fixed 26 April 2001. DWF. Changed BOOKMAN keyword to BKMAN to avoid conflict with BOOKSTYLE keyword. 26 April 2001. DWF. Modified the System Defaults to say "None" if none is used. Improved documentation. 10 September 2001. DWF. Added the ability to specify a filename at the same time as a Default Setup. 10 September 2001. DWF. Fixed a small problem in not setting new page sizes appropriately. 22 May 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem that occurred when the Accept button was not named "Accept". 6 May 2003.DWF. Whoops! I was a bit overly agressive on that last fix. :-( 17 July 2003. DWF. Fixed a problem with setting page types when using the DEFAULTSETUP keyword. 31 July 2003. DWF. Fixed a problem with turning encapsulation on in the GUI. Renamed ENCAPSULATE keyword ENCAPSULATED to avoid obvious errors. 31 July 2003. DWF. Removed obsolete STR_SEP and replaced with STRSPLIT. 27 Oct 2004. DWF. Now honoring EUROPEAN keyword when setting system default setups in the INIT method. 12 Nov 2004. DWF. Added CMYK output option 24 August 2007. Assumes LANGUAGE_LEVEL=2 printer. L. Anderson. Fixed a problem with the filename on WINDOWS computers coming back with forward slashes instead of backward slashes. 20 May 2008. DWF. Modified the program to return as the default, ISOLATIN1=1. 18 July 2008. DWF. Fixed a problem with filenames when a DEFAULTSETUP was used with it. 12 Nov 2008. DWF. Changed default window size when LANDSCAPE keyword is set. 10 April 2009. DWF. Changed the default window size for PORTRAIT mode to be a bit larger. 10 April 2009. DWF. Updated for IDL 7.1 and 24-bit color PostScript support. 24 May 2009. DWF. Added PAGETYPE field to returned structure to allow PostScript page type to be determined. 8 August 2009. DWF. Fixed a problem with 24-bit color support that allowed only IDL 7 versions to work correctly. 20 Sept 2009. DWF. Added a LANGUAGE_LEVEL keyword. 13 Dec 2010. DWF. Added the FONTYPE value to the keyword return structure. 14 Dec 2010. DWF. Modified the return structure to turn landscape mode off and set offsets to zero if in encapsulated mode. 19 Feb 2011. DWF. Changes to handle inability to create raster files from PS encapsulated files in landscape mode. Also removed changes of 19 Feb 2011 as no longer needed. 26 Aug 2011. DWF. The PAGETYPE was not getting set properly in the return keywords when the Metric option was selected on the GUI. 12 October 2011. DWF. The program now remembers the last directory you used and will start in that directory, unless told otherwise. 26 Oct 2011. DWF. Parsing of full filename failing. Fixed 27 Oct 2011. DWF.
(See fsc_psconfig__define.pro)
NAME: GAUSSSCL PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to perform a gaussian gray-level pixel transformation stretch on a image. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: scaledImage = GAUSSSCL(image) ARGUMENTS: image: The image to be scaled. Written for 2D images, but arrays of any size are treated alike. KEYWORDS: SIGMA: The sigma value or width of the Gaussian function. Set to 1 by default. MAX: Any value in the input image greater than this value is set to this value before scaling. MIN: Any value in the input image less than this value is set to this value before scaling. NEGATIVE: If set, the "negative" of the result is returned. OMAX: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 255. OMIN: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 0. RETURN VALUE: scaledImage: The output, scaled into the range OMIN to OMAX. A byte array. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLES: LoadCT, 0 ; Gray-scale colors. image = cgDemoData(11) ; Load image. TV, GaussScl(image) RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgScaleVector from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgScaleVector.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 5 September 2007. Now setting NAN keyword on all MIN and MAX functions. 2 Dec 2011. DWF.
(See gaussscl.pro)
NAME: GETIMAGE PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to allow the user to open either unformmated or XDR binary image files of up to eight dimensions. CATEGORY: Widgets, File I/O. CALLING SEQUENCE: image = GETIMAGE(filename) OPTIONAL INPUTS: filename: The name of the file to open for reading. OPTIONAL KEYWORD PARAMETERS: CANCEL: An output variable that can be set to a named variable. The value of the return variable will be 1 if the user clicked the "Cancel" button or if there was a problem reading the file. DATATYPE: The "type" of data you wish to read out of the file. The data type corresponds to the Size(image, /TYPE) value. Here are the types supported: BYTE 1 (default) INTEGER 2 LONG INTEGER 3 FLOAT 4 DOUBLE 5 UNSIGNED INTEGER 12 UNSIGNED LONG INTEGER 13 64-bit LONG 14 64-bit UNSIGNED LONG 15 DIMENSIONS: A vector of image dimensions. The default value is [256, 256]. DIRECTORY: The name of the directory the file is located in. By default the program looks in the "coyote" directory under the main IDL directory, if one exists. Otherwise, it defaults to the current directory. ENDIAN: Set this keyword to an integer that indicates the byte ordering of the data file. If you don't know what byte order means, or you don't know anything about the byte order of the data, or if you are sure the data was created on the same type of machine you are now running IDL on, then just accept the default of 0 or "native" ordering. If you are wrong, you will soon know it and you can set the keyword to another value on your next try. :-) If you know the machine was created on a big endian machine (such as a Sun or HP workstation), set this value to 1 (Big Endian). If e you are sur the image data was create on a little endian machine (such as a Windows PC or laptop running LINUX), set the value to 2 (Little Endian). HEADER: The size of any header information in the file in BYTES. Default is 0. HEADDATA: An optional output keyword that will contain the header information read from the file. PARENT: The group leader for this widget program. The PARENT is required if GETIMAGE is called from another widget program in order to make this program a MODAL widget program. XDR: Set this keyword if the binary file is of XDR type. The default type is "Unformatted". XOFFSET: This is the X offset of the program on the display. The program will be placed approximately in the middle of the display by default. YOFFSET: This is the Y offset of the program on the display. The program will be placed approximately in the middle of the display by default. COMMON BLOCKS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: A "CANCEL" operation is indicated by a 0 return value. Any error in reading the file results in a 0 return value. EXAMPLE: To load the image "galaxy.dat" in the $IDL/examples/data directory, type: image = GETIMAGE('galaxy.dat', DIRECTORY=!DIR + '/examples/data', $ DIMENSIONS=[256,256], Cancel=cancelled, Parent=event.top) IF NOT cancelled THEN TV, image MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, 3 February 96. Fixed bug that prevented reading INTEGER data. 19 Dec 96. Modifed program for IDL 5 MODAL operation. 19 Oct 97. Added CANCEL keyword. 27 Oct 97. DWF. Fixed CANCLE keyword spelling. Sigh... 29 JUN 98. DWF. Added COYOTE_FIELD, improved appearance. 19 NOV 99. DWF. Updated with latest version of COYOTE_FIELD. 18 FEB 2000. DWF. Added CATCH keyword so the program will break when I want it to. :-) 18 MAR 2000. DWF. Added GROUP_LEADER keyword, which is synonymous with PARENT. 31 MAR 2000. DWF. Updated obsolete PICKFILE call to DIALOG_PICKFILE. 17 JAN 2001. DWF. Extensive update for IDL Programming Techniques, 3rd Edition. 1 November 2006. DWF. XSIZE, YSIZE, CATCH, and FRAMES keyword made obsolete. HEADDATA, ENDIAN, DATATYPE, DIMENSIONS keywords added. Added ability to parse fully qualified file names passed from Dialog_Pickfile. 30 Oct 2010. DWF. IF a file name is not passed into the program, it asks the user to select one now. 10 Jan 2011. DWF. Problem with SWAP_ENDIAN keywords fixed. 7 March 2011. DWF.
(See getimage.pro)
:Description: Provides a way to get the screen size of the primary monitor, especially when there are several being used. :Categories: Graphics :Params: none :Keywords: exclude_taskbar: in, optional, boolean, default=0 Set this keyword to exclude the taskbar from the monitor size. This keyword is ignored on all but Windows machines. :Author: Dick Jackson, www.dick-jackson.com :History: Change History:: Written, 8 March 2011. DJ Modified to only use IDLsysMonitorInfo for IDL 6.3 and higher. 23 Feb 2012. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2011, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See getprimaryscreensize.pro)
NAME: GET_OBJECT_ID PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to be able to obtain a unique object identifier string for a heap variable (object or pointer). AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utility. CALLING SEQUENCE: objectID = Get_Object_ID(theObject) INPUTS: theObject: The object or pointer for which an identifier is requested. If this is a null object, the function returns the string "NullObject". If it is a null pointer, "NullPointer". OUTPUTS: objectID: The unique object or pointer identifier. KEYWORDS: NUMBER: If this keyword is set, the function returns the unique number identifier associated with a valid pointer or object. The number is returned as a STRING variable. The string "-999" is returned if the pointer or object is invalid and this keyword is set. EXAMPLE: Create a trackball object and obtain its unique object ID. IDL> theObject = Obj_New('TRACKBALL', [100,100], 50) IDL> objectID = Get_Object_ID(theObject, NUMBER=number) IDL> Print, objectID ObjHeapVar71(TRACKBALL) IDL> Print, number 71 MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 4 September 2003. Added NUMBER keyword. DWF, 22 September 2008.
(See get_object_id.pro)
NAME: GMASCL PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to perform basic gray-level pixel transformations of images. I think of it as BYTSCL on steroids. It is similar to IMADJUST in _Digital Image Processing with MATLAB_ by Gonzales, Wood, and Eddins. It performs a log scaling of the image array. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: scaledImage = GMASCL(image) ARGUMENTS: image: The image to be scaled. Written for 2D images, but arrays of any size are treated alike. KEYWORDS: GAMMA: The exponent in a power-law transformation (image^gamma). A gamma value of 1 results in a linear distribution of values between OMIN and OMAX. Gamma values less than 1 map darker image values into a wider range of output values, and Gamma values greater than 1 maps lighter image values into a wider range of output values. The gamma value is constrained to be greater than 1.0e-6. MAX: Any value in the input image greater than this value is set to this value before scaling. MIN: Any value in the input image less than this value is set to this value before scaling. NEGATIVE: If set, the "negative" of the result is returned. OMAX: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 255. OMIN: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 0. RETURN VALUE: scaledImage: The output, scaled into the range OMIN to OMAX. A byte array. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLES: LoadCT, 0 ; Gray-scale colors. image = cgDemoData(11) ; Load image. TV, GmaScl(image, Min=30, Max=100) ; Similar to BytScl. TV, GmaScl(image, /Negative) ; Produce negative image. power = Shift(ALog(Abs(FFT(image,-1))), 124, 124) ; Create power spectrum. TV, GmaScl(power, Gamma=2.5) ; View power specturm with gamma correction. TV, GmaScl(power, Gamma=2.5, /Negative) ; Reverse power spectrum. RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgScaleVector from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgScaleVector.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 17 February 2006. Fixed a problem with output scaling. 1 July 2009. DWF (with input from Bo Milvang-Jensen). Now setting NAN keyword on all MIN and MAX functions. 2 Dec 2011. DWF.
(See gmascl.pro)
NAME: HCOLORBAR FILENAME: hcolorbar__define.pro ; PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to create a horizontal colorbar object to be used in conjunction with other IDL 5 graphics objects. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: thisColorBar = Obj_New('HColorBar') REQUIRED INPUTS: None. INIT METHOD KEYWORD PARAMETERS: COLOR: A three-element array representing the RGB values of a color for the colorbar axes and annotation. The default value is white: [255,255,255]. FONTSIZE: A floating value that is the point size of the font used for the axis and title annotations. Set to 8 point by default. NAME: The name associated with this object. NCOLORS: The number of colors associated with the colorbar. The default is 256. MAJOR: The number of major tick divisions on the colorbar axes. The default is 5. MINOR: The number of minor tick marks on the colorbar axes. The default is 4. PALETTE: A palette object for the colorbar. The default palette is a gray-scale palette object. POSITION: A four-element array specifying the position of the colorbar in normalized coordinate space. The default position is [0.10, 0.90, 0.90, 0.95]. RANGE: The range associated with the colorbar axis. The default is [0, NCOLORS]. TITLE: A string containing a title for the colorbar axis annotation. The default is a null string. OTHER METHODS: Clamp (Procedure): Given a two-element array in the data range of the colorbar, the colorbar image is clamped to this range. In other words, the range of colors is clamped to the specified range. Values above or below the range in the colorbar are set to the minimum and maximum range values, respectively. GetProperty (Procedure): Returns colorbar properties in keyword parameters as defined for the INIT method. Keywords allowed are: COLOR MAJOR MINOR NAME PALETTE POSITION RANGE TEXT TITLE TRANSFORM SetProperty (Procedure): Sets colorbar properties in keyword parameters as defined for the INIT method. Keywords allowed are: COLOR MAJOR MINOR NAME PALETTE POSITION RANGE TEXT TITLE TRANSFORM SIDE EFFECTS: A HColorBar structure is created. The colorbar INHERITS IDLgrMODEL. Thus, all IDLgrMODEL methods and keywords can also be used. It is the model that is selected in a selection event, since the SELECT_TARGET keyword is set for the model. EXAMPLE: To create a colorbar object and add it to a plot view object, type: thisColorBarObject = Obj_New('HColorBar') plotView->Add, thisColorBarObject plotWindow->Draw, plotView MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, from VColorBar code, 20 Sept 98. DWF. Changed a reference to _Ref_Extra to _Extra. 27 Sept 98. DWF. Fixed bug when adding a text object via the TEXT keyword. 9 May 99. DWF. Fixed the same bug when getting the text using the TEXT keyword. :-( 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Fixed a bug with getting the text object via the TEXT keyword. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Added the TRANSFORM keyword to GetProperty and SetProperty methods. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Added RECOMPUTE_DIMENSIONS=2 to text objects. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Added a polygon object around the image object. This allows rotation in 3D space. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Removed TEXT keyword (which was never used) and improved documentation. 15 AUG 2001. DWF. Added ENABLE_FORMATTING keyword to title objects. 22 October 2001. DWF. Added a CLAMP method. 18 November 2001. DWF. Forgot to pass extra keywords along to the text widget. As a result, you couldn't format tick labels, etc. Fixed this. Any keywords appropriate for IDLgrTick objects are now available. 26 June 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with POSITION keyword in SetProperty method. 23 May 2003. DWF. Fixed a problem with setting RANGE keyword in SetProperty method. 6 Sept 2003. DWF. Removed NORMALIZE from source code. 19 November 2005. DWF. Font sizes have changed. Now using a 12 point font. 6 May 2011. DWF. Changed FSC_Normalize to cgNormalize to reflect new name. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See hcolorbar__define.pro)
NAME: HELP_VAR PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to display HELP on just the variables at the level in which HELP_VAR is called. It is similar to the HELP command, except that compiled functions and procedures are not displayed. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities. CALLING SEQUENCE: HELP_VAR REQUIRED INPUTS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: Memory is allocated for each variable, in turn, then deleted. Uses undefined and unsupported ROUTINE_NAMES function. May not work in all versions of IDL, including future versions. EXAMPLE: PRO HELP_VAR_TEST a = 4.0 b = Lindgen(11) HELP_VAR END IDL> help_var A FLOAT = 4.00000 B LONG = Array[11] MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 8 August 2003.
