[OpendTect_Developers] Custom data management

[Bert Bril]

Hi all,


I just got a question about whether it was possible to create a 
separate, custom 'section' in the survey data store.

Yes, that is possible, and it's currently already done by the Madagascar 
and GMT plugins. See for example plugins/uiMadagascar/uimadpi.cc. In 
your surveys you will find 'Madagascar' and 'GMT' subdirectories as a 
result of that.

What happens is that the IO Manager IOM() is requested to ensure that a 
certain subdirectory with a certain ID is present. Only the very first 
time a plugin is run, the directory and .omf will be created. As a 
result, in your plugin, you can make objects and select them just like 
standard objects like wavelets.

Some time ago I also made a plugin that shows how to do this in a bare 
form. I have updated this a bit, and you can download it from:

ftp://ftp.opendtect.org/pub/src/uiowniodir.tar.gz



Bert

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