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Hi HansPeter- > I see the problems. > > Nevertheless, for satellite imagery at least a complete control over the > probe area including a resizing down to one image pixel would be a very > desirable feature. McIDAS does this rather nicely. Jeff made a change where the user can change the size of the probe through the View menu of the Data Probe. It will be in the final 2.0 release. If you want a preview, you can download the nightly build from: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/nightly/ Don Murray. > Cheers, HP > > Unidata IDV Support wrote: > > Hi HansPeter, > > This is Jeff, Don is out for a few days this week. > > > > > >> Shame on me, I should have discovered the probe feature myself. I just > > > > Don and I are always forgetting features of the IDV. > > > >> did not fall on the term "probe". It does what I expected. The only > >> thing for what I did not find an indication is the possibility to resize > >> the probe. In particular I would be interested to resize to 1 image pixel. > >> > > > > There are a couple of problems with using the size of a pixel to size the > > probe. > > First of all the data probe probes all sorts of data types, not just > > imagery, and > > we really don't know the "size" of the item we are probing. Also, the probe > > is > > in X/Y space, not LAT/LON, and its size is automatically scaled as you zoom > > in and out. > > > > That said, your question got me to add in the ability to increase or > > decrease > > the size of the probe point (the small size of the probe has bothered me in > > the past). > > Also, I added the ability to change the type of the marker (e.g., a star, a > > cube, etc.). > > This will be under the "View" menu for the ProbeControl on our next release. > > > > -Jeff > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: JNH-841468 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JNH-841468 Department: Support IDV Priority: Urgent Status: Open