[daip] problems with STar file labeling
Eric Greisen
egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed Apr 26 18:23:04 EDT 2006
Lynn D. Matthews writes:
> The label locations need not be terribly accurate. My understanding of
> the help file was that setting the "star type" to either 0 or -1 was
> supposed to do what I wanted, but in practice it seems to treat 0 or -1
> the same as star type 1.
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Eric Greisen wrote:
>
> > The STARS business was intended to mark symbols on images at an
> > accurate location and only incidentally to plot labels at a far less
> > accurate location. I will take a look and see if we can do something
> > to allow your usage while defending those that only give the RA and
> > Dec for the points with no widths/lables.
> >
> > Eric Greisen
> >
It should be fixed tomorrow with the MNJ. I added code to skip PNTPLT
when the symbol is <= 0 as the STARS help file says. PNTPLT handles
out of range plot types in a different way - default to 1 (+).
Thanks,
Eric Greisen
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