[Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena

[Barton, David (DG)]

Darius,

>>but then you have to ask every beamline owner to
change the file names, at each synchrotron...

Not necessarily, it really only applies to those generating 10's or
100's of scans such as scanning in QEXAFS mode.  Not to mention that it
is already implemented in many beamlines that had the foresight on this
issue and implemented a solution when the beamlines were first created.
:-)  However, I do agree that some level of group cut/paste could be
helpful in Athena.

Dave

  _________________________________ 
  David Barton
  The Dow Chemical Company 
  Catalysis R&D 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
[mailto:ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Zajac,
Dariusz
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:38 AM
To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena

Dear Dave,
that's good idea - but then you have to ask every beamline owner to
change the file names, at each synchrotron... and it will not help if
you want to sort groups later ;)
the  another problem is with the length of files, can you imagine the
file name such as myfilename_elem_edge_temp_date_XXXXXrXXX.dat or
longer?  ;)
greetings
darek

BTW I am a "beamline owner"


>-----Original Message-----
>From: ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov 
>[mailto:ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf 
>Of Barton, David (DG)
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:21 PM
>To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
>Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena
>
>
>Dariusz,
>
>One other reasonable solution to this problem is to request 
>that your beamline owner change their file naming scheme to 
>truly name the file something like "scan_0001rXXX, where the 
>XXX is the scan number and it is padded with zeros... Such as: 
>scan_0001r001.dat, then all problems with lexigraphical 
>ordering in Windows and other platforms is solved because 
>scan_0001r001.dat will then be listed before scan_0001r010.dat 
>in the file list.  As a result, programs that import lists of 
>files (not just Athena) will then be able to handle multiple 
>files in the manner that you expect.
>
>Dave
>
>
>  _________________________________ 
>  David Barton
>  The Dow Chemical Company 
>  Catalysis R&D 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
>[mailto:ifeffit-bounces at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf 
>Of Dominik Samuelis
>Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 5:52 AM
>To: ifeffit at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov
>Subject: [Ifeffit] sorting files in Athena
>
>Hi Dariusz,
>
>> I use Iffefit under Win XP, and every time when I open (import) more 
>> files I have them in such order: 1, 11, 12, 13, ... , 19, 2, 20, 21,
>22,
>> ... , 29, 3, 30, 31 ... etc.
>> So, my question is if there is some "hidden" way to sort 
>automatically 
>> files during importing or in the menue. Do you know something about?
>Is
>> the sorting lexigraphical (from Windows)?
>
>this is a typical problem with the Windows file selection dialog. 
>Windows always puts the file, which is currently selected, at 
>the first 
>position of the files list. Now, when you're shift-clicking on 
>your last
>
>file, you automatically select this one. That's why file 31 is 
>in first 
>position.
>
>The easiest workaround for this issue is to select your files 
>backwards,
>
>i.e. first click on file 31, then shift-click on file 1.
>
>Now, with HASYLAB files, it gets a little more complicated, due to 
>filenames like scan_00001rxx, where xx is the scan number during a 
>QEXAFS scan. I usually just open them in two chunks, one with 
>xx=1-9 and
>
>then xx=10-99. This way, you can use the lexical sorting of Windows.
>
>Cheers,
>dominik
>-- 
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