[NeXus-tech] NeXus 4.2

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Peterson, Peter F. (pf9) wrote:

> I know we are the verge of releasing the new version. Stuart tells  
> me the remaining problems are IDL (reading slabs only) and python  
> (installing when version is 2.5). Can we get this finished this week?

The missing piece for python is the length of the character field  
that we are storing information into.

NXgetinfo() does not specify the behaviour, but the author clearly  
intended it to return the length of the string stored rather than the  
storage space available.

If this is not otherwise resolved, then I will add a new function  
NXgetdatainfo() which returns the space available.

This is ticket #173.

Side note: locating the available functions in the NeXus api via  
doxygen was not easy.  I got there eventually via napi.h.  A list of  
functions on a top level tab grouped according to the headings listed  
on the modules tab would be ideal.  Having to open each one to figure  
out where getattrinfo() is not ideal, so make sure all functions are  
on the same page.  The alphabetical list in napi.h is not ideal.

Other side note: Blue type should be consistently clickable; Core API  
on the front page of the doxygen is not.

    - Paul

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