(See help_var.pro)
NAME: HistoMatch PURPOSE: This is a function for Histogram Matching, in which an image is manipulated in such a way that it's final histogram approximates the histogram of an input image or histogram. Histogram matching allows the user to specify the shape of the histogram of the final product. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Image Processing CALLING SEQUENCE: output_image = HistoMatch(image, histogram_to_match) INPUTS: image - The input image to be manipulated. Assumed to be a 2D byte array. histogram_to_match - Can be either a 1D long vector of 256 elements specifying the histogram to match, or a 2D byte array from which the histogram to match is calculated. OUTPUTS: output_image - The manipulated image adjusted to the histogram specifications. INPUT KEYWORDS: None. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: None. DEPENDENCIES: None. METHOD: Based on the Histogram Matching method on pages 94-102 of Digital Image Processing, 2nd Edition, Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, ISBN 0-20-118075-8. EXAMPLE: There is an example program at the end of this file. It will require cgImage from the Coyote Library to run. You can also find an explanation of this program at http://www.idlcoyote.com/ip_tips/histomatch.html. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, January 2003.
(See histomatch.pro)
NAME: IMAGESELECT PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to allow the user to select a formatted image file for reading. The image data is returned as the result of the function. The program allows the user to see a thumbnail version of the image, along with information about the image, before selection. The program uses the file extention to determine what kind of image is to be read. The following image types are supported: TYPE FILE EXTENSION BMP *.bmp DICOM *.dcm FITS *.fits, *.fts (requires NASA ASTRO library on IDL Path) GIF *.gif (IDL 6.2 and higher) JPEG *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jpe JPEG2000 *.jpf, *.jpx, *.jp2, *.j2c, *.j2k PICT *.pict PNG *.png TIFF *.tif, *tiff AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. CALLING SEQUENCE: image = ImageSelect() INPUT PARAMETERS: None. All input is via keywords. INPUT KEYWORDS: BMP -- Set this keyword to select BMP files. DEMO -- If this keyword is set, the program changes directory to !DIR/examples/data. DICOM -- Set this keyword to select DICOM files. DIRECTORY -- The initial input directory name. The current directory by default. EXCLUDE -- A list of filenames that should excluded from the file selection list. FILENAME -- The initial filename. If the initial directory has image files of the correct type, the default is to display the first of these files. Otherwise, blank. FILTER -- A string, representing the file filter. For example, '*.jpg'. FITS -- Set the keyword to select FITS files. (Must have NASA Astro Library on path.) FLIPIMAGE -- Set this keyword if you wish to flip the image from its current orientation. Setting this keyword reverses the Y dimension of the image. GIF -- Set this keyword to select GIF files. (IDL versions before 5.4 and after 6.0, only.) GROUP_LEADER -- Set this keyword to a widget identifier group leader. This keyword MUST be set when calling this program from another widget program to guarantee modal operation. J2000 -- Set this keyword to select JPEG2000 files. (May also be set as J2K.) (IDL 6.1 or above.) J2K -- Set this keyword to select JPEG2000 files. (May also be set as J2000.) (IDL 6.1 or above.) JPEG -- Set this keyword to select JPEG files. LISTXSIZE -- Set this keyword to the XSIZE of the list widget. Default is 30 or MAX(StrLen(filenames)), whichever is larger. OFFSETS -- A two-element array containing the X and Y offsets of the program, from the upper left corner of the display. On dismissal of the program, if this is a named variable (passed into the program by reference), then it will contain the last offsets of the program. This is useful if you want to call ImageSelect again and have it positioned in exactly the same location it was before. ONLY2D -- Set this keyword if you only want the user to be able to select 2D images. Note that the user will be able to browse all images, but the Accept button will only be sensitive for 2D images. ONLY3D -- Set this keyword if you only want the user to be able to select 3D or true-color images. Note that the user will be able to browse all images, but the Accept button will only be sensitive for 3D or true-color images. PICT -- Set this keyword to select PICT files. PGM -- Set this keyword to select PGM files. PPM -- Set this keyword to select PPM files. PNG -- Set this keyword to select PNG files. PREVIEWSIZE -- Set this keyword to the maximum size (in pixels) of the preview window. Default is 150. SILENT -- Set this keyword to turn off Group_Leader educational message. Use only if you are sure you know what you are doing. :-) TIFF -- Set this keyword to select TIFF files. (This is the default filter selection.) TITLE -- Set this keyword to the text to display as the title of the main image selection window. NOTE: Any extra keywords passed into the program will collected and passed along to the READ_XXX routines that actually do the image file reading. Using this keyword inheritance mechanism makes it impossible to trap misspelled or misused keywords. Please take care when using ANY keyword for this routine! OUTPUT KEYWORDS: CANCEL -- This keyword is set to 1 if the user exits the program in any way except hitting the ACCEPT button. The ACCEPT button will set this keyword to 0. FHEADER -- Set this keyword to a named variable that will return the FITS header information for a FITS file. FILEINFO -- This keyword returns information about the selected file. Obtained from the QUERY_**** functions. GEOTIFF -- If the file is a GeoTIFF file, this keyword will return the GeoTIFF structure containing the files GeoTags. OUTDIRECTORY -- The directory where the selected file is found. OUTFILENAME -- The short filename of the selected file. PALETTE -- The current color table palette returned as a 256-by-3 byte array. COMMON BLOCKS: None. RESTRICTIONS: Requires other programs from the Coyote Library. Note: Keyword inheritance to collect undefined keywords that may be passed into the program for use in READ_XXX routines, make it impossible to trap keyword useage errors. Please take care when using keywords. EXAMPLE: To read JPEG files from the directory: IDL> image = ImageSelect(/JPEG) MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 18 Jan 2001. Added modification to read both 8-bit and 24-bit BMP files. 27 Jan 2001. DWF. Fixed a problem with calculating the new size of the draw widget. 5 April 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with List Widgets not sizing correctly on UNIX machines. 10 Aug 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with the initial file not being selected correctly when you changed the file type. 10 Aug 2002. DWF. Added a FLIPIMAGE keyword 10 Aug 2002. DWF. When user chooses to Flip Image, I now reverse the Y dimension of the image, rather than set the !Order system variable. 10 Aug 2002. DWF. Added OUTDIRECTORY and OUTFILENAME keywords. 18 Aug 2002. DWF. Fairly extensive changes in the way this program works and selects images. A new version of FSC_FileSelect is also required. Because of interactions with the operating system with image filters, the program has probably become more Windows-centric. The default is now to display all image files the program is capable of reading. 31 October 2002. DWF. Added ONLY2D keyword to allow the acceptance of 2D images only. 3 Nov 2002. DWF. Added ability to center itself on the display. 8 Nov 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem caused by reading old images with short color table vectors. 26 Nov 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with specifying a fully-qualified filename. 26 Nov 2002. DWF. Now highlights the selected file in the directory. 26 Nov 2002. DWF. Improved error handling. 9 Dec 2002. DWF. Added PALETTE keyword and improved color operation on 8-bit displays. If the image file contains a color palette, that palette is now loaded when the image is read from the file. The current color palette can be obtained with the PALETTE keyword. 4 April 2003. DWF. Added ONLY3D keyword. 19 April 2003. DWF. Added ability to read PPM and PGM files. 24 November 2003. DWF. Added TITLE keyword. 1 December 2003. DWF. Added EXAMPLES keyword. 22 December 2005. DWF. Added GIF and JPEG2000 file types. Rearranged and cleaned up code. 3 January 2006. DWF. Added LISTXSIZE keyword. 3 January 2006. DWF. Added file type checkmark buttons. Program now compatible with IDL 5.6 and higher. 3 January 2006. DWF. Improved error handling with invalid file types. 5 January 2006. DWF. Added OFFSETS and EXCLUDE keywords. 3 March 2006 DWF. Modified the program to check for FITS unsigned integer data. 3 March 2006. DWF. Added ability to double-click image name in list to Accept. 10 March 2006. DWF. Added FHEADER keyword to return FITS header information. 3 April 2006. DWF. Fixed a problem in which the file type was not set if the user cancelled. 10 July 2006. DWF. Added a "fit" file extension for FITS images. 1 April 2008. DWF. Added a FILTER keyword. 1 April 2008. DWF. Updated for reading transparent images. 13 May 2009. DWF. Provided check for PNG images with more than 8 bits per channel. 5 August 2009. DWF. Fixed a problem in which the starting directory was changed on exit. 20 Nov 2010. DWF. Change EXAMPLES to more easily remembered DEMO keyword. 29 Nov 2010. DWF. Removed NOINTERPOLATION keywords in going from TVIMAGE to cgImage. 22 Feb 2011. DWF. Fixed a problem reading 2D Tiff files. 20 Sept 2012. DWF.
(See imageselect.pro)
NAME: IMAGE_BLEND PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to demonstrate how to use the alpha channel to blend one image into another. The specific purpose is to see a color image on top of a gray-scale image, with the gray-scale image showing through behind the color image. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Widgets, Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: Image_Blend REQUIRED INPUTS: None. The images "worldelv.dat" and "ctscan.dat" from the examples/data directory are used. OPTIONAL INPUTS: backgroundImage:: A 2D image variable that will be used for the background image. foregroundImage: A 2D image variable that will be used for the foreground image. OPTIONAL KEYWORD PARAMETERS: COLORTABLE: The number of a color table to use for the foreground image. Color table 3 (red temperature) is used as a default. COMMON BLOCKS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: None. RESTRICTIONS: None. The program XCOLORS is required from the Coyote library. EXAMPLE: Image_Blend, Colortable=5 MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, 30 March 99. Fixed bug where I redefined the image parameter. Duh... 1 April 99. DWF. Moved the program into the 21st century. :-) 21 March 2003. DWF. Added TIFF, GIF (if version supports it), and PS output. 27 December 2006. DWF.
(See image_blend.pro)
The purpose of this function is to return the various dimensions of the image, and also to extract relevant image information via output keywords. The function works only with 2D and 3D (24-bit) images, with or without alpha channels. :Categories: Utilities :Returns: A vector containing the size of each dimension of the image. It is equivalent to calling the SIZE function with the DIMENSIONS keyword set. :Params: image: in, optional, type=various The image variable from which information is to be obtained. :Keywords: alphachannel: out, optional, type=boolean This keyword is set to 1 if there is an alpha channel in the image. Otherwise, the keyword is set to 0. trueindex: out, optional, type=integer The position of the "true color" index in the return value. Is -1 for 2D images. xindex: out, optional, type=integer The index (position) of the X dimension in the return value. xsize: out, optional, type=integer The X size of the image. yindex: out, optional, type=integer The index (position) of the Y dimension in the return value. ysize: out, optional, type=integer The Y size of the image. :Examples: To load open a window of the appropriate size and display a 24-bit image:: dims = Image_Dimensions(image24, XSize=xsize, YSize=ysize, TrueIndex=trueindex) Window, XSIZE=xsize, YSIZE=ysize TV, image24, TRUE=trueindex :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ :History: Modification History:: Written by: David W. Fanning, 5 March 2003. Added support for alpha channel images, include ALPHACHANNEL keyword. 13 May 2009. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003-2011, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See image_dimensions.pro)
NAME: INSIDE PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to indicate whether a specified 2D point is inside (returns a 1) a specified 2D polygon or outside (returns a 0). AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utility. CALLING SEQUENCE: result = INSIDE(x, y, xpts, ypts) INPUTS: x: A scalar or vector of the x coordinates of the 2D point(s) to check. y: A scalar or vector of the y coordinates of the 2D point(s) to check. xpts: The x coordinates of the 2D polygon. ypts: The y coordinates of the 2D polygon. OUTPUTS: result: A scalar or vector set to 1 if the point is inside the polygon and to 0 if the point is outside the polygon. KEYWORDS: INDEX: An output keyword. If set to a named variable, will return the indices of the X and Y points that are inside the polygon. ALGORITHM: Based on discussions on the IDL newsgroup (comp.lang.idl-pvwave) and discussed here: http://www.idlcoyote.com/tips/point_in_polygon.html Primarily the work of B�rd Krane and William Connelly. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 4 September 2003. Vectorized the function in accord with William Connelly's suggestions 24 July 2005. DWF.
(See inside.pro)
The purpose of this function is to convert a Julian day number into a time string of the form "16 Mar 2009". :Categories: Utilities :Returns: A scalar or vector of time strings of the form "16 Mar 2009 15:34:26". :Params: jdnumber: in, optional, type=integer A Julian day number or array of Julian day numbers. If absent, today's current Julian day number. jdyear: in, optional, type=integer The year for which the Julian day number applies. If absent, the current year. :Keywords: day: out, optional, type=integer The day of the month as an integer. month: out, optional, type=integer The month as an integer. year: out, optional, type=integer The year as an integer. :Examples: Used like the IDL AXIS command:: IDL> cgPlot, cgDemoData(1), YStyle=8, Position=[0.1, 0.1, 0.85, 0.9], /Window IDL> cgAxis, /YAxis, Color='red', YRange=[-500, 500], /Save, /Window :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written by: David W. Fanning, 25 June 2009. Added DAY, MONTH, and YEAR keywords. 18 Sept 2012. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2009-2012, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See jd2time.pro)
NAME: LEFTJUSTIFY PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to create a string that is left-justified with respect to a string width. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: justifiedString = LeftJustify(string, width) AUGUMENTS: string: The string that is to be left-justified. If not supplied, a null string is returned and no error is issued. width: The final width of the left-justified string. The width must be longer than the length of the string or an error results. Default: 50. KEYWORDS: None. RETURN VALUE: justifiedString: A string of WIDTH, with the string left-justified and the rest of the string filled with blank characters. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 26 January 2009.
