[Kst] [Bug 120772] kst should maintain a list of strings

[Nicolas Brisset]

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------- Additional Comments From nicolas.brisset eurocopter com  2006-07-04 11:03 -------
I have just tried initial metadata passing from an internal "test" datasource (where I can play without fearing to break things!) and it works partly: I get the metadata passed on to kst, I can see it in the metadata dialog called from the RMB menu on a vector in the data manager, but when I use a label like [Title], even though the "Title" metadata exists in the metadata dialog and has the right contents, the label remains empty.
It looks like there is still something lacking somewhere...

Besides, I have been thinking about this a bit more and I believe we need a mechanism to auto-sequence strings like vectors, curves and other objects so that we don't get name collisions when many datasources provide the same keys. But then, that means kst has to maintain a mapping like:
[kstName] <-> datasource/key 
I am not sure that's all in place yet ? If it isn't too big a change, I'd really like to see that added for 1.3.0 because it is a very usual complaint here that there is no good way to have reliable (aka as automatically updated :-)) context information added to kst plots. Once the infrastructure is in place, adding metadata for ASCII, CDF (global attributes are just that) and possibly netCDF should be very quick.