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levels control on Contours renderer allows minor contour lines specification (+10/+1) in this script. Let me know if you think you might use this rarely-used renderer and I'll see if I can make it look nicer!

Autoplot allows plotting of data from many data sources, including remote CDF files and OpenDAP servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension, data are loaded into the internal data model. Data are then displayed by guessing the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a reasonable, useful view of the data. Data can then be additionally processed with other operations like smooth and FFT, and Jython scripting provides a capable programming environment.

This is the Autoplot v2021a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 8 is now required.

Run with 1GB of memory to support 32-bit Java versions, and run off of ci-pw build server: autoplot_1GB.jnlp

Bugfixes (2022-03-04 r26544):

• correction to edit tick values dialog and its connection to the orbit renderer. Thanks, Sadie!
• stars added to Granny Text editor psym menu. Thanks, Sadie!
• Detrend and a few other operators were missing descriptions in "add operation" dialog. Thanks, Seth!
• Create PNG walk lock file wasn't deleted when culling no-data images.
• Autoplot server only believes X-Forwarded-For when remote host is from a secure network.
• HapiDataSource didn't provide completions for parameters and timerange.

Older Bugfixes (2022-02-22 r26493):

• pressing "run batch" tool cancel button also cancels the running process.
• include jaxb library in stable jars to support Java 12, where this has been removed. (There are still issues with Java 12 and PDS module.)
• triple-quotes check in Jython getParameters refactorings didn't look for """, only '''.
• 2435: careless code assumed that CONTEXT_0 rank 0 data left over from slice1 could be added to calculate timetag
• 2433: $Y$m$d$H$M_to_$(Y;end)$m$d$H$M is allowed in PNG Walks now.
• 2432: corrections to decimalYear unit.
• SeriesRenderer handles rgbColor where alpha channel is non-zero.
• script diff since last invocation was drawn backwards, showing changes in the wrong direction.
• Use start and stop for HAPI 3.0 servers.
• Autoplot-based HAPI server properly formats times with Z suffix. Thanks, Bob!
• HAPI data source editor is set properly when there is an error getting the catalog. Before it would leave an old catalog showing.
• go-to line action from the Jython editor line number gutter now requires shift to activate.
• runtime error during data source editor creation could leave the data set selector in a locked state.
• correction to rescale routine, which ignored the "max" parameter.
• if a data source crashed during GUI initialization, the data set selector could be locked up.
• trace functionality revisited to use Jython AST for handling code.
• Run Batch Tool save action used open dialog, now uses save.
• dataSetWrapper needed to wrap slice and trim methods.
• Recent change to support colors for nominal data in HAPI client broke timetag-only read.
• DataSetBuilder's toString method used * for streaming dimension, when : is consistent with Jython.
• Polar plot handles bundle(angles,radii).
• correctly handle autoranging with the Series renderer and bundle of X,Y.
• 0026: clip lines outside of the plot bounds, so that performance is preserved with lines to log(0) a.k.a. -Inf, which was limited to -10000 px.
• 2429: don't do the automatic DEPEND_0 when the column read is column 0. Thanks, Sadie!
• rfe651: orbit:/tmp/orbitsfile.txt:mms-1 is no longer interpreted as range. This is only supported with numeric orbit numbers.
• rfe651: pressing the events list green play button will always re-read the events definitions from the file. Thanks, Ivar!
• Trim whitespace at end of Jython code when showing differences, because on Windows every line was marked as changed on Bill's computer.
• rfe363: various code fragments (else, subscript, etc) were handled improperly, causing completions to fail.
• rfe363: bug where line was included in simplify for completions, but shouldn't have been, which caused completions to fail.
• 2425: fill-to-zero mode with 691200 points showed that reduced version wasn't used.
• bugfix: color scatter mode didn't listen to the log property of the colorbar. Thanks, Sadie!
• some thread use clean up after seeing issues with Java 17.
• 2424: set the application when running custom actions in the editor, when working with multiple windows. Thanks, Sadie!
• 2421: add action to show simplified script to get parameters.
• annotation editor dialog now has GrannyTextEditor button.
• GitCommand assumed it could write to /tmp/, which isn't working on a Mac.

Features:

• CDF editor has checkbox to remove zero-record variables from the list of parameters which happens with PSP CDF files. Thanks, Kristoff!
• Waypoints Digitizer at GitHub supports data with rank 2 ytags. Thanks, Kristoff!
• Waypoints Mouse Module provides a new control for digitizing scripts.
• rfe775: Run Batch now embeds the ScriptURI into each image, and the Png Walk Tool will rerun the script when "View in Autoplot" is pressed.
• rfe772: The right argument of Run Batch can also have multiple parameters, and GUI reveals the feature.
• when Jython completions encounters an error when running, still show the completions for other symbols, improve error display.
• rfe774: Completions on URI within getDataSet call supports simple string concatenations to allow for shorter lines without loosing completions.

Less recent features:

• rfe772: Run Batch supports list of M arguments.
• rfe678: support for .tgz files.
• Image renderer now supports rank 2 dataset with rgbColor units.
• Jython script trace mode follows program counter.
• support for bounding boxes, automatically detecting scheme and using BoundsRenderer.
• AutoplotServlet's ScriptGUIServlet now has previous/next buttons on timerange GUI.
• 363: support completions on object within array, like dom.plots[2].*
• improvements to Jython to Java code converter.
• introduce readConfiguration command, which reads configuration into map of name/value pairs to help with scripting and supports %{PWD}.
• Introduce pull and push to GitCommand, looking forward to when pure-Java git library is introduced.
• Scroll to where the Jython error occurred, in addition to showing the red squiggly.

Known issues:

• see Source Forge
• Bugs often have a four-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/bugs/<ID>/.
• Features typically have a three-digit ID and can be reviewed with https://sourceforge.net/p/autoplot/feature-requests/<ID>/.

This completes the feature set for the new production branch. No major features will be added before branching this version. A production branch will be started in a couple of weeks, and the "Start Autoplot" link at the top of autoplot.org will run this version. 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)
• Excel spread sheets (.xls)
• das2Streams (.d2s or .das2Stream)
• ViRBO's TSDS server
• CDAWeb data server (vap+cdaweb:)
• das2servers (vap+das2server:)
• QStreams (.qds), QDataSet on a das2Stream
• Plasma Wave Group das2 Server
• NetCDF files (.nc,.ncml)
• HDF5 files (.h5,.hdf5)
• DODs servers (.dds)
• Cluster Exchange Format files (.cef)
• Fits Format Files
• Images (.jpg, .png, .gif)
• Wav audio files (.wav)

This is not complete, and limitations include:

• Quantities of rank 3 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,pitch) are plotted by slicing.
• Quantities of rank 4 dimensionality (e.g. flux(Time,Energy,azimuth,sector) are plotted by slicing twice.

autoplot.org is the wiki website, and contains more information than this launch page.