[Kst] Contribution NetCDF-interface: --> plotting of PACKED/COMPRESSED DATA and MATRIX COMPONENTS

[Nicolas Brisset]

Hi Patrick,

MANY THANKS for your efforts and the contribution! 
I still hadn't had time to do it myself, but reviewing your code and integrating it should be much faster than actually writing it :-)
I've just had a quick look and apart from different coding conventions it looks quite OK.

Today's a good day for Kst:
- Barth seems to have more time for Kst again
- We have a very nice contribution from you, which should make it into 2.0.7
- I came across this nice blog post on planetkde.org which mentions Kst: http://knro.blogspot.de/2013/03/say-hi-to-j065143540858.html

Cheers,

Nicolas

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Patrick Rix" <Patrick.Rix at repower.de>
> À: kst at kde.org
> Cc: "nicolas brisset" <nicolas.brisset at free.fr>
> Envoyé: Mardi 9 Avril 2013 11:54:18
> Objet: Contribution NetCDF-interface:  -->  plotting of PACKED/COMPRESSED DATA  and  MATRIX COMPONENTS
> 
> Dear KST-developers,
> dear Nicolas,
> 
> I finally succeeded in compiling KST and enhancing the NetCDF data
> interface by adding support for
> 
>   +++ plotting of PACKED DATA (using signed short integers as data
>   type in combination with scaling attributes 'scale_factor' and
>   'add_offset') and
>   +++ plotting COMPONENTS of a time dependent MATRIX,     X_[time,
>   j_comp]  as vectors   x_j{time}
> 
> which I wanted to contribute to the KST-project (--> attached
> ZIP-achiche) hoping that it will be useful to others, too and gets
> included into the main stream.
> The only file that has been affected to changes was :
>     kst\src\datasources\netcdf\netcdfsource.cpp
> 
> I also added some comments there on the main idea and strategy of the
> implementation details which needed a little bit of cheating.
> Thus it  would be good if someone else could have a look on the code,
> seeing how it could be implemented in a more elegant way - so:
> any feedback will be warmly appreciated.
> 
> Componets of Matrices can be selected in the Data Wizard dialog being
> shown as vectors.
> For example a matrix   X_vec3[time,1..3]   with the time dependend
> position vector representing the trajectory of a particle will
> appear in the field selection window as three vectors:
>    X_vec3.[01] ,  X_vec3.[02]  and  X_vec3.[03] .
> 
> If anyone wants to try the new interface version, I can send an
> achive (~45MB) with the Windows binary (compiled with Microsoft
> Visual Studio 10 Express) and all plugin-DLLs if you drop me a note.
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Patrick Rix.
> 
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