A tool for generating parameter blocks (aka macro commands).
The Mac version is on the lmsal net at:

/net/shine/Users/shine/fpp/pbdir/pbgui

The Linux version is on the lmsal net at:

/net/deploy1/home/fpptc/shine/fpp/pbdir/pbgui

The program name is pbgui for "parameter block GUI".
This code was derived from the comgui program that we used
for generating macro commands for ground testing but is restricted
to generating just the 8 byte parameter block portion of the
41 byte macro commands. The rest will be added by other tools or
by the MDP at run time. However, the user can provided "suggested"
compression information.

The code is designed to be run using the kokuten directory
for observational components. There are 2 environmental variables
used that can override the builtin defaults and some command line
options to force reading (and writing) specific files. For example:

pb -fg fgmc.idx -sp spmc.idx

causes files name fgmc.idx from the default directory to be used.


My tcsh definitions for the environmentals are:

setenv FPP_MACROS /net/solserv/home/fpptc/cmd/
setenv FPP_XMLTOP /net/kokuten//archive/ops/

The first is used only to read in "old" style macro commands. The
tools can read and convert these. The FPP_XMLTOP is the root for
a tree of directories with observingTables/FG and observingTables/SP
branches at the next level. Neal has a listing of the directories.

recent mods:

5/31/2006

added a forced save to allow overwrites, this is in the file menu

changed the compression options to reflect the current MDP load, this
was probably changed years ago but I hadn't noticed

the idx list comes up in a widget and MC's can be loaded from this
list, new MC's are appended to the idx file

6/17/2006

The Linux version is ready but further testing would be prudent.
Both FG and SP now pop up the current idx (index) files and allow
selection from the list. Note that the list of xml file and the
contents of the idx files are not guaranteed to match.