OIFitsExplorer 0.5.5 release notes

Version 0.5.5

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 10:11:12 GMT

• Bug fixes:
• Avoid setting compression for PNG encoder (not supported on java 8)

Version 0.5.4

Wed, 07 June 2023 21:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Improved scaling of exported plots as image/pdf with hi-dpi settings
• Updated U-V coverage plot presets
• Added support for axis inverted flag in the axis editor
• Added label to the legend axis
• Improved 'UV coverage' plot to be displayed as a squared plot
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed OIFits table browser when OIData table arrays have wrong dimensions (< 1)
• Improved plot rendering on high-dpi screens

Version 0.5.3

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:00:00 GMT

• Bug fixes:
• Improved OIFits loading to fix invalid TargetId values (1 instead of 0) if only 1 target and fix other integer or string references if only one accepted value.

Version 0.5.2

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Small improvements to GUI (layout, style)
• Added MyCarta - Perceptually Uniform Colour Maps.
• Bug fixes:
• Plot dataset coming from individual monochromatic OIFits with colors.
• Improved GUI scaling (about panel, icon images)

Version 0.5.1

Mon, 11 Oct 2022 22:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Added ColorCET - Perceptually Uniform Colour Maps. Changed 'Earth' and 'Rainbow' color ramps to use respectivelly 'batlowW' (scm7) and 'CET-R2' (colorCET) color maps
• Added a new toggle button 'Show/Hide' on the filter panel to either display filtered data in light gray (below valid data) or hide filtered data
• Added multiple selection on instrument modes (GUI) and also on target and night criteria in the OITools Command-Line Interface
• Added computed columns STA_INDEX_NAME and STA_CONF_NAME in data tables (oitools) displayed in the FITS table browser
• Improved filters to support exclusive filters (NOT) both in the GUI (X checkbox) and in the Command-Line Interface (using prefix not:)
• Improved color mapping (baseline or triplet, station configuration) to be stable with or without filters and consistent accross plots
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed event processing (active plot changed, viewport changed, ready)
• Fixed STA_INDEX filter to handle properly 'equivalent' baselines or triplets

Version 0.5.0

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Improved the plot chart panel to handle fixed ranges on axes in logarithmic scale
• Improved Filter panel to avoid updating combo boxes (STA_INDEX, STA_CONF) too often
• Improved Filter panel to add / remove any filter (1D, 2D, String) supporting multiple ranges and value selection (STA_INDEX, STA_CONF)
• Improved Merger to log CLI inputs and args in HISTORY keywords of the FITS primary HDU
• Improved Merger to filter out the array values (2D numerical columns) using NaN
• Improved OITools in-memory filtering API to support String and array columns: String filters (STA_INDEX, STA_CONF); OI_DATA filters (2D) (VIS2DATA, VIS2ERR, NS_MODEL_VIS2DATA, NS_MODEL_VIS2ERR, EFF_WAVE, EFF_BAND, SPATIAL_FREQ, UCOORD_SPATIAL, VCOORD_SPATIAL, SNR_VIS2, SNR_MODEL_VIS2, RES_VIS2_MODEL, VISAMP, VISAMPERR, VISPHI, VISPHIERR, NS_MODEL_VISAMP, NS_MODEL_VISPHI, RVIS, RVISERR, IVIS, IVISERR, SNR_VISAMP, SNR_VISPHI, RES_VISAMP_MODEL, RES_VISPHI_MODEL, T3AMP, T3AMPERR, T3PHI, T3PHIERR, NS_MODEL_T3AMP, NS_MODEL_T3PHI, U1COORD_SPATIAL, V1COORD_SPATIAL, U2COORD_SPATIAL, V2COORD_SPATIAL, SNR_T3AMP, SNR_T3PHI, RES_T3AMP_MODEL, RES_T3PHI_MODEL, FLUXDATA, FLUXERR, SNR_FLUX)
• Improved Filter panel (bottom left corner) to add / remove any 1D filter and combine them: enjoy (;D) !
• Improved OITools in-memory filtering API to support: OI_WAVELENGTH filters (EFF_WAVE, EFF_BAND); OI_DATA filters (1D) (TIME, MJD, INT_TIME, UCOORD, VCOORD, HOUR_ANGLE, RADIUS, POS_ANGLE, U1COORD, V1COORD, U2COORD, V2COORD)
• Improved Merger: OI_ARRAY & OI_WAVELENGTH table de-duplication; add HISTORY keywords in primary header to log input files and command-line arguments
• Added new dynamic filter on wavelength (only 1 range for now)
• Handle multiple selection (tables) in the bottom left tree
• Added 'Remove OIFits files' action to remove OIFITS files corresponding to the current selection
• Support SAMP message to add OIFits of a remote collection
• Changes:
• Email field now is mandatory to submit a feedback report
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed range editor to support properly NaN and pre-selection
• Improved OIFits validator report to use the compact mode in order to reduce the memory footprint (OOME)
• Fixed range editor to be disabled (not 'Fixed') to make zooming in / out work properly
• Fixed filter editor to be disabled when the filter is not enabled
• Added XML Model view in dev mode (-Doixp.devMode=true)
• Always remove all views when clicking on 'New OIFits Collection' action
• Improved internal data model coherence when oifits files are updated, removed...

