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Well, now stamp seems to be working. Haven't had an omission in a while. Will keep checking.

Stamp command in 1.1E profesional version does not work. All I get is a grey box, with no text. Any ideas?

J Veneziano

A couple of suggestions:

1.) Version 1.1h is out. You should contact Tim for the update link.
2.) Check to make sure that the "Map time-stamp" color is not the same as the "Map time-stamp background" color.

hth,
Bob

I have tried four times now to get Tim to respond so I can update to version h, so far no response. Where exactly is the map time stamp and the map time stamp background selected? If it is in styles I do not see it.

Thanks,

J Veneziano

I believe Tim has been rather busy with weather conferences lately, so that may explain your difficulty in reaching him. That said, he usually checks his email fairly regularly, so I'm a little surprised with the delay.

Regarding the time-stamp...
1. Open your styles file(with a text editor) and add two blank lines and then enter the following:
a.) for the map time stamp...the PRM column should be set to 'stm'...without the quotes.
b.) the Parameter Name column will be 'Map time stamp'...w/o quotes
c.) on the other blank line enter 'stb' for the PRM column...w/o quotes.
d.) the Parameter Name column should read 'Time stamp background'...w/o quotes

Save your changes and close the file. Open up DAWS and you should find the two new settings in the styles tab-sheet. You can then set the other parameters such as color and font from there. I should also add that you can actually set the Parameter Name to whatever you like, the key column, programmatically speaking, is the PRM.

hth,
Bob

Thanks, that did the trick. I had been trying to get that fixed for over a year now! I never knew that you could manually edit that file - I do not recall seeing that in the documentation.