SAOImageDS9 Version 6 Release Notes
- 10.20.2009 XPA: moved processing xpa command line
options to first pass, and init xpa earlier in startup, so
that vo and web click can be processed along with regular
command line options.
- 10.24.2009 UPDATE: fixed a problem with trying to
provide support for backward compatibility.
- 10.24.2009 IMGSVR: fixed a problem with trying to
provide support for backward compatibility
- 10.24.2009 GUI: sleep command arg is now optional
- 10.24.2009 MOSAIC: IRAF mosaics are now layed out based
on the first segment load, like WCS mosaics
- 10.27.2009 GUI: fixed a problem if you delete all
frames, some of the load commands (such as -rgbcube) are not
executed until there is a new frame. Now, if there are no
frames, the load command will create a new frame if needed
- 10.28.2009 REGION: Corrected a problem with creating
templates from a VAR. Uncommented old syntax which has been
superceeded
- 11.02.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with 'grid numlab gap2'
- 11.02.2009 AST: updated to version 5.3-1
- 11.05.2009 TILE: corrected documentation for '-tile
grid layout', should be column #, row #
- 11.05.2009 DATACUBE: fixed a problem with '-wcs
replace|reset|append'. The result WCS is now applied to
all slices
- 11.05.2009 XPA: fixed a problem with 'xpaset wcs
replace foo.wcs'
- 11.13.2009 RICE: updated to cfitsio 3210/tt>
- 11.16.2009 COMPRESS: fixed a problem with
compression that extends over a page boundry of 1Gb
- 11.30.2009 GRID: fixed a problem with exterior
numerics and zoomed images
- 11.30.2009 HELP: combine FAQ and ISSUES pages
- 12.04.2009 RGB: aux contour overlays are now
displayed on a per channel basis
- 12.07.2009 RGB: rgb images with data cubes can now
set the current slice on a per channel basis
- 12.07.2009 VO: fixed a problem with xpa keep-alive
- 12.10.2009 TK: fixed a problem MacOSX X11 standard
file dialog boxes. Borrowed code from tk8.5 to correct
the problem when events are added to X11
- 12.10.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with modal dialogs
when the user closed the window via the window manager
and not the OK/CANCEL button
- 12.10.2009 XPA: update to version 2.1.11
- 12.14.2009 RGB: fixed a problem with a incorrect WCS
compass in the panner image
- 12.15.2009 WCS: Documented the old ALIGN command and
updated for XPA and SAMP
- 12.15.2009 GUI: Values accepted for SKYFORMAT
expanded to 'deg', 'degree', and 'degrees' for command
line options, XPA, and SAMP
- 12.17.2009 WCS: added code to test for bad WCS
alignment issues (mainly from CAR projection, or pole
problems)
- 12.17.2009 WCS: added code for WCS alignment for
CAR. If CAR, getWCScrpix() is taken from center of
image, and not from CRPIX keywords
- 12.18.2009 CATALOG: added USNO UCAC3 to the Optical
list
- 12.24.2009 DATACUBE: DS9 now supports FITS images up
to 10 dimensions. Happy Holidays!
- 12.28.2009 ANALYSIS: fixed problems with $data and
$url and spaces in the tmp directory path name
- 12.28.2009 COMM: fixed problems with spaces in file
names received as argumetns via SAMP and http
- 12.29.2009 REGION: fixed problems with XPA/SAMP and
-format/-system/-sky options
- 12.29.2009 GUI: fixed a problem with hiding the
current frame
- 12.30.2009 HV: at EXIT, close all opened HV windows
so that tmp files may be deleted
- 12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type
'multipart/mixed', a tmp file was not deleted
- 12.30.2009 HV: fixed a problem for MIME type
'text/plain', a tmp file was not deleted
- 12.30.2009 ANALYSIS: add $filedialog(open) and
$filedialog(save) macros
- 12.30.2009 GUI: allow filenames starting with a '-'
- 01.07.2009 I18N: for X11 port, look for LC_MESSAGES,
LC_ALL, LANG env vars to set langage in that order
- 01.07.2009 I18N: update Japanese language
translation
- 01.07.2009 CONTOUR: fix muliple problems with
command line contour options. Each frame will now
remember contour params between frames
- 01.08.2009 ANALYSIS: minor changes in output of get
analysis commands. Now include parameters for web and
bind commands
- 01.11.2009 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with the
orientation of the numerics for vertical colorbar. This
problem was introduced with AST-5.3
- 01.11.2009 RGB: fixed a memory leak for RGB frames
- 01.11.2009 I18N: update Japanese language
translation
- 01.11.2009 MACOSX: fixed a problem with non-native
standard file dialog boxes and error messages
- 01.12.2009 AST: fixed a memory leak with colorbar
grid.
- 01.13.2009 PLOT: fixed a rare problem when the user
closes a plot while in the middle of a zoom.
- 01.13.2009 IRAF: fixed a problem for mosaic iraf
images are loaded and the bounding box is incorrectly
calculated.
