[Kst] Skip

[Barth Netterfield]

The intent is to 'read 1 sample every x frames' which both versions do.  Yours 
reads from the middle.  Have you identified any bugs in the current code?

cbn

On January 23, 2005 09:56 pm, George Staikos wrote:
>   I have this [still under development] patch to kstrvector which I think
> fixes many little bugs in skip.  Presently skip does some things that I
> consider strange.  Behavior on a vector [0,1,2,...,11,12] does this for
> given skip values:
>
> skip=2
> 2,4,6,8,10
> skip=3
> 3,6,9
> skip=4
> 4,8
> skip=5
> 5
> skip=6
> 6
> skip=7
> 7
> skip=8
> 8
>
> I think the vectors should look like this, and my patch behaves
> accordingly: skip=2
> 1,3,5,7,9,11
> skip=3
> 2,5,8,11
> skip=4
> 3,7,11
> skip=5
> 4,9
> skip=6
> 5,11
> skip=7
> 6
> skip=8
> 7
>
> There is some numerical fudging in my patch also, but it only breaks down
> in the case where skip=1 (I think).  I think doing skip where skip=1 is
> silly anyway, and so my patch disables skip when it's set to 1 (or less, as
> a sanity check).
>
> Any comments?  I haven't tested this code with anything other than my
> "0..12" vector, and I haven't tested it with samplesPerFrame > 1.  I guess
> it needs testing with various dirfiles.