Autoplot Application (#{tag})

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Experiments with an upcoming new version of the CDAWeb HAPI server.

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 (2024-05-21 r27668):

• 2594: Jython getParam with {labels} doesn't work for string types
• Script editor Shift+Run and Alt+Run are the same thing, and should always enter the parameters GUI, even when there are no parameters.
• "autoplot --help" indicates that --scriptExit will set an exit code for exception.
• cleanData filter ignored the number of stddevs argument. Thanks, Sadie!

Older Bugfixes (2024-05-02 r27630):

• HAPI 1.1 supported again.
• 2589: add resetUnits to dataset command, which ignores any units the dataset already has.
• 2593: handle when unique names for each channel aren't found on this path.
• export to aggregatingDataSource had code sloppiness which requires vap+txt prefix and didn't handles spaces properly.
• 826: comment out new axis color feature for next production release, until issues are resolved.
• 2004: sometimes HAPI dialog would flip to other server during initialization.
• improve feedback when URI data source cannot be identified. (*.foo file)
• 105: color chooser droplist would ignore if black was selected in some cases.
• 2580: recent change to grab labels from image rich png metadata contained runtime error in some cases.
• 2588: single-record waveform dataset doesn't autorange in X properly
• 2585: don't cache idlsav listing. It doesn't seem to be necessary and is confusing

Features:

• add completions for filePollUpdates, an old but hidden feature which will be useful on Tracers.
• HAPI dialog has filter for parameter names, to support SSCWeb and CDF files with many parameters. Thanks, Sadie!
• 829: Script editor dialog for setScriptDescription
• TestRunScripts.java introduced to run a series of scripts reporting any exceptions.

Less recent features:

• DataSetBuilder supports nominal units where the unit type changes (for different namespaces)
• AsciiParser supports dash and double parens in column names, supporting "visualFeature(visualFeature(ordinal))" and "co-rotational X component"
• Add print(matrixFormat(m,'nl')) so that matrices can be viewed conveniently and unambiguously.
• 826: Add axisOffset property, so that offset axes can be used in .vaps.
• 826: Add color property to axes, so that you can refer to a color.
• resolution parameter for Das2Server limits the requested resolution for interactive plotting.

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.