Hi Josiah,

On Jan 11, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Josiah Slack wrote:

> Thanks.  Can you point me to any examples using H5Tvlen_create() in context 
> (preferably Java, but I'll take what I can get)?

        Hmm, I don't see any code that uses H5Tvlen_create() in our examples 
files, but you can look at test/tvltypes.c for examples of how it's used in the 
context of our regression tests.  Perhaps Peter has a pointer to a Java 
example...

        Quincey

> -Josiah
> 
> On 1/11/2011 7:44 AM, Quincey Koziol wrote:
>> Hi Josiah,
>> 
>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Josiah Slack wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks -
>>> I've got another naive question about building Datatypes. I've got a 
>>> Datatype that I'm forming from arrays of doubles.  Ultimately, I'll be 
>>> writing an array of this Datatype.  The complicating factor is that the 
>>> arrays of doubles won't necessarily have the same dimensions from one 
>>> instance of the Datatype to the next.
>> 
>>      Sounds like you might want a variable-length sequence of doubles as 
>> your datatype.  Look at the documentation for H5Tvlen_create()...
>> 
>>      Quincey
>> 
>>> Here's a little pseudo-code to more concretely illustrate what I mean:
>>> 
>>> Datatype {
>>>   double[] a;
>>>   double[][] b;
>>>   double[] c;
>>> };
>>> 
>>> Datatype[] allData = {
>>>    { a = {1., 2., 3.} } b = {{1.,2.},{3.,4.}}, c = {1.} },
>>>    { a = {1.,} b = {{1.}}, c = {1., 2.} },
>>>    { a = {}, b = {{1.}, {2.}}, c = {1., 2., 3.} }
>>> };
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to use the Java H5 class to achieve this.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance for your time.
>>> 
>>> -Josiah
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Josiah Slack
>>> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
>>> Group 36
>>> [email protected]
>>> Ph: (781) 981-1754
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion.
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion.
>> [email protected]
>> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
> 
> 
> -- 
> Josiah Slack
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
> Group 36
> [email protected]
> Ph: (781) 981-1754
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion.
> [email protected]
> http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org


_______________________________________________
Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion.
[email protected]
http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org

Reply via email to