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Time Animation
Time Animation Widget

Each McIDAS-V display area has a set of time animation controls above the Main Display window.

Time Animation Widget
Image 1: Time Animation Widget

The Time Animation Widget controls looping of displays through time. A series of small green boxes is displayed representing each frame of the animation. The box corresponding to the current time is colored blue. Click on a box to select a different time. Right-click on a box to disable that frame in the animation. Disabled boxes will be colored red. You can also Ctrl+left click on a box to turn on/off all of the frames to the left of the box you clicked on, and Shift+left click to turn on/off all of the frames to the right of the box you clicked on.

The time of the data is displayed in the labeled pull-down list and in the entries of the pull down list on the left. Holding the mouse over the time will show information about how many frames are in the loop, and what the starting and ending times are. The toolbar of button icons, on the right, control time animation. The Time Animation Widget buttons do the following:

Time Animation Properties Dialog

Click on the Properties button in the animation controls to see the Time Animation Properties Dialog box. This dialog has two tabs: Settings and Define Animation Times.

The Settings tab allows you to define how looping will work for your display:

Image 2: Settings Tab of the Time Animation Properties Dialog
Image 2: Settings Tab of the Time Animation Properties Dialog

By pressing Apply button or OK button, you will set the properties in the Animation Widget. If you have the Save As Default checkbox checked, then the properties will be saved and used every time a new Animation Widget is created. For example, you may find that you are always setting the dwell rate to a particular value. You can save that state as the default state for all Animation Widgets that are subsequently created, both in the current run of McIDAS-V and in future runs.

Properties
Define Animation Times Tab

The Define Animation Times tab allows you to define a custom animation time set:

Image 3: Define Animation Times Tab of the Time Animation Properties Dialog
Image 3: Define Animation Times Tab of the Time Animation Properties Dialog

By default, the times used in the animation time set are all of the times from the data that is being displayed. However, you can define your own time set by selecting the Define your own list of times button.

You define how to determine the start time, end time and a time interval. The time interval is used to create the set of time steps (inclusive) between the start and end times. The start time and end time modes are determined one of four ways:

Once you select the start and end time modes you can define an offset which is added (or subtracted) to the base time. To change the offset select the Offset button button. When you do this the Offset dialog will be shown:

Image 4: Set Round To Value Dialog
Image 4: Set Round To Value Dialog

This allows you to define a time offset by entering years, days, hours and minutes. Note that this Offset dialog will also include a +/- option when selected from Start Time or End Time.

The Predefined Button button gives you another way to adjust the items in the Define Animation Times tab. The two options from this button are Uniform Across Data Range and Real Time.


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