Autoplot Application (#{tag})

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CSV files output by Red Pitaya tool read in without modification.

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 (2022-04-19 r26623):

• new specialColors code didn't handle missing data and would cause runtime error.
• 2445: plot makes a copy of the data for defense and for performance.
• check list of renderers for transitional case, where the returned list would be one element too long with a null in the last element.
• remove "Here DELTA" debug message in SubsetDataSet.
• Jython symbol "map" is included in list of quickly executed routines, to support use in generating getParam GUIs.
• suppress warning about SCALEMIN and SCALEMAX when they are NaN, NaN, and just ignore them.
• 2444: Run Batch would not create a new interpretter for each run, so information could leak from one run to another.
• Re-run single job of batch would run on event thread, hiding feedback and locking application.

Older Bugfixes (2022-03-29 r26596):

• HAPI Server dataset label can be an array to label components. This had never been supported.
• zip file names can contain spaces. Thanks, Kristoff!
• round of FindBugs cleanup.
• 2442: where waitUntilIdle failed to consider that the ephemeris might still be loading.
• DataSet iterator would fail when non-qube bundle contained dataset with 0 records. Thanks, Corentin!
• binary (e.g. divide) and unary (e.g. exp10) operators now support non-qubes when second argument is (rank 0) scalar. Thanks, Corentin!
• 2441: components wouldn't reset properly in some cases, because "changesDimension" function expected pipe. Thanks, Chris!
• 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.

Features:

• completions on plot command now supports completing keyword parameters.
• crossProduct function added.
• Color Scatter mode now has icon.

Less recent features:

• .pngwalk can contain the name of an external .vap file in vapfile property, to support PDS and read-only PNG Walks. Thanks, Chris!
• rfe775: Run Batch lets you rerun one job and copy the script URIs.
• pngwalk Quality Control tool has "Problem Save Next" button so problem flag can be set for many images rapidly. Thanks, Sadie!
• pngwalk .vap file can reside next to the .pngwalk file, so that png files can exist without pngwalk tool files. Thanks, Chris!
• introduce "specialColors property" which allows colors to be assigned to values, beyond the colorbar transform. Thanks James and Sadie!
• Report download progress on Das2Server datasets without progress info by inspecting time tags.
• Contours renderer now supports minor ticks specification like "+10/5" (5 minor intervals per major interval every 10 units), drawing a thinner contour line.
• 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.

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.