[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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