Re: [idvusers] ISL script: output animation times

• To: Jeff McWhirter <jeff.mcwhirter@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [idvusers] ISL script: output animation times
• From: Paul Graham <meteorpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:41:35 +1100

Hi All,

Yes, I was wanting to find out if the timestamps could be output into a
text file--I think that would be a useful feature in being readily able to
get the animation times for use with other applications.

Thanks,

Paul


On 7 March 2014 07:37, Jeff McWhirter <jeff.mcwhirter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think Paul wanted to have the actual times output in a text file (?).
>
> -Jeff
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Julien Chastang <chastang@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As far as I can tell, this already works. The movie tag you have below
> > should already do what you want.
> >
> > -Julien
> >
> >
> > On 3/6/14 3:49 AM, Jeff McWhirter wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Paul,
> >>
> >> Right now ISL doesn't support that though it  just be a couple of
> minutes
> >> to add.
> >>
> >> Unidata folks - you would need to change the ImageSequenceGrabber to
> >> record
> >> the times used. Then the ImageGenerator can set a property (e.g.,
> >> animationTimes) with those times that can then be written out with the
> >> output tag.
> >>
> >> -Jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Paul Graham <meteorpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Hi IDV users,
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to use an ISL script to output the timestamps for each
> >>> timestep of an animation?  Eg. I have:
> >>>
> >>> <movie imagedir="${islpath}" imagetemplate="MSLP_%time%_%count%.png"
> >>> file="${islpath}/MSLP.gif">
> >>>
> >>> And I would like the '%time%' part for each timestep saved to a file.
>  I
> >>> know I could redirect from the standard output and then filter the
> >>> results
> >>> to extract the timestamp, but I'm hoping there might be a
> straightforward
> >>> way to do this using the ISL script.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Paul
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• References:
  • [idvusers] ISL script: output animation times
    • From: Paul Graham
  • Re: [idvusers] ISL script: output animation times
    • From: Jeff McWhirter
  • Re: [idvusers] ISL script: output animation times
    • From: Julien Chastang
  • Re: [idvusers] ISL script: output animation times
    • From: Jeff McWhirter