Pixstat writes its results into plain-text files. The name and
location of the results file can be chosen by the user by selecting
Results in the
Options menu. If the file already exists,
then new results will be appended to the existing ones. Within the
Options dialog box, it is also possible to chose
which kind of results will be including in the file, like object number, area,
length or width.
If the file name has the extension CSV, then the results will be written
separated by comma (CSV = comma-separated values). If it has the extension SSV,
SKV or SCSV, then the results will be written separated by semi-columns.
Otherwise, the data will be written separated by tabulators.
In all cases, it is easy to import these formats into a text-editor, a
spreadsheet, a statistical or a graphical
software. By clicking on the
View/edit button on the main window, or by
selecting
View results in the
File menu,
the current results file will be opened with the software corresponding to the
file type. Which software is used depends on the ending of the file name
and on the corresponding settings on a particular computer. In fact, the
same should happen as if the icon of the file would be double-clicked from
your file explorer. CSV files, for example, are usually set to be opened with
your preferred spreadsheet software and TXT will normally by opened in your
plain-text editor. If this doesn't work, then Hemisfer tries to open the
file with Windows notepad.