Colleagues,
this was originally posted a few days ago but at least one site
did not get it - I'm reposting in case it was missing at other
sites also
DG
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A while back I posted a message asking how to get MacACE to
display images the way the UNIX versions of ACeDB would. No
one had an answer then but after some poking around I have
found a method that works.
The biggest problem I had was that although the images
distributed with MacACeDB 4-1b1 are labeled as JPEGs, they
are actually PICTs. Only PICTs will work with MacACE. I
discovered this for myself but later found that the images
distributed with MacAAtDB_3-6 are correctly labeled as
PICT.
The PICT images must be in a folder named 'pictures' in the
same folder as MacACE, and the database and wspec folders.
This is in contrast to our UNIX ACeDB where the GIF files
were stored in a folder named 'externalFiles'.
I altered our models.wrm and options.wrm to change 'Image'
to 'Picture' to match MacACeDB. Later I found that
'Image' is used in MacAAtDB so the exact name is apparently
not important. The 'Picture' line in my options.wrm was
lifted verbatum from the MacACeDB file. The equivalent line in
MacAAtDB is somewhat different though I don't know the
significance of the differences. All of our *.ace files that
used the tag 'Image' were modified to use 'Picture'. I left
in the 'Pick_me_to_call' line although I am fairly certain
it is not needed.
The following shows the before and after versions of my
*.wrm files.
original SoyBase UNIX version
in options.wrm
_VImage -H
in displays.wrm
_DDtImage -g TEXT_FULL_SCROLL -t "Image" -width .6 -height
.4 -help Image
in models.wrm
?Image Probe ?Probe XREF Image
Locus ?Locus XREF Image
Pathology ?Pathology XREF Image
Gene ?Gene XREF Image
Pick_me_to_call UNIQUE Text Text
...
...
...
Last_update UNIQUE Text
?Gene Name Gene_class UNIQUE ?Gene_Class XREF Gene
Correct_name ?Gene XREF Other_name
Other_name ?Gene XREF Other_name
Image ?Image XREF Gene
...
...
...
Last_update UNIQUE Text
Macintosh SoyBase version
in options.wrm
_VImage -H
_VPicture -H -D DtImage (this line added)
in displays.wrm (unchanged from UNIX original)
_DDtImage -g TEXT_FULL_SCROLL -t "Image" -width .6 -height
.4 -help Image
in models.wrm (all instances of 'Image' in the other classes
also changed to 'Picture')
?Picture Probe ?Probe XREF Picture
Locus ?Locus XREF Picture
Pathology ?Pathology XREF Picture
Gene ?Gene XREF Picture
Pick_me_to_call UNIQUE Text Text
...
...
...
Last_update UNIQUE Text
?Gene Name Gene_class UNIQUE ?Gene_Class XREF Gene
Correct_name ?Gene XREF Other_name
Other_name ?Gene XREF Other_name
Picture ?Picture XREF Gene
...
...
...
Last_update UNIQUE Text
I make no claims to being a MacACE expert and it is possible
that some of the changes I made are unneeded. I would be glad
to hear from anyone who understands ACeDB better than I as
to what the changes I made are doing and which, if any,
should be reversed or modified.
--
David Grant dgrant at iastate.edu (515) 294-1205
