******************************************************************************* polar_ceppad_detch V.7.0 February 26, 1999, Reiner Friedel ******************************************************************************* Use this window to add new polar_ceppad_detch panels to the Panel Composer or to edit existing polar_ceppad_detch panels. This module is based on the RAL Intermediate Format (if) files. A limited set of if files has been produced for the whole POLAR mission: SURVEY - 16 spin averaged, all detectors, all energies, 16 sectors , large files! (9Mbyte for IPS per day) For IPS, IES and HIST. DATA AVAILABILITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the LANL site there are if's for the whole of the POLAR misson. All if's are kept in a common zip file, one for each day, on the mass storage system at LANL. If data is not found locally, a remote get is attempted - this may take some time, as files need to be retrieved from mass storage, which can be slow, and the files are big (5 meg compressed). Once a .zip if has been downloaded, all if products become evailable. FORM OF PLOTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Color plots of spectra or azimuthal distribution PAPCO SUPPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y-SCALING SUPPORT yes SLICE SUPPORT yes ZOOMING SUPPORT yes NO DATA FOUND SUPPORT yes PLOT BY ORBIT AVAILABLE? yes OVERPLOTPOSSIBLE? no PLOT OVER FILE BOUNDARIES POSSIBLE? yes Remote get? yes =============================================================================== DESCRIPTION OF PANEL EDITOR FUNCTIONS =============================================================================== HEIGHT OF THE PLOT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use this slider to modify the plot's height. Effectively, this slider is the third element of the panel-vector which is displayed in the plot list-box in PAPCO's main window. You may as well change the plot's height by using the buttons to the right of the plot-description list-box in PAPCO's main-window. IF PRODUCT BUTTONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select which CEPPAD product you want to plot. PLOT TYPE BUTTONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select standard spectra plot (energy spectra for a given detector/sector combination) or Roll plot, all sectors for a given detector/energy combination or Mask plot, the sun/Earth glint mask for a given detector in roll plot format Flux / Counts display data in flux or counts Reload / Adopt controls the reload behavior. For a given IF product file, you only have to load it once and then it's in memory, so you can plot several combinations of detectors/sectors from it. So only the first panel needs to load the data. If you change if-products, then you'll have to reload - all the If products use the same data arrays. COLORBAR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose a PAPCO color subtable. THIS FUNCTION NEEDS TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE PLOT ROUTINE TO WORK. IT IS ONLY MEANINGFUL FOR COLOR PLOTS. PAPCO provides the user with four internal color tables. These can be used in several plots at the same time as PAPCO subdivides the IDL color-table into four. The buttons choose the color sub-table to be used, the names given are those for the color tables loaded at startup. The first one is the default PAPCO color table (GSFC rainbow) and cannot be changed. The other three can be user defined. The colorbars indicate the current status of the loaded color sub-tables. YSCALING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose automatic or manual Y-scaling. THIS FUNCTION NEEDS TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE PLOT ROUTINE TO WORK. For Use automatic y-scaling, the common block vector yscl has it's first element set to zero, which tells the plot routine to use it's own yscaling - which is either hard-wired or employs some auto-scaling routines (autoscale, ylim). For Use manual y-scaling the entry fields below are activated: enter your own y-range values. These are stored in the 2nd and 3rd elements of the common block vector yscl. Once a plot has been done, the automatic values chosen are displayed in the entry field to guide the user if he wants to change them. The lin/log buttons set the 4th element in the common block vector yscl and can be used directly to set the ylog keyword to the IDL plot routine. ZSCALING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Choose automatic or manual Z-scaling. THIS FUNCTION NEEDS TO BE SUPPORTED BY THE PLOT ROUTINE TO WORK. IT IS ONLY MEANINGFUL FOR COLOR OR 3-D PLOTS. For Use automatic z-scaling, the common block vector zscl has it's first element set to zero, which tells the plot routine to use it's own yscaling - which is either hard-wired or employs some auto-scaling routines (autoscale, ylim). For Use manual z-scaling the entry fields below are activated: enter your own y-range values. These are stored in the 2nd and 3rd elements of the common block vector zscl. Once a plot has been done, the automatic values chosen are displayed in the entry field to guide the user if he wants to change them. The lin/log buttons set the 4th element in the common block vector zscl and can be used directly to set the zlog keyword to the IDL plot routine. HELP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Displays this help widget. THE EXIT BUTTONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CANCEL closes the window and does nothing. ADD and CONTINUE closes the current window, adds the plot to the composer, and re-enters the panel editor where it left off and allows you to add a further panel with possibly another choice of parameters. ADD and CLOSE adds the plot to the composer and closes the window. ADD and CONTINUE and ADD and CLOSE are replaced by UPDATE when the editor is called to edit an existing panel.