C# API for OMX

It will be easiest if you have Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop installed. The solution file provided was created using this version of Visual Studio. It might work with different versions but it hasn't been tested yet.

The dll is located here

Before you begin any work, it is recommended that you look through the hdf5 site to familiarize yourself with how Dot Net works with HDF5. Warning! The HDFDotNet library and documentation is not well-maintained and so you will find some special puzzles when working with it.

The CSharpOMX.dll code references the HDF5DotNet dlls, which, for 64bit Windows .Net Framework Version 4, are in the hdf5dotnet folder.

This test code uses the CSharpOMX dll and HDFDotNet dll libraries to create and read omx files. It can read in the R and Python example files referenced in their user's guides. As you can see, the paths are hard-coded so you will to set them for your environment.

The two classes are: OMXFile.cs and OMXMatrix.cs.

OMXFile An OMXFile has the following member variables:

• private string filepath;
• private H5FileId fileID;
• public string[] omxVersion = { "0.2" };
• private H5GroupId rootGroup;
• private long[] shape;
• private string rootGroupName = "/data";
• public string omxVersionName = "OMX_Version";

The constructor for the class looks like this OmxFile(string filePath, long[] shape)

The following properties can be accessed outside the class

• RootGroupName
• OMXVersion
• Shape
• FileID

The following methods are available for use with an OMXFile.

• CreateFileOMX()
• CreateMapping(int[] tazEquiv, string mapName)
• GetMapping(string mapName)
• OverwriteCheck()
• OpenReadOnly()
• OpenReadWrite()
• OpenDebug()
• Close()

OMXMatrix An OMXMatrix has the following member variables:

• private long[] shape;
• private H5FileId fileId;
• private H5DataSetId matrixId;
• private H5DataTypeId matrixTypeId;
• private H5DataSpaceId matrixSpaceId;
• private string groupName;
• private H5GroupId groupId;
• private string matrixName;

The constructors for the class look like this:

• OmxMatrix(OmxFile omxfile, string matrixName, H5DataTypeId matrixTypeId)
• OmxMatrix(OmxFile omxfile, string matrixName)

Use the first one if you are creating a matrix for the first time because in that case you need to send in its type.

The following property can be accessed outside the class.

• MatrixTypeId

The following methods are available for use with an OMXMatrix.

• GetInt16Matrix()
• GetDoubleMatrix()
• FillInt16Matrix(UInt16[,] memMatrix)
• GetInt16MatrixWithMap(int[] mapping, int offsetsize)
• FillFloatMatrix(float[,] memMatrix)
• CreateMatrixIfNoneExists(H5GroupId groupId, string matrixName, long[] shape, H5DataTypeId matrixTypeId, H5DataSpaceId matrixSpaceId)