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PHP a the script language used on websites, John.
Like HTML but able to do server side calculations, parsing of data files and whole lot more.

Thanks Mike.

For info, my files are in C:\Users\weather\AppData\DigitalAtmosphere ("weather" being the PC name).
This is where DA put them when I installed it on the PC, but there's also a folder under C:\Program Files\DigitalAtmosphere with some program files in it as well.

How did you sort it, Mike, just in case someone is looking in the future?

Sorry John, I missed the two spam posts which were on here.
Now deleted so your info can continue.
Keep up the good work.

Here's a script I put together this evening that seems to work quite well.
It displays a colour plot of the current surface wind and you can see the results on this page: Surface Wind Charts
The script is written for wind speed in MPH, if you want it to show m/s then just remove the "VMPH" tags ...

Glad it works OK, Phil.

Hi Jean-Robert,

This script works with the DA software to produce the maps, it's not like a PHP script for your website.

If you've got Digital Atmosphere software then look at the left menu and you should see "Scripting", click on that and then click on "Create" to open a file. Paste the script ...

If you have a look in this part of the forum there are examples of scripts that others use to create maps etc that you can copy into your own scripts and try out/use. Normally the threads containing example scripts will be titled "SCRIPT -" to make them easier to find.

If there is something in ...

I see where you're coming from now.
I've not tried that way of working as I normally just use DA's own editing & saving structure and if I need anything else then I use Notepad to work on the scripts and then copy & paste them into DA.
So I'm not much help on this one.

Just setup the scheduler that's built in to DA and then use something like System Scheduler to open and close DA.
I set DA to open 2 minute before a run and then close about 10 minutes later. The 10 minutes is to allow for slow broadband speeds that occasionally occur.