[Kst] hdf5

[Nicolas Brisset]

Hi,

Sorry for the very long delay in replying to this very interesting question.
As it stands, Kst can not read HDF5 files directly, but:
1) if you compile the netcdf lib with HDF5 support, and link Kst against this netcdf library chances are good that it may work
2) adding a HDF5 datasource based on the hdf library should be feasible. Here is a step-by-step tutorial on adding a datasource: https://github.com/Kst-plot/kst/blob/master/src/datasources/HOWTO_add_a_datasource.txt 

If you try either of these options, please report your success (or issues) on this list. Adding HDF5 is certainly a good idea, it has been on the roadmap for quite some time.
If you have the choice, I'd recommend developing under Linux because compiling all the dependencies under Windows is a bit more tedious. It is where I got stuck last fall when I tried it.

Nicolas

----- Mail original -----
> De: "rob steed" <rjsteed at talk21.com>
> À: kst at kde.org
> Envoyé: Jeudi 18 Juin 2015 15:55:35
> Objet: [Kst] hdf5
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello everyone,I really like kst and I'd like to use it to view data
> in a quite large HDF5 file. I saw a while ago in the mailing list
> that some people had had some success reading these files from kst,
> is this true at the moment? for instance, could I add this
> functionality by simply recompiling kst?
> 
> I've been looking for this feature for a while and so I'd be willing
> to work on it although given that I'm not that good at C++, I'm not
> sure how long that would take but maybe someone could give me any
> advice on how hard it would be to add this functionality to kst?
> 
> regards,
> Rob
> 
> 
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