Generating a XML file for a specific operator

@mengdahl @marpet I hope this is understandable enough

Here’s IDRISI :

I just opened the 3 first bands of some satellite data

One thing I can do is simply making a color composite

Now, looking at my working folder, we can see a log file :

Once opened, we can see exactly what we did

As we can see, I opened my 3 images (just for visualization) then I created a composite using the function “COMPOSITE”

Oh noooo. I accidentaly deleted my composite ! No problem : i can simply create a .iml file with the composite “action”

then I run it in the run macro module of IDRISI

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Boom. I have my composite again.

Of course, the main goal of the log file is having a footprint of what was performed. But it is also very handy to create macro based on something that was performed “by hand”.

Note that the help of each function of IDRISI also explain how to create a macro of this function. Example :

If something is not clear, I can be more precise.

Quentin

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