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cneteditor

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Interactive control network editor

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Description

Cneteditor allows a user to edit attributes of control points and measures interactively. Select keywords from a control network file are imported into a table of editable rows and columns. Always make a backup copy of the input file before using this program. There is no "undo" capability yet.

The basic utility of this program is to set control points or control measures to "ignore" or "EditLock," and to modify values assigned to "A Priori SP Lat Sigma," "A Priori SP Lon Sigma," and "A Priori SP Radius Sigma." The control point type can be changed to "Constrained," "Fixed," or "Free." There are columns such as PointID or Reference which should not be changed. If control points or measures are set to "yes" for EditLock, the user is prompted to verify updated values.

The control network file is loaded either by entering the filename after the program name on the command line or by using the file selection menu after invoking the program.

Command line example:

cneteditor control_network_file.net

On the menu bar are drop down menus "File," "Tables," and "Help." The options under "File" are "Open," "Save," "Save As," "Close," and "Quit." The options under "Tables" are "Freeze Tables" and "Enable Sorting." The icons are activated only after a control network file has been loaded. When the sorting icon is enabled, the "^" (ascending) or "v" (descending) symbol appears in the activated column heading. The sort is performed by clicking on the symbol or by clicking on a different column of interest while sorting is enabled.

The "Freeze Tables" icon (ice cube) is used to temporarily turn off the filtering function. It freezes the table so that edits to a cell can be performed without screen refresh. When the edits are completed, turn off the freeze pane by clicking on the icon again. Once the freeze icon is off, the edited information is updated in memory but not saved to disk. Use the "save" or "save as" options under "File" to save the file to disk.

When the tables are not frozen the cells are updated based on the filters that have been applied as soon as a cell is edited. If more than one cell in a row needs to be edited then freeze the pane before changing any of the cells.

The filters tabs presently available are "Control Points and Measures" and "Images and Points." The tab for "Connections" is displayed but not implemented yet so there are no keyword options available when the tab is selected.

The results of the filters are displayed in the "Control Point Table, "Control Measure Table," and the "Point View" tree.

The green "+" icon can be used to add a new filter or a new filter group. Click the "+" icon inside the bounding box to add a new filter. Select a keyword to filter with such as "PointType." The "And" or "Or" logic type radio button must also be selected.

Click the "+" icon outside the bounding box to add a new filter group. Select a keyword to filter with such as "GoodnessOfFit." The "And" or "Or" logic type radio button must also be selected.

The drop-down menu under the filter tabs lists keywords that can be selected for the filters. Additional filtering options can be chosen to include or exclude specific values by clicking on the radio icons. A text box will be displayed for keywords that require text or numbers. Be careful with extra spaces when entering text, verify entry by reading the filter statement if the expected result is empty.

The ">=" or "<=" symbols are used to enter the cutoff numbers for specific keywords that are stored as numbers, and when selected there may be an option to select the "inclusive" or "exclusive" filter.

The "Effect" option is used to select "Point" and/or "Measure." The default is both "Point" and "Measure" so there is an "X" within the radio icons. To turn off one or the other option, click on the desired radio icon; "X" means selected and no "X" means not selected.

For the "Control Points and Measures" tab, the "Min count for points" is used to define how many measures a control point must have for a particular filter. The default value is "1" so the filtering is applied to control points that have at least one measure. If the "Control point" option under "Effect" is turned off, then the min count is not used.

Warning: Not all filters have the same effect. For example, some keywords require minimum and/or maximum values while others require text entries. It is best to read the statement above the filter options to see exactly what the options that has been selected is performing.

Editing cells:

Click on the cell to type the value, or double-click on the cell to see the valid values in the drop-down menu to select from. If no valid values exist, then type the text in the cell.

Copying to all cells:

Select a cell that has the content that will be copied to all cells under a column. Click on the selected cell to activate, and then hold down the right icon to select "copy to all cells."

For more help click on "What"s This?" under Help, or use Shift+F1. Once you see the "?" on the screen, click on the screen to see the information.


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History

Eric Hyer2011-03-07 Original version
Jai Rideout2011-10-07 Added documentation in preparation for the October release. Credit goes to Janet Richie and Ella Lee for their help in preparing the documentation.
Jai Rideout2012-01-04 No longer crashes if unknown column titles are found in cneteditor QSettings. Fixes #616.
Jai Rideout2012-01-20 Added measure type, line, and sample filters. Added a couple of existing filters to the image-point filter selector and fixed typos in a few of the filter description strings. Fixes #645.
Jai Rideout2012-01-20 Added Eric Hyer's final changes to this application that allow users to load a cube list and have cube filenames display instead of cube serial numbers. "Cube serial number" filter is now called "Image ID", as users may be either filtering on cube serial numbers or cube filenames. Fixes #304.
Steven Lambright and Jai Rideout2012-03-28 Edit-locked points and measures now appear non-editable in the point and measure tables. Fixes #356.
Jai Rideout2012-03-28 Points with any edit-locked measures can no longer be deleted. Fixes #621.
Jai Rideout and Steven Lambright2012-04-09 Sorting is now configurable through a sorting dialog, including the ability to enable/disable sorting and set table size limits for automatic enabling of sorting on either the point or measure table. Fixes #360.
Jai Rideout2012-05-02 Added several new filters for filtering points/measures, as well as images/points. The new filters include: a priori/adjuted lat/lon/radius, a priori/adjusted lat/lon/radius sigma, jigsaw rejected points, jigsaw rejected measures, sample and line shift. Fixes #367.
Steven Lambright and Kim Oyama2012-05-30 Improved user interface for the new sorting options to be (hopefully) extremely obvious what the options are, how they work, and why your tables are not sorting (when they aren't sorting). Fixes #838.
Ian Humphrey2015-10-07 Updated icons. Fixes #1041.
Ian Humphrey2015-11-16 Fixed a couple missing icons. References #1041.