(See leftjustify.pro)
NAME: LINKEDLIST FILENAME: linkedlist__define.pro PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to implement a list that is linked in both the forward and backward directions. There is no restriction as to what can be stored in a linked list node. The linked list is implemented as an object. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: General programming. CALLING SEQUENCE: mylist = Obj_New('LINKEDLIST', item) OPTIONAL INPUTS: item: The first item added to the list. Items can be any valid IDL variable type. COMMON BLOCKS: Are you kidding?! RESTRICTIONS: Be sure to destroy the LINKEDLIST object when you are finished with it: Obj_Destroy, mylist Node index numbers start at 0 and go to n-1, where n is the number of items in the list. PUBLIC METHODS: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PRO LINKEDLIST::ADD, item, index, $ AFTER=after, $ BEFORE=before, $ ERROR=error, $ NO_COPY=no_copy, $ REPLACE=replace The ADD method adds a data item to the list. Parameters: item: The data item to be added to the list. Required. index: The location in the list where the data item is to be added. If neither the AFTER or BEFORE keyword is set, the item is added AFTER the item at the index location. If index is missing, the index points to the last item in the list. Optional. Keywords: AFTER: If this keyword is set, the item is added after the item at the current index. BEFORE: If this keyword is set, the item is added before the item at the current index. ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. NO_COPY: If set, the item is transferred to the internal pointer using a no copy method. This will cause the item variable to become undefined. REPLACE: If this keyword is set, the item will replace the current item at the index location. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PRO LINKEDLIST::DELETE, index, ALL=all, DESTROY=destroy, ERROR=error The DELETE method deletes an item from the list. Parameters: index: The location in the list where the data item is to be delete. If index is missing, the index points to the last item in the list. Optional. Keywords: ALL: If this keyword is set, all items in the list are deleted. DESTROY: If the item at the node is an object or pointer, the item will be destroyed before the node is deleted. This keyword is turned on (set to 1) by default. Set to 0 to prevent destruction. ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; FUNCTION LINKEDLIST::GET_COUNT The GET_COUNT method returns the number of items in the list. Return Value: The number of items stored in the linked list. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; FUNCTION LINKEDLIST::GET_ITEM, index, $ ALL=all, $ ; This ASSUMES all items stored are the same type!!! Dereference=dereference, $ ; Obsolete. Ignored. Always returns item. ItemPtr=itemPtr, $ ; The pointer to the item, if needed. Output. NO_COPY=no_copy, $ ; Copy from location with NO_COPY. ERROR=errorMsg ; The error message. Null string if no error. Parameters: index: The location in the list from which the data item is to be retrieved. If not present, the last item in the list is retrieved. Optional. Keywords: DEREFERENCE: This keyword obsolete and only provided for backward compatibility. ALL: Set this keyword to return an n-element array containing all the list items. This requires that all list items be of the same type, and if they are arrays, they have 7 dimensions or fewer. If index is passed, it is ignored. ITEMPTR: The pointer to the data item. NO_COPY: If this keyword is set, the item is transferred from the data pointer using a NO_COPY method. This will undefine the item at that indexed locaton. ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. Return Value: The data item at this index on the list. If ALL is set, then an array containing all the data items is returned. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; FUNCTION LINKEDLIST::GET_NODE, index, ERROR=error The GET_NODE method returns a pointer to the specified node from the list. Parameters: index: The location in the list from which the data node is to be retrieved. If not present, the last node in the list is retrieved. The node is a structure with three fields: Previous is a pointer to the previous node in the list. Next is a pointer to the next node in the list. A null pointer in the previous field indicates the first node on the list. A null pointer in the next field indicates the last node on the list. The item field is a pointer to the item stored in the node. Optional. ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. Return Value: A pointer to the specified node structure in the linked list. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PRO LINKEDLIST::HELP, PRINT=print The HELP method performs a HELP command on each item in the linked list. Keywords: PRINT: If this keyword is set, the PRINT command is used instead of the HELP command on the items in the list. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PRO LINKEDLIST::MOVE_NODE, nodeIndex, location, BEFORE=before, ERROR=error The MOVE_NODE method moves a list node from one location to another. Parameters: nodeIndex: The location in the list of the node you are moving. Required. location: The location (index) you are moving the node to. If location is missing, the location points to the node at the end of the list. Keywords: BEFORE: If this keyword is set, the node is added to the list before the location node. Otherwise, it is added after the location node. ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; PRO LINKEDLIST::REPLACE_ITEM, newItem, index, ERROR=error Use this method to replace any item in the list with any other value. This allows the caller to change an item without stepping through the process of deleting an item then adding a new one. Parameters: index: The location of the node you are replacing newItem: Any value of any data type. ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; FUNCTION LINKEDLIST::HAVE_ITEM, index, ERROR=error Use this method to check to see if an item exits at a particular location on the list. Returns a 1 if the item is there, otherwise a 0. Parameters: index: The location of the node you are replacing ERROR: On return, if this is not a null string, an error occurred and this value is set equal to the error message. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; EXAMPLE: mylist = Obj_New("LINKEDLIST", 5) mylist->Add, 10 mylist->Add, 7, 1, /Before mylist->Add, 12 print, mylist->Get_Item(/All) mylist->Add, 'Bob', 2, /Replace mylist->Help mylist->Delete, 0 mylist->Help, /Print MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, 25 August 98. 25 August 99. Fixed several errors in various methods dealing with moving nodes from one place to another. DWF. 13 June 2001. DWF. Added DEREFERENCE to the GET_ITEM method to return the item itself, instead of the pointer to the item. 27 June 2001 Added REPLACE_ITEM method. Ben Tupper. 7 April 2003. Added DESTROY keyword to DELETE method so that objects and pointers could be cleaned up properly when they are deleted from the linked list. DWF. 9 April 2003. Fixed a problem that occurs when deleting the last node. DWF. 3 Feb 2004. Make sure loop index vars are long. Jeff Guerber 30 Jun 2004. Added /ALL to GET_ITEM function. Henry Throop, SWRI. 23 Nov 2004. Fixed GET_ITEM, /ALL to accomodate structures and empty lists. Henry Throop. 21 February 2011. A complete refurbishing to incorporate changes and to fix bugs I found in the SolarSoft version of this code. I've tried to make this compatible with the version distributed with SolarSoft to reduce problems caused by two versions of the software with the same name. 9 December 2011. Fixed a problem with the ALL keyword on the Get_Item method. DWF.
(See linkedlist__define.pro)
NAME: LIST_SELECTOR PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to implement a pop-up dialog widget for the purpose of selecting "names". Names can be names of variables, names of files, etc. Any string array can be used. CALLING SEQUENCE: selectedNames = List_Selector(theNames) ARGUMENTS: theNames: A string array of potential "names" that can be selected. KEYWORDS: ALL: Set this keyword if you wish all the names to be selected initially. CANCEL: An output keyword set to 1 if the user cancels or quits the program without hitting the Accept button. Set to 0 if a proper selection was made and the use hits the Accept button. COUNT: An output keyword containing the number of elements in the return array. GROUP_LEADER: The widget identifier of a widget who will be the group leader for this dialog. Passing a group leader is the *only* way to assure the dialog will be a MODAL dialog (as opposed to a blocking dialog). A GROUP_LEADER is required if you will be using this function in an IDL Virtual Machine application. LABEL: A string that will be placed on a label above the selections. If not used, no label is used in the program. LIST_COUNTER: If this keyword is set, a number is associated and displayed with each list item, starting with the number 1. TITLE: A string that is used for the title of the dialog window. If undefined, then "Selection Widget" is used. SELECTED_INDICES: An output vector of the selected indices from theNames array. RETURN VALUE: selectedNames: Typically, an array of selected names. If there is only one item in the selection, the variable will be a scalar string. EXAMPLE: See the List_Selector_Test procedure below. I use the program to allow the user to select the names of scientific data sets in an HDF file for further reading and processing. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 11 January 2009, based on Name_Selector program. Added "Accept on Double-Click" functionality. 14 January 2009. DWF. Added LIST_COUNTER keyword. 25 May 2009. DWF. Well, basically a RE-DO of yesterday's work, although done correctly today. 26 May 2009. DWF. Fixed a problem when the user double-clicks an item in the list. 8 August 2009. DWF. Double clicks are a problem with UNIX machines becausesets event.clicks = 2 prematurely. Removed double-click functionality from all but Windows machines. 9 Feb 2012. DWF.
(See list_selector.pro)
NAME: LOGSCL PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to perform a log intensity transformation on an image. For exponent values greater than 1.0, the upper and lower values of the image are compressed and centered on the mean. Larger exponent values provide steeper compression. For exponent values less than 1.0, the compression is similar to gamma compression. (See IMGSCL.) See pages 68-70 in _Digital Image Processing with MATLAB_ by Gonzales, Wood, and Eddins. The function is used to improve contrast in images. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: outputImage = LOGSCL(image) ARGUMENTS: image: The image to be scaled. Written for 2D images, but arrays of any size are treated alike. KEYWORDS: EXPONENT: The exponent in a log transformation. By default, 4.0. MEAN: Values on either side of the mean will be compressed by the log. The value is a normalized value between 0.0 and 1.0. By default, 0.5. NEGATIVE: If set, the "negative" of the result is returned. MAX: Any value in the input image greater than this value is set to this value before scaling. MIN: Any value in the input image less than this value is set to this value before scaling. OMAX: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 255. OMIN: The output image is scaled between OMIN and OMAX. The default value is 0. RETURN VALUE: outputImage: The output, scaled into the range OMIN to OMAX. A byte array. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLES: cgLoadCT, 0 ; Gray-scale colors. image = cgDemoData(22) ; Load image. cgImage, image ; No contrast. cgImage, LogScl(image) ; Improved contrast. cgImage, LogScl(image, Exponent=10, Mean=0.65) ; Even more contrast. cgImage, LogScl(image, /Negative, Exponent=5) ; A negative image. RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgScaleVector from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgScaleVector.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 20 February 2006. Fixed a problem with output scaling. 1 July 2009. DWF (with input from Bo Milvang-Jensen).
(See logscl.pro)
:Description: Prints the maximum and minimum of an IDL variable. :Categories: Utility :Params: variable: in, required, type=any The variable whose minimum and maximum you wish to know. :Keywords: NAN: in, optional, type=boolean Set this keyword to ignore NANs in the variable. Default: 0. TEXT: in, optional, type=string Prepend this string to the output of MinMax. Default: "MinMax: ". :Examples: The MaxMin routine gives the range of the variable:: IDL> a = Findgen(11) IDL> MaxMin, a, TEXT='Variable A:' Variable A: 11 0 :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written, 20 Sept 2010. Changed name of program from MinMax to MaxMin to avoid conflict with MinMax program in NASA Astronomy Library. 1 Nov 2010. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2010, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See maxmin.pro)
:Description: Returns the resolution of the largest unobstructed graphics window that can be created on this particular graphics device. Works properly for Windows and UNIX computers, excluding Macintosh computers. There is no known way to find the resolution of the largest unobstructed graphics window on a Macintosh computer, so a fudge factor of 22 pixels is used to account for the Macintosh "dock". :Categories: Utility :Params: none: :Keywords: monitor_resolution: out, optional, type=long Set this keyword to a named variable to return the resolution of the primary display monitor. :Examples: To create a window of maximum size:: maxsize = MaxWindowSize() Window, XSize=maxsize[0], YSize=maxsize[1], /Free :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written, 26 October 2010. DWF. Misunderstood Macintosh result. Now Mac treated like UNIX. 27 Oct 2010. DWF. No known method for Macintosh computers. Resorting to a fudge factor of 22 pixels to account for the Macintosh dock. 27 Oct 2010. DWF. Code is total reversed for UNIX and Macintosh computers! Fixed. 16 Dec 2011. DWF. Modified to only use IDLsysMonitorInfo for IDL 6.3 and higher. 23 Feb 2012. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2010, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See maxwindowsize.pro)
NAME: NAME_SELECTOR PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to implement a pop-up dialog widget for the purpose of selecting "names". Names can be names of variables, names of files, etc. Any string array can be used. CALLING SEQUENCE: selectedNames = Name_Selector(theNames) ARGUMENTS: theNames: A string array of potential "names" that can be selected. KEYWORDS: ALL: Set this keyword if you wish all the names to be selected initially. CANCEL: An output keyword set to 1 if the user cancels or quits the program without hitting the Accept button. Set to 0 if a proper selection was made and the use hits the Accept button. COUNT: An output keyword containing the number of elements in the return array. GROUP_LEADER: The widget identifier of a widget who will be the group leader for this dialog. Passing a group leader is the *only* way to assure the dialog will be a MODAL dialog (as opposed to a blocking dialog). A GROUP_LEADER is required if you will be using this function in an IDL Virtual Machine application. LABEL: A string that will be placed on a label above the selections. If not used, no label is used in the program. NUMCOLS: The number of columns to organize the string array in. The default is to use one column per approximately 20 strings. TITLE: A string that is used for the title of the dialog window. If undefined, then "Selection Widget" is used. RETURN VALUE: selectedNames: Typically, an array of selected names. If there is only one item in the selection, the variable will be a scalar string. EXAMPLE: See the Name_Selector_Test procedure below. I use the program to allow the user to select the names of scientific data sets in an HDF file for further reading and processing. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 21 December 2008. Added a COUNT keyword. DWF. 6 January 2009.
(See name_selector.pro)
NAME: NCDF_ATTRIBUTE PURPOSE: The pupose of this NCDF_Attribute object is to store information about a netCDF global or variable attribute. The object is principally used as a utility routine for the NCDF_FILE object. Given the attribute name, the object will acquire additional information about the attribute from the netCDF file containing the attribute. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: File I/O CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> attrObj = Obj_New('NCDF_ATTRIBUTE', attrName, parent, VARNAME=varName) ARGUMENTS: attrName: The case sensitive name of a netCDF attribute that is stored in the netCDF file. (Input and required.) parent: The object reference (NCDF_FILE object) of the netCDF file. In other words, the object reference of the file that contains this attribute. (Input and required.) KEYWORD PARAMETERS: varName: If this is a variable attribute, this is the case sensitive name of the variable that the attribute is attached to. (Input and required for variable attributes.) Note that a variable object reference may be used in place of the variable name. METHODS: The following methods are available. Each is documented in front of the method. attrName = attrObject -> GetName() propertyValue = attrObject -> GetProperty(attrProperty) attrValue = attrObject -> GetValue() attrObject -> ParseAttribute MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 Feb 2010.
