Points With Additional Data

Points With Additional Data

This option utilises the DigImage cursor facility to produce a file of user-specified points, along with the intensity at those points. In addition, further information may be encoded by the user in an optional 80 character string which is written to the file for each point.

Locate points on which buffer ?

The points may be located on any DigImage buffer. The selected buffer is made the current output buffer, with extended memory buffers being copied to buffer 0 first.

Save coordinates to what file (blank to suppress, .DAT default extnesion) ?

The intensities, coordinates and associated data will be saved to the file specified here. If no file name is given, then [P Points with associated data] will simply access the cursor facility. The format of the file is:

intens ic jc ir jr xw yw xrw yrw r radians degrees associated_data

where intens is the intensity of the pixel, ic,jc are the current pixel coordinates, ir,jr the reference pixel coordinates, xw,yw the current world coordinates, xrw,yrw the reference world coordinates and associated_data the character string of additional data. The coordinates are also given as a radius (in world units) with the angle expressed in both radians and degrees.

New or Append ? If the specified file already exists, the user is given the option of appending the data (<A>) to the file, or starting the file afresh (<N>). If the file does not already exist, neither answer has any effect.

Cursor Positioning: Locate desired point

The normal DigImage cursor facility is used to specify the location of the desired point(s). Information on the use of the cursor is available from the [H Help] option within the cursor menu.

Associated data

This entry allows specification of any additional data to be written out to the file. The data may be any alphanumeric string up to eighty characters in length.

Another point ?

Answering yes (<Y>) allows a further point to be added to the file. If no (<N>), then DigImage returns to [C: Contours].

Warning Message:
Unable to open data file. Sending output to computer monitor

DigImage was unable to open the specified output data file. This may be due to an invalid filename or path, or insufficient space on the disk drive.

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Stuart Dalziel, last page update: 19 February 1996