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Is there a way to export a map on a scheduled basis? What would the script be for this?

Thanks

Roy Leep wrote:Is there a way to export a map on a scheduled basis? What would the script be for this?

Thanks

Roy, you would just need to write a script and then schedule it to run at a set time. It might look someting like this (this will export a jpg image but you'll have to edit the drive and direcories etc. but you'll see the commands used at least:

LOAD,E:\Program Files\DigitalAtmosphereWS\Great Lakes Satellite.dmf

PRODUCT,plf,0,METAR
ANALYZE,CONT COLOR=0:200:0 VKNT WSPD
ANALYZE,BKNT COLOR=0:0:200 WIND
EXPORT,W:\DAWS\GREATLAKES.jpg

Thanks, George.

I used the "save" command at the end of some scheduled maps and acheived the desired results.


Roy

Roy Leep wrote:Thanks, George.

I used the "save" command at the end of some scheduled maps and acheived the desired results.


Roy

That'll work too EXPORT may give you more choices of frmats though that might be smaller thana BMP file.

From the docs:

SAVE,filename
Saves a map. The filename parameter is the fully qualified filename without the extension (i.e. without .bmp).


EXPORT,filename
Exports a map (i.e. saves it to a variety of formats and without the accompanying .atr file). The filename parameter is the fully qualified
filename with a valid extension (may be bmp, gif, jpg, png, pcx, or tif). Compressed TIFF saving is not available.

Thanks again;

Roy