BSA Flow Software Installation and User's Guide - CSI

5.9.3 Selected columns
5.9.4 Binary Export
Structure of Binary File
The property Selected columns determine which data is included in the
export, and allows the user to arrange columns in a different order. It will
bring up the dialog shown in Figure 5-45:
Figure 5-45 Selecting the data to be exported after a moment object
The actual data available depend on the parent-object of the export-object
itself. In the example in Figure 5-45, the parent object was Moments from a
1-Dimensional LDA.
A “Zero”-column is available to fill in blank columns in the exported data.
This will facilitate importing data into programs requiring a specific format.
For example a blank could be filled in if the receiving program requires
coordinates X, Y and Z, and you have only X, and Y available.
The Export object will export data with the format defined under Tools -
Options - Data formats.
The BSA Flow Software offers binary export of data. The binary format is
more compact than the ASCII export formats. The export can be initiated
either from the Export Object or from the List export command.
The overall structure of the binary file is displayed in Figure 5-46. The first
part of the binary file contains a file header of 518 bytes, please see Table 1.
This describes the contents and origin of the binary file. Following the file
header a number of data blocks each representing a data column is placed.
Each of these blocks begins with a data header of 154 bytes. This header
describes the format and size of the data.
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