Version 0.2.7

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Fixed layout issues with the plot chart panel (cross hair info)

Version 0.2.6

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Added a new Preference 'Max target separation' (1 as by default) to set the crossmatch distance used to consider two targets are the same in the OIFITS collection
• Switched to the new OIFitsTableBrowser to display, browse OIFITS tables (selected data point on the plot is highlighted)
• Added more plot presets (errors, SNR ...)
• Bug fixes:
• OITools updates

Version 0.2.5

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Improved plot editor to quickly switch between viewports (Auto, Default, Fixed modes)
• Improved plot editor to get the plot ranges and better handle fixed ranges
• Improved plot editor to preserve recent values in a popup menu for the min/max fields (range mode)
• Fixed Instrument matcher to specifically distinguish between GRAVITY polarizations
• Enhanced Draw Line support: use step line for plots having x-axis = EFF_WAVE (spectrum like)
• Added 'Send OIFits' action in the Interop menu to share selected OIFits data with OImaging and other VO tools
• Enable Image-OI support.
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed (random) bug while refreshing selected data points (cross hairs)

Version 0.2.4

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 14:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Added File action 'Export to OIFits file' to export the current selection (subset) as an OIFits file (using OITools Merger)
• Improved data selection to use global Target and Instrument modes (matching)

Version 0.2.3

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Improved cross hairs on plots to always select matching data points at (row, channel)
• Truncate the keyword DATE-OBS if it contains extra characters (display only)
• Bug fixes:
• Always cleanup default file names to avoid special characters

Version 0.2.2

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Improved Java support (9 + mac OS X) but Java 7 minimum is now required
• Upgraded OITools 2 providing OIFits 2 support

Version 0.2.1

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Improved the pointing accuracy for crosshairs with logarithmic axes
• Fixed the wavelength color mapping when the OI_WAVELENGTH table contains unordered wavelengths (MIRC)
• Updated crosshairs handling on all plots (synchronization)
• Updated crosshair handling to show information about the data point
• Updated color attribution in plots (sorted baseline or configurations)
• Added the color scale for the effective wavelength in the plot legend
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed null pointer exception when clicking a data point on flux data (crosshairs)
• Fixed a trivial bug when removing a plot view
• Fixed null pointer exception when displaying tooltip on the granule tree panel

Version 0.2

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 12:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Added OI_SPECTRUM (OIFits 2) or OI_FLUX (GRAVITY) support
• Improved both plot and its editor to support up to 10 y axes (combined plots)
• Improved action 'Export plot' to support several formats (PDF, PNG, JPG)
• Added action 'Export all plots' to export plots in a single document
• Added a global view that displays all plots in the same view
• Added command line interface (CLI) support to load an OIFitsExplorer collection [-open file] and export plots into PDF [-pdf file] or image formats [-png or -jpg arguments]
• Added command line argument [-mode multi|single] to define the page mode: single means all plots on a single page; multi means all plots in a single page and one plot per page; default mode means one plot per page
• Added command line argument [-dims width,height] to define fixed dimensions for images
• Improved loading OIFits files in background with cancellation support
• Improved log scale handling: dynamic tick label placement
• Added sort OIFits files and targets by their name
• Changes:
• Fixed typical data ranges for VIS [-0.1, 1.1] and ANGLE [-200, 200]
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed compatibility issue with JDK8 HashMap (OITableSerieKey.compareTo)
• Improved mousewheel zoom over sub plots

Version 0.1

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:00:00 GMT

• Features:
• Modified plot presets to use computed hour angles instead of MJD as x-axis
• Added hour angle estimation from MJD (using array coordinates and target RA)
• Added plot preset for UV spatial coverage (symmetry support)
• Improved axis editor to adjust its converter and reset the log scale when the selected column changes
• Added plot presets with RADIUS (baseline length) and POS_ANGLE (position angle) as x axis
• Fixed default converters (MegaLambda, Micrometers) when choosing (SPATIAL_FREQ, EFF_WAVE) columns in the plot editor
• Show label 'No data to plot.' on the plot panel when no data matches criteria (flagged data, invalid columns ...)
• Enhanced renderer settings to have a shape per serie's item: triangle for flagged data or invalid error (negative); square for valid data points
• First release with minimal (working) features
• Bug fixes:
• Hide plot's legend in case of too many legend items (100)
• Fixed plot's x-axis margins when including zero
• Improved plot's display name to show appropriate X and Y axis names in the 'Show' combo box
• Fixed empty column choices occuring when selecting a plot preset
• Improved layout of the plot editor (margin, auto-fit panel's width)
• Improved plotting performance on huge datasets
• Fixed min/max ranges for the plot's data area