McIDAS-X Learning Guide
Version 2020

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Graphical User Interface - GUI

• Basic Concepts
  • Starting and Exiting the GUI
  • Using the GUI
  • The GUI Menus
• Getting Started
• Displaying a Satellite Image
• Looping Satellite Images
  • Creating Loop Bounds
  • Displaying a Loop of Satellite Images
  • Displaying a Loop of NEXRAD Images
• Modifying Image and Graphics Colors
  • Modifying Image Colors
  • Modifying Graphics Colors
• Plotting and Looping Grids
  • Displaying Grid Data over an Image
  • Displaying and Looping Grid Data on a map
• Copying Images and Grids
  • Copying Images
  • Copying Grids
• Plotting Surface and Upper Air Data
  • Plotting Surface Data
  • Plotting Upper Air Data
• Plotting Weather Watches and Warnings
• Configuring Your GUI
  • Configuring Your Map Preferences
  • Changing Your Cursor
  • Creating Shortcut Buttons
• Recalling McIDAS Commands
• Scheduling McIDAS Commands

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

In this last section of the Learning Guide, you will use the McIDAS Graphical User Interface (GUI) to display images and perform other actions previously done on the command line.

The examples listed in this chapter assume that you are using the same dataset names as those used at SSEC. If your dataset names are different, you may have to change the dataset names in some of the commands.

This lesson describes how to:

• set up your ADDE servers
• display and loop satellite images
• modify image colors
• modify graphic colors
• display and loop grid data
• copy images and grids
• display real-time surface and upper air data
• display weather watches and warnings
• configure the default map
• change cursor parameters
• create shortcut buttons
• search through the McIDAS command history
• schedule McIDAS commands

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