SAOImageDS9 Version 8.2 Release Notes

  1. 12.11.2019 GUI: fix keyboard accelerators for MacOS.
  2. 12.11.2019 GUI: add keyboard accelerators ^Q and ^, for UNIX/Windows.
  3. 12.13.2019 GUI: add keyboard accelerators ^A ^W ^P ^S ^+ ^- ^O.
  4. 12.13.2019 GUI: add 'File:Open As' and 'File:Save As' buttons to button bar.
  5. 12.16.2019 REGION: render regions 'over' coordinate grid as previous versions.
  6. 12.17.2019 3D: fixed a typo which will give an error message while in 3d mode.
  7. 12.17.2019 MOVIE: 3D movies can now be in single mode or in tile mode.
  8. 12.17.2019 MOVIE: fix parser call for "3d gif foo.gif opts".
  9. 12.17.2019 MOVIE: 3D movies can now change in zoom.
  10. 12.17.2019 3D: simply cache to be more reliable.
  11. 12.18.2019 TKCON: upgrade to version 2.7.3, fixes edit shortcut under MacOS.
  12. 12.18.2019 TKMPEG: upgrade to version 1.0.7, fix CXX compile issues.
  13. 12.18.2019 TKBLT: upgrade to version 3.2.21, fix CXX compile issues.
  14. 12.19.2019 TCL/TK: upgrade to version 8.6.10.
  15. 01.11.2020 MASK: add options for blending multiple masks before alpha compositing image.
  16. 01.15.2020 WCS: add a check to verify that AST has successfully parsed a WCS header before using.
  17. 01.24.2020 FOOTPRINT: add support for CXC and HLA footprint servers.
  18. 02.10.2020 CATALOG: fixed a problem with the CDS ref id for GAIA and IRAS catalogs.
  19. 02.17.2020 RELEASE version 8.2b1
  20. 02.17.2020 VO: remove vo method xpa as option.
  21. 02.19.2020 MASK: fixed an issue with the mask dialog and colors.
  22. 02.26.2020 MASK: fixed an issue with the mask blending.
  23. 02.26.2020 MASK: add blend mode darken.
  24. 02.26.2020 MASK: add blend mode screen.
  25. 03.04.2020 WCS: fixed a problem with wcs reset and WCSNAMEP keywords.
  26. 03.10.2020 SCALE: implemented 'minmax rescan' command for shm users.
  27. 04.07.2020 CATALOG: add support for import FITS catalogs.
  28. 04.14.2020 MACOS: removed a kludge fix for mouse wheel. Tk is now reporting correct mouse coordinates.
  29. 04.24.2020 GUI: themes fully supported for all X11 ports.
  30. 04.27.2020 GUI: add awthemes.
  31. 04.27.2020 GUI: add ttkthemes.
  32. 05.17.2020 GUI: add scidthemes.
  33. 05.19.2020 GUI: fix menu select color for themes.
  34. 05.21.2020 MACOS: fix an issue with frames not refreshing correctly.
  35. 05.21.2020 XPA: upgrade to version 2.1.20.
  36. 05.22.2020 TKSAO: fixed a problem which allows all images to be loaded before refreshing.
  37. 05.26.2020 BUILD: add support for FreeBSD.
  38. 05.27.2020 GUI: add 'File:Save Image' buttons to button bar.
  39. 05.27.2020 GUI: add 'File:Export' buttons to button bar.
  40. 05.28.2020 GUI: add 'File:Import' buttons to button bar.
  41. 05.28.2020 WCS: add 'WCSAXES' keyword to wcs dialog.
  42. 05.28.2020 WCS: add 'PSx_x' keywords to wcs dialog.
  43. 05.28.2020 ANALYSIS: add 'open' and 'save' parameter types.
  44. 06.01.2020 ANALYSIS: add support for notebook tabs in parameter dialog.
  45. 06.01.2020 ANALYSIS: add 'Edit' menu to parameter dialog.
  46. 06.02.2020 ANALYSIS: add macro substitution for parameter default values.
  47. 06.03.2020 ANALYSIS: add parameter 'Reset' buttons.
  48. 06.03.2020 ANALYSIS: add 'text' parameter types.
  49. 06.04.2020 ANALYSIS: add $messageok().
  50. 06.23.2020 REGION: fix issue when image has no wcs and plot2D, plot3D, or statistics dialog automatically created.
  51. 06.24.2020 SAMP: command line process first looking for yes/no.
  52. 06.26.2020 SIA: implement 'current' command.
  53. 06.26.2020 FP: implement 'current' command.
  54. 06.27.2020 PLOT: implement 'current' command.
  55. 06.27.2020 CATALOG: implement 'current' command.
  56. 07.15.2020 MAGNIFIER: simplify magnifier update sequence.
  57. 08.12.2020 PLOT: new API parser.
  58. 08.14.2020 PRISM: add new Prism like support.
  59. 08.21.2020 PLOT: new control panel.
  60. 08.21.2020 PLOT: add support for backups.
  61. 08.22.2020 AGIF: add delay parameter.
  62. 08.23.2020 GUI: add short cuts Region/None mode.
  63. 08.24.2020 GRID: change default colors to cyan.
  64. 08.24.2020 REGION: fix prefs region buttons issue.
