D2D Fundamentals
Procedures
This lesson provides instructions on creating and editing procedures and bundles in AWIPS.
Procedures and Bundles
Procedures are a D2D convention to facilitate saving and sharing configured editors. To open the procedures window you load the File->Procedures->Open menu or you use the Ctrl + O keyboard shortcut. Procedures are essentially a family name to organize a list of saved editors for a particular task (e.g. Radar Analysis).
When you want to save a configured D2D editor for later use, you click a button in the GUI to copy the current active editor XML instructions (including frame count, looping speed, color tables, density settings, etc.) into a particular procedure. In D2D the copied editor instructions are called a bundle, and you can rename the bundle with a name that effectively describes what the bundle is or does.
You can use the procedures GUI to see other user's procedures and share some of your favorite D2D bundles with others. You can also alter existing procedures using the Alter button to change things on the fly like the radar, satellite, model source, or point/line.
This task demonstrates how to open an existing procedure in AWIPS-2.
View Jobsheet
This task demonstrates how to create a new procedure and add a new bundle to that procedure.
View Jobsheet
History List
The History List is a GUI that contains the most recent D2D bundles that were displayed in the main display panel (the most recent bundle appears at the top of the list). Procedures may be built from bundles contained in the History List.
The History List GUI can be accessed in two ways:
- Under the File menu, select “History List...” and press the Left-Mouse Button.
- Use the keyboard shortcut <CTRL> + H.
