Creating data source reader plugin

Barth Netterfield netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca
Thu May 10 16:08:30 UTC 2018


I can try to give you some advice.

Does your data source just provide vectors, or does it also have strings,
scalars and matrices?

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Manuel <manuel.m at ewetel.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have used kst occasionally to display logged diagnostic machine data.
> Since I like the program, I'm planning to use it on a more regular basis in
> the future.
>
> Until now, I've converted the binary logfiles (around 500 MB size) to
> ASCII before plotting. This always involves a couple of minutes for
> conversion, the loading of the .kst file is slow, and zooming / scrolling
> slows down as well.
>
> I hope to speed up loading, scrooling and zooming with a plugin for my
> binary format. And I have found this description for creating a data source
> reader plugin:
>
> https://kst-plot.kde.org/docbook/html/supportingadditionalfileformats.html
>
> I want to try and create a plugin for my binary files, but there is a
> warning that the description was written for kst 1. So are there any
> additional recommendations, anything I should be aware of before I start?
>
> Manuel
>



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C. Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
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