Some more feature requests

[Codex98]

First of all I want to say that all of these feature requests I've been bringing up aren't because I don't like SupercellWX. It's probably the best archive tool I know of at the moment, and the placefile support makes it a useful tool even if you have apps like RadarScope. But I did have a few features that would be really neat to see...

• Ability to disable placefiles and current warnings when in archive mode. I've noticed that this is not currently happening and it clutters up the archive view with unrelated data

• I was wondering if possibly the solution for the lack of resolution as far as storm-relative velocity would be a GR2Analyst-style manually computed SRM, where you can set the storm motion and the program will compute storm relative velocity depending on what you set

• A search box for cities (like Radar Omega or WeatherWise) would be cool

• Storm reports- I know there's a placefile for this, but the icons aren't as visible as those in GR3 or RadarScope for example

• Warning mouseover tooltips go out of the pane / window so you can't read the full text; this depends on where you hover the cursor on the warning box but it happens pretty frequently

• Some sort of dealiasing for Level II data

• A customizable color / icon for the multi-panel cursor marker

• Placefiles appear to be scaled differently than GR3; not sure exactly how to explain this other than that the placefile contents (icons, etc.) are bigger relative to the map than with that same placefile loaded into GR3. This makes lightning and station plot icons a little annoying since they cover a lot of the radar data

• And just a fun and outside the box thing- it would be kind of neat if there was some kind of WarnGen simulator that you could optionally turn on just to play around with. The reason I mention this is that AWIPS (and its accompanying WarnGen tool) is available for download but I'm pretty sure there isn't a public-accessible data feed for it?

Again, great work! Happy to see the changes that just rolled out and excited to see what's coming next.

[dpaulat]

First of all I want to say that all of these feature requests I've been bringing up aren't because I don't like SupercellWX. It's probably the best archive tool I know of at the moment, and the placefile support makes it a useful tool even if you have apps like RadarScope. But I did have a few features that would be really neat to see...

Thanks!

• Ability to disable placefiles and current warnings when in archive mode. I've noticed that this is not currently happening and it clutters up the archive view with unrelated data

Warnings should already reflect the currently selected time. Additionally, archive warnings are currently being worked, which will show warnings more than a few days in the past. I plan to add a disable setting for archive warnings.

Currently, you can disable placefiles through the Placefile Manager, or hide them through the Layer Manager. Some placefiles may still have value in archive mode, and some may not. It's been discussed to add groupings, folders, presets, or another mechanism to enable/disable a large number at once.

• I was wondering if possibly the solution for the lack of resolution as far as storm-relative velocity would be a GR2Analyst-style manually computed SRM, where you can set the storm motion and the program will compute storm relative velocity depending on what you set

Yes, this would be one of several products that could be generated in the future. Right now, the capability for derived products doesn't exist, but it's been discussed.

• A search box for cities (like Radar Omega or WeatherWise) would be cool

Adding geocoding was discussed on the Discord a while back. https://discord.com/channels/1021112836316995715/1307754082483834990

• Storm reports- I know there's a placefile for this, but the icons aren't as visible as those in GR3 or RadarScope for example

IEM provides an API for this that could be supported in the future:

• https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/lsr/
• https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/api/1/docs#/nws/service_nws_lsrs_by_point__fmt__get
• https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/gis/lsrs.phtml

• Warning mouseover tooltips go out of the pane / window so you can't read the full text; this depends on where you hover the cursor on the warning box but it happens pretty frequently

You can change your Tooltip Method to Floating Label to avoid this: https://supercell-wx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/settings.html#tooltip-method

• Some sort of dealiasing for Level II data

This is something that I am looking to add in the future. #290

• A customizable color / icon for the multi-panel cursor marker

I would like to make these, and other icons customizable. #145

• Placefiles appear to be scaled differently than GR3; not sure exactly how to explain this other than that the placefile contents (icons, etc.) are bigger relative to the map than with that same placefile loaded into GR3. This makes lightning and station plot icons a little annoying since they cover a lot of the radar data

I don't notice this. Do you have an example? I'm showing icons within a pixel.

• And just a fun and outside the box thing- it would be kind of neat if there was some kind of WarnGen simulator that you could optionally turn on just to play around with. The reason I mention this is that AWIPS (and its accompanying WarnGen tool) is available for download but I'm pretty sure there isn't a public-accessible data feed for it?

Not quite sure what you're looking for here. There is a public-accessible data feed for AWIPS.

I'm not sure what a WarnGen simulator would look like in Supercell Wx. Maybe the ability to create your own warnings for display in the application?

Again, great work! Happy to see the changes that just rolled out and excited to see what's coming next.

Thanks!

[Codex98]

Thanks for the tooltip fix! Didn't know it was that simple.

I wasn't aware there was a public access data feed for AWIPS!

Yes, that's what I was thinking of as far as the WarnGen suggestion- just a way to simulate issuing warnings that would only display inside the application.

[dpaulat]

I missed the Placefile scaling comment originally. Re-replying so it doesn't get missed.

Placefiles appear to be scaled differently than GR3; not sure exactly how to explain this other than that the placefile contents (icons, etc.) are bigger relative to the map than with that same placefile loaded into GR3. This makes lightning and station plot icons a little annoying since they cover a lot of the radar data

I don't notice this. Do you have an example? I'm showing icons within a pixel.

[dpaulat]

I wasn't aware there was a public access data feed for AWIPS!

You'll need to make sure you're on AWIPS CAVE 23.x. The public 20.x servers have been shut down.

[Codex98]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the icons feel like they take up a lot more of the map compared to GR3. Here's a comparison. The map extent is almost identical.

[dpaulat]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the icons feel like they take up a lot more of the map compared to GR3. Here's a comparison. The map extent is almost identical.

Yep. It looks like it's scaling it by 125% (?) to match your display scale, and I've reproduced that on my end. I've never noticed it, because I always run at 100% scale. I wouldn't call that intended behavior, but I'll probably make a setting to toggle that on and off, because there are probably people who have become accustomed to the current scaling.

[Codex98]

Sounds good!