[Kst] A use case for scripting?

[Ben Lewis]

Hi Nicolas,

I was doing some work with Kst a while back that also required a significant number of repetitive 
operations. I would have saved a lot of time if there was a "duplicate" option in the data manager. 
At the time I submitted a feature request here https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297581

I can see how scripting support would be very useful in your application and far more powerful than 
the simple duplicate feature. However, I thought I would raise it here again because it may be 
quicker to implement and would give "script challenged" people a big time saver.

Do you think it would help in your situation? Would it be easy to add?

Regards, Ben

On 21/07/2012 10:25 PM, Nicolas Brisset wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Kst lately to check the performance of some sensors against a known reference.
> Basically, what I do is: compute the error (difference between the 2 signals), plot a histogram and compute the 2-sigma value of the error distribution.
> Where it hurts is that I have to do quite a few operations on each vetor. It's always the same, and quickly becomes tedious with the increasing number of vectors.
> What I'd dream of is being able to write a scripting function like checkAgainstReference(new_curve, reference_curve, new_column = true) which would:
> 1) check that x vectors and lengths are compatible
> 2) extract the y vectors from the curves
> 3) compute a new vector which is the difference of the previous y vectors
> 4) plot a histogram of the error
> 4) compute the absolute value of the error (without plotting)
> 5) compute a histogram of the absolute value of the error
> 6) compute a cumulative sum of the previous
> 7) create a new curve plotting the cumulative sum against the bin (x) vector of the histogram
> 8) create a new curve checking when the cumulative sum reaches 95%
> 9) use the 95% curve as a x-marker with a dotted red line in the cumulative sum plot
> 10) put all that either in a new column of a given tab (third arg at true), or create a new tab
>
> I can do all this manually and it works fine once you've figured out some of the details I left out here for the sake of brevity, so the question is not whether Kst can do it.
> I haven't really checked scripting yet, so the question is: could it solve my issue of having to repeat all those operations a large number of times? That would be totally awesome and make my colleague doing this in scilab pale with envy!
>
> Nicolas
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