Many thanks Ric. That's exactly what I need.

Ronan

On 16/08/2009 23:12, "Sherlock, Ric" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> From: Ronan Reilly
>> 
>> I'm trying to write a unix (Mac OS X) batch script to call viewmat
>> repeatedly on about 150 files and save the resulting bmp files.
>> However,
>> viewmat can't be called within the J console.  In fact, I don't really
>> want
>> to display the viewmat output directly, I'm just interested in the
>> generating the bmp files.  Is there any way of achieving this within
>> jconsole?  Failing that, is there any way of suppressing the display of
>> the
>> viewmat display within the GUI, while still being able to call savemat?
>> 
> 
> Hopefully I've got this right:
> You want to read a bunch of files that contain numeric arrays, convert each of
> them to a bmp representation & save the conversions to file again?
> You want to use Jconsole so any scripts that require Window Driver bits won't
> work.
> 
> AFAICS the bit of the viewmat script that does the numerical conversion
> (doesn't have any wd bits) is getvm_jviewmat_
> 
> NB. =========================================================
> NB. getvm
> NB.
> NB. form: hue getvm data [;title]
> NB.
> NB. hue may be empty, in which case a default is used
> NB. hue may be a N by 3 matrix of colors or a vector
> NB.     of RGB integers.
> NB.
> NB. returns:
> NB.   original data
> NB.   scaled data matrix
> NB.   angle (if any)
> NB.   title
> 
> So you should be able to read a file, use getvm_jviewmat_ to convert them to
> bmp matrix and then write that matrix to file
> 
> require 'files bmp viewmat'
> (50 5...@$10) fwrites jpath '~/temp/myfile.dat' NB. Create dummy data file
> 
> convert2BMP=: 3 : 0
>   fname=. >y
>   mydat=. fread fname
>   mydat=. 0&"....@}: ;._2 mydat NB. convert CRLF file to numeric matrix
>   bmpdat=. 1{:: '' getvm_jviewmat_ mydat
>   bmpdat writebmp 'bmp',~ _3}.fname
> )
> 
> I'd probably use the J 'dir' script to list the files required and then
> iterate through them.
> 
> load 'dir'
> files =. 1 dir jpath '~temp/*.dat'
> convert2BMP"0 files
> 
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