Autoplot Application (20241213b)

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ASCII files of Tempest sensor wind speed and direction are aggregated to cover long span.

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 v2024a 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 (2024-12-12 r28000):

• Remove migrate preferences, which moved preferences from 2016 Autoplot, and makes it difficult to test a fresh session.
• String "null" would appear in HAPI dataset titles incorrectly.
• Don't throw runtime error when empty data source is edited. Thanks, Scott C!
• like CDAWeb reverts to offline mode, using template in all.xml automatically when internet is not available.
• miscellaneous minor items, like feedback when internet is not available.
• 2652: Image panel in GrannyTextEditor was incorrectly labeled "psym".
• 2602: Correct link to wildcards documentation on make aggregation GUI.
• 2654: Don't handle zero-width range inputs with runtime exception. Thanks, alasko!
• 119: support ISO8601 range '2016-05-20T07:46:19.494/07:46:19.8' (.8 vs .800) Thanks, Sadie!
• 2651: HAPI data doesn't come up as spectrograms by default. Thanks, Jon V!
• Manual ticks, when empty, would result in a runtime error and prevented printing. Thanks, Masafumi!
• 2650: kludgy code would assume first column was a time in the ASCII parser. Thanks, Masafumi!
• 2650: Check validity of Red, Green, Blue arrays.
• 0083: bug where loglin axis labeller would miscount second decade (linear is 0.5).
• 795: bugs with identifyContinuousBlocks found in untested modes.
• 0083: bug where loglin axis labeller would miscount second decade.
• 0083: bug where single tick was used. (There should always be at least two major ticks.)
• 2649: AutoplotSettings.settings().getPreferences used inconsistently
• 2647: always show the context in the title when it is found.
• AsciiDataSet used to grab ASCII from binary tables dropped its units with slice operation, making nominal data unusable.
• Compile in old name org.autoplot.scriptconsole.ScriptPanelSupport to support old scripts until they can be updated.
• 789: New code which would grab the timerange from the URI when trim=True was set broke old interface. Thanks, Sadie!

Older Bugfixes (2024-11-18 r27936):

• 2639: New code would cause NullPointerException with rank 2 Vector Data Sets. Thanks, Sadie!
• 1687: Support completions with PWD + "demo<C>" to list PWD while coding.
• 2633: use the URI to get the timerange when trim=True.
• 2635: bug sequence with data processing clean-up is now fixed as well.
• 2642: show all if no support metadata is found (as with Python and IDL export to CDF). Thanks Connor and Sadie!
• 2639: support rank 3 waveform scheme dataset with x,y,z components. Thanks, Chris!
• 2643: Static Code Analysis correctly detects use within if/else blocks.
• 2644: add checkbox for majority in CDF export.
• Codes which transfer data from one buffer to another do so in larger chunks now, using 8K buffers as Google suggests.
• Run Batch Tool uses 8 threads by default when multi-threaded runs are done. 32 was too many, even for a 48-core machine.
• Don't leave empty recent files in autoplot_data/bookmarks/
• 2641: misconfiguration of mouse module in addMouseModule meant box events received from keystrokes were incorrect. Thanks, Dave!
• 2217: "|magnitude()" is added to vector time series support, switching from component traces to one magnitude trace. Thanks, Pedro!
• Restore missing tools.xml file.
• 2638: data tab and layout tab are now initially on for new installations, since this was confusing.

Features:

• extract common codes btw PDS3 and PDS4 working with Document to get titles. When getting the title from the description, just use the first sentence.
• 835: script in tools will switch to Dark LAF. Thanks, Chris!
• PDS3 with time column as the first column will use it as the independent values. This will have to do for AGU!

Less recent features:

• Color chooser dialog with named colors subpanel has "find close" button to find close named color.
• Remove old HAPI local cache code, put in support for external HAPI cache mechanism.
• Jython to Java conversion checks for struct.pack.
• units=enum or units=nominal to mean nominal data.
• Buffer sizes used to transfer data increased from 1024 bytes to 8*1024 bytes, possibly showing small performance gains.
• More enhancements to Python-to-Java converter while porting new IDLSave reader.

Data is input from:

• ASCII files (.dat,.txt)
• CSV files (.csv)
• Binary files (.bin)
• CDF files(.cdf)
• PDS4 files (.lblx)
• 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)

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