Autoplot Application (20130807b)

Completions are now shown in more useful scrollable list.

Autoplot attempts to allow plotting of data from many data sources, including local files and OpenDAP servers. Datasets are identified with URIs, and by the URI's extension a module is used to load the data into the internal data model. Data is then displayed by guessing the rendering method and axis ranges to provide a reasonable, useful view of the data.

This is the Autoplot2013a branch. This is an update to the production version containing bugfixes and minor new features. Java 6 is now required.

Single-jar version, autoplot.jar, can be run without network access and from the command line. Note CDFs are only supported via the Java-based reader and Autoplot will attempt to use it when the C-based version is not available.

Bugfixes:

• Clean up the cdaweb exceptions that were never fixed after data was moved around
• Seth's CDF which had fill in Y that would cause problems.
• options for PDF output allow user to substitute curves for fonts
• 1087: rank2 CDF DEPEND_1 reduce improvements
• 1086: strange timeranges show up with time series browse
• 1085: cancel in aggregation doesn't cancel properly, messing up cache
• stderr noise about Find-next.png from jsyntaxpane looking for incorrect file
• "submit" button on error dialog is default
• rich ascii export of vector and spectrogram datasets works, moreso

Older Bugfixes:

• 1083: garbled tools list when adding tool
• 1082: opacity in aggregation
• 1079: tearoff tabbed pane does a better job with labels for the windows.
• 1081: eventListColumn was broken from v2013a_8 through v2013a_9
• tearoff tabbed pane does a better job with labels for the windows.
• eventListColumn was broken from v2013a_8 through v2013a_9
• use the URI timerange. Before it would be used briefly, then reset as soon as the data is loaded.
• 1077: first plotElement has resetPlotElement true after syncTo
• lanl can't get jython files from autoplot.org, so just get them from the java path
• don't quantize orbit datum ranges. When quantizing, use much finer quanta.
• drop target containing file URIs works on a mac and other platforms
• bugfix where one-dataset bundle wouldn't plot as Y(T)
• 1076: width=0 causes runtime error dialog.
• 1075: changesSupport needs to keep a count
• 1074: lockup because of loose thread safety

Features:

• rfe 316: completions should be in a scrollable list
• Mouse modules announce themselves and indicate escape-to-cancel
• Taller/Shorter buttons on layout panel, shift works on layout panel to select range
• scary exception when no native CDF library removed
• more TimeRangeTool buttons
• improvements to jython completions include def names and assignments
• 314: support "import autoplotapp as app", cleaning up jython. Legacy scripts are still supported.

Less recent features:

• first experiments with slice0 at datum, like |slice0('2013-07-12T18:00')t
• dataset('2013-07-12T18:00') handles times and datum ranges now.
• recent history GUI allows wildcards, like rbsp*.vap
• ascii plugin supports units and dep0units.
• tweaks to rich pngs, which have metadata that allows digitizing
• add replicate(ds,len)

Known issues:

• see Source Forge

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.