  65. 08.25.2020 PLOT: parser: add backward compatibility for DAX.
  66. 08.25.2020 PLOT: fix a minor issue with backup and themes.
  67. 08.25.2020 PLOT: fill out control panel menus.
  68. 08.28.2020 PLOT: fix scatter contorl panel.
  69. 08.28.2020 PREFS: fix an issue with prefs files from 8.2b1.
  70. 08.28.2020 PRISM: newplot/newgraph/newdataset plots.
  71. 08.30.2020 PLOT: plot backup save set extension to PLB.
  72. 08.30.2020 PLOT: fix plot current cmd.
  73. 08.31.2020 PREFS: look for old themes and reset.
  74. 09.01.2020 REGIONS: add default color at load dialog.
  75. 09.04.2020 PRISM: add support for gz files.
  76. 09.04.2020 GUI: fixed an issue with spaces in dirs/filenames and standard open/save dialog.
  77. 09.08.2020 PLOT: theme colors default is off.
  78. 09.08.2020 REGION: fixed a problem reading from file id.
  79. 09.09.2020 PRISM: display column names in upper case, along with units (if present) in lower case.
  80. 09.09.2020 PRISM: on load, set default extension to be first non-null.
  81. 09.09.2020 PRISM: add manual paging for large tables.
  82. 09.10.2020 PRISM: add goto row.
  83. 09.10.2020 GUI: add mousewheel bindings to all tables.
  84. 09.11.2020 GUI: both modal and non-modal dialogs are centered via prefs.
  85. 09.11.2020 PANNER: fixed a reliability issue.
  86. 09.13.2020 GUI: add themes to window port.
  87. 09.14.2020 PLOT: add eps support.
  88. 09.18.2020 PRISM: add support for ASCII tables in VOT,TSV,CSV, and RDB format.
  89. 09.20.2020 PRISM: fixed a problem with histogram barwidth.
  90. 09.23.2020 GUI: add support for Chandra Public Archive.
  91. 09.28.2020 PANNER: change default image coordinate colors to cyan.
  92. 10.03.2020 PREFS: fixed an issue with older prefs files, themes, and MacOS Aqua ports.
  93. 10.04.2020 WCS: fixed an issue with updating footprint servers.
  94. 10.04.2020 RELEASE version 8.2rc
  95. 10.15.2020 PRISM: fixed an issue with compressed FITS files.
  96. 10.21.2020 RELEASE version 8.2rc2
  97. 10.26.2020 CATALOG: fixed an issue with compressed FITS catalog files.
  98. 10.26.2020 RELEASE version 8.2rc3
  99. 10.27.2020 FITSY: increase precision float/double bin table value to 13.
  100. 10.30.2020 CUBE: if set cube order is current value, don't invoke (which deletes all regions).
  101. 10.30.2020 SCALE: fixed lock scalelimits for all frames as we are changing mode to user.
  102. 11.03.2020 PLOT: tweaks to control panel for bar plots.
  103. 11.03.2020 PRISM: add plot properties to generate line plots.
  104. 11.03.2020 PRISM: add plot properties to generate histogram plots.
  105. 11.04.2020 PRISM: several plot parser tweaks.
  106. 11.04.2020 PRISM: add support for secondary header of units.
  107. 11.05.2020 GUI: tables now use fg/bg for headers.
  108. 11.05.2020 PLOT: fix prefs 'Use Theme Colors' option.
  109. 11.06.2020 PRISM: various fixes and tweaks.
  110. 11.06.2020 PRISM: Click - Click - Plot now supported.
  111. 11.10.2020 PLOT: move control panel to top menu.
  112. 11.11.2020 RELEASE version 8.2rc4
  113. 11.17.2020 THEME: fixed an issue with MacOS prism and catalogs.
  114. 11.18.2020 THEME: fixed an issue with Linux/Windows scale, horz, vert graphs.
  115. 12.15.2020 RELEASE version 8.2
  116. 12.08.2020 THEME: fixed an issue when updating complex plots.
  117. 12.09.2020 PRISM: fixed an problem displaying repeat column units.
  118. 12.09.2020 PRISM: be sure to display the last column with a large number of columns.
  119. 12.12.2020 PRISM: fixed an issue with search header for keywords.
  120. 01.05.2021 REGION: fixed issue with using default color override at load time. Now, only DS9 and TNG format affected. All others use current region color.
  121. 01.11.2021 SHARED: be sure shared memory is compiled if available.
  122. 01.12.2021 TKTABLE: update to v2.10.6.
  123. 01.14.2021 REGION: if region dialog and statistics dialog are closed in order, reopen statistics dialog when region modified (like plot).
  124. 01.14.2021 BACKUP: be sure window is realized so that matrices are calculated before pan/block/bin/crosshair.
  125. 01.17.2021 PLOT: fixed an issue with "plot data" cmd and samp.
  126. 01.18.2021 SAMP: fix samp command for use from XPA and command line.
  127. 01.18.2021 DIALOG: fixed an issue saving text from a text dialog under windows.
  128. 01.19.2021 CATALOG: fixed typo in catalog parser.
  129. 01.30.2021 SAMP: fixed a number of issues to improve reliability.
  130. 02.03.2021 PRISM: fixed an issue with backups and XML tables.
  131. 02.15.2021 RELEASE version 8.2.1