- 01.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.0
- 01.27.2010 XPA: fixed a problem with reporting
errors during an XPA operation. The correct error
message is now passed to XPA.
- 01.27.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with reporting
errors during an SAMP operation. The correct error
message is now passed to SAMP.
- 01.27.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with catch and
XPA/SAMP. Errors are now reset when needed so as not to
invoke an XPA/SAMP ERROR message.
- 01.27.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.12
- 02.02.2010 CONTOURS: fixed a problem with manually
entered contours values.
- 02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add numerics equal distance
option.
- 02.12.2010 COLORBAR: add colorbar size option.
- 02.12.2010 COLORBAR: move colorbar parameters from
view menu to colorbar menu.
- 02.18.2010 MACOSX: fixed a problem where pcc was
always being installed. Now, first look for FILTER_CC
(valid for X11 users only). Next, see if /usr/bin/gcc
exists. Finally, install pcc if needed, and set to use
it.
- 02.25.2010 SCALE: fixed numerous problems with LOG
and POW scales. Previously, the exp value of the log
ratio was based on the dynamic range of the data. It is
now specified by the user. This solves a number of
issues with data which contains negative values. (see
new documenation on scale equations).
- 02.25.2010 CATALOG: CSC is now loaded as a VOTABLE
by default.
- 03.02.2010 CATALOG: add support for SkyBot catalog
server.
- 03.03.2010 MACOSX: printing, reduce image by 5% so
colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.
- 03.03.2010 WINDOWS: printing, reduce image by 5% so
colorbar end tick numerics are not cutoff.
- 03.03.2010 HV: fixed a problem with MouseWheel
scrolling under X11.
- 03.04.2010 ZOOM: added support for mouse wheel zoom.
- 03.04.2010 HV: added support for Find and FindNext.
- 03.10.2010 POSTSCRIPT: if colorbar and colorbar
numerics are visible, reduce image by 5% so colorbar end
tick numerics are not cutoff.
- 03.10.2010 PRINT: add psprint xpa/command/samp
command for postscript printing on MacOSX and Windows.
- 03.10.2010 GRID: add support for custom numeric
formats.
- 03.17.2010 BIN: add support for Match Bin.
- 03.23.2010 FITS: add a check tor binary tables with
no rows or cols.
- 03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with native
printing and bitmaps that were not aligned upon a word
boundary.
- 03.24.2010 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with rendering
circle point and box circle point.
- 03.26.2010 HV: fixed a rather nasty bug. If a HV
window is open when prefs are saved, the next time ds9
is started, upon exist it tried to close an non-existent
window, and went into a loop.
- 03.29.2010 SAMP: add support for table.load.fits
events.
- 04.13.2010 BACKUP: add support for backup and
restore.
- 04.14.2010 GUI: ensure all temp files in /tmp have
unique names which will not conflict with other
programs.
- 04.14.2010 RGB: corrected inconsistant behavior. The
creation of a RGB frame will not alter the single/tile
setting.
- 04.16.2010 TK: fixed a problem with some tk lib
scripts not sourced at startup and if -cd is executed,
ds9 is unable to locate the scripts.
- 04.16.2010 CIAO: removed any conjuction operators
(which are not supported).
- 04.16.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a rather nasty memory bug
which was invoked when the colorbar was re-configured.
- 04.23.2010 BACKUP: backup save sets can be saved
into on a repeat basis.
- 04.26.2010 SCALE: fixed a problem with segv and
Scale Dialog box.
- 04.26.2010 GUI: fixed a problem matching frames
while in single mode.
- 04.29.2010 GUI: add cycle windows key shortcut.
- 05.04.2010 WINDOWS: new windows installation
procedure.
- 05.06.2010 CATALOG: add IAU location code in
preferences (for Skybot).
- 05.10.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with projection
region when one or both end points are off the image.
All gaps (mosaic) or off image (non-mosaic) have a value
of 0 and NaNs are ignored.
- 05.12.2010 VOTable: add support for FIEDref and
PARAMref elements.
- 05.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.1
- 05.18.2010 WINDOWS: change windows installation
procedure back to allow user to specify destination
directory.
- 05.18.2010 SAMP: fixed an issue with DS9 being
confused as to if it is currently connected and the need
to shutdown SAMP at exit.
- 05.18.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.1
- 05.19.2010 BACKUP: fixed several major problems.
- 05.19.2010 PSEUDOCOLOR: fixed a typo.
- 05.19.2010 RELEASE version 6.1.2
- 05.20.2010 MACOSX: always install pcc if gcc not
available. We don't want old versions of pcc around
after upgrades of the OS.
- 05.28.2010 PLOT: added statistics window for plots.
- 05.28.2010 PLOT: fixed some problems with menus and
clear data.
- 05.28.2010 NAMESERVER: add get option to return
coords directly to calling proc.
- 06.17.2010 CHECKDNS: update chechdns to add support
for actually connect.
