Save to fcs?

[nodice73]

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Hello,

I've been using your module and it is great. I was wondering if you plan to support saving back to fcs format, or if you have any recommendations for how to do this.

[eyurtsev]

I wasn't planning on adding support, but would happily merge any pull requests that add support for exporting fcs files. It's not very difficult to do -- you basically have to "reverse" the reading step

If you're interested in giving it a try I'd recommend reading the FCS 3.0 specification. You can use numpy built-ins to write the numeric data and then pre-pend the relevant header information to the file.

Then if the FCS reader can read the file it'll probably be readable by most other software

[nodice73]

If you're interested in giving it a try I'd recommend reading the FCS 3.0 specification.

Should it be 3.0 or 3.1?

[eyurtsev]

I think either works -- the specifications are mostly backwards compatible if i remember correctly

[julianeweller]

Has this feature been implemented? I would love to use it!

[eyurtsev]

Nope -- we're open to PRs if you're interested in implementing it :)

[paulmueller]

Note that there is fcswrite (https://github.com/ZELLMECHANIK-DRESDEN/fcswrite/). It isn't feature complete (pull-requests welcome), but it should already be sufficient for most applications.