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Patrick, The gplabel is not part of the GEMPAK distribution. It is likely a program that they have created or obtained elsewhere. There is a program called gptext in the GEMPAK distribution that will allow you to write text to an arbitrary window location. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200111202252.fAKMqkN27521 >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0056_01C171E4.06FCD680 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Good evening, > >I received a couple Gempak scripts from COMET that they use to create = >web graphics for Datastreme. I am going to eventually do the same, and = >I see a GPLABEL gempak program in the scripts. I checked the Datastreme = >web page where the graphics are posted, and the gif images created by = >the scripts do indeed have the labels that the GPLABEL program creates. = >Problem is, I can't find it, or any mention of it. I attached a copy of = >the script so you can see near the end where the GPLABEL program creates = >the labels for the gifs. Any clues for me? > >Thanks for any input! > >Patrick > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Patrick O'Reilly Support Scientist >The STORM Project address@hidden >208 Latham Hall ph: 319-273-3789 >University of Northern Iowa >Cedar Falls, IA 50614 =20 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 > > >------=_NextPart_000_0056_01C171E4.06FCD680 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = >charset=3Diso-8859-1"> ><META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=3DGENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>Good evening,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>I received a couple Gempak = >scripts from=20 >COMET that they use to create web graphics for Datastreme. I am = >going to=20 >eventually do the same, and I see a GPLABEL gempak program in the = >scripts. =20 >I checked the Datastreme web page where the graphics are posted, and the = >gif=20 >images created by the scripts do indeed have the labels that the GPLABEL = >program=20 >creates. Problem is, I can't find it, or any mention of it. = >I=20 >attached a copy of the script so you can see near the end where the = >GPLABEL=20 >program creates the labels for the gifs. Any clues for = >me?</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>Thanks for any = >input!</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>Patrick</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif"=20 >size=3D2>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>Patrick=20 >O'Reilly  = >; = > =20 >Support Scientist<BR>The STORM=20 >Project = > <A=20 >href=3D"mailto:address@hidden">address@hidden</A><BR>20= >8 Latham=20 >Hall &nb= >sp; &nbs= >p; =20 >ph: 319-273-3789<BR>University of Northern Iowa<BR>Cedar Falls, IA=20 >50614 &n= >bsp;=20 ><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 ><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > >------=_NextPart_000_0056_01C171E4.06FCD680-- >