[Nexus] Correct way to specify multiple signals

[V. Armando Solé]

On 11/01/2018 10:24, Tobias Richter wrote:
> Hi Armando,
>
> First of all: With the new scheme where the attributes belong to the NXdata group there are no “,” separated lists. That scheme uses attribute arrays (for axes). I’ve just made that yet a bit clearer in the NXdata base class documentation. Hope that helps.

Thanks. That has already answered a second question I have just asked :-)

>
> Otherwise there is currently no provision for plotting multiple things out of a single NXdata. If the axes of multiple NXdata groups coincide, an application would be free to plot them into the same coordinate system. 
> For signals with 2 or more dimensions it is not obvious what should be done. Keeping the generic case simple and clean makes sense to me.

Well, for 2 or more dimensions the simplest way is to use a "signal"
browser but any application could implement whatever approach convenient
for the application (for instance playing with transparency could be
other approach).

My colleagues suggest that for compatibility issues perhaps to define a
new NXdata group attribute signals (instead of signal) would avoid any
confusion at programs expecting to find signal as a string and not as an
array of strings.

Armando