- 06.17.2010 VO: use checkdns to look for active
server. If none found, used hard coded list.
- 06.21.2010 ZOOM TO FIT: center image exactly, do not
round to nearest whole pixel.
- 06.21.2010 BACKUP: don't save prefs(version) var. We
want the current preference file version, not the save
set version.
- 06.21.2010 GUI: ds9 will now look for its auxiliary
file using the current name of the executable.
- 06.30.2010 WCS: add WCS Edit dialog.
- 07.01.2010 XPA: add frame has command.
- 07.01.2010 SAMP: add frame has command.
- 07.09.2010 SAMP: fixed a problem with updating the
connect meun item after a manual disconnect.
- 07.09.2010 SAMP: added support for SAMP_HUB env var.
- 07.13.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with a bad
default -size param. This problem only showed up with a
pseudocolor8 visual.
- 07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for internal
error message facility. Any fatal internal error event
will trigger an GUI error message, hopefully leaving the
user the option to save data and to exit gracefully.
- 07.15.2010 GUI: implemented support for trapping the
SIGBUS signal and routing it to the internal error
message facilty. This usually occurs when a data file
has been overwritten or a shared memory segment is no
longer available.
- 07.27.2010 PLOT: save font info when save
configuration.
- 08.04.2010 REGION: fixed a problem with the close
button on EPANDA and BPANDA dialog boxes.
- 08.05.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem when the image
is all one value.
- 08.10.2010 GUI: add Frame Match Image, Physical,
Detector, Amplifier buttons.
- 08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier prefs for XPA,
SAMP, and the command line.
- 08.12.2010 MAGNIFIER: add magnifier color option.
- 08.17.2010 GRID: fixed a problem with init colors.
- 08.17.2010 GRID: now supports colors in form
#ffffff.
- 08.18.2010 CONTOURS: fixed an issue when loading aux
contours which do not end with a linefeed.
- 08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when printing
colorbar from the command line. The numerics are now
updated before printing.
- 08.23.2010 COLORBAR: fixed an issue when rendering
numerics. Numerics are now properly positioned,
regardless of colorbar orientation or font.
- 08.25.2010 GRID: fixed a number of issues when
rendering grid numerics. Numerics are now properly
positioned, regardless of orientation or font.
- 08.27.2010 POSTSCRIPT: fixed a rather nastsy
prolblem with the level 2 postscript driver (Ascii85
filter) in which, sometimes, the last line of the image
would not be written.
- 08.30.2010 POSTSCRIPT: add new postscript level 3
driver, which uses Flate and Ascii85 filters.
- 08.31.2010 COLORBAR: add support for user specified
number of tickmarks to be displayed.
- 08.31.2010 CATALOG: The user can now invoke a blank
catalog tool via the command line, xpa, or samp.
- 09.01.2010 TCL/TK: upate to version 8.5.8.
- 09.01.2010 CATALOG: add font properties to display
symbol database.
- 09.07.2010 CATALOG: now supports image/physical
coordinate systems.
- 09.21.2010 CONTOUR: copy/paste contours no longer
requires equatorial sky param.
- 09.21.2010 REGION: copy/paste contours no longer
requires equatorial sky param.
- 09.21.2010 SAVEAS: add optional params for jpeg,
mpeg and tiff command line options.
- 09.22.2010 FOV: update Chandra Templates.
- 09.22.2010 GUI: add open and close support for XPA,
SAMP, and command line, for all dialogs.
- 09.28.2010 COLORBAR: fixed a problem with generating
colorbar values when no frame is available.
- 09.30.2010 HV: fixed a problem with multiple
cookies, which created a bad header.
- 09.30.2010 VO: fixed a problem with 'xpaget ds9 vo
connect'. Now returns only the current connections, not
all possible connections.
- 09.30.2010 REGION: added check for no frame and no
image loaded for xpaset regions via stdin.
- 09.30.2010 ANALYSIS: add 'task #|name' command.
- 10.01.2010 ANALYSIS: fixed a problem when an
analysis file was loaded after an image had been loaded.
Them menu was not properly updated to reflect the
template for each menu item.
- 10.05.2010 CUBE: fixed a problem in which sometimes
changing the current slice whould hang.
- 10.05.2010 CUBE: add support for WCS in cube dialog.
- 10.07.2010 CENTROID: add support centroid params
xpa/command line.
- 10.07.2010 CENTROID: fix some problems with an
offset of .5 pixels.
- 10.07.2010 SMOOTH: new frames inherit current smooth
params.
- 10.07.2010 RGB: fixed a problem when the first image
load has a flipped wcs.
- 10.08.2010 REGION: add CIRCLE3D region.
- 10.11.2010 BACKUP: fixed a problem with smoothed
images and contours.
- 10.14.2010 HELP: fixed a problem with finding the
help files if the CD command has changed the default
directory.
- 10.14.2010 XPA: update to version 2.1.13
- 10.15.2010 RELEASE version 6.2