Updating SAMP MTypes
Mark Taylor
m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk
Tue Oct 7 02:15:02 PDT 2008
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Thomas Boch wrote:
> I have slightly modified the SAMP MTypes page (
> http://www.ivoa.net/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/SampMTypes ), adding an
> optional 'name' parameter for the messages 'table.load.votable',
> 'table.load.fits' and 'image.load.fits'.
>
> This parameter is for display only, allowing applications to give a
> sensible name in their GUI to the image/table they have loaded from a
> SAMP message. It differs from the table-id/image-id parameter which is
> used to identify and refer to a given piece of data.
>
> Has anyone an opinion on this change ?
Looks sensible to me.
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Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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