Script and other wishes

[Fred]

A couple of wishes.

Script: Export
Is it possible to add variables to the filename? The syntax could be EXPORT, filename, where filename = name[sysdate][systime]. The advantage is that you can make one script and save maps under different and unique names to view them in sequence. This can save a lot of work in automating some steps.

Script: Call
Is it possible to add a function where you can call another script file: CALL, filename, where filename is a valid script name? In this way you can make and test small scripts, give them a useful name and if they are OK add them easily to the existing script.

Help
When clicking on Help, is it possible to open Acrobat reader and the manual. It is quicker then finding it with the explorer or the shortcut I use now. And I don’t want to print the manual yet, because up to now it changes a lot.

Preferences
A tab to give default directories. This gives the possibility to make separate directories for scripts, maps etc. so you can organize your own files better. The default is for DAWS to look directly in that direction.

Question
I see a lot of commands for generating maps, adding topo, cities etc. Why do this in a script? It looks easier and quicker to me to do that interactive, save the file and load the map in a script. Am I missing something?

Greetings

Fred

[Meteo Maarssen]

Tim,

I do agree with Fred's suggestion for kind of setup to prefered remote folders.

Cheers,

Ton Lindemann

[Tim Vasquez]

I have added the suggestion for inserting time tokens into script commands, which will be effective with V1.1c.

Tokens will be @FFZ, @YYZ, @MMZ, @DDZ, @HHZ, @NNZ, @FFL, @YYL, @MML, @DDL, @HHL, and @NNL. They will be explained at the top of the scripting commands section in the manual appendix.

Tim