Module category: IO

• WriteASC
  • Parameters
  • Input Ports
  • Output Ports
  • Examples

WriteASC

WriteASC generates an ASCII file containing the information of a Covise object (accepted types are specified in the list of types of the unique input port, see below). You may use this file by way of report or in case you wish to analyse the data with your own tools.

It has been tested on SGI and Linux platforms.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
path	Browser	Path of the file
new	Boolean	If set to TRUE, it creates a new file and eventually destroys the contents of an already existing file; otherwise the new information is appended to the file.
verbose	Boolean	If set to TRUE, you dump a complete information of the object; otherwise only a summary is created.

Input Ports

Name	Type	Description
requireddataIn	UnstructuredGrid UniformGrid Unstructured_2D_Data Points Float Float Vec3 Vec3 Unstructured_T3D_Data Polygons Lines IntArr RGBA_Colors Text ColorMap Unstructured_V3D_Colors Unstructured_V3D_Normals	Object for which we want to create a report file.

Output Ports

Examples

Figure: covise/net/examples/WriteASC.net

In this map two WriteASC modules are used to generate reports of data objects constructed by other modules. The first one writes a file for the Unstructured_2D_Data object created by Histogram .

The first lines of this file (/usr/tmp/data2D.asc) is shown below:

 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Object name: 'Histogram_1_OUT_007'
Type string: 'USTSTD':
Attributes
            COMMANDS AUTOSCALE
SETS SYMBOL 16
SETS LINESTYLE 0
 
Scalar 2D USG Data, 91 Elements


      0:       -0.551373       36.000000
      1:       -0.539119       26.000000
      2:       -0.526866       34.000000
      3:       -0.514613       22.000000
      4:       -0.502360       38.000000
      5:       -0.490107       26.000000
      6:       -0.477853       12.000000
      7:       -0.465600       46.000000                                     
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