(See ncdf_attribute__define.pro)
NAME: NCDF_BROWSER PURPOSE: This program is designed to make it easier to browse and read the data and metadata in netCDF and HDF files. The user can browse files, and read the data and metadata into main-level IDL variables. New netCDF and HDF files can be opened at any time. The user interacts with the program via a browser window (GUI). This program is a wrapper for the NCDF_DATA object (ncdf_data__define.pro), which must also be downloaded. Note that only HDF files with scientific datasets (SD) can be read currently. There is no support for VDATA objects or other objects sometimes found in HDF files. Also note that when variables are returned from HDF files, they are returned in a calibrated form, if calibration information about the variable is present in the file. Calibration information is presented as an extra variable attribute in the browser. calibratedData = calData.cal * (uncalibratedData - calData.offset) AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: File I/O CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> NCDF_Browser, filename Arguments: filename: The name of a netCDF and HDF file to open and browse. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: EXTENSION: In general, netCDF and HDF files use *.nc, *.ncf, *.ncdf and *.hdf file extensions to identify themselves as netCDF and HDF files. Some users have their own file extensions. You can use this keyword to identify the file extension you wish to use. If set here, it will be used as the file filter in place of the normal file extensions in DIALOG_PICKFILE. obj = ('NCDF_DATA', file, EXTENSION='*.bin') NO_NEW_FILE: If this keyword is set, then the button that allows a new file to be open on the browser is not created. NO_READ_ON_PARSE: Normally, when a file is opened it is parsed for information. One piece of information is the minimum and maximum values of the variables. This requires actually reading the variables. This can slow things down considerably is the variable is large. Setting this keyword will suppress the reading of the variables during the parsing of the data file, with the result that no minimum or maximum values will be reported. TITLE: Set this keyword to a string that is on the title bar of the browser. XOFFSET: Set this keyword to the X offset in pixels of the top-left corner of the browser. YOFFSET: Set this keyword to the Y offset in pixels of the top-left corner of the browser. NOTES: This program is only a (useful) front-end for a more flexible object program of class NCDF_DATA. In this front end, the NCDF_DATA object is created and then destroyed when the GUI is destroyed. The NCDF_DATA object can be used to read netCDF data in a non-interactive way, if you prefer not to use a GUI to interact with the data file. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 03 Feb 2008. Used ideas from many people, including Chris Torrence, Ken Bowman, Liam Gumely, Andrew Slater, and Paul van Delst. Added Extension keyword. DWF. 04 Feb 2008. Added error handling and protection for NCDF variables that have a dimension of length zero. 22 April 2009. DWF. Added NO_READ_ON_PARSE keyword. 22 April 2009. DWF. Now convert NCDF CHAR type variables to strings on output. 22 April 2009. DWF Made the default value of NO_READ_ON_PARSE set to 1. 25 June 2009. DWF. Added NO_NEW_FILE keyword to suppress the Open File button. 3 February 2010. DWF. Added TITLE, XOFFSET, and YOFFSET keywords. 5 February 2010. DWF. Fixed a problem with memory leakage when the input file cannot be read. 1 May 2010. DWF.
(See ncdf_browser.pro)
NAME: NCDF_CastDataType PURPOSE: This is a utility routine to turn IDL data types into the equivalent netCDF data type. In other words, change 'STRING' to 'CHAR' and so on. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: ncdf_datatype = NCDF_CastDataType(variable) ARGUMENTS: variable: The IDL variable for which you want a netCDF data type. Or, if the TYPE keyword is set, the variable type index you wish to convert. Or, if the TNAME keyword is set, the variable type name you wish to convert. KEYWORDS: TYPE: If set, the positional argument is an IDL variable type of the sort returned by the SIZE function with the TYPE keyword set. type = Size(variable, /TYPE) TNAME: If set, the positional argument is an IDL variable type of the sort returned by the SIZE function with the TNAME keyword set. type = Size(variable, /TNAME) RETURN VALUE: ncdf_datatype: The netCDF data type of the variable. Possible values are 'BYTE', 'CHAR', 'SHORT', 'LONG', 'FLOAT' and 'DOUBLE'. NOTES: The program is designed to work with the NCDF_FILE object and related programs. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 February 2010. Made a UINT data type be cast to LONG, rather than SHORT. 29 April 2010. DWF. Added TYPE and TNAME keywords. 5 May 2010. DWF.
(See ncdf_castdatatype.pro)
NAME: NCDF_Container PURPOSE: This is a beefed-up IDL_CONTAINER object written as a utility object for the NCDF_FILE object and related objects. In particular, two new container methods have been added. The FindByID method searches container objects by object ID, and the FindByName method searches container object by object name. If found, the object reference is returned. This object is a subclassed IDL_CONTAINER object and uses the IDL_CONTAINER initialization routine. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: ncdf_container = NCDF_Container() ARGUMENTS: Those used in the IDL_CONTAINER method. RETURN VALUE: A sub-classed IDL_Container object. NOTES: The program is designed to work with the NCDF_FILE object and related programs. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 February 2010.
(See ncdf_container__define.pro)
NAME: NCDF_DATA__DEFINE PURPOSE: This program is designed to make it easier to browse and read the data and metadata in netCDF and HDF files. The user can browse files, and read the data and metadata into main-level IDL variables. New netCDF and HDF files can be opened at any time. The user interacts with the program via a browser window (GUI) or directly through the methods of the object. The program implements an IDL object. Note that only HDF files with scientific datasets (SD) can be read currently. There is no support for VDATA objects or other objects sometimes found in HDF files. Also note that when variables are returned from HDF files, they are returned in a calibrated form, if calibration information about the variable is present in the file. Calibration information is presented as an extra variable attribute in the browser. calibratedData = calData.cal * (uncalibratedData - calData.offset) AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: File I/O CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> nCDFObject = Obj_New('NCDF_DATA', filename) ARGUMENTS: filename: The name of a netCDF or HDF file to open and browse. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BROWSE: If this keyword is set, the Browse Window is invoked as soon as the object is initiated. DESTROY_FROM_BROWSER: As with all objects, this object is persistent until it is destroyed. However, with this keyword set, the object will be destroyed when the user closes the Browse Window. EXTENSION: In general, netCDF and HDF files use *.nc, *.ncf, *.ncdf of *.hdf file extensions to identify themselves as netCDF or HDF files. Some users have their own file extensions. You can use this keyword to identify the file extension you wish to use. If set here, it will be used as the file filter in place of the normal file extensions in DIALOG_PICKFILE. obj = ('NCDF_DATA', file, EXTENSION='*.bin') NO_READ_ON_PARSE: Normally, when a file is opened it is parsed for information. One piece of information is the minimum and maximum values of the variables. This requires actually reading the variables. This can slow things down considerably is the variable is large. Setting this keyword will suppress the reading of the variables during the parsing of the data file, with the result that no minimum or maximum values will be reported. NOTES: This program is designed to be flexible in how it is used, so it can be used in both interactive and non-interactive (called directly) ways. A less flexible way of interacting with the program is via the NCDF_BROWSER program, which is a front-end to this object. The netCDF and HDF file formats are thought to be "standards". And to a large extent, they are. But files are not always created to standards, and both netCDF and HDF files can be quirky. If you look carefully at the code you will see places where I work around quirks in the files I typically use on a daily basis. If you find you can't read a particular file, let me know about it. I may be able to improve the program in such as way that it can be read. This program is not meant to be the be-all and end-all of programs. Rather, it is a tool I use, and improve upon whenever necessary, in my own work with netCDF and HDF files. It will get better for all of us if you report problems to me directly. METHODS: The following methods can be used directly. ncdfObject -> Browse ; Use GUI to browse file data and metadata. ncdfObject -> OpenFile, filename ; Opens a new netCDF or HDF file. globalAttr = ncdfObject -> ReadGlobalAttr() ; Return a structure containing global attributes. attribute = ncdfObject -> ReadAttribute(attrname); Return an attribute, identified by name. dim = ncdfObject -> ReadDimension(dimName) ; Return a dimension, identified by name. variable = ncdfObject -> ReadVariable(varname) ; Return a variable, identified by name. varstruct = ncdfObject -> ReadVariableWithAttr(varname) ; Return a variable, identified by ; name, along with its attributes. allData = ncdfObject -> ReadFile(filename) ; Read all the data in the file, into structures. EXAMPLE: IDL> filename = 'example.nc' IDL> ncdfObj = Obj_New('NCDF_DATA', filename) IDL> ncdfObj -> Browse IDL> Obj_Destroy, ncdfObj MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 03 Feb 2008. Used ideas from many people, including Chris Torrence, Ken Bowman, Liam Gumely, Andrew Slater, and Paul van Delst. Added EXTENSION keyword, resizeable TLB, and ability to download individual global attibutes. DWF. 04 Feb 2008. Added ReadDimension and ReadVariableWithAttr methods. DWF. 05 Feb 2008. Ill-formed attribute names giving me fits. Now doing checks with IDL_VALIDNAME before creating structures. 06 February 2008. DWF. Same problem. Wide use of IDL_VALIDNAME everywhere it seems wise. 06 Feb 2008. DWF. Added functionality to read a variable with its attributes from the browser interface, and fixed a problem with reading CHAR values. 2 March 2008. DWF. Fixed a problem with changing variable name when reading variable plus attributes. 6 March 2008. DWF. Fixed a problem with not setting GLOBAL keyword when inquiring about global attribute. 6 March 2008. DWF. Made sure file was parsed before attempting to read variables and attributes to avoid errors. 7 March 2008. DWF. Small bug with variable attributes fixed. 18 Dec 2008. DWF. Added ability to read HDF files containing Scientific Datasets (SD). 21 February 2009. DWF. Added error handling and protection for NCDF variables that have a dimension of length zero. 22 April 2009. DWF. Added NO_READ_ON_PARSE keyword. 22 April 2009. DWF. Now convert NCDF CHAR type variables to strings on output. 22 April 2009. DWF Fixed a problem with the directory being correct when file name passed in. 11 May 2009. DWF. Added COUNT, OFFSET, and STRIDE keywords to ReadVariable method. 25 June 2009. DWF. When reading a netCDF variable by itself (without it's attributes), the program now looks for a SCALE_FACTOR and ADD_OFFSET attribute, and if found will apply this to the variable before it is returned to the user. 24 August 2009. DWF. Added the methods GetAttrNames, GetVarNames, GetVarAttrNames, and ReadVarAttr to retrieve specfic information from the data files. 16 November 2009. DWF. Modified the ReadVariableWithAttr method to include the number of dimensions (in the NDIMS field, and the dimensions (in the DIMS field) in the return structure. For HDF files, the DIMS field is a vector of the dimensions of the variable. For netCDF files, the DIMS field is a vector of dimension IDs for the dimensions of the variable. 27 Nov 2009. DWF. Andy Meigs alerted me to a problem creating a structure when the ncdf variable name is ill-formed according to IDL structure tag name rules. Fixed in the ReadFile method. 30 November 2009. DWF. Added NO_NEW_FILE keyword to the BROWSE method. This keyword will suppress the OPEN FILE button on the browse interface. 3 Feb 2010. DWF. Made the default browser size a bit larger to accomodate longer variable names. 3 Feb 2010. DWF. Add a check for HDF/netCDF file type in the INIT method to better accommodate reading data from the file without first parsing the file. 16 March 2010. DWF. Changed the ReadVariable for netCDF files to now check for missing data, using either the depreciated missing_value attribute or the compliant _FillValue attribute. Missing data is now identified via new output keywords MISSINGINDICES and FILLVALUE, and missing data is not scaled or offset, if these operations are applied to the data prior to return. 21 March 2010. DWF. Problem with these changes, fixed 23 March 2010. DWF. Fixed a problem with memory leakage when the input file cannot be read. 1 May 2010. DWF. Fixed a problem with memory leakage from created structures. 1 May 2010. DWF. Have done some work on parsing HDF-EOS swath files, but currently unused in code. 15 May 2010. DWF. Modified the ReadVariable method to check for 0 length dimensions when reading variables from HDF files. 21 July 2010. DWF. Modified the global attribute structure so that the "filename" field, which holds the name of the netCDF of HDF file is now named "ncdf_filename" or "hdf_filename". This will avoid conflicts with global attributes with "filename". 20 January 2011. DWF. Typo in the section reading calibration data fixed. 12 March 2013. DWF.
(See ncdf_data__define.pro)
NAME: NCDF_DIMENSION PURPOSE: The pupose of this NCDF_Dimension object is to store information about a netCDF dimension. The object is principally used as a utility routine for the NCDF_FILE object. Given the dimension name, the object will acquire additional information about the dimension from the netCDF file containing the dimension. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: File I/O CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> dimObj = Obj_New('NCDF_DIMENSION', dimName, parent) ARGUMENTS: dimName: The case sensitive name of a netCDF dimension that is stored in the netCDF file. (Input and required.) parent: The object reference (NCDF_FILE object) of the netCDF file. In other words, the object reference of the file that contains this attribute. (Input and required.) KEYWORD PARAMETERS: None. METHODS: The following methods are available. Each is documented in front of the method. dimName = dimObject -> GetID() dimName = dimObject -> GetName() dimName = dimObject -> GetSize() propertyValue = dimObject -> GetProperty(dimProperty) dimValue = dimObject -> GetValue() dimName = dimObject -> GetUnlimited() dimObject -> ParseAttribute MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 Feb 2010.
