Command Line Interface

[Barth Netterfield]

On Friday, August 19, 2016 4:12:30 PM EDT Ben Lewis wrote:
> Hi Kst,
> 
> I'm using the command line to batch process Kst data files. The aim is to
> produce a set of png files, one for each data file.
> 
> The batch file I'm using looks like this:
> 
>     @echo off
>     for %%f in (*.csv) do (
>     echo "%%f"
>     "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kst-2.0.8\bin\kst2.exe" -F "%%f" --png
> "%%~nf.png" "kstFile.kst" )
> 
> This works, but I would like to make a few improvements.
> 
> Is it possible to control the size of exported png file? The default is 1280
> x 960. I would like to create high resolution images, something like 3840 x
> 2160.

It would be easy to add --pngWidth and --pngHeight to the command line.  OK?


> Is it possible to control the *time offset* pragmatically? For *Time/Date
> Interpretation* I'm using *Index with frequency* and a manual offset. I
> would like to read the *start time* from the header info in the data file
> and apply this as an offset.

Yeah.... a bit harder.

An easy-ish approach would be to add a TimeOffset scalar to the ascii reader 
(like the units and quantity strings now) and optionally use it.

Sound OK?

> I'm using Kst 2.0.8 32 bit on Windows 10.
> 
> Regards, Ben