Autoplot Application (#{tag})

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Experiments with adding "format" control to %{CONTEXT} macro look promising.

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 v2023a 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 (2023-12-13 r27414):

• 2573: annotation didn't properly listen to the ACTIVEDATASET property and would fail to update %{CONTEXT}.
• 2571: detect when channel names are inconsistent where subsampling channels is not desirable.
• 2570: fix annotation when pointAt is used
• 1507: copy and paste plots via clipboard gets the x-axis wrong.
• PngWalkTool address bar records .pngwalk files in its history.
• NetCDF data editor panel didn't update description as X and Y parameters were selected.
• 2567: correct loaded vaps where column has marginRow as parent, which happened for years but wasn't noticed. Thanks, Connor!
• 2567: where text property wasn't re-bound after the plotId changed. Thanks, Connor!
• 2567: clipping of the ephemeris labels. Thanks, Connor!
• 2556: march through the stack trace looking for lines to annotate. Introduce new purple error squiggle to indicate some uncertainty in the location.
• rte_0611117604: sloppy code with X and Y in editor. Thanks, Connor!
• Correct where Ops.java had references to JSON but shouldn't have. This is handled in the calling code now, where Jython dictionaries are converted to maps for QDataSet.
• expandToFillGaps doesn't assume that timetags are monotonic now, when finding shortest interval. Thanks, George!
• 86: longTitles property would miscalculate width when yaxis was on right. Thanks, James!
• Don't treat %Y the same as $Y. Reserve percents for Python string formatting.
• Improvements and bugfixes with Jython to Java converter.

Older Bugfixes (2023-11-17 r27321):

• 84: Correct "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Already connected" when getting a second file listing of restricted web site. Thanks, Bill!
• bugfix in Das2Server where very large DSDF could cause runtime error. Thanks, Chris!
• bugfix when string parameter is "https://....", where it mistook the parameter in logic to handle "opt1: opt1 explanation".
• 83: LogLin tick positions mode for log axes had a bug. Thanks, James!
• 811: copy of rows and marginRow needed to do this correctly.
• 66: OutsideSE Legend with multiple lines fixed.
• 2563: resize plot when binding scales resets range instead of scales.
• toTimeDataSet(1999,12,31,0,0,0,0) (all rank 0 scalars) works now.
• 2564: HAPI CSV redirect was failing.
• Valid ISO8601 range 20000101T1300Z/1400Z now parses.
• 2562: HAPI server events list doesn't include nominal units with Events List Tool
• 2560: appliedFilters=' ' resulted in extra line (!c) being added to title. Thanks, Ivar!
• don't make the last highlited log message stack trace be the console tooltip, since this makes the GUI hard to use. The "AP>" prompt still has the text.
• 2558: improve support for long-array-backed CDF_TT2000 timetags, properly handling times to nanosecond resolution. Thanks, Connor!
• make sure all time generators in Run Batch generate times which Run Batch can use. Thanks, Sadie!
• 2556: support rank 2 waveform with units of seconds in metadata tab. Thanks, Sadie!
• 2556: correction to Jython editor error highliting, where extra line was drawn. Thanks, Sadie!
• remove old test which unnecessarily abandoned the tick bounds calculation when more lines were requested for ticks than needed.

Features:

• Export to IDLSav now has append=T control.
• 417: more control over %{CONTEXT}.
• 89: add ∥ and ∦ to Entities.java.
• various improvements to Jython to Java converter.
• 3: Initial support for Das2Server parameters GUI.

Less recent features:

• rfe816: add save-to-pngwalk action.
• simple editor colors GUI also loads and saves configurations.
• Jython fileExists function supports remote filesystems.
• 2563: Colorbar has context menu item to switch to different colorbar.
• DasAxis format supports %04X for hexidecimal ticks.
• 82: DasRow and DasColumn now have top/bottom right/left control string property, minLayout/,maxLayout, simplifying Autoplot and contains complexity within one Das2 class.
• rfe814: support run batch output file with file_%04d.png for template, allowing more control over formatting. Thanks, Sadie!
• Support Jython completions based on "a,b=1,2" tuple assignment and matching. Thanks, Connor!
• "file:" locations for scripting documentation now works. Thanks, Kristoff!
• rfe811: new dialog for fix layout includes options to move legends and remove gaps, show preview.
• rfe811: plot.ephemerisLineCount property added, so that the layout can be done before ephemeris is loaded.

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.