(See ncdf_dimension__define.pro)
NAME: NCDF_FILE PURPOSE: The pupose of this NCDF_File object is three-fold. (1) Allow the user to easily determine what information is inside a netCDF file and allow easy access to such information. (2) Allow the user to easily create a netCDF file from scratch. (3) Allow the user to easily copy information from one netCDF file to another. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: File I/O CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> nCDFObject = Obj_New('NCDF_FILE', filename) ARGUMENTS: filename: The name of a netCDF file to read, write to, or browse. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: ALERT: Set this keyword if you wish to have alert from the object's error logger. Input. Default is 1. BROWSE: If this keyword is set, the Browse Window is invoked as soon as the object is initiated. Input. Default is 0. CLOBBER: Set this keyword if you are opening a netCDF file that already exists and you want to overwrite the existing file. Input. Default is 0. CREATE: Set this keyword if you wish to create a new netCDF file to write into. Input. Default is 0, which means the file will be opened as "read-only". DELETE_ON_DESTROY: Set this keyword if you wish to delete the error log file when the ErrorLogger object is destroyed. This will only happen if the ErrorLogger object is not in an error state. Input. Default is 1. MODIFY: Set this keyword if you wish to modify (write to) a file you are opening. If not set, the file will be opened as "read-only". METHODS: The following methods are available. Each is documented in front of the method. ncdfObject -> Browse ncdfObject -> CopyVarAttrTo, varName, attrName, destObj ncdfObject -> CopyVarDataTo, varName, destObj, COUNT=count, OFFSET=offset, STRIDE=stride ncdfObject -> CopyVarDefTo, varName, destObj ncdfObject -> CopyGlobalAttrTo, attrName, destObj ncdfObject -> CopyDimTo, dimName, destObj dimNames = ncdfObject -> GetDimNames(COUNT=dimCount) dimValue = ncdfObject -> GetDimValue(dimName) fileID = ncdfObject -> GetFileID() globalAttrNames = ncdfObject -> GetGlobalAttrNames(COUNT=attrCount) attrValue = ncdfObject -> GetGlobalAttrValue(attrName, DATATYPE=datatype) ncdfObject -> GetProperty, .... property = ncdfObject -> GetProperty(thisProperty) varAttrNames = ncdfObject -> GetVarAttrNames(varName, COUNT=attrCount) varAttrValue = ncdfObject -> GetVarAttrValue(varName, varAttrName, COUNT=attrCount) varNames = ncdfObject -> GetVarNames(COUNT=varCount) varData = ncdfObject -> GetVarData(varName, COUNT=count, OFFSET=offset, STRIDE=stride) answer = ncdfObject -> HasGlobalAttr(attrName, OBJECT=object) answer = ncdfObject -> HasDim(dimName, OBJECT=object) answer = ncdfObject -> HasVar(varName, OBJECT=object) answer = ncdfObject -> HasVarAttr(varName, attrName, OBJECT=object) ncdfObject -> PrintFileInfo ncdfObject -> ParseFile ncdfObject -> SetMode, DEFINE=define, DATA=data ncdfObject -> WriteVarData, varName, data, COUNT=count, OFFSET=offset, STRIDE=stride ncdfObject -> WriteVarDef, varName, dimNames, DATATYPE=datatype, VAROBJ=varObj ncdfObject -> WriteDim, dimName, dimSize, UNLIMITED=unlimited ncdfObject -> WriteGlobalAttr, attrName, attrValue, DATATYPE=datatype ncdfObject -> WriteVarAttr, attrName, attrValue, varObj, DATATYPE=datatype NOTES: Note that all variable, attribute, and dimension names in a netCDF file are CASE SENSITIIVE!! Thus, it is a good idea to use the methods provided in this object to obtain and examine information in the file, as these names are handled in a case sensitive manner. Whenever you are creating a new netCDF file, you should try to create the file in the following way. 1. Create your global attributes. 2. Create the dimensions you will be using to describe the variables. 3. Define the variables. To do this correctly, dimensions MUST be defined. 4. Define variable attributes. 5. Load your variables with data. Note that the data type of the _FillValue variable attribute MUST match the data type of the variable data. Otherwise, you will have MANY problems! This is a common source of error. Note that in almost all cases where you see the names "varName", "dimName", or "attrName" used as input variables, you can substitute the proper object reference in place of the actual name. In other words, you could get the value of a variable attribute by doing something like this: check = ncdfObject -> HasAttr('history', OBJECT=attrObj) IF check THEN attrValue = ncdfObject -> GetGlobalAttrValue(attrObj) as opposed to this: IF check THEN attrValue = ncdfObject -> GetGlobalAttrValue('history') EXAMPLE: IDL> filename = 'example.nc' IDL> ncdfObj = Obj_New('NCDF_FILE', filename) IDL> ncdfObj -> Browse IDL> Obj_Destroy, ncdfObj MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 Feb 2010, using (stealing, really) plenty of ideas from Mark Hadfield's Motley Library. Mark's mghncfile object is terrific, but it had a number of limitations for my particular application, which I have attemped to correct in my version of the software. But I wouldn't have even attempted this had Mark not blazed the trail and Matt Savoie not insisted that I look at Mark's wonderful library. Changes in the way dimensions with a zero length are handled. 11 Feb 2010, DWF. Added GetVarInfo method. 20 March 2010. DWF. Added MISSINGINIDCES and FILLVALUE output keywords to GetVarData method. 20 March 2010. DWF. Added output keywords SCALE_FACTOR, ADD_OFFSET, and DATATYPE to GetVarData method so that these values can be obtained with the data. 29 Apr 2010. DWF. I changed "missingValue" to "fillValue" some time ago, but I missed one in the GetVarData method. Fixed. 7 June 2010. DWF. Used the undefine procedure OBJ_DELETE, rather than OBJ_DESTROY. Sheesh! 18 June 2010. DWF. Added NETCDF4_FORMAT keyword. 13 Feb 2012. DWF. Added a bunch of new IDL 8.0 and 8.1 keyword to the WriteVarDef method to allow access to these keywords in NCDF_VarDef. Also modified the NETCDF4_FORMAT keyword to apply only in IDL versions 8.0 and higher. 21 Feb 2012. DWF. Small typo fixed in setting CHAR datatype for IDL 8.1 and higher. 22 May 2013. DWF. Typo (CONTINUOUS->CONTIGUOUS) fixed in WriteDefVar method. 30 July 2013. DWF. Modified CopyVarDefTo method to allow new NCDF4 keywords. 30 July 2013. DWF. Added DelGlobalAttr method to allow deletion of global attributes. 11 Jan 2014. DWF.
(See ncdf_file__define.pro)
NAME: NCDF_FILE_EXAMPLES PURPOSE: This is a utility routine demonstrates the several ways it is possible to use the NCDF_FILE object to create netCDF files, copy information from one netCDF file to another, and to read information from a netCDF file. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: NCDF_File_Examples ARGUMENTS: None. KEYWORDS: None. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 February 2010. Updated to use a time variable for the frame number. 29 Oct 2011.
(See ncdf_file_examples.pro)
NAME: NCDF_ISVALIDFILE PURPOSE: Utility routine to determine if a file is a valid netCDF file or not. Returns a 1 if the file is valid and a 0 otherwise. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utility. CALLING SEQUENCE: result = NCDF_IsValidFile(filename) INPUTS: filename: The name of a filename to open to see if it is a valid netCDF file. RETURN VALUE: result: A 1 if the file can be opened as a netCDF file. A 0 otherwise. KEYWORDS: None. ALGORITHM: Try to open the file. If you fail, it is not an netCDF file. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 21 February 2010.
(See ncdf_isvalidfile.pro)
NAME: NCDF_VARIABLE PURPOSE: The pupose of this NCDF_Variable object is to store information about a netCDF variable. The object is principally used as a utility routine for the NCDF_FILE object. Given the variable name, the object will acquire additional information about the variable from the netCDF file containing the variable. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: File I/O CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> varObj = Obj_New('NCDF_VARIABLE', varName, parent) ARGUMENTS: varName: The case sensitive name of a netCDF variable that is stored in the netCDF file. (Input and required.) parent: The object reference (NCDF_FILE object) of the netCDF file. In other words, the object reference of the file that contains this attribute. (Input and required.) KEYWORD PARAMETERS: None. METHODS: The following methods are available. Each is documented in front of the method. varObject -> AddAttr varAttrNames = varObject -> GetAttrNames() dimIDs = varObject -> GetDimIDs() dimNames = varObject -> GetDimNames() varAttrValue = varObject -> GetAttrValue() varID = varObject -> GetID() varName = varObject -> GetName() propertyValue = varObject -> GetProperty(attrProperty) varValue = varObject -> GetValue() varObject -> ParseVariable MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 3 Feb 2010. Changes to the way dimensions of length 0 are handled. 11 Feb 2010. DWF. Added GetInfo method. 20 Mar 2010. DWF. Added MISSINGINDICES and FILLVALUE keywords to GetValue method to return the indices and the value of missing data. 20 Mar 2010. DWF. Modified the GetValue method so that if the data returned is scaled and/or offset then the "missing" data value is preserved, although its data type may change. In other words, the "missing" data is not scaled or offset. 20 Mar 2010. DWF. Added output keywords SCALE_FACTOR, ADD_OFFSET, and DATATYPE to the GetValue method so that these values can be returned to the caller at run-time. 29 April 2010. DWF. Modified AddAttr method to allow for additional data types in attributes, specifically INT data type. 3 June 2013. DWF. Had to modify AddAttr method again to allow compatibility with IDL versions below 8.1. 26 July 2013. DWF.
(See ncdf_variable__define.pro)
NAME: PICKCOLOR PURPOSE: A modal dialog widget allowing the user to select the RGB color triple specifying a color. The return value of the function is the color triple specifying the color or the "name" of the color if the NAME keyword is set. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING: David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: davidf@dfanning.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com CATEGORY: Graphics, Color Specification. See related program cgCOLOR. CALLING SEQUENCE: color = PickColor(colorindex) RETURN VALUE: The return value of the function is a 1-by-3 array containing the values of the color triple that specifies the selected color. The color can be loaded, for example, in any color index: color = PickColor(240) TVLCT, color, 240 The return value is the original color triple if the user selects the CANCEL button. IF the NAMES keyword is set, the return value of the function is the "name" of the selected color. This would be appropriate for passing to the cgCOLOR program, for example. OPTIONAL INPUT POSITIONAL PARAMETERS: COLORINDEX: The color index of the color to be changed. If not specified the color index !D.Table_Size - 2 is used. The Current Color and the Color Sliders are set to the values of the color at this color index. OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: GROUP_LEADER: The group leader for this widget program. This keyword is required for MODAL operation. If not supplied the program is a BLOCKING widget. Be adviced, however, that the program will NOT work if called from a blocking widget program, unless a GROUP_LEADER is supplied. NAMES: Set this keyword to return the "name" of the selected color rather than its color triple. STARTINDEX: 88 pre-determined colors are loaded The STARTINDEX is the index in the color table where these 88 colors will be loaded. By default, it is !D.Table_Size - 89. TITLE: The title on the program's top-level base. By default the title is "Pick a Color". OPTIONAL INPUT KEYWORD PARAMETERS: CANCEL: A keyword that is set to 1 if the CANCEL button is selected and to 0 otherwise. COMMON BLOCKS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: 88 pre-determined colors are loaded in the color table. In addition, the color index at COLORINDEX is modified while the program is on the display. When the program exits, the entry color table is restored. Thus, on 8-bit displays there might be some color effects in graphics windows while PICKCOLOR is on the display. Changes in the color table are not noticable on 16-bit and 24-bit displays. EXAMPLE: To specify a color for a plot in color decomposition OFF mode: Device, Decomposed=0 !P.Color = !P.Color < (!D.Table_Size - 1) color = PickColor(!P.Color, Cancel=cancelled) IF NOT cancelled THEN BEGIN TVLCT, color, !P.Color Plot, data ENDIF To specify a color for a plot in color decomposition ON mode: Device, Decomposed=1 color = PickColor(Cancel=cancelled) !P.Color = Color24(color) IF NOT cancelled THEN Plot, data To obtain the name of the selected color to pass to GetColor: selectedColor = PickColor(/Name) axisColor = cgColor(selectedColor, !D.Table_Size-4) MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, 28 Oct 99. Added NAME keyword. 18 March 2000, DWF. Fixed a small bug when choosing a colorindex less than !D.Table_Size-17. 20 April 2000. DWF. Added actual color names to label when NAMES keyword selected. 12 May 2000. DWF. Modified to use 88 colors and cgCOLOR instead of 16 colors and GETCOLOR. 4 Dec 2000. DWF. Changed FSC_Color to cgColor everywhere. 16 Jan 2013. DWF.
(See pickcolor.pro)
NAME: PrecipMap PURPOSE: This is a program that demonstrates how to place an IDL map projection onto an image that is already in a map projection space. It uses a NOAA precipitation image that is in a polar stereographic map projection, and for which the latitudes and longitudes of its four corners are known. For additional details, see http://www.idlcoyote.com/map_tips/precipmap.html. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Map Projection CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> PrecipMap, filename INPUTS: filename: The name of the precipitation file. For demo, download ST4.2005010112.24h.bin from http://www.idlcoyote.com/data/ST4.2005010112.24h.bin. KEYWORDS: DATA: Set this keyword to a named variable that on output will contain the scaled data. PALETTE: Set this keyword to a named variable that on output will contain the color palette used to display the data. RESTRICTIONS: Requires files from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/documents/programs.html MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 28 April 2006 from code and discussion supplied by James Kuyper in the IDL newsgroup. Renamed Colorbar procedure to cgColorbar to avoid conflict with IDL 8 Colorbar function. 26 September 2010. DWF. Got the polar stereo map projection correct. 5 September 2011. DWF. Added DATA, MAP, and PALETTE output keywords and updated to use more modern Coyote Library mapping routines. 2 November 2012. DWF.
(See precipmap.pro)
NAME: PRINTWINDOW This program sends the contents of the specified window to the default printer. The current window is used if a window index number is not provided. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: IDL> PrintWindow, wid OPTIONAL POSITIONAL PARAMETERS: WID The window index number of the window to send to the printer. !D.Window used by default. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: LANDSCAPE If this keyword is set, the output is in Landscape mode. Otherwise, Portrait mode is used. PAGESIZE: Set this keyword to a string indicating the type of PostScript page size you want. Current values are "LETTER", "LEGAL", and "A4". Default is "LETTER". RGB_ERROR: Some printers (particularly attached to LINUX machines) cannot load a 24-bit image. You get this error message: %Can't set RGB color on an indexed destination. If this happens to you, set this keyword and the 24-bit image will be made into a 2D image with color table vectors. Colors are not quaranteed to be accurate with this method, but in practice it is not usually too bad. IDL> PrintWindow, /RGB_Error MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning based on previous PRINT_IT program. 29 July 2000. Added RGB_Error keyword. 2 Nov 2004. DWF.
