[Kst] Re: NetCDF source

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:45, Kimberly Scott wrote:
> I wanted to thank both of you for all of your help with getting this new
> netCDF datasource reader working.  THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!  As a
> new programmer in C++, I have learned much from this process, and I think
> this experience will help me to be a better programmer in the future.

  You're welcome. :-)

> After reviewing the new cpp file, I've realized that my interpretation of
> what the readField member function is supposed to return was wrong.
> readField is supposed to return 1 sample if n = -1, or n*recSize
> samples if n > 0.  In Appendix C of the Kst handbook, the description of
> the readField function says that the number of FRAMES that were read
> should be returned, so this is why I returned "n" instead of "n*recSize"
> (and why my plots didn't look right!).

  Fixed, thanks for the note.

> I am still confused about one thing:  what does "n = -1" mean, or in
> other words, when does n get set to -1, and why do we want to read one
> sample in this case?

   I think Barth can enlighten you to the meaning of this better than I can.

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