| Summary: | Add support for units in vectors | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kst | Reporter: | Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kst |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | arwalker |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.x | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Solaris | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
This ability was added in revision 934274 (version 1.8.0), to the base KstDataSource. If there are any specific data sources that units should be added to please submit a new wishlist report. |
Version: 1.3.0 (using KDE 3.4.0, compiled sources) Compiler: gcc version 3.4.3 OS: SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8 I think it is *essential* to be able to manage units when plotting curves. It would hence give kst a nice professional touch if vectors got a new "unit" property, which would be used throughout kst: - to generate X/Y labels - in legend text - to perform automatic conversions (curve->RMB->convert->to [list of relevant units based on the Y vector's unit]) - ... I think a couple of new virtual functions in kstdatasource could be added (virtual bool vectorsHaveUnits() const; etc...), for those datasources that support it. ASCII files can have units in a separate line (it is the case with our legacy ASCII format, which is why I had originally included it in my first version of the ASCII config dialog), CDF or netCDF variables often have a "unit" attribute, etc... Then, in a first step we could generate label names with 'field + " (" + unit + ")"' if units are available. That would already be a very nice feature :-) I'd be willing to prepare a patch to add support for units in ASCII, CDF, netCDF datasources... Are current users (other than me :-)) actually asking for this ? I can't imagine Planck and Blast experiments handling unitless data... how are people actually working right now ?