History should show the parents of a child image.

[oldwexi]

Hi,
If running RangeSelection, or StarMask there is no information in the HistoryExplorer
which image was used to create the Rangemask image.
After a while you have Rangemask1 and Rangemask2 etc...
If i reoload the project a few days later i dont remember which parent
images was used for the child Rangemask...  and also Starmask.

So the wish is to get in the HistoryExplorer a hint somewhere in the function code at the right
which parent image was used to create the new one. This is also valid for PixelMath
when using $T and create_new_image. There is no info in the HistoryExplorer
which image was meant with $T.

For repeatability of processes especially after a long processing queue with many
images, clones, mask and processses i get lost after a certain time and cant repeat the processing
properly.

Also creating a clone and renaming it,  all traces are lost. You cant recover the Information
about the parent image.

Would be nice for better documentation of more complex processing steps.

Gerald
P.S.: ProcessConsole diplays are no help either as it misses the timestamp for such processes.

[pfile]

+1 this is a very good idea.

[cs_pixinsight]

Gerald, I can't tell you how many times I would like to see this information too.  Thanks for making the suggestion.

Craig

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Gerald,

I'll think on this feature. Just a note about this:

P.S.: ProcessConsole diplays are no help either as it misses the timestamp for such processes.

You can enable a console log file with the log command. Enter this command for full information:

help log

Basically, you enable console logging with a command like:

log -f=/path/to/log/file.log

and you can close the log file with:

log --close

You can also enable or disable logging temporarily with the --enable and --disable arguments.

Of course, log files will include a timestamp for each console text line.

[oldwexi]

Hi Juan!
Thanks for the hint with the console logfile.
This logfile shows nicely now which view has been used for StarMask and RangeSelection also, including the timestamps.
So i can better repeat the crime i am doing to my images...

Thanks also for thinking about the idea to integrate - if possible - the mother
child relation into the history Explorer.

Gerald