DiVa file IDs
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From: Novo, David <david.n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed Jul 19 2006 - 17:47:02 EDT
Hello,
The real tube name that you enter is stored as the tube name keyword
inside the FCS File header. If the data files are ex****ted from Diva
as
FCS 2.0, the data files are named as the tube name. However, if you
ex****t the experiment, the files are ex****ted as FCS 3.0. The file
names
then become a unique number, which I think is the ID of the file
inside
the database that Diva uses. There is no way to change that, because
the
experiment XML file references the unique database ID, not the tube
name.
FCS Express can im****t Diva experiments directly, and the first thing
that users complained about was these numeric file names, so we had to
put a considerable amount of work into FCS Express to work around
this.
We hacked into the Windows operating system so that when browsing
through a directory of Diva files, the file names that are displayed
are
the tube names, even though the real file names are the random,
numeric
names. Also, inside our im****t wizard we are careful to list the tube
name instead of the file name.
Any rogue programmers out in flow land could achieve everlasting fame
and glory by writing a small program to open the FCS Files, and rename
the file name as the tube name. You will then lose the link to the
experiment XML file, but that may be okay for you. Or, you could use
FCS
Express, which takes care of the whole problem for you and also
im****ts
all the experiment features, such as the gates, quads, markers, plots,
text boxes, compensation, page layout etc.
-Dave
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David Novo
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De Novo Software
www.denovosoftware.com
phone: (310) 558-4955
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Received on Thu Jul 20 15:18:00 2006
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