[Radiance-general] falsecolor -lw 0 not working in latest CVS snapshot?

[Jack de Valpine]

Hi Axel,

I would be willing to work on this with you. Perhaps we can move the 
discussion to dev?

-Jack

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On 1/4/2011 7:47 PM, Axel Jacobs wrote:
> Chris, Greg, all
>
>>> I've run into a problem with falsecolor on the latest CVS version
> >> (compiled this morning). When I try to generate a falsecolor image
> >>  without a legend (by setting -lw 0 or -lh 0), I get an error:
>>> "/tmp/<temp dir>/scol.hdr: bad picture size"
> >>
>>> If I try to run the same command on the same image using the
> >> official 4R0 release I also have compiled, I do not get this error
> >> and the falsecolor image is successfully generated without a legend.
>>>
>>> Can anyone else replicate this error? Or is it possible that I have
> >> a compiling error somewhere along the way? Any help/insight would
> >> be greatly appreciated.
>
>> Thanks for pointing out this error.  The falsecolor C-shell script
> > was replaced with a Perl script written by Axel Jacobs, and I guess
> > this particular option wasn't tested.  There was a set of
> > single-quotes  that needed to be double-quotes, which I have fixed and
> > checked in this morning.  It should appear in tomorrow's HEAD.
>
> Sorry about this oversight. Yes, I submitted a Perl replacement of the 
> falsecolor.csh script a couple of months ago. I wrote the Perl script 
> some time ago, needing to run fc on a server that didn't have CSH 
> installed. Well, it seems I did not test all options thoroughly. 
> Apologies for that.
>
> I have since looked at some of the other CSH scripts, and started 
> re-writing some of them. In the long run (Radiance 5.0???), I was 
> hoping to get rid of all of them and replace them with Perl. If there 
> are any 'Perlistas' out there willing to adopt a CSH script and turn 
> it into a Perl one, please get in touch with me. I would not like to 
> burden Greg with this for now. Maybe amongst us, we can come up with a 
> 'coding standard' to have some consistency here. I've got a few ideas 
> and experice with Perl coding (WebHDR is all done in Perl), but it's 
> all a bit rusty...
>
> Axel
>
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