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May 11, 2012

AppLauncher version 1.0

Features:

Added support for Web applications such as CDS Simbad or VizieR.
Made URL clickable in application description view.
Added application short description as tooltip in Dock window.
Added application detailed description on 'info' button click in Dock window.
Added an entry in Help menu to launch Java WebStart viewer.
Added a welcome message on first launch.
Added a preference to use beta version of applications in priority.
Added a preference tab for general settings.
Added a preference to hide the Dock window on startup.
Added a preference to restrict SAMP support to selected applications on startup.
Added a preference to skip SAMP hub quitting confirmation message.
Added a preference window to select Dock applications.
Added SPLAT essential application.
Added VOSpec essential application.
Added a user manual.
Added an entry in the Help menu to manually test JNLP and SAMP abilities.
Added automatic JNLP starting ability test.
SAMP application meta-data reporting.
First internal release.

Changes:

Updated LITpro and SearchCal XML descriptions.
Only wait before forwarding waiting messages for lazy-starting applications.
No more rely on network connection to load application icons.
Embedded known application icons in case network is unavailable.
Off-loaded stub description files to an external resource file for easier updates.
Updated the reporting window to include contact email and JNLP URL input fields.
Restructured registry organization.
SAMP hub sniffing.
Central SAMP hub monitoring.
Better process launching.
Better EDT handling.

Bug fixes:

Added a 5 minutes timeout to kill and clean stuck applications in case something went wrong during launch.
Fixed unknown application detection to listen to all public mTypes.
Fixed non-detection of unknown real applications.
Feedback reports now go to AppLauncher's dedicated Trac environment.

April 18, 2012

LITpro version 1.0.11

Features:

Model UV maps are now displayed as an animation of images to highlight differences between the model and data

Changes:

... and many other things provided by the shared code between JMMC applications!!
Interactive plots get proper range to display amplitudes or phases
LITpro web service urls are reset and not shown in the preference window anylonger.
Magnified images produced by LITpro web service (yorick core)
Replace 'sampling' by '#samples' in the chi2 plot panels
'reduced' checkbox has been added in the chi2 panel to plot reduced and/or log chi2 maps
The notebook get exactly the content of yorick lp_show_fit after every fit action
Use VO protocol (Samp) to display fits tables (require topcat separate startup)

Bug fixes:

Handle oifits flags encoded as integer/short/char (0 indicates false else true)
Fix error values in tsv export of some plots (with format change)
Fix java look and feel on some platforms
Fix CRPIX computed values to get proper centering on fits model images
Model's shared parameters can now be relinked to another shared parameter
Enhancement for multiple removals in the left settings tree
Fix broken Oifits file verifier in 'File Panel'
Fix Null Pointer Exception setting the proper state of the 'Add new Target' button in the Targets Panel
Improve error handling on the LITpro server side
Improve reliability and make some error messages easier to understand
Fix bug that appeared after one target removal in some simple cases inside the plot panel
File given to application is now properly loaded on startup
Plots are now available only if the current settings get all requested parts (data+model)

March 14, 2012

Aspro2 version 0.9.0

Features:

Public release for ESO P90
Added User model editor (single Fits image) in the target model editor including image preview
Added 'Compute OIFits data' checkbox on the UV Coverage panel to enable/disable the OIFits computation which can be very slow (for example: high resolution AMBER observation)
Added User model support to compute OIFits data using direct fourier transform (slow even in multithreading)
Added User model support (single Fits image) to compute UV Map (gray model) using fractional FFT (multithreading)

Changes:

Added LUT and color scale widgets on the FITS image preview of the target model editor
Enhanced exception handling during user model validation and computation: automatically disable invalid model and add a warning message
Added user model information (pixel increments + FOV) on the target model editor
Added 'Fast mode (optimize image)' preferences to prepare user models (FITS image) for FFT and direct fourier transform: discard negative, zero values and data lower than the visibility threshold (1 percent) to have smaller datasets to process
OIFits data are now computed in background (multithreading)
Changed mouse cursor when computations are running (busy wait cursor) but the application is still usable
Enhanced status bar messages to better indicate when background computations are running

Bug fixes:

Added UP / DOWN buttons to move targets among science or calibrator targets (manual sort) in the target editor

Aspro2 version 0.8.2

Features:

Added ESO P90 configuration
Added the Color scale legend on the UV Coverage plot
Added the Color scale (linear or logarithmic) preference to represent the model image amplitude
Added 'Add error noise to data' checkbox on the UV Coverage panel to enable or disable gaussian noise (sigma=error) on OIFits data tables (OI_VIS, OI_VIS2, OI_T3); it is visible on Vis2 plot
Added the timeline (red line) on the observability plot to indicate the system current time (useful during real observations)
Added 'Night only' option on the observability plot to automatically zoom and focus on the night
Added OI_VIS table in the OIFits output even if the instrument is not AMBER; it contains correlated fluxes VISDATA/VISERR anyway but VISAMP/VISPHI are set to NaN for other instruments because Aspro2 does not know how these quantities are computed by each instrument data reduction software
Support standard SAMP 'load.votable' message to get targets in VOTable format (topcat for example)

Changes:

