[ferret_users] Re: switch mode inside a ferret session?

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,
Ferret just isn't set up to have more than one mode in a session -- it 
opens a graphics "workstation" of a given type on startup and is then in 
that mode for the duration of the session. You might be able to save 
intermediate results, say in a NetCDF file, and then open up a new 
session to make the final plots in the graphics format that you want.

Ansley Manke


David Wang wrote:

> Hey Ferreters,
>
> I want to generate both metafile output and gif output in one .jnl 
> script. But my X.org is configured in 16-bit color depth and cannot be 
> changed at this moment for some reasons. So within the session of 
> normal mode, ferret is unable to create gif images by using 
> FRAME/FILE=filename.gif. Here I am asking if it's possible to switch 
> ferret to -gif batch mode from the normal mode w/o starting a new 
> session.
> Or if ferret can tell me which mode it's running, IF-THEN-ELSE may be 
> used to bifurcate the right output commands for either mode in one 
> script.
>
> Thanks, D.W.