<p>Thanks Barth. I will get some info together and submit a wishlist tomorrow.<br>
On Dec 6, 2011 12:56 AM, "Barth Netterfield" <<a href="mailto:netterfield@astro.utoronto.ca">netterfield@astro.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Is this from LabView? It could live in the ASCII data source, but but from the user's point of view, c/should be detected as an NI file without a config dialog.<br>
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> This is actually a much easier problem than general Time fields.<br>
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> Ben: can you open a bug (wishlist) for this, and link some example NI files and any documentation you can find. I will intend to get to it :-)<br>
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:53 AM, <<a href="mailto:nicolas.brisset@free.fr">nicolas.brisset@free.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hi Ben,<br>
>><br>
>> thanks for the feedback. I agree that reading NI files would be nice, but I would not like to complicate the ASCII source too much, and it seems to depart a bit too much from the usual stuff. To do it properly, we'd need to extract scalars (or even date/time info) from header lines...<br>
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>> I'd rather do a specific datasource for NI. Can you provide more info on the possible extensions, headers, etc? That would possibly also be a nice Code-In task, by the way...<br>
>> Do others agree that we should rather do a specific source for that format?<br>
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>> Nicolas<br>
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>> ----- Mail original -----<br>
>> > De: "Ben Lewis" <<a href="mailto:egretengineering@gmail.com">egretengineering@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> > À: <a href="mailto:kst@kde.org">kst@kde.org</a><br>
>> > Envoyé: Dimanche 4 Décembre 2011 06:48:55<br>
>> > Objet: Re: [Kst] Fwd: [Google Code-in 2011] New comment on Kst: date/time support for the ASCII data source by kharvd<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Hi Nicolas,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > My requirements for ASCII date/time support are slightly different<br>
>> > from what you have described here.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > What I need may be outside the scope for this project but I thought I<br>
>> > would mention it anyway, just<br>
>> > in case this functionality can be included.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Below are the first 15 lines of a typical ACSII file I use.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>> > channel names:<br>
>> > 02/12/2011 04:36:24 PM - Force (Bridge) - ch1 02/12/2011 04:36:24<br>
>> > PM - Force (Bridge) - ch2<br>
>> > start times:<br>
>> > 2/12/2011 16:36:24.609407 2/12/2011 16:36:24.609407<br>
>> > dt:<br>
>> > 0.000620<br>
>> > data:<br>
>> > -3.400914E+1 -1.141607E+1<br>
>> > 2.413543E+0 -7.194291E+0<br>
>> > -2.100850E+1 -5.889673E-2<br>
>> > -9.260725E-1 2.200645E+0<br>
>> > -8.395482E+0 -2.604362E+1<br>
>> > -1.209291E+1 -8.294330E+0<br>
>> > -1.063183E+1 -1.064306E+1<br>
>> > 8.108781E+0 -8.318977E-1<br>
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>> ><br>
>> > The header gives the start date and time of the test with a delta t<br>
>> > (dt) value. The first row of<br>
>> > data corresponds to the start date and time. Each subsequent row is<br>
>> > offset, in time, by the value<br>
>> > of delta t<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Would it be possible to generate the time vector needed for kst from<br>
>> > this data?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > This file format is used by National Instruments. If kst could<br>
>> > support this, I think it would be<br>
>> > useful for a lot of people.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Cheers, Ben<br>
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