[Nexus] Re: HDF BROWSER - hdfb

[Francesco De Carlo]

Ben-Chin,

I thought HDF was directly supported by IDL.
I have been using, since few years now, an HDF browser developed by
Brian Tieman that supports general SDS HDF/Nexus data, allows browsing,
plot etc., plus plays in sequence all hdf files found in a specific
directory
(this is very useful for tomography data). Brian program is written in
Java and
as far as I know is widely used. How your program compare to Brian's
software ? And why should I choose one vs the other ?

francesco

Ben-Chin Cha wrote:

> I have finished the development of an HDF browser, hdfb, which is
> written in ILD programming language. It provides the general HDF
> or NEXUS users with an easy to use SDS data browser.
>
> It allows the user flexibly to select any SDS data set from any HDF or
> NEXUS file and display the raw data graphically. It provides various
> features of viewing, plotting 1D/2D/3D data, and saving text and
> image data, etc. It also provide the great flexibility of constructing
> multi-1D array or multi-2D array for NEXUS scan file.
>
> It has been fully tested on both the UNIX and WIN system with
> IDL 5.5 and IDL 6.0. It is ready for user download from the following
> link. If the license free IDL 6.0 virtual machine
> version is available on user system, then hdfb.sav and the hdf.zip
> test files are ready for downloading for user test.
>
> You can find the user's guide and test examples from the following
> link:
>
>   http://epics.aps.anl.gov/~cha/hdfb.html
>
> --
> Ben-chin Cha (cha at aps.anl.gov)
> Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
> Advanced Photon Source
> Argonne National Laboratory