[Kst] extragear/graphics/kst/kst/datasources/hpic

[Theodore Kisner]

For now, I just use units as part of the field names, as a convenience to the 
user.  Of course it would be easy to do something more with this info.  
Perhaps when we next decide to break binary compatibility, we could add 
another virtual function in anticipation of future uses...

-Ted

On Friday 17 June 2005 00:34, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> > Read names/units from file and use as field names.  Use
> > generic default if not specified.
>
> This reminds me of a "problem" that we had left more or less open at the
> time George implemented the customizable ASCII datasource: that of
> units. Maybe the right approach would be to add a virtual function to
> kstdatasource that queries units in case the datasource supports it ?
> Then the next question will be how units are stored (vector property ?)
> and used (unit conversions shortcuts, ...).