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26 <td valign="baseline"><b>LTPDA Toolbox</b></td><td><a href="../helptoc.html">contents</a></td>
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30 "bottom" alt="Plotting Analysis Objects"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=
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36 <h1 class="title"><a name="f3-12899" id="f3-12899"></a>Collection objects</h1>
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37 <hr>
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41 Collection objects serve as merely a wrapper for a cell-array of LTPDA User Objects. The point of this is to provide
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42 a way to put together user objects of different classes in to a collection which can be saved/loaded/submitted/retrieved, etc.
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44 <p>
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45 You can create a <tt>collection</tt> object like:
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46 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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47 >> c = collection
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48 ---- collection 1 ----
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49 name: none
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50 num objs: 0
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51 description:
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52 UUID: a339a156-956b-4657-96ef-9ea4feef8101
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55 </pre></div>
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56 You can then add objects to the collection by doing:
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57 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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58 >> c.addObjects(ao(1))
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59 M: running ao/ao
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60 M: constructing from values
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61 M: running collection/addObjects
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62 M: running ao/char
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63 ---- collection 1 ----
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64 name: none
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66 01: ao | None/cdata(Ndata=[1x1])
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68 UUID: c1f0200f-ad98-4fd6-beae-2dcdabb33515
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71 </pre></div>
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72 or
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73 <div class="fragment"><pre>
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74 >> c.addObjects(pzmodel(1, 10, 100), mfir())
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75 M: running collection/addObjects
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76 M: running ao/char
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77 ---- collection 1 ----
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78 name: none
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80 01: ao | None/cdata(Ndata=[1x1])
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83 description:
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84 UUID: e7f02380-5650-4788-b819-f7fa7ee50a7d
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87 </pre></div>
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90 You can then extract objects from the collection using <tt>getObjectAtIndex</tt> or get an array of all
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91 objects of a particular class using <tt>getObjectsOfClass</tt>. Objects can be removed from the collection using
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92 <tt>removeObjectAtIndex</tt>.
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95 Since a <tt>collection</tt> object is an LTPDA User Object, it has history tracking capabilities. That means that everytime you
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96 add or remove an object to/from the collection, a history step is added. For example, the history of our collection above looks like:
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97 <img src="images/collection_history.png" alt="Collection history" border="3">
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108 "Plotting Analysis Objects"></a>&nbsp;</td>
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110 <td align="left">Plotting Analysis Objects</td>
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114 <td align="right">Units in LTPDA</td>
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122 <p class="copy">&copy;LTP Team</p>
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