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Software and Software Development => Other 3rd Party Software => YellowFin => Topic started by: bobn on December 24, 2010, 01:28:30 PM

Title: YellowFin
Post by: bobn on December 24, 2010, 01:28:30 PM

Is there a way to export a waypoint  or drawn marks from this program?  In humviewer it is easy to draw user tracks and place waypoints that can be saved and exported but I don't see that function in yellowfin. 

Title: Re: YellowFin
Post by: sonar2000 on December 24, 2010, 04:50:40 PM

Bob, I dont seem to recall a way to make that happen.
Remember that YellowFin company wrote the viewer for their products. Kind of what other manufactures have done.
A third party developer then wrote a program to convert the HB output to the format of YellowFin. YellowFin does not recognize the third party efforts and does not support the converter.
From what I have seen and used in Yellowfin is the viewer of the record for the sonar. A couple of other small tools are helpful in the view but waypoints dont seem to be in the picture. 
A couple of other users here are using the converter and the viewer so they may be able to also post something.
Humviewer is a great program and does have good functions.
So maybe between the two you will get the best of both worlds.
Chuck (sonar2000)

Title: Re: YellowFin
Post by: Drifter on December 25, 2010, 06:25:15 AM

I blundered through creating a waypoint in YF and it goes something like this ... You need to be running the v2.011 update ( YellowFin side-scan sonar Model 872 only Update to V2.011 (end 2008) (http://www.metaldec.nl/eng/downloads.html) ~ yellowfin_update_to_v2.011.zip (http://www.metaldec.nl/downloads/yellowfin_update_to_v2.011.zip) ).


Enable Event Input needs to be checked in the Events menu ...

=> (http://limbatus.net/linked/sis-yf-01-tm.jpg) (http://limbatus.net/linked/sis-yf-01.jpg)

Double click on the area of the display where you want the waypoint placed and enter an annotation ...

=> (http://limbatus.net/linked/sis-yf-02-tm.jpg) (http://limbatus.net/linked/sis-yf-02.jpg)

The entries are stored in a file with the same name as the "playback" file with an *.an extension ...

=> (http://limbatus.net/linked/sis-yf-03-tm.jpg) (http://limbatus.net/linked/sis-yf-03.jpg)

(Edit: Too early to be literate.)