soloii is a GTK-based display and editing tool for a single radar.
It was developed by Dick Oye at EOL/RSF in the 1990s and early 2000s.
This is version 1.20
The DOI for lrose-soloii is:
The DOI entry information is stored at:
soloii requires GTK+ headers and libraries! Also, to read or write netCDF files, make sure the netcdf libraries have been installed.
For Mac OS X, use of Fink (http://pdb.finkproject.org) is suggested to provide easy access to necessary packages. Required packages are gcc42 (or later), gtk+, and glib.
The soloii distribution needs to be gunzipped and untarred into a directory such as "/rdss" (for example). Untarring the soloii distribution will build a directory tree starting with the "soloii-1.20" directory. To configure the Makefiles in all directories, you should invoke the configure script in the soloii directory. So to build soloii, installing files under /bin and /lib, the commands are simply:
$ ./configure --prefix=<prefix>
$ make # 'make install' is not necessary from the top directory
Or, if you're only interested in the translators or translator library:
$ ./configure --prefix=<prefix>
$ cd translate
$ make install
The executable is named soloii and will be written to /bin/soloii. The environment variable DORADE_DIR should point to a directory containing DORADE sweepfiles. If you start soloii from a directory containing sweepfiles, you do not have to set DORADE_DIR.
For help information check the Help menus in the menu bars of most widgets.
soloii can be built and run on a 64-bit Linux or OS X machine, although it will explicitly build a 32-bit binary.
For the build to be successful on Linux systems, 32-bit versions of the libraries used by soloii must be available. For Fedora/Red Hat 64-bit systems, it is safe to install both the 64-bit (x86_64) versions and the 32-bit (i386) versions of libraries at the same time. The minimum set of specifically i386 packages required for build on Fedora or Red Hat systems includes: gtk+-devel, glibc-devel, glib-devel, libXi-devel, libXext-devel, libX11-devel, netcdf-devel.
I have not built soloii on Debian/Ubuntu 64-bit systems, but I believe that the ia32-libs package would be required, as well as 32-bit versions of the packages listed above for Fedora/Red Hat (note that the Debian equivalent packages may have slightly different names from those above). Possibility of having 64-bit and 32-bit versions of a library installed at the same time is unknown.
- fixed memory overruns which were causing problems when changing display configuration, e.g., when loading saved configuration files
- actually tell people that we cannot display floating-point DORADE data, rather than just silently drawing a bunch of gray
- bump maximum gate count we handle from 1500 to 8192
- disable tape I/O on systems without /usr/include/sys/mtio.h (e.g., Mac Snow Leopard)
- add "-m32" flag to compilation and linking for builds on OS X, to force making 32-bit executables
Introduce first-cut support for Mac OS X. soloii has been tested briefly (on a Leopard x86 system), and will display and perform basic edits on DORADE sweep files.
For xltrsii, fixed a problem where the Nyquist velocity written into sweep files was retained from sweep to sweep, even when PRT changed between sweeps.
Added directions for building on 64-bit systems. Added xltrsii support for PIRAQX rev 2 data (generated by newer ARC HiQ systems). Added documentation for PIRAQX options in translate/README.xltrsii.html.
Cleaned code to make it work with newer compilers without generating warnings and made configure more robust.
Added yum netcdf install paths to configure script.
Fixed some bugs for Dorade to netCDF conversion.
For linux machines compiles with the -m32 flag to force 32 bit compiles on 64 bit machines.
Changed the mode permissions for open/creat calls to 666.
Updates for Fedora Core 4.
Found bug in logging code. String sizes were not large enough.
Hooked up logging function for examine widget.
Modified translators to work with new WSR88D archive II format.