Re: [guide-user] DSS images/P126 (Pluto occn)

palec@aol.com Jul 23, 2002

In a message dated 7/22/02 8:20:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
pluto@... writes:


> Paul Lecko asked:
>
> "...When I edited out those little DSS images, they left behind
> 'empty white frames'."
>
> Errmmm... just out of curiosity, how did you "edit them out"?
> I didn't think there was a way to do that. (Guide decompresses those
> FITS files into the Guide directory on an as-needed basis. If you
> delete them, Guide just extracts them all over again.)
>
> The only way I can see to edit them out, leaving no frame, is
> a somewhat tedious one. Guide gets data for the images from files
> IMGDA000.IDX through IMGDA127.IDX. These 128 files list the images
> in given chunks of the sky, each covering about 1/128 of the entire
> celestial sphere. These files, too, are copied on an as-needed
> basis to the Guide directory; delete them, and Guide will re-create
> them. But if you convert these files to empty ones, or files
> containing some meaningless text, Guide won't draw anything.
>
> Not an appealing method, I realize. I'll add some sort of
> "suppress built-in DSS images" control.
>

Hi Bill,

Well, It turned out that I deleted the fits files that had nothing to do with
those empty white frame. It was only five idx files in my Guide folder,
instead of all 128 files. How that happen is that I don't know.

Following your advice, I moved five idx files from guide folder to other
folder and the frames were turned off. Vice versa, turned them on. I could
live with that.

The DSS suppression control would be great idea to use.

Thanks for your help.

Paul Lecko


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