[Kst] [Kst-plot/kst] 870d84: This is a new plugin designed to read FITS tables....

[Barth Netterfield]

I'm looking into the linking issue.

Can you include a (small) demo fitstable file - maybe in 
./tests/fitstable_testcase?

cbn

On May 15, 2014 1:00:08 PM Nicholas Chapman wrote:

>   Branch: refs/heads/master
>   Home:   https://github.com/Kst-plot/kst
>   Commit: 870d843c0fb100d079c1f46e322f89db733e9777
>      
> https://github.com/Kst-plot/kst/commit/870d843c0fb100d079c1f46e322f89db733e
> 9777 Author: Nicholas Chapman <nchapman at u.northwestern.edu>
>   Date:   2014-05-15 (Thu, 15 May 2014)
> 
>   Changed paths:
>     M src/datasources/CMakeLists.txt
>     A src/datasources/fitstable/fitstable.cpp
>     A src/datasources/fitstable/fitstable.h
>     A src/datasources/fitstable/fitstable.pro
>     A src/datasources/fitstable/kstdata_fitstable.desktop
> 
>   Log Message:
>   -----------
>   This is a new plugin designed to read FITS tables.  Note, to compile KST
> on my machine (running OS X 10.6.8) required me to remove the
> KST_THREAD_LOCAL keywords from kst_atof.h and kst_atof.cpp.  This was
> because my compiler does not seem to support "thread local storage".
> 
> Secondly, I had to disable the fitsimage plugin in
> src/datasources/CMakeLists.txt.  For some reason, I got errors as if the
> cfitsio libraries weren't being linked properly.  This is most puzzling
> since I used the cfitsio libraries in fitstable, and they link just fine.
> 
> Because I had to disable fitsimage, I can't test how fitsimage and fitstable
> interact when loading a file with the data wizard.  Will fitsimage or
> fitstable get control of the file?  fitstable will read the file, and if it
> is a fits file with at least one table extension with more than zero rows,
> then it will return a value of 80, indicating it can read the file.

-- 
Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
416-845-0946