Spectrum load MType(s)

[Mark Taylor]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Allan Brighton wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> I just implemented a jskycat "Send Spectrum to ..." feature using PLASTIC and the
> "ivo://votech.org/spectrum/loadFromURL" message. At first I wasn't sure
> what to put in the Map argument, but after reading your mail, I think I
> understand now.
> 
> In this case, the user is viewing the results of an SSA query and a table
> cell editor displays an icon with a "send menu" that sends the spectrum URL
> for that row to an another application. I assume that the Map should map
> the column UCDs to the column values for the selected row.
> I tested this with PLASTIC and SPLAT and it seems to work fine.

that's right.

> Currently the SAMP version of this code just sends a "table.load.votable"
> or "table.load.fits" message, but once you have a version of SPLAT that works with SAMP,
> I'll test the new SAMP spectrum message. Let me know if there is a new SPLAT version
> I can check out from the StarJava SVN sources.

Yes, I do have a SPLAT version using a provisional spectrum.load MType.
I'll contact you off-list about how to get this.

Mark

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