HDFView User's Guide
Version 2.3
November 2005

This document is a user's guide on how to use HDFView. For information on implementing an HDFView module, please read:
A User's Guide on How to Implement HDFView Modules

• User instructions for HDFView
• A brief discussion of the HDF object model. Details of the HDF object model are available from http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/hdf-object/

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Current Features
• 1.2.1 Browsing Features
• 1.2.2 Editing Features
• 1.3 Limitations
• 1.4 System Requirements
• 1.5 Installing and Running HDFView
• 1.6 For Further Information
• Chapter 2: Getting Started
• 2.1 The Main Window
• 2.2 Opening a File
• 2.3 Tree View of File Hierarchy
• 2.4 Status Information
• 2.5 Metadata/Attributes
• 2.6 Select GUI modules
• Chapter 3: HDF5 Data Objects
• 3.1 What it is
• 3.2 The Class Hierarchy
• 3.3 How to Use it
• Chapter 4: The Tree Viewer
• 4.1 Tree Viewer
• 4.2 View Data Content
• 4.3 Display Metadata and Attributes
• 4.4 Edit File and File Structure
• 4.4.1 Create and Save File
• 4.4.2 Add and Delete Object
• 4.4.3 Copy and Paste Object
• 4.4.4 Add, Delete and Modify Attribute
• Chapter 5: Table Viewer
• 5.1 Open Dataset
• 5.2 Subset and Dimension Selection
• 5.2.1 Dimension size
• 5.2.2 Three or More Dimensions
• 5.2.3 Swap Dimension and Data Transpose
• 5.2.4 Compound Dataset Options
• 5.3 Display Column/Row Line Plot
• 5.4 Change Data Value
• 5.5 Save Data Value to Text File
• 5.6 Import Data from Text File
• Chapter 6: Image Viewer
• 6.1 Display a 2D or 3D Image
• 6.2 Zoom/Flip/Contour Image
• 6.3 View and Modify Image Palette/Values
• 6.4 Show Histogram of Pixel Values
• 6.5 Import JPEG Image to HDF4/5
• 6.6 Save HDF Image to JPEG File
• Chapter 7: Text Viewer

Last Modified:   11/21/2005