! $1: the name of the FigFile, if necessary with leading path elements
! eg. MyTempPlot or Figs/MyTempPlot or ~/Data/Papers/ThisPaper/Figures/MyTempPlot
!

! this definition works for wk's environment on riley
! make sure to have $MetaFileHome properly defined (it could be any existing tmp directory)
DEF SYM MetaFileHome=/Volumes/usbwork3/analysis/tmp_metafiles
set mode meta:($MetaFileHome)/metafile.plt

DEF SYM FigFile=($1%($FigFile)%)
DEF SYM WinHdl=($2%/new%)
say preparing new figure window for ($FigFile)
set mode meta:($MetaFileHome)/metafile.plt
set win ($WinHdl)
go transparency