could you make the name more verbose? Maybe something like:

compute_and_print_the_coordinates_of_the_vertex_closest_to_a_given_talairach_point?

good job Krish,
Bruce

On 
Mon, 26 Apr 
2010, Krish Subramaniam wrote:

> Hi Ali
>
> I've enabled a command in the latest dev build which does the following. This 
> only prints the vertex without any other details.
>
> % print_nearest_vertex_to_talairach_point -53.34 -7.81 -4.5
> surfer: vertex 86131
>
> Let me know your platform by an email off the list ( type freesurfer when you 
> are in the environment and paste the last line) and I'll send you the latest 
> version.
>
> Regarding your questions:
>
> 1. tcl script is the best way to get relevant output for long list of 
> coordinates
> 2. Unfortunately, most of the tcl commands invoke compiled C code, so you 
> can't modify the "select_talairach_point" tcl function.
>
> -Krish
>
>
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Arslan, Ali wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to go over a long list of talairach coordinates and to find 
>> their vertex indices.
>> I did a bit of research and saw a previous question on the same topic:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12550.html
>> 
>> So I went on to write a tcl script in order to write the corresponding 
>> vertex indices to a file. But the problem is, the function 
>> selec_talairach_point gives 4 successive outputs, therefore I can't parse 
>> the vertex number because it gets overwritten.
>> such as these:
>> 
>> % select_talairach_point 66.18 -14.56 39.06
>> surfer: vertex 68342: dist = 0.002702
>> % surfer: dmin=0.0027, vno=68342, x=43.6843, y=-11.1042, z=35.8562
>> % surfer: curv=0.000000, fs=0.000000
>> % surfer: val=0.000000, val2=0.000000
>> % surfer: amp=0.000000, angle=0.000000 deg (0.000000)
>> % 0 (0  0  0)
>> 
>> 
>> My questions are:
>> 1) is there an easier way of doing this besides writing a tcl script?
>> 2) how can I access the function "selec_talairach_point" to modify it 
>> temporarily (so that it outputs ONLY vertex indices and not anything else)
>> 3) is there a way to parse the output of this function in tcl?
>> 
>> Ali B. Arslan
>> Graduate Student in Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
>> 
>> 
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