(See printwindow.pro)
NAME: PSWINDOW PURPOSE: This function is used to calculate the size of a PostScript window that has the same aspect ratio (ratio of height to width) as the current display graphics window. It creates the largest possible PostScript output window with the desired aspect ratio. This assures that PostScript output looks similar, if not identical, to normal graphics output on the display. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: pageInfo = PSWINDOW() INPUTS: None. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: ASPECTRATIO: Normally the aspect ratio is matched to the aspect ratio (ratio of height divided by width) of the current graphics window. However, this keyword can be used to select a particular aspect ratio for the PostScript window. This should be a floating point value. CM: Normally the structure value that is returned from this function reports its values in inches. Setting this keyword causes the return values to be in units of centimeters. EUROPEAN: This keyword is depreciated in favor of METRIC. FUDGE: A quick way to set symetrical XFUDGE and YFUDGE factors. If this keyword is set to a value, XFUDGE and YFUDGE keywords are set to the same value. Fudge factors are used only with some printers and generally only when output is being sent to the PRINTER device. (See the description of the XFUDGE and YFUDGE keywords for additional information.) LANDSCAPE: Normally, a landscape page is selected if the current graphics window is wider than it is tall. If you prefer a landscape aspect window on a Portrait page, set the LANDSCAPE keywword to 0. Setting this keyword to 1 will result in a landscape page no matter the size of the current graphics window. MARGIN: The margin around the edges of the plot. The value must be a floating point value between 0.0 and 0.35. It is expressed in normalized coordinate units. The default margin is 0.05. METRIC: If this keyword is set, the program defaults change so that the CM keyword is set to 1 and the PAGESIZE keyword is set to "A4". PAGESIZE: Set this keyword to a string indicating the type of PostScript page size you want. Current values are "LETTER", "LEGAL", and "A4". Default is "LETTER". PRINTER: Set this keyword if the output will be used to configure the PRINTER device, rather than the PS device. (In the PRINTER device, offsets are always calculated from the lower-left corner of the page and do not rotate in Landscape mode, as they do with the PS device.) Note that the PRINTER device is only able to accept these keywords in IDL 5.1 and higher. XFUDGE: Printers calculate the offset point from the printable edge of the paper (sometimes), rather from the corner of the paper. For example, on my Lexmark printer, both X and Y offsets are calculated from a point 0.25 inches in from the edge. This keyword allows you to set a "fudge" factor that will be subtracted from the XOFFSET that is returned to the user. This allows you to create output that is centered on the page. The fudge factor should be in the same units as the returned size and offset values. YFUDGE: Printers calculate the offset point from the printable edge of the paper (sometimes), rather from the corner of the paper. For example, on my Lexmark printer, both X and Y offsets are calculated from a point 0.25 inches in from the edge. This keyword allows you to set a "fudge" factor that will be subtracted from the YOFFSET that is returned to the user. This allows you to create output that is centered on the page. The fudge factor should be in the same units as the returned size and offset values. OUTPUTS: pageInfo: The output value is a named structure defined like this: pageInfo = {PSWINDOW_STRUCT, XSIZE:0.0, YSIZE:0.0, $ XOFSET:0.0, YOFFSET:0.0, INCHES:0, PORTRAIT:0, LANDSCAPE:0} The units of the four size fields are inches unless the CM keyword is set. The output can be used to immediately configure the PostScript or Printer device, like this: Set_Plot, 'PS' ; or 'PRINTER' Device, _Extra=pageInfo RESTRICTIONS: The aspect ratio of the current graphics window is calculated like this: aspectRatio = FLOAT(!D.Y_VSIZE) / !D.X_VSIZE EXAMPLE: To create a PostScript output window with the same aspect ratio as the curently active display window, type: pageInfo = PSWINDOW() SET_PLOT, 'PS' DEVICE, _Extra=pageInfo To configure the PRINTER device: pageInfo = PSWINDOW(/Printer, Fudge=0.25) SET_PLOT, 'PRINTER' DEVICE, _Extra=pageInfo MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, November 1996. Fixed a bug in which the YOFFSET was calculated incorrectly in Landscape mode. 12 Feb 97. Took out a line of code that wasn't being used. 14 Mar 97. Added correct units keyword to return structure. 29 JUN 98. DWF Fixed a bug in how landscape offsets were calculated. 19 JUL 99. DWF. Fixed a bug in the way margins were used to conform to my original conception of the program. 19 JUL 99. DWF. Added Landscape and Portrait fields to the return structure. 19 JUL 99. DWF. Added PageSize keyword, changed MARGIN keyword, and completely rewrote most of the intenal code. 9 FEB 2000. DWF. Fixed a bug in how I calculated the aspect ratio. 1 MAR 2000. DWF. Added PRINTER keyword to return proper offset values for the PRINTER device, where the offset location is not rotated. 1 MAR 2000. DWF. Added PRINTER fudge factors to take into account that printer offsets are calculated from the printable area of the paper, rather than the corner of the paper. 8 AUG 2000. DWF. Changed the default margin to 0.05 from 0.15. 29 Nov 2004, DWF. Added EUROPEAN keyword and set LANDSCAPE mode if window wider than higher as the default if LANDSCAPE is not set. 13 Dec 2010. DWF. Added ASPECTRATIO keyword to allow user-specified window aspect ratio. 13 Dec 2010. DWF. Depreciated EUROPEAN keyword in favor of METRIC. 31 Jan 2011. DWF. Now setting LANDSCAPE=0 if aspect GT 1 and not set otherwise. 19 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See pswindow.pro)
:Description: Provides a device-independent way to set the background color in the PostScript device. :Categories: Graphics, Utilities :Params: color: in, required, type=string/integer, default='white' The color that is used for the PostScript background. A polygon of this color is written to the PostScript file and fills the PostScript "window". :Examples: IDL> PS_Background, 'rose' :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written, 17 November 2010. DWF. Modified to use gcColorFill so that color is done with decomposed color. 24 Dec 2010. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2010, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See ps_background.pro)
NAME: RANDOMNUMBERGENERATOR PURPOSE: Allows the user to obtain a sequence of pseudo-random numbers. The object maintains the random number generator seed in such a way that subsequent calls to GetRandomNumbers will guarentee that you don't get the same random numbers each time you ask for random numbers. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: Generate three random numbers. IDL> rng = Obj_New('RandomNumberGenerator', initialSeed) IDL> numberOfNumbersNeeded = 3 IDL> randomNumbers = rng -> GetRandomNumbers(numberOfNumbersNeeded) IDL> Print, randomNumbers 0.80952855 0.35878432 0.52150406 Generate a sequence of 8 random digits. IDL> Print, rng -> GetRandomDigits(8) 21855786 INPUT PARAMETERS FOR INIT METHOD: initialSeed: The initial seed for the random number generator. If undefined or absent, the number of seconds after 1 January 1970 is used. METHODS: randomNumbers -> GetRandomNumbers(d1, d2, d3, d4 d5, d6, d7, d8) randomDigits = obj -> GetRandomDigits(numDigets) obj -> SetSeed, seed MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 13 November 2009. Added GetRandomDigits method. 7 February 2010. DWF. Incorrect cleanup of the seed pointer fixed in the CLEANUP procedure. 25 February 2010, DWF.
(See randomnumbergenerator__define.pro)
NAME: RANGEOF PURPOSE: This function returns the range (i.e., the minimum and maximum value) of its argument. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: range = RangeOf(variable) INPUTS: variable: Any numeric IDL variable, except complex. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: None. OUTPUTS: range: A two-element vector containing the minimum and maximum value of the variable. EXAMPLE: x = RandomU(3L, 10) * 100 Print, RangeOf(x) 3.78892 98.4703 MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 15 February 2009.
(See rangeof.pro)
NAME: REPMAT PURPOSE: This program replicates a matrix or array in the style of the MATLAB RebMat command. The matrix or array is "tiled" in some integer number of columns and rows. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: tiledMatrix = RepMat(matrix, ncol, nrow) AUGUMENTS: matix: The matrix or array to be tiled. ncol: The number of columns in the tile. nrow: The number of rows in the tile. RETURN_VALUE: tiledMatrix: If (xdim,ydim) is the size of the original 2D matrix, then the output matrix is sized (ncol*xdim, nrow*ydim). KEYWORDS: None. EXAMPLE: IDL> matrix = Reform(Indgen(6) + 1, 3, 2) IDL> Print, matrix, FORMAT='(3I3)' 1 2 3 4 5 6 IDL> Print, RepMat(matrix, 3, 2), FORMAT='(9I3)' 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 4 5 6 4 5 6 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 4 5 6 4 5 6 MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 8 May 2009. Algorithm significantly improved by Ronn Kling, 4 August 2009. Added line to handle an input matrix with a trailing 1 dimension correctly. DJ 8 March 2011.
(See repmat.pro)
NAME: RESOLVE_OBJECT PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to resolve object methods in files that have the object methods in the same file as the object class definition module (i.e., object__define.pro). It is particularly useful in restoring object methods for objects that have been saved and are being restored. Restored objects often do not know about their methods unless an object of the same object class has been previously compiled in that IDL session. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: Resolve_Object, obj_or_class ARGUMENTS: obj_or_class: Either an IDL object or the class name of an IDL object. Required parameter. KEYWORDRS: ROUTINE_INFO: Not strictly used by the user of the program, but this provides a mechanism by which currently compiled routine names can be checked, so that object code is not being recompiled unnecessarily. It is actually used internally in the code in a sort of recursive approach to handling object superclasses. INFORMATION: A discussion of this routine, and of the problem the routine was written to address can be found here: http://www.idlcoyote.com/tips/saved_objects.html MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, August 20, 2009, and based on code written by JD Smith and discussed in the article above.
(See resolve_object.pro)
NAME: REVERSE_AXES PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to extend the SIMPLE_SURFACE program to demonstrate how to create reversible axes in object graphics. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Widgets, Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: REVERSE_AXES, data, x, y REQUIRED INPUTS: None. Fake data will be used if no data is supplied in call. OPTIONAL INPUTS data: A 2D array of surface data. x: A vector of X data values. y: A vector of Y data values. OPTIONAL KEYWORD PARAMETERS: EXACT: Set this keyword to get exact axis scaling. _EXTRA: This keyword collects otherwise undefined keywords that are passed to the surface initialization routine. GROUP_LEADER: The group leader for this program. When the group leader is destroyed, this program will be destroyed. LANDSCAPE: Set this keyword if you are printing in landscape mode. The default is Portrait mode. The Landscape keyword on the PRINTER object is set, but not all printers will honor this keyword setting. If yours does not, set Landscape mode in the Printer Setup dialog. VECTOR: Set this keyword if you want vector printing (as opposed to the default bitmap printing). XTITLE: A string used as the X title of the plot. YTITLE: A string used as the Y title of the plot. ZTITLE: A string used as the Z title of the plot. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLE: To use this program with your 2D data, type: IDL> Reverse_Axes, data MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, October 2001. Changed FSC_Normalize to cgNormalize to reflect new name. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See reverse_axes.pro)
NAME: SAVETOMAIN PURPOSE: This is used primarily in debugging mode to save a variable to the main IDL level for later inspection. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: SaveToMain, variable, nameOfVariable ARGUMENTS: variable: The variable you wish to save at the main IDL level. nameOfVariable: The name of the variable at the main IDL level. If undefined, the variable will have the same name as the variable that was used as the variable argument. KEYWORDRS: None. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 2 July 2009.
(See savetomain.pro)
NAME: SCALEMODIS PURPOSE: MODIS corrected reflectance images often appear drab when initially processed and displayed on a computer using BYTSCL. In fact, the resulting true-color images look nothing like the images you can find on the MODIS Rapid Response web page (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/). After poking around on the Internet for awhile, I discovered that the Rapid Response Team doesn't use BYTSCL to prepare the images. Rather, they selectively scale portions of the reflectance image, using a piecewise scaling with different slopes. This program implements this Rapid Response Team algorithm. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: scaledBand = ScaleModis(red, green, blue) ARGUMENTS: red: A two-dimensional array representing the corrected reflectance values of a MODIS image. This is a required parameter. If the green and blue parameters are also used, this parameter will represent the red band of a RGB 24-bit scaled image that is returned. green: If the three parameters--red, green, and blue--are present, the returned array is a 24-bit true-color image, scaled appropriately. This parameter is used as the green band in such an image. The parameter is a two-dimensional array of corrected reflectance values. blue: If the three parameters--red, green, and blue--are present, the returned array is a 24-bit true-color image, scaled appropriately. This parameter is used as the blue band in such an image. The parameter is a two-dimensional array of corrected reflectance values. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: RANGE: A two-dimensional array that the input bands are first scaled into, prior to the differential scaling using the MODIS Rapid Response algorithm. The default input range is [-0.01, 1.10]. These values will be used to set the MIN and MAX keywords for the BYTSCL command in the initial scaling of the input bands. CLOUD: The MODIS Rapid Response team uses a slightly different scaling algorithm when the idea is to emphasize clouds in a MODIS scene. Set this keyword to use the alternate cloud scaling algorithm. OUTPUTS: scaledBand: If a single 2D array is passed as the argument, then scaledBand is the scaled 2D output array. If all three arguments are passed to the program, then scaledBand is a scaled 24-bit image that represents a true-color or false color representation of the three input bands. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, July 2009, using the IDL programs MODIS_FALSE_COLOR and and SCALE_IMAGE for inspiration. I found these programs on the Internet when poking around MODIS web pages. I suspect, but I am not sure, these programs were originally written by Liam Gumley. Minor changes to the ScaleIt function to be sure partitioning is done correctly. 5 Aug 2009. DWF.
(See scalemodis.pro)
NAME: SCROLLWINDOW PURPOSE: This procedure is more or less a drop-in replacement for the WINDOW command. The main difference is that if the requested window size is larger then the current display size, the window is created in a base widget with scroll bars so the user can scroll around the larger window. Use the WID keyword to pass in the window index number of the window you want to create (a small change from the WINDOW syntax). If the program can create a window with this window index number, it will. Otherwise, this keyword will return the window index number of the window that was actually created. I use ScrollWindow to create windows that I can view both on my large monitor at work and on my smaller laptop monitor when I travel. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics CALLING SEQUENCE: ScrollWindow, xsize, ysize ARGUMENTS: xsize: The x size of the graphics window. By default, 640. ysize: The y size of the graphics window. By default, 512. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: FREE: Get a window with a free or unused window index number. This is *always* done with a scrollable window. The window index number of the window is returned in the WID keyword. PIXMAP: Set to create a pixmap window. In this case, no scrollable window is possible. A normal IDL graphics window is always created. SIZEFRAC: Make the window this fraction of the screen dimensions. A number between 0.0 and 1.0 TITLE: The title string that is displayed on the window. WID: The window index number. If supplied as an IDL variable, this can be both an input and an output keyword. If a window with this window index number can be created, it is. Otherwise, this varible upon exit from the program contains the window index number of the graphics window that was created. XPOS: The x offset of the upper-left corner of the window. XSIZE: The same as the xsize argument. Provided so ScrollWindow can be a drop-in replacement for the Window command. YPOS: The y offset of the upper-left corner of the window. YSIZE: The same as the ysize argument. Provided so ScrollWindow can be a drop-in replacement for the Window command. EXAMPLE: ScrollWindow, XSIZE=800, YSIZE=400 ; Produces normal IDL graphics window. ScrollWindow, XSIZE=1800, YSIZE=1200 ; Produces a scrollable graphics window. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 25 March 2009 Added SIZEFRACTION keyword, Mats Löfdahl, 25 November 2012.
