Other Methods on Time_Curve

 

Besides of "get-info" the methods described in this section are exactly what is needed for a subclass of Time_Object: a method "get-extension" that determines which files belong to the class, "read-data" to read in description files (both methods are called by the "read-in" method bound to the button) and a "compute-send" method which computes the data:

     

TIME_CURVE * tcurve
char * path

"read-data" reads in the Time_Curve description file path/name.cv -- all Time_Curve description files should have the extension *.cv returned by "get-extension" -- where name is the name of the tcurve instance. Additional to the same method on Time_Object (compare 7.4.1.6) the number of points for the curve, the definition interval and the coordinate functions are read, see section 8.2.2 for an example description file.

   GRAPE(tcurve, "compute-send")()

TIME_CURVE * tcurve

Compute the points of tcurve using the definition interval, the distribution of points from curve_parm and the coordinate functions from coord_f.

   GRAPE(tcurve, "get-info")(xlist)

TIME_CURVE * tcurve
XLIST * xlist

Add information about the number of points of the Triang1d instances to the superclass information.