Updated spectral configurations for CHARA VEGA instrument (CAMERA=R)
Updated spectral configurations for CHARA VEGA instrument: spectral channels (binning)
Updated StarList export for the CHARA VEGA instrument: added vega setup and spectral calibration OB
Updated spectral configurations for CHARA VEGA instrument
Added model image scale (LUT) on the UV Coverage plot
Optimized computation of object model image: use divide and conquer algorithm (multi-core CPU) and smaller memory footprint
Added new model image sizes in user preferences: 256, 384, 512, 768, 1024, 1536, 2048
Added PIVOT identifier support in Samp 'table.load.votable' incoming and 'starlist.load' output messages
Removed OI_VIS table for the PIONIER instrument as its data reduction software does
Added Show Log action in help menu to see the application log (and configure log details at runtime)

Bug fixes:

Fixed dismissable ESO message when exporting observing blocks.
Fixed noise biases for PIONIER instrument: fixed bias to 1% and VIS2 calibration bias to 5% (minVis2Err = 0.0001 + 0.05 x V2)
Fixed computation of Ring object models: wrong diameter to radius conversion.
Minor fix related to small screen support: allow the user to resize the main window up to 950x700
Fixed min/max baseline computation to use projected baseline on UV plane instead of maximum baseline length (UVW); this impacts SearchCal interoperability and the UV plot scale (UVMax field).
Automatically adjust total integration time to 50% of the sampling periodicity when it changes in the UV Coverage Panel.
Fixed grid lines visibility on the Observability plot.

March 06, 2012

Aspro2 version 0.8.1

Features:

Added ESO P90 configuration
Corrected AMBER noise parameters: visibility and phase bias set to 5% and 3 deg respectively
Updated PIONIER instrument configuration: corrected noise parameters and added spectral modes (LARGE-H, SMALL-H and BROAD-H)
Improved Java Web Start packaging (JNLP) to provide faster downloads
Added ESO P89 configuration
Added one preliminary OIFits viewer: only square visiblity (VIS2) vs radius plot is available with error bars when the noise modeling is able to compute them
Fixed CHARA delay line configuration: E1 cart moves in range [-1.4 to +44.0] like others (july 2011)
Updated CHARA VEGA (2T/3T/4T) configuration (beams and station reference per baseline)
Corrected zenithal restriction to 4 degrees applied to UT and AT telescopes according to "ESO Call for Proposals – P88 (UT)" (VLTI)
Updated CHARA configuration to have both MIRC_5T and MIRC_6T configurations
Updated CHARA configuration using the latest official configuration file (telescopes.chara)
Better File choosers: use the last used directory (per file type and saved in user preferences)
Filled "OBSERVATION.DESCRIPTION.NAME" in VLTI OBs to help P2PP users better navigate among targets
Changed OIFits file extension to '.fits'
Added 'Export targets to Observing blocks' in the File menu to export all targets at once (VLTI)
Allow zooming on the observability plot (targets and time range)
Changed color for orphan calibrators in the observability plot
Added 'Center plot arround night' preference to have the complete night centered on the observability plot
Added civil and nautical twilight zones and a new preference 'Twilight used as Night limit' to choose which twilight limits are used for night restrictions
Added a new preference 'Default min Elevation' set to 45 degrees by default

Changes:

Changed VOTable message handler (SAMP) to accept PIVOT messages using VOTable for targets
Added 'Send StarList to PIVOT' action (SAMP)
Enhanced performance to find best PoPs (CHARA)
Fixed logging configuration to avoid important performance loss during observability computations (best PoPs)
Major performance improvements to determine best PoPs (CHARA) in the observability computation
Added information about best / good PoPs in the warning messages displayed by the status indicator (CHARA)
Updated Export to Observing blocks (VEGA, VLTI) to use the user minimum elevation instead of 30 deg (required by ESO OB)
Minor ergonomic change: when the target editor is opened, the 'Targets' tab is displayed by default; when the UV coverage plot is selected, the 'Models' tab is displayed instead.
Minor changes related to CHARA VEGA Observing blocks (spectral type format, disk diameter set from SearchCal diameters)
Fixed export OB for CHARA VEGA to handle properly calibrators in the StarList format
Automatic Pops set with values defined in CHARA VEGA configuration dedicated to June 2011 run (read-only)
Added CHARA VEGA configuration dedicated to June 2011 runs and minor changes in CHARA configuration (sorted instrument list)
Added 'Scroll view' checkbox button to see all targets (or only some of them) on the observability plot
Enable mouse zooming on the observability plot
Always show the scrollbar (with margins) on the observability plot

Bug fixes:

Corrected effective wavelength in OIFits output (channel center)
Fixed alternative distribution package (JAR file): missing jMAL embedded libraries
Fixed out of range exception when mouse zooming on UV Coverage Panel arround borders
Fixed exception when exporting an Observing block and the spectral type is undefined for one target (SearchCal calibrator)
Changed PIONIER OB template to take 100 scans of DARK instead of 50
Fixed bug related to SearchCal integration: always use the bright scenario as the faint scenario is not available for all instrumental bands
Adapt the number of visible targets on the observability plot when the application window is resized

Last updated:
May 19, 2012 01:30 PM
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