[Kst] loading equations and psds

[George Staikos]

On Friday 17 September 2004 01:51, George Staikos wrote:
> I think I'm down to one last problem before I can commit the equation and
> psd / curve separation.  The problem is what to do about loading old Kst
> files.  We can't know if they refer to equationcurves as opposed to
> equations.  One way around this is to change the XML node name for these
> elements and leave specialized code in for reading the old nodes and
> producing a curve implicitly.  This of course won't be backwards
> compatible. The other option is to just ignore these old entries.  Any
> better ideas, or preferences?

   I tried implementing this.  It's rather nightmarish.  For instance, old Kst 
files refer to the equation AND the curve with the same name.  We can't have 
them both with the same name now, so we have to come up with a smart renaming 
scheme that can go through all objects and tell them that X is actully Y now  
because we had to rename it.  Also, we will have to come up with a clever way 
to create the curve later, but not so far later that it doesn't get 
referenced beforehand.  The reason is that data objects have to lazy load 
vectors to avoid dependency issues, so we can't create curves from them until 
later.

   Ugh, quite messy....  Should we just drop backward compat on PSDs and 
equations?

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George Staikos
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