.
For 2-D data, a color contour is shown when only one shot is
specified. When more than one shot is requested, only the first
row of the 2-D data is plotted.
Some TDI expressions in the Scope files may NOT be handled properly,
like multi-line TDI.
The median-smoothing window input is the number of points over which
median smoothing takes place for a resulting value.
Selecting "Plot Labels from MDSplus" looks for a :LABEL sub-node,
and then a :COMMENT sub-node. If neither is found, an abbreviation
(the last two "leaves") of the signal name (or the TDI expression) is
displayed.
If the entered # of rows times the # of columns is less than the
number of signals, default values for the # of rows and columns will
be used.
If you experience problems with this page, please send e-mail to
idladmin@pppl.gov
Scope files can be transferred from VMS to
$NSTXUSR/util/scopes/ on the PPPL Unix Cluster by scp. E.g.,
scp <your VMS username>@europa.pppl.gov:<vms path to scope file> $NSTXUSR/util/scopes/
Password:(your VMS password)
Angle brackets are only used above to indicate your specific username and location, e.g.,
scp bdavis@europa.pppl.gov:AUSER4:[BDAVIS]wf.scope $NSTXUSR/util/scopes/
You will need to be in the group "nstx" on the Unix Cluster to put files in
this directory (see above).
If you are coming in from outside PPPL, you may have to
"authenticate" at our firewall at http://access.pppl.gov. Enter your
PPPL Unix Cluster username and password, or SecureID number.
The server for this page runs continuously (and is restarted from a
"cron job" at ~ 4 AM Eastern Time). If you experience problems with
this page, please send e-mail to idladmin or submit
a ServiceNow request at help.pppl.gov. In an emergency, you may
be able to
diagnose problems with the server).
Considering that the displayed plots are bit maps, color prints do
not look too bad. Note that you may change the size of the plot window
from the Web page -- this may work better than printing at 150%, etc.
For Publication Quality output, click the Postscript box to the right
of the Plot button (no graph will be sent to your web browser when a
Postscript option is selected). Note that Postscript may be edited
in Adobe Illustrator or Canvas (see
How can I make publication quality plots to place into
Word and PowerPoint?
The default plot files are PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format. You
may need to configure your browser to recognize these files. If you
are prompted to Save the file, etc., browse for Quicktime, and select
it.
Note that you can save the PNG file from your web browser and insert
it into documents on your PC, Macintosh, etc. Be aware that bitmapped
graphics are of much poorer quality than, say, Postscript.
When there are more than 5 shots being displayed, the colors for
the shots will repeat. Alternately, you may specify colors in
an IDL form. These are integers between 0-240 (the top 16 colors
are reserved). You may specify an array of colors as you would
on the right-hand side of an IDL statement, such as
[20,40,60,80,100,120,140,160,180,200] or findgen(20)*10. When
there are more shots than colors specified, the colors will repeat.
Edited 27-Oct-2009 by: Bill
Davis