### Autoplot Application (20250930a)

Single-Jar : .jar files can be launched on Windows and Mac, and contain a shell script for launching on Unix computers.
dmg: a self-contained installer for Mac computers.
exe: a self-contained installer for Windows computers.
Built with Install4J multi-platform installer builder and deb and rpm are available as well. Thanks, Install4J!

Looking at data from the Space Weather Prediction center, using this script.

Autoplot allows plotting of data from many data sources, including remote CDF files and HAPI servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension, data are loaded into one uniform data model. Data are then displayed by determining the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a useful display with interactive axes and mouse actions. The data can then be further processed with other operations like smooth and FFT, and Jython scripting provides a capable programming environment.

This is the Autoplot v2025a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 8 is required.

To run on 32-bit systems, use the single-jar release and a 32-bit version of Java.

Bugfixes (2025-09-29):

- DasPlot handles %{TIMERANGE} macro, since Plot wouldn't update properly.
- 491: review and tweak how the orbit number for the timerange can be displayed in Annotation (using %{TIMERANGE;FORMAT=$o}).
- 2746: drawGrid preference is now saved in .vap files
- Schemes.isComplexNumbers checks for old COORDINATE_FRAME properly.
- support ISO8601 times with finer than picosecond resolution by dropping the picoseconds.
- bugfix: new, more general, code to do rotations for any angle didn't rotate counter-clockwise, as was the original convention.
- bugfix: new, more general, code to do rotations for any angle didn't rotate counter-clockwise, as was the original convention.
- Support MSL_RAD_OBS-L1 vp_moment_SC_gd which uses string data for apply_filter_flag virtual variable.
- vap+inline: with X,Y;X,Y;... wouldn't reenter the editor GUI (to add more points) because of index error.
- 146: Don't assume the first FFT window has uniform timetags, scan through until one is found.
- DasAnnotation "rotate" property finally supports -90, 0, 90, and 180 degrees.
- 143: AsciiParser's RegexParser would always reset the fields, making it impossible to use external timeFormat.
- URIs can now have { and } in them, supporting the pattern control of the ASCII data source.
- 2739: add --quietLoggers option to quiet loggers. Thanks, Kristoff!
- Orbits files come directly from https://github.com/das-developers/das2meta/tree/main/orbits, no longer relying on github to redirect the old name.

Older Bugfixes (2025-09-02):

- 0142: Use the correct name at GitHub for the Juno orbits file, to avoid using the alias "meta". Thanks, Bill!
- 2736: IDL unsigned longs (32 bit) and unsigned ints (16 bit) are now supported when reading in IDLSave files. Thanks, Lily!
- Tweaks to the ASCII parser which allow Juno shocks file with colors to be used. (FF for alpha would cause color parsing to fail, now named colors and 0xFF0000FF can be used.)
- 2735: Runtime errors are routed to Jeremy and Chris' (for Das2Server issues) email again.
- 2734: events lists with alpha component load properly again.
- 2704: set the pick vap location appropriately for local .vap files.
- 2728: Reduce the number of places where old ScriptContext.getViewWindow is still used.
- 2731: Replace File dialog uses DataSetSelector to provide completions and recent entries. Thanks, Ivar!
- 2730: Events list URI bar doesn't remember recent entries. Thanks, Ivar!
- 141: properly use credentials using http hostname and realm.
- 2729: ASCII editor GUI didn't properly handle "fill" setting.
- 2727: bug where setApplication() was used to make a slice window, but plot command didn't use the right application for auto ranging.
- 2725: don't hard-code units in CDF labels, instead use template %{UNITS}.
- 2724: show "file not found" dialog with bad Jython script name.
- Clean up tooltip on "play" button, which incorrectly says Alt+Play did something.
- clean up generate floats GUI in run batch tool.
- Missing file from remote directory ending in /tmp/ would cause stack overflow.

Features:

- Introduce StringTransmogrifier, which will be used in annotations to transmogify from one format to another using regular expressions.
- 855: Support new Rank3WaveformXYZ scheme, wave[timebase,timeoffset,component], used on TRACERS.
- Replace font chooser with new GUI that is more conventional. Thanks, JFontChooser for your years of service!
- Implement apply_filter_flag CDF virtual function, used in Parker Solar Probe files.
- Pick Font Tool checks example text for missing glyphs and displays warning.
- 857: Annotations have new rotate property which can be -90,0,90,180, and arbitrary when anchor is center. Thanks, Cindy!
- 856: Annotations now have "duplicate annotation" pop-up menu item.
- Screenshots Tool does the final trim operation with multiple threads, greatly speeding up the operation.
- 855: support CDF rank 4 ds[t,en,dir,component] datasets, allowing one component to be selected. Thanks, Chris!
- 854: allow events list with column header "color" to contain named colors.

Less recent features:

- HAPI URI editor panel displays the dataset titles if available, so that search is less opaque.
- 853: Support for npz and npy files.
- 851: tickFormat works property for x-axis time tags. Thanks Megha!
- DatumVector is now iterable, to clean up some scripts. Do some bounds checking.

Feedback on the function and quality of this release is greatly appreciated!

Data is input from:

- ASCII files (.dat,.txt)
- CSV files (.csv)
- Binary files (.bin)
- CDF files(.cdf)
- PDS4 files (.lblx)
- PDS3 files (.lbl)
- Excel spread sheets (.xls)
- das2Streams (.d2s or .das2Stream)
- HAPI Servers (vap+hapi:)
- CDAWeb data server (vap+cdaweb:)
- das2servers (vap+das2server:)
- QStreams (.qds) (serialized version of internal model QDataSet)
- Plasma Wave Group das2 Server
- NetCDF files (.nc,.ncml)
- HDF5 files (.h5,.hdf5)
- DODs servers (.dds)
- Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
- Fits Format Files (.fits)
- Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
- Wav audio files (.wav)
- ODL files (.sts)

autoplot.org is the website containing more information than this launch page.