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20050616: Gempak - device XWP

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  • Subject: 20050616: Gempak - device XWP
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:24:47 -0600
>From: "Ronald Mastaler" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200506161841.j5GIfGAZ026822

>Institution: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona / Atmosph
> eric Sciences
>Package Version: 5.6.h
>Operating System: Red Hat Linux; Fedora Core
>Hardware Information: Intel Pentium 2 class
>Inquiry: I would like to use the capability to see plots in an X-window while 
> simultaneously writing to a file for subsequent printout.  I found that this 
> can be done (with the XWP device) in your documentation, but I did not find h
> ow it can be done.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help; it has always been great in the past.
>
>
>

Ronald,

The XWP device does not simultaneously write  X and PS, but rather,
allows you to change back and forth without closing the X window.

The way it works is:

In a program, say GPMAP:

DEVICE = xwp

run


the above will open up an X display window. Then, change device driver to
PS, PS1, PSC such as:

DEVICE = PSC|plot.ps

run

This will run the program and create the postscript file without closing the
X display.

Then to go on to your next plot:

DEVICE = xwp

run

The above will close the current ps output file when going back to writing to
the X display.

You still have to "run" the program twice to create 2 output files,
but you do not have to lose your current display window.

Steve Chiswell

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