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- Text Plotting icon no longer has any legend parameters - these are all now contained in the Legend icon.
- The way to specify user text in a title has changed a little. Metview 3 contained options to specify whether a title contained automatic text, user text or both; Metview 4 instead has a default title line which is
"<magics_title/>". Any text line with this string will have the automatic title; lines without it will not. - Magics++ also has features, documented here, to:
- automatically add GRIB meta-data to a 'semi-automatic' plot title using GRIB_API keys. For instances:
- where Metview 3 used
!PARAM!Metview 4 would use<grib_info key='name'/> - provide two extra keys: base-date and valid-date
- where Metview 3 used
- convert the date and time information according to a format string defined in C++ std::strftime (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/)
- automatically add GRIB meta-data to a 'semi-automatic' plot title using GRIB_API keys. For instances:
- Another commonly-encountered change is that instead of Text Reference Character Height, Metview now has Text Font Size.
- In Macro,
ptextis replaced bymtext.
Examples:
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str = "<grib_info key='base-date'/>  " |
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str = str & "<grib_info key='centre'/> t+<grib_info key='step'/>" |
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str = str & " VT:<grib_info key='valid-date'/>  " |
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str = str & "<grib_info key='level'/> hPa <grib_info key='name'/>" |
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title1 = mtext |
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( text_line_count : 2, |
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text_line_1 |
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: "<magics_title/>", |
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text_line_ |
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)
title2 = mtext (
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2 : str ) title2 = mtext ( text_line_count : 4, |
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text_line_1 |
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: "<font colour='red' size='0.5'> My </font> <font colour='blue'> text </font>", |
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text_line_2 |
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: "<font colour='black' size='0.3'> <grib_info key='name'/> </font>", |
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text_line_ |
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3 : "<grib_info key='base-date' format='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:00'/>", |
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text_line_ |
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4 : "Special C++ ctime characters: <grib_info key='valid-date' format='%A %B'/>" |
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) |
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See Legends, above, for information regarding the mixing of ptext() and mlegend(). |
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