Re: Couple comments about image_viewer and path behavior

[Michael Goffioul]

On 8/23/07, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> First, the path.  I'm trying to come up with a way of locating images and 
> files in a path, not just function and m-files.  Time and again I've copied 
> files into a directory I'm working in and start getting duplicate copies of 
> files.  So I'm trying to be more organized about it from now on.  What I'd 
> like is to create a database of images, say,
>
> ~/lib/image/xray
> ~/lib/image/areal
> etc
>
> and then do a link of all such files into some common directory, say
>
> ~/lib/image/all
>
> In that "all" directory I will then convert all images to lossless JPEG, 
> because Octave reads JPEG with imread() or jpgread().
>
> Can't I do something similar to
>
> addpath("~/lib/image/all");
>
> in my .octaverc and have Octave find those files?

Add your path to IMAGE_PATH.

Michael.