McIDAS Programmer's Manual
Chapter 4
McIDAS-X Utilities
This chapter describes many of the McIDAS-X library functions that you will use when writing your applications programs. These utility functions perform a variety of common programming tasks, such as:
- acquiring command line parameters and pointing device status
- displaying text, images and graphics on McIDAS-X windows
- determining the number of display frames
- converting physical units such as kilometers to nautical miles
- computing meteorological parameters such as potential temperature
This chapter is organized into these sections
