Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook
Appendix 11. HISCALE IDL Display System (IDL_HS)
A11.2 Part Two - Reference (continued)
A11.2.3 Common Blocks (continued)
Blocks for MOVIE
This group of blocks is used by the MOVIE and SINGLE_FRAME procedures.
B_MOVIE
common b_movie, magfield
| magfield | float | array(?,4) | Magnetic field for use in MOVIE. |
MOVIE_COLOUR
common movie_colour, mred, mgreen, mblue, m_col_table
| mred | byte | array(256) | Red intensities |
| mgreen | byte | array(256) | Green intensities |
| mblue | byte | array(256) | Blue intensities |
| m_col_table | integer | scalar | Number of colour table used. |
This block contains the ``pseudo colour table'' used by the movie program.
MOVIE_ENERGY
common movie_energy, chanf, chanm, elo_8, ehi_8, elo_4, ehi_4
| chanf | float | array(2) | LEFS channel indices |
| chanm | float | array(2) | LEMS channel indices |
| elo_8 | float | array | 8 sector energy lower limits |
| ehi_8 | float | array | 8 sector energy upper limits |
| elo_4 | float | array | 4 sector energy lower limits |
| ehi_4 | float | array | 4 sector energy upper limits |
This block is really of internal interest only, it just saves duplicating some calculations within movie; it is not included in access or save_all.
MOVIE_SET
common movie_set, mchan, mnchan, foil, deflect,
mtitle, delay, mscale, $
electrons, trace, fill_electrons, pitch_c, m_log,
t_log, $
mov_index
| mchan | string | scalar | The name of the channel for the movie. |
| mnchan | integer | array(2) | The channel number range for the above. |
| foil | float | scalar | The ion correction factor for the LEFS detectors. |
| deflect | float | scalar | The electron correction factor for the LEMS detectors. |
| mtitle | string | scalar | A description of the channels being displayed. |
| delay | float | scalar | The delay in seconds between frames. |
| mscale | float | scalar | The upper limit of the anisotropy parameter for MOVIE. |
| electrons | integer | scalar | Whether plotting ions or electrons. |
| trace | integer | scalar | Whether to plot a trace time-series below the movie. |
| fill_electrons | integer | scalar | Whether to fill in the missing LEMS120 electrons. |
| pitch_c | integer | scalar | Whether to plot pitch angle contours on all frames. |
| m_log | integer | scalar | Whether to plot linear or logarithm colour map. |
| t_log | integer | scalar | Whether to plot linear or logarithmic trace time-series. |
| mov_index | float | scalar | The spectral index to use for bandpass corrections. |
The material in this block relates to the settings specific to the movie program.
MOV_TRACE
common mov_trace, mtimes
| mtimes | float | array(2,?) | times array scaled to allow movement of "cursor''. |
Internal common block for movie trace plots, so that the cursor is properly scaled when the time range is in days.
M_ANIMATE
common m_animate, image, correction, old_time,
curr_time, $
year, day, ily, step_dirn, idrew, old_trace_time
| image | int | scalar | The number of the current image. |
| correction | float | array | The combined correction factors for each head. |
| old_time | string | scalar | The time of the previous image. |
| curr_time | string | scalar | The time of the current image. |
| year | int | scalar | The year of the plot start. |
| day | int | scalar | The day of the plot start. |
| ily | int | scalar | The length of the current year. |
| step_dirn | integer | scalar | Direction of motion. |
| idrew | int | scalar | Last image drawn. |
| old_trace_time | float | scalar | time of above. |
These values are numbers that need to be passed between the animate routine and the animation set-up routine.
M_PL_TFM
common m_pl_tfm, p_trace, x_trace, y_trace, p_image, x_image, y_image
| p_trace | structure | scalar | !P for trace plot. |
| x_trace | structure | scalar | !X for trace plot. |
| y_trace | structure | scalar | !Y for trace plot. |
| p_image | structure | scalar | !P for image plot. |
| x_image | structure | scalar | !X for image plot. |
| y_image | structure | scalar | !Y for image plot. |
This common block simply serves to hold the plotting system variables to allow the switching between the image frame and the trace frame when displaying a movie with trace.
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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane
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