Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux Hi kst folks, this is a wishlist item. A useful feature would be the ability to read events *from* the ELOG and automatically create labels on a plot. In digging through the data from the Planck/HFI Calibration of June and July, I find myself constantly flipping back and forth between the ELOG and kst to figure out what happened when. It would be very cool if text boxes would automatically appear on my kst plot showing events like "JFETS on", etc. Thanks very much! -Brendan
I'm not sure this is the right approach. I think the event should trigger KstScript which deals with the label instead, and this is already possible.
One obvious problem with this is that if you are trying to tag a particular event the text labels are tied to a particular position within a plot and not to a particular data value. So if you zoom/shift etc. the label is no longer correctly positioned. One possibility would be add the ability to anchor the text labels to an x/y data value. Another would be to add text labels to data markers.
That's the request for annotation objects in data mode instead of view mode. This has been discussed in the past already, and I think that it makes a lot of sense from a user perspective. I remember George was worried about performance, but if we can find a way to do that it would be very nice. Annotation objects could have coordinates either relative to the plot (or toplevel window if outside plots) or in data space (as if they were extra curves drawn with specific vectors).
> If we made a "Marker" data object, with a subvector containing x-positions > this would all be alot easier. Event monitors could automatically create > marker sub(ob)jects, which could be inserted into plots to draw the correct > markers. We could then extend markers to maintain a list of strings > associated with x-values, and they could draw these into the plots if > required. I agree. Can you write up a short proposal on how this would work?
Could be still open in Kst 1.