In article <9408290838.AA07585 at nihs.nihs.go.jp>,
Takako Igarashi <taka at nihs.nihs.go.jp> wrote:
>I would like to know how to display "gif files" from ACEDB.
>Does anyone know any appropriate program ?
>Thank you for your attention of this question.
You can use the Pick_me_to_call facility. In your models file add the
following within the class you want to contain the reference to the
image:
Pick_me_to_call UNIQUE Text UNIQUE Text
Then in the info in the ace file like this example from AAtDB:
Image : "1a5"
Locus "1a5"
Autorad "1a5"
Caption "Photo by Nottingham Stock Centre"
Pick_me_to_call "xv" "1A5.gif"
The first Text item is the name of the graphic viewer and the second
is the filename of the image. When the Pick_me_to_call is clicked, in
the above example, on twice xace will do the following via a system call:
cd $ACEDB/externalFiles; xv 1A5.gif
You should be able to use a different viewer, but I have only used xv
for GIF images on UNIX. You can get a copy of xv version 2.x from
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov in repository/acedb or weeds.mgh.harvard.edu in
aatdb/aatdb.1x
Mike
