Autoplot Application (#{tag})
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!
Multiple Jython servers works now as a side-effect of recent changes to scripting.
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 (2025-06-30):
- 849: Mistake in Friday fix meant parameters could not be passed into scripts.
- 2718: Back off recent changes which got into production release.
- 849: In Run Batch Tool, there was branch (two arguments, single-threaded) where the environment was not correctly initialized.
- PngWalkTool correctly recognizes $x in a URI, which is used by the Run Batch Tool.
- 849: Corrections to rfe849, where one of the initialization scripts was not loaded properly. Thanks, Nick!
- PDS3 file references must be case-insensitive. Thanks, Chris!
- 2715: Detect when needed Jaxb library is missing when PDS4 is used with Java 11+. Thanks, Chris!
- GitHubFileSystems supports file listings on github.com and research-git's abbith/juno using API.
- More kludges for PDS support, where data named "UTC" is now presumed to contain timetags, even if there are no units specified.
- CDF code which when reading in metadata and checking valid ranges assumed time was CDF_Epoch, now checks for data which is TT2000. Thanks, Ivar!
- Run Batch Tool "Write png" tooltip indicates that the script name and arguments are embedded and the pngwalk tool can be used to rerun the script. Thanks, Sadie!
- 2708: Make sure all example schemas have some sort of plot, fix autoranging for some types.
- 2709: Insert script code for boolean used True and False, not 'T' and 'F'
- 2708: Series plot element type is enabled for waveform data. Thanks, Jaya!
- log and exp functions were missing from operations. Thanks, Connor!
- 2705: Overzealous check on time datum handing in .vap files prevented Dave from saving .vap with annotation.
Older Bugfixes (2025-05-13 r28243):
- 2703: Check for empty fields when parsing ASCII files, and insert fill without entering try/catch block. Thanks, Ivar!
- Correct handling of PDS3 https://pds-ppi.igpp.ucla.edu/data/VG1-J_S_SS-PWS-1-EDR-WFRM-60MS-V1.0/DATA/WFRM/P9/V1P9_002/C0105058.LBL?WAVEFORM_BYTE, where itemBytes was miscalculated.
- Read in all PDS3 single-byte integers as unsigned.
- 0020: Support for RLE compression showed where byte[] was read out of uncompressed CDF file unnecessarily. Thanks, Mike!
- 2699: Nominal data parsed in ASCII files had terrible performance when number of unique items was large. Thanks, Ivar!
- 2701: Time-varying DEPEND_1 with synchronize. Thanks, Sadie!
- 2700: Add right axis plot works when there are multiple columns. Thanks, Danil!
- AutoplotServlet supports OpenDAP, where it simply hadn't been included.
Features:
- check for no !N after !A when generating CDF labels, in case the author didn't close the shifted text in a label. Thanks, Connor!
- readme.txt entered in the address bar will show the readme. Also readme.md and README.TXT. Thanks, Chris!
- GrannyTextEditor allows extentions for psym and images to be edited. Thanks, Connor!
- add text to "Write" tooltip about how each file contains the script and arguments used to run the image. Thanks, Sadie!
- use eventsBar for single canonical event.
- digitalRenderer can render bundleDescriptor
- 849: Run script from multiple windows removes annoying question and allows for multi-threaded batch processing.
- Autoplot source moved to GitHub.
- 133: Four-element waveform packets allowed to support TRACERS processing. Thanks, Chris!
Less recent features:
- 20: Merge in changes to the CDFJ library, to support RLE, Huffman, and other compression types. Thanks, Mike!
- Add copy filename to clipboard action in the cache tool.
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.