(See scrollwindow.pro)
This is a utility routine to perform standard deviation scaling on image arrays. The user defines a multiple of the standard deviation and this is used with the standard deviation of the pixels in the image to create a threshold for linear scaling. Use the EXCLUDE keyword to exclude a particular value from the standard deviation calculation. :Categories: Utilities, Graphics :Params: image: in, required, type=numeric The image array that is to be scaled. :Keywords: exclude: in, optional, type=numeric Set this keyword to a value in the image array that is to be excluded from the standard deviation calculation. Normally, this would be the backgroud value of the image, if there is a background. multiplier: in, optional, type=float, default=2.0 The standard deviation of the image pixels is computed and then multiplied by the multiplier factor to produce upper and lower thresholds for the linear scaling of the image by subtracting or adding this value to the mean value of the image. The image is linearly scaled between these two threshold values. negative: in, optional, type=boolean Set this keyword to return the "negative" or reverse of the image scaling. omax: in, optional, type=byte, default=255 Normally, the image is scaled into the range of 0 to 255. Setting the OMIN and OMAX keywords can change this scaling. omin: in, optional, type=byte, default=0 Normally, the image is scaled into the range of 0 to 255. Setting the OMIN and OMAX keywords can change this scaling. threshold: out, optional, type=float A two-element array that contains the minimum and maximum thresholds, respectively, that were calculated for the scaling. :Examples: To display an image with standard deviation scaling:: image = cgDemoData(5) cgDisplay, 256*3, 256 !P.Multi = [0,3,1] cgImage, image cgImage, SDevScl(image) cgImage, SDevScl(image, Exclude=0) !P.Multi = 0 :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written by: David W. Fanning, 5 June 2012. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2012, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See sdevscl.pro)
NAME: SELECT_OBJECTS PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to demonstrate how to select and move objects in an object graphics window. Once the objects appear in the window, use your mouse to select the objects and move them in the window. The window is resizeable. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: SELECT_OBJECTS REQUIRED INPUTS: None. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: None. COMMON BLOCKS: None. SIDE EFFECTS: None. RESTRICTIONS: Requires VCOLORBAR from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/vcolorbar__define.pro. EXAMPLE: Select_Objects MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, 21 September 98. Added the ability to shrink and expand the objects. 27 Sept 98. DWF. Changed FSC_Normalize to cgNormalize to reflect new name. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See select_objects.pro)
This procedure sets default values for positional and keyword arguments to IDL procedures and functions. :Categories: Utilities :Params: argument: in, required The augument variable you are setting the default value of. If this variable is undefined, the `defaultValue` will be assigned to it. Otherwise, the argument variable will not change. defaultvalue: in, required The default value that will be assigned to the argument variable ONLY if the argument variable is undefined. If this variable is undefined, the argument variable will be treated as if the BOOLEAN keyword had been set. :Keywords: boolean: in, optional, type=integer If this keyword is set, the argument value will always be forced to return with a value of 0 or 1. :Examples: Here is how to use this program:: FUNCTION Action, arg1, arg2, MULTIPLY=multiply SetDefaultValue, arg1, 1 SetDefaultValue, arg2, 2 SetDefaultValue, multiply, 1, /BOOLEAN IF multiply THEN RETURN, arg1 * arg2 ELSE RETURN, arg1 + arg2 END :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written by: David W. Fanning, November 26, 2008, from suggestion by Carsten Lechte on IDL newsgroup on this date. Made a change to the way the BOOLEAN keyword works. Now argument is set to BOOLEAN before return, if required. 3 Dec 2008. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2008-2014, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See setdefaultvalue.pro)
NAME: Sharpen PURPOSE: This function sharpens an image using a Laplacian kernel. The final result is color adjusted to match the histogram of the input image. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Image Processing CALLING SEQUENCE: sharp_image = Sharpen(image) INPUTS: image - The input image to be sharpened. Assumed to be a 2D byte array. OUTPUTS: sharp_image - The sharpened image. INPUT KEYWORDS: KERNEL -- By default the image is convolved with this 3-by-3 Laplacian kernel: [ [-1, -1, -1], [-1, +8, -1], [-1, -1, -1] ]. You can pass in any kernel of odd width. The filtered image is added back to the original image to provide the sharpening effect. DISPLAY -- If this keyword is set a window is opened and the details of the sharpening process are displayed. OUTPUT KEYWORDS: None. DEPENDENCIES: None. METHOD: This function is based on the Laplacian kernel sharpening method on pages 128-131 of Digital Image Processing, 2nd Edition, Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, ISBN 0-20-118075-8. EXAMPLE: There is an example program at the end of this file. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, January 2003. Updated slightly to use Coyote Library routines. 3 Dec. 2010. DWF. Modified the example to work with cgImage. 29 March 2011. DWF.
(See sharpen.pro)
NAME: SORT_ND PURPOSE: Efficiently perform an N-dimensional sort along any dimension of an array. CALLING SEQUENCE: inds=sort_nd(array,dimension) INPUTS: array: An array of at least 2 dimensions to sort. dimension: The dimension along which to sort, starting at 1 (1:rows, 2:columns, ...). OUTPUTS: inds: An index array with the same dimensions as the input array, containing the (1D) sorted indices. Can be used directly to index the arary (ala SORT). EXAMPLE: a=randomu(sd,5,4,3,2) sorted=a[sort_nd(a,2)] SEE ALSO: HISTOGRAM MODIFICATION HISTORY: Tue Aug 22 15:51:12 2006, J.D. SmithWritten, based on discussion on c.l.i-p, 08/2006.
(See sort_nd.pro)
NAME: STATIONPLOT PURPOSE: This is routine for drawing station plots on a map or other display. Normally, this routine is used in conjunction with WINDBARB. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: StationPlot, x, y REQUIRED INPUTS: x: The X location of the center of the station plot, expressed in data coordinates. y: The Y location of the center of the station plot, expressed in data coordinates. KEYWORDS: COLOR: The name of the color to draw the station plot in. May be a vector the same length as X. Colors are those available in cgColor. RADIUS: The radius of the station plot circle in normalized coordinates. RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgColor from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgColor.pro EXAMPLE: seed = -3L lon = Randomu(seed, 20) * 360 - 180 lat = Randomu(seed, 20) * 180 - 90 speed = Randomu(seed, 20) * 100 direction = Randomu(seed, 20) * 180 + 90 Erase, cgColor('Ivory', !P.Background) Map_Set, /Cylindrical,Position=[0.1, 0.1, 0.9, 0.9], Color=cgColor('Steel Blue'), /NoErase Map_Grid, Color=cgColor('Charcoal', !D.Table_Size-2) Map_Continents, Color=cgColor('Sea Green', !D.Table_Size-3) StationPlot, lon, lat, Color='Indian Red' MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 20 May 2003, based on TVCircle from the NASA Astonomy Library. Added THICK keyword. 23 February 2005. DWF.
(See stationplot.pro)
NAME: STR_SIZE PURPOSE: The purpose of this function is to return the proper character size to make a specified string a specifed width in a window. The width is specified in normalized coordinates. The function is extremely useful for sizing strings and labels in resizeable graphics windows. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: Graphics Programs, Widgets. CALLING SEQUENCE: thisCharSize = STR_SIZE(thisSting, targetWidth) INPUTS: thisString: This is the string that you want to make a specifed target size or width. OPTIONAL INPUTS: targetWidth: This is the target width of the string in normalized coordinates in the current graphics window. The character size of the string (returned as thisCharSize) will be calculated to get the string width as close as possible to the target width. The default is 0.25. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: INITSIZE: This is the initial size of the string. Default is 1.0. STEP: This is the amount the string size will change in each step of the interative process of calculating the string size. The default value is 0.05. XPOS: X position of the output test string. This can be used on the Postscript device, where no pixmap windows are available and where therefore the test strings would appear on the printable area. Default is 0.5 on most devices. If !D.NAME is PS, the default is 2.0 to draw the test string out of the drawable window area. YPOS: Y position of the output test string. This can be used on the Postscript device, where no pixmap windows are available and where therefore the test strings would appear on the printable area. Default is 0.5 on most devices. If !D.NAME is PS, the default is 2.0 to draw the test string out of the drawable window area. OUTPUTS: thisCharSize: This is the size the specified string should be set to if you want to produce output of the specified target width. The value is in standard character size units where 1.0 is the standard character size. EXAMPLE: To make the string "Happy Holidays" take up 30% of the width of the current graphics window, type this: XYOUTS, 0.5, 0.5, ALIGN=0.5, "Happy Holidays", $ CHARSIZE=STR_SIZE("Happy Holidays", 0.3) MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David Fanning, 17 DEC 96. Added a scaling factor to take into account the aspect ratio of the window in determing the character size. 28 Oct 97. DWF Added check to be sure hardware fonts are not selected. 29 April 2000. DWF. Added a pixmap to get proper scaling in skinny windows. 16 May 2000. DWF. Forgot I can't do pixmaps in all devices. :-( Fixed. 7 Aug 2000. DWF. Added support of PostScript at behest of Benjamin Hornberger. 11 November 2004. DWF. Cleaned up the code a bit. 28 Feb 2011. DWF. Fixed non-square window algorithm to reflect my original intentions. 10 June 2011.
(See str_size.pro)
NAME: TEXTBOX PURPOSE: This function allows the user to type some text in a pop-up dialog widget and have it returned to the program. This is an example of a Pop-Up Dialog Widget. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utility, Widgets CALLING SEQUENCE: thetext = TextBox() INPUTS: None. KEYWORD PARAMETERS: CANCEL: An output parameter. If the user kills the widget or clicks the Cancel button this keyword is set to 1. It is set to 0 otherwise. It allows you to determine if the user canceled the dialog without having to check the validity of the answer. theText = TextBox(Title='Provide Phone Number...', Label='Number:', Cancel=cancelled) IF cancelled THEN Return GROUP_LEADER: The widget ID of the group leader of this pop-up dialog. This should be provided if you are calling the program from within a widget program: thetext = TextBox(Group_Leader=event.top) If a group leader is not provided, an unmapped top-level base widget will be created as a group leader. LABEL: A string the appears to the left of the text box. TITLE: The title of the top-level base. If not specified, the string 'Provide Input:' is used by default. VALUE: A string variable that is the intial value of the textbox. By default, a null string. XSIZE: The size of the text widget in pixel units. By default, 200. OUTPUTS: theText: The string of characters the user typed in the text widget. No error checking is done. RESTRICTIONS: The widget is destroyed if the user clicks on either button or if they hit a carriage return (CR) in the text widget. The text is recorded if the user hits the ACCEPT button or hits a CR in the text widget. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, December 20, 2001. Added VALUE keyword to set the initial value of the text box. 4 Nov 2002. DWF.
(See textbox.pro)
NAME: TextLineFormat PURPOSE: This is a utility program for taking a line of text and shortening it to a defined maximum length. The result of the function is a string array in which no line of text in the string array is longer than the maximum length. The text is broken into "words" by white space. The algorithm is modified slightly if there are LF (line feeds) in the text, or if any single word in the text is too large to fit on a line. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: formattedText = TextLineFormat(theText) INPUTS: theText: The line of text that is to be formatted. KEYWORDS: LENGTH: The maximum line length allowed in the resulting text array. Set to 60 characters by default. Lines greater than length can be permitted if Line Feeds (ASCII 10B) are found in the text or single words are too large to fit on a line. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David Fanning, June 2005. Fixed a small problem with cumulative total not counting spaces between words. Changed the default size to 60. DWF. 18 August 2005. Added check for LF in text to accommodate reading netCDF file attributes. If LF are present, I break on these, and return. 15 Feb 2008. DWF. Better handling of lines with no white space in them for breaking. 23 March 2009. DWF.
