[Kst] NewDocs comments..

[Duncan Hanson]

It seems as though Newdocs are coming into a usable form. I guess we should
merge them in soon (is there a 1.4.0 release date yet?).

The plugin documentation still hasn't been touched. Did you want to do that,
Adam? If not, I can do it.

Duncan.

On 3/30/07, Duncan Hanson <duncan.hanson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/30/07, Barth Netterfield <netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> > Working With Views -> View Object Types -> [all]
> > Working With Views -> View Object Types -> Plots -> auto labels:
> > Working With Views -> View Object Types -> Plots-> Range tab:
>
>
> Ok, thanks for comments. Will do.
>
> Ch 8 Adding and Removing Plugins:
> > Built-in plugins -> Butterworth filters
>
>
> I didn't touch anything to do with Plugins. I haven't looked at the new
> Plugin setup yet, and when I originally started doing docs I think that you
> said Adam would be interested in changing the documentation for them
> himself.
>
> Indirect files:  description seems wrongish.
> >         These are files that point to data sources.  Yes, they can use
> > KIO, but
> > anywhere we use a file name, we can use KIO - that is not the
> > point.  These
> > were actually invented to tell kst the name of the current file being
> > written
> > to by an experiment.  For example, for BLAST, the data loggers would
> > write on
> > the local machine to files whose cryptic name was created by from the
> > time of
> > creation (so 112312312.d or some such...).  In addition the data loggers
> > created these files:
> >         defile.cur: pointed to the current line-of-site data file being
> > written to
> >         tdrss.cur: pointed to the current tdrss sattelite data file
> > being written to
> >         slowDL.cur: pointed to the current slow data file being written
> > to.
> > So if you wanted to plot GYRO1 data from the LOS data file currently
> > being
> > written to, you would type "kst -y GYRO1 -n 1000 defile.cur".  The .kst
> > files
> > can refer to defile.cur.  Then, running a kst file later always refers
> > to
> > whatever the current data file is.
>
>
> Hmm... Ok. My experience with the Indirect data source has only been that
> it is the datasource which claims things from http, etc. I will look at the
> code for it more closely and try to come up with a better description.
>
>
> > Appendix A. Command Line Usage and Examples
> >         My email address is wrong.
>
>
> I didn't touch this stuff either-- has anything else in the command line
> changed?
>
> Appendix B. Creating Additional Plugins
> >         Does this describe the new plugin system, or the old
> > (depricated) plugin
> > system.  (I think old - can someone verify).
> >         If so, could we describe the new one instead?
> >
> > Installing Kst from Source -> requirements
> >         I think we require KDE 3.4 and qt 3.3.  George?
>
>
> I'll wait for George to respond. There's a thread on the list about this,
> where 3.3/3.3 is touted, but Andrew says at the end that it's actually 3.4
> /3.3.
>
> Duncan.
>
>
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