Martin Sykes' CPView2 developement thread:

[MartinSykes31]

I've knocked up a simple visualisation tool in Excel last night. No apologies for the state of the code but it lets you see what's in the dataout directory. It's a bit clunky but some of the graphics are pretty. The easiest way to use it is to use the default options and just hit play. ( 'Esc' to kill the playback at the moment )

I partially worked out the format of the file by trial and error so I don't know what the data means but it's just a bit of fun until the proper visualisation package comes along.

Here's what it looks like:



and here's the link

This now links to the latest MFC version
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/docs/CPView2.zip

Have fun...

[Herb]

Has a fixed program path, so it doesn't work with me, but looks good though

[MartinSykes31]

There is nothing fixed. You can just change the path and mask in the appropriate cell and run.

I've had a play with some of the different files and it looks like the following combinations work well (assuming the naming convention is the same on all installations)

mask = *.pa* series in file = 6
mask = *.pd* series in file = 1 ( no obvious repeat )
mask = *.pe* series in file = 8
mask = *.pg* series in file = 5
mask = *.pf* series in file = 10

[DaveF]

Looks great!

Dave

[BarkerJr]

That sure is pretty cool!

[macaitis]

Look very nice, but I tried it and it bombs with run-time error 1004 -
Method 'calculation' of object '_Application' failed.
I don't know much about VBA, but it fails at the line

Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual

in the code.
Any ideas would be much appreciated. I would love to get it going.
John

[MartinSykes31]

It was written in Access2000. I don't know what version the method was added in but if your version is older, you can probably get it working by just commenting that line out. It was only added to speed it up slightly and doesn't affect the functionality. I've got a newer version which I'll put up in a few days when its been tidied up a bit that let me create a series of bitmaps to build movie files from (examples in another topic - model animations )

[MartinSykes31]

If anyone wanted to try this but didn't have Excel, I've converted it to a MFC application. You just run it, then open any file from the dataout directory. It doesn't have quite as much functionality as the Excel version, but the graphics are a bit prettier because I wasn;t limited in the number of colours I could use.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/docs/CPView2.exe

It's only 40Kb.

Martin

[astroWX]

Hi, Martin,

Slick! Thanks.

Regards,
astroWX

[MartinSykes31]

Version 1.1 is ready. It lets you look at multiple images from the same file, and multiple files at once and has an option to display in 3D.

Screenshot:


Link:
This now links to the latest MFC version
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/docs/CPView2.zip

[MartinSykes31]

Version1.2 - Includes surface underlay. Same link as above.

[UK_Nick]

Nice one Martin - interesting to watch the changing patterns in global temperatures more quickly than they step forward in the CPDN visualisation.

CPView2 seems to get a bit confused when I try to open multiple files though, even with CPDN itself paused - nothing happens when I open a second file beyond the box's border appearing with nothing in it - after that nothing seems to work unless I [X] out & re-run CPView. WinXP Home on Alison, which is about my fastest machine, with CPDN on a fast(ish) RAID0 array.

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...

[MartinSykes31]

Nick, I found the same problem after running it for a while and I think I wasn't releasing some resource properly.

Anyway, same link, new version.

includes

- fix hopefully for Nick's problem
- fix to routine for reading data
- recording button to save images to c:\temp
- standard window sizing buttons to set image size for common video formats

Martin

[jbl]

Anyway, same link, new version.

On your home page you mention PicoZip; there's a freeware zip/unzipper called iZarc that also handles *.LZP files.
See http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm

Gr. Jan
[Edit] BTW: Great program!

[MartinSykes31]

Version 1.4 is ready now.

It includes titles for most of the data sets, some improvements to the drawing and a new vector display for datasets with two dimensions.

eg. in the *.pa* files, there are two datasets for wind North/South and East/West. They are now combined to give a vector display.



Still some work to do but it's looking more useful now...

Link is the same:

This now links to the latest MFC version
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/docs/CPView2.zip
Martin