Chapter 43: The GREPLAY Procedure

Overview

The GREPLAY procedure displays and manages graphics output that is stored in SAS catalogs. The GREPLAY procedure also creates templates and color maps that you can use when you replay your graphics output. The GREPLAY procedure operates in both windowing and line-mode environments.

With the GREPLAY procedure, you can

• select one or more catalog entries from the same catalog for replay and route them to your display or other devices, such as plotters and printers.

• use, create, or modify templates. You can use templates to describe positioning on a single display for the graphics output that is stored in one or more catalog entries.

• use, create, or modify color maps. Color maps enable you to change the colors in graphics output by mapping existing colors to new colors.

• manage entries in SAS catalogs by

  • creating logical groupings of catalog entries that contain graphics output

  • renaming, deleting, or copying catalog entries that contain graphics output, templates, and color maps

  • rearranging catalog entries that contain graphics output.

• create new graphics output by replaying one or more catalog entries into panels within a template.

Figure 43.1 on page 1239 shows four catalog entries that were replayed into a template and displayed as a single graph.

Display 43.1: Graphics Output in a Template

For an example of replaying graphics in a template, see Example 2 on page 1272.