(See textlineformat.pro)
NAME: TEXTURE_SURFACE PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to demonstrate how to create a simple surface plot with an image applied as a texture in object graphics. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Widgets, Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: TEXTURE_SURFACE, data, x, y, Image=image REQUIRED INPUTS: None. Fake data will be used if no data is supplied in call. OPTIONAL INPUTS data: A 2D array of surface data. x: A vector of X data values. y: A vector of Y data values. OPTIONAL KEYWORD PARAMETERS: BORDERCOLOR : A three element array [R, G, B] describing the color used to draw the non-textured part of the surface if POSITION is specified. COLORTABLE: The number of an IDL color table to use for the image texture. Used only if the supplied image is 2D. Ignored otherwise. EXACT: Set this keyword to get exact axis scaling. _EXTRA: This keyword collects otherwise undefined keywords that are passed to the surface initialization routine. GROUP_LEADER: The group leader for this program. When the group leader is destroyed, this program will be destroyed. IMAGE: An 8-bit or 24-bit image you wish to use for the image texture. LANDSCAPE: Set this keyword if you are printing in landscape mode. The default is Portrait mode. The Landscape keyword on the PRINTER object is set, but not all printers will honor this keyword setting. If yours does not, set Landscape mode in the Printer Setup dialog. POSITION: A four element array of the form [x1, y1, x2, y2] that will position the image with its lower-left corner at (x1,y1) and its upper- right corner at (x2,y2) in the device coordinate system of the surface. In other words, if my surface is a 41 by 41 array, and I want the image positioned with lower-left at (5,10) and upper-right at (25,18), then I call the program like this: Texture_Surface, Position=[5, 10, 25, 18]. VECTOR: Set this keyword if you want vector printing (as opposed to the default bitmap printing). XTITLE: A string used as the X title of the plot. YTITLE: A string used as the Y title of the plot. ZSCALE: A number larger than or equal to 0.001 and less than or equal to 1.0 that affects Z scaling. ZTITLE: A string used as the Z title of the plot. COMMON BLOCKS: None. EXAMPLE: To use this program with your surface data and 2D image, type: IDL> data = cgDemoData(2) IDL> image = cgDemoData(7) IDL> Texture_Surface, data, Image=image, Colortable=33 RESTRICTIONS: Requires the ASPECT program from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/aspect.pro MODIFICATION HISTORY Written by David W. Fanning, 1 Nov 2001, from previous Simple_Surface code. Modifications suggested by Karl Shultz added to allow surface color specification and improved resolution about image edges when positioning images. BORDERCOLOR keyword added. DWF. 4 Nov 2001. The surface now maintains the same X/Y aspect ratio as the surface data. DWF. 8 April 2002. Added ZSCALE keyword. DWF. 8 April 2002. Changed FSC_Normalize to cgNormalize to reflect new name. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See texture_surface.pro)
NAME: TRANSFORM_VOLUME PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to transform (e.g., rotate, scale, and translate) a 3D array or volume. AUTHOR: Martin Downing, Clinical Research Physicist, Grampian Orthopaedic RSA Research Centre, Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, AB15 6LS. Pnone: 01224 556055 / 07903901612 Fa: 01224 556662 E-mail: m.downing@abdn.ac.uk CATEGORY: Mathematics, graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: result = TRANSFORM_VOLUME( volume ) INPUTS: volume: The 3D array or volume to be transformed. OPTIONAL KEYWORDS: BUFFER_SIZE: To reduce memory overhead the routine processes the job in chunks, the number of elements of which can be set using the BUFFER_SIZE keyword, set this keyword to 0 to force the whole array to be processed at one time. The default value is 128. MISSING: The value to return for transformed values outside the bounds of the volume. (Passed to the INTERPOLATE function.) Default is 0. T3DMAT: The homogeneous transforamtion matrix. If this keyword is not present, the following keywords can be used to create a homogeneous transformation matrix: ROTATION - The rotation vector [rx,ry,rz]. The order of rotation is ZYX. TRANSLATE - The translation vector [tx,ty,tz]. SCALE - The scale vector [sx,sy,sz]. CENTRE_ROTATION - The centre of rotation [cx,cy,cz]. OUTPUTS: result: The transformed array or volume. COMMON BLOCKS: None. DEPENDENCIES: The program uses the library INTERPLOLATE routine, which currently (IDL 5.4) uses linear interpolation. Note that the operation is performed in chunks, each of which is independant of the result of the others, so the operation could easiliy be parallelised. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: Martin Downing, 16 September 2001. Added MISSING keyword. Removed INPLACE keyword. 25 Nov 2001. MD
(See transform_volume.pro)
NAME: UNDEFINE PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to delete or undefine an IDL program variable from within an IDL program or at the IDL command line. It is a more powerful DELVAR. Pointer and structure variables are traversed recursively to undefine any variables pointed to in the pointer or in a structure dereference. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1642 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities. CALLING SEQUENCE: UNDEFINE, variable REQUIRED INPUTS: variable: The variable to be deleted. Up to 10 variables may be specified as arguments. SIDE EFFECTS: The variable no longer exists. EXAMPLE: To delete the variable "info", type: IDL> Undefine, info IDL> var = ptr_new({a:ptr_New(5), b:findgen(11), c: {d:ptr_New(10), f:findgen(11)}}) IDL> Help, /Heap Heap Variables: # Pointer: 3 # Object : 0LONG = 5 LONG = 10 STRUCT = -> Array[1] IDL> Undefine, var IDL> Help, /Heap Heap Variables: # Pointer: 0 # Object : 0 IDL> Help, var VAR UNDEFINED = MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 8 June 97, from an original program given to me by Andrew Cool, DSTO, Adelaide, Australia. Simplified program so you can pass it an undefined variable. :-) 17 May 2000. DWF Simplified it even more by removing the unnecessary SIZE function. 28 June 2002. DWF. Added capability to delete up to 10 variables at suggestion of Craig Markwardt. 10 Jan 2008. DWF. If the variable is a pointer, object or structure reference the variable is recursively traversed to free up all variables pointed to before the variable is itself destroyed. 10 June 2009. DWF. Updated to allow undefining of pointer arrays. 8 October 2009. DWF. Valid pointers that point to undefined variable can cause an infinite loop. Now using Heap_Free, rather than recursion, with pointers. 30 May 2013. DWF.
(See undefine.pro)
NAME: VCOLORBAR FILENAME: vcolorbar__define.pro PURPOSE: The purpose of this program is to create a vertical colorbar object to be used in conjunction with other IDL 5 graphics objects. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ CATEGORY: IDL Object Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: thisColorBar = Obj_New('VColorBar') REQUIRED INPUTS: None. INIT METHOD KEYWORD PARAMETERS: COLOR: A three-element array representing the RGB values of a color for the colorbar axes and annotation. The default value is white: [255,255,255]. NAME: The name associated with this object. NCOLORS: The number of colors associated with the colorbar. The default is 256. MAJOR: The number of major tick divisions on the colorbar axes. The default is 5. MINOR: The number of minor tick marks on the colorbar axes. The default is 4. PALETTE: A palette object for the colorbar. The default palette is a gray-scale palette object. POSITION: A four-element array specifying the position of the colorbar in the arbitary coordinate system of the viewplane rectangle. The default position is [0.90, 0.10, 0.95, 0.90]. RANGE: The range associated with the colorbar axis. The default is [0, NCOLORS]. TITLE: A string containing a title for the colorbar axis annotation. The default is a null string. OTHER METHODS: Clamp (Procedure): Given a two-element array in the data range of the colorbar, the colorbar image is clamped to this range. In other words, the range of colors is clamped to the specified range. Values above or below the range in the colorbar are set to the minimum and maximum range values, respectively. GetProperty (Procedure): Returns colorbar properties in keyword parameters as defined for the INIT method. Keywords allowed are: COLOR MAJOR MINOR NAME PALETTE POSITION RANGE TITLE TRANSFORM SetProperty (Procedure): Sets colorbar properties in keyword parameters as defined for the INIT method. Keywords allowed are: COLOR NAME MAJOR MINOR PALETTE POSITION RANGE TITLE TRANSFORM SIDE EFFECTS: A VCOLORBAR object is created. The colorbar INHERITS IDLgrMODEL. Thus, all IDLgrMODEL methods and keywords can also be used. It is the model that is selected in a selection event, since the SELECT_TARGET keyword is set for the model. EXAMPLE: To create a colorbar object and add it to a plot view object, type: thisColorBarObject = Obj_New('VColorBar') plotView->Add, thisColorBarObject plotWindow->Draw, plotView MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, 19 June 97. Changed the optional "colorbarmodel" parameter to an optional GETMODEL parameter. 26 June 97. DWF. Fixed bug in the way the color palette was assigned. 13 Aug 97. DWF. Added missing container object to self structure. 13 Aug 97. DWF. Removed image model, which was a workaround for broken 5.0 objects. 5 Oct 97. DWF Fixed cleanup procedure to clean up ALL objects. 12 Feb 98. DWF. Changed IDLgrContainer to IDL_Container to fix 5.1 problems. 20 May 98. DWF. Modified colorbar to INHERIT an IDLgrModel object. This allows me to add the colorbar to other models directly. 20 Sept 98. DWF. Added NAME keyword to give the colorbar a name. 20 Sept 98. DWF. Changed a reference to _Ref_Extra to _Extra. 27 Sept 98. DWF. Fixed bug when adding a text object via the TEXT keyword. 9 May 99. DWF. Fixed a bug with getting the text object via the TEXT keyword. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Added the TRANSFORM keyword to GetProperty and SetProperty methods. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Added RECOMPUTE_DIMENSIONS=2 to text objects. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Added a polygon object around the image object. This allows rotation in 3D space. 16 Aug 2000. DWF. Removed TEXT keyword (which was never used) and fixed TITLE keyword. 8 Dec 2000. DWF. Added ENABLE_FORMATTING keyword to title objects. 22 October 2001. DWF. Added a CLAMP method. 18 November 2001. DWF. Forgot to pass extra keywords along to the text widget. As a result, you couldn't format tick labels, etc. Fixed this. Any keywords appropriate for IDLgrTick objects are now available. 26 June 2002. DWF. Fixed a problem with POSITION keyword in SetProperty method. 23 May 2003. DWF. Removed NORMALIZE from source code. 29 Nov 2005. DWF. Font sizes have changed. Now using a 12 point font. 6 May 2011. DWF. Changed FSC_Normalize to cgNormalize to reflect new name. 6 Feb 2013. DWF.
(See vcolorbar__define.pro)
NAME: WINDBARB PURPOSE: This is routine for drawing wind barbs on a map. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Graphics. CALLING SEQUENCE: Windbarb, x, y, speed, direction REQUIRED INPUTS: x: The X location of the wind barb, expressed in data coordinates. Positive X is pointing in EAST direction. y: The Y location of the wind barb, expressed in data coordinates. Positive Y is pointing in NORTH direction. speed: The wind speed, expressed in knots. direction: The wind direction in degrees clockwise from north. Winds from the NE come at 45 degrees, and the wind "arrow" points in the direction from which the window is blowing. (The wind arrow points in the direction of the station circle, with the "barbs" of the arrow at the end of the arrow from which the wind is coming.) KEYWORDS: ASPECT: The aspect ratio of the map or plot in the display window. CLIP: A four-element array in normalized coordinates [x0,y0,x1,y1] giving the lower-left and upper-right corner of a cliping rectangle. This is normally the extent of your plot. See the example below. COLOR: The name of the color to draw the wind barbs in. May be a vector the same length as X. LENGTH: The approximate length of the wind barb in normalized coordinates. Will be set to 0.066 of the plot distance in the X direction by default. MAP_ROTATION: The clockwise rotation in degrees of the map North from the top of the plot. Will be set to 0.0 by default. SOUTHERN_HEMISPHERE: Windbarb "feathers" are traditionally drawn in the clockwise direction in the northern hemispere and countercolockwise in the southern hemisphere. Default is "northern" type feathers. Set this keyword to select "southern" type feathers. STATION: Set this keyword if you want to draw the wind barbs with station symbols. (Requires STATIONPLOT from the Coyote Library.) RESTRICTIONS: Requires cgColor and STATIONPLOT from the Coyote Library: http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/cgColor.pro http://www.idlcoyote.com/programs/stationplot.pro EXAMPLE: Window, Title='Wind Barbs', /Free seed = -3L lon = Randomu(seed, 9) * 360 - 180 lat = Randomu(seed, 9) * 180 - 90 speed = Randomu(seed, 9) * 100 + 5.0 direction = Indgen(9)*45 Erase, Color=cgColor('Ivory', !P.Background) Polyfill,[0.1, 0.1, 0.9, 0.9, 0.1], [0.1, 0.9, 0.9, 0.1, 0.1], /Normal, Color=cgColor('light gray') Map_Set, /Cylindrical, Position=[0.1, 0.1, 0.9, 0.9], Color=cgColor('Steel Blue'), /NoErase Map_Grid, Color=cgColor('Charcoal', !D.Table_Size-2) Map_Continents, Color=cgColor('Sea Green', !D.Table_Size-3) Windbarb, lon, lat, speed, direction, /Station, Color='Indian Red', /Southern_Hemisphere To clip the windbards that fall outside the plot, substitute these two lines for the last line in the example above: clip = [0.1, 0.1, 0.9, 0.9] Windbarb, lon, lat, speed, direction, /Station, Color='Indian Red', Clip=clip MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by: David W. Fanning, 20 May 2003. It has been called to my attention that the wind barbs are pointing in *exactly* the wrong direction. Sigh... Rotated by 180 degrees. DWF. 8 June 2004. Now someone complains that the *corrected* version is off by 180 degrees! Sheesh! Clearly, I'm no meteorologist. Both lines of code are in the file. Please use the one you like the best. :-) (Line 177-178) 20 July 2004. DWF. Added a CLIP keyword so you can clip the output to the extend of your graphics plot. 12 Nov 2004. DWF. Added THICK keyword 23 February 2005. DWF. After further research, I've reverted to the direction specified originally. And I have changed the "feathers" to point clockwise normally, and counterdlockwise if the SOUTHERN_HEMISPHERE keyword is set. Here are my sources (21 July 2005. DWF): http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/maps/sfcobs/wnd.rxml http://www.al.noaa.gov/WWWHD/pubdocs/windbarb.html Fixed a small CLIP problem. 21 July 2005. DWF.
(See windbarb.pro)
NAME: WindowAvailable PURPOSE: This function returns a 1 if the specified window index number is currently open or available. It returns a 0 if the window is currently closed or unavailable. AUTHOR: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING David Fanning, Ph.D. 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com CATEGORY: Utilities CALLING SEQUENCE: available = WindowAvaiable(windowIndexNumber) INPUTS: windowIndexNumber: The window index number of the window you wish to know is available or not. KEYWORDS: None. NOTES: The window vector obtained from the DEVICE command is not always the same length. It is normally (on my machine) 65 elements long, but can be much longer if you have lots of IDL windows open (by calling cgPickColorName, for example). But if no windows with index numbers greater than 65 are open, IDL shinks the larger vector to the smaller one as part of its housekeeping operations, which means it happens on their timetable, not yours. This can result in the user having "stale" index numbers greater than 65, but no larger vector to check them against. I have modified the code to return a 0 in this case, assuming that whatever window your index number points to is long gone. I have not experience any ill effects by doing this, but I STRONGLY advice you to ALWAYS know what window you are drawing into when you issue a graphics command. MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by David W. Fanning, June 2005. Modified to return 0 if the window index number is larger than the number of elements in the WINDOW_STATE array. 25 June 2008. DWF.
(See windowavailable.pro)
:Description: Allows the user to interactively adjust image contrast by means of "windowing and leveling" the image. Move the cursor vertically in the window to adjust the image stretch "window". Move the cursor horizontally in the window to adjust the image "level". :Categories: Graphics :Params: image: in, required, type=any Any 2D array that you wish to adjust the contrast of. :Keywords: brewer: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword to indicate a Brewer color table is desired. colortable: in, optional, type=integer, default=0 The index number of a color table to load with cgLoadCT. neutralcolor: in, optional, type=string The name of the color to use for values outside the image "window" in the color table. If a default grayscale color table is loaded, the default color is "rose", otherwise the default is "black". reverse: in, optional, type=boolean, default=0 Set this keyword if you wish to reverse the color table. :Examples: To see a demonstation:: IDL> WindowImage :Author: FANNING SOFTWARE CONSULTING:: David W. Fanning 1645 Sheely Drive Fort Collins, CO 80526 USA Phone: 970-221-0438 E-mail: david@idlcoyote.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com :History: Change History:: Written, 29 November 2010. DWF. Added color protection to the program. 30 Nov 2010. DWF. Modification of cgImage command to prevent flashing. 27 Feb 2011. DWF. :Copyright: Copyright (c) 2010, Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
(See windowimage.pro)