April 2nd, 2012· Bugfix: Cached secondary image was not also resized if a map plot was resized and a mask overlay had been applied.
· Abbreviate display of really long URLs in Bookmarks menu.
· Watch for projected-grid variables without a grid_mapping attribute but using a _CoordinateSystems attribute in conjunction with a variable which has a _CoordinateTransforms attribute.
· Try to match up dimension with corresponding coordinate variable if they have different names (i.e., coordinate variable is not "classic").
· Library: netCDF-Java and associated jars updated (v. 4.3.9). This should result in improved GRIB dataset handling
· GRIB-1 datasets opened in "strict mode" by default unless disabled in preferences.
· Local GRIB-1 parameter tables may be opened directly and applied to specific data center, subcenter, and version IDs.
· Bugfix: Drag gesture with a variable in the Sources window failed if variable was a child of a grouping within a dataset.
· Added option to use transparent invalid/missing fill when exporting map plots as KMZ files.
January 31st, 2012· Further improvement to handling of auxiliary lon-lat grids with longitude values straddling ±180°E.
· Bug fix: Sources tree-table would not accept two datasets with same name, even if located in different locations.
· Export to KMZ option for lon-lat map plots now available no matter what map projection has been applied.
· Watch out for file metadata that has HTML-escape characters.
· Able to open local GRIB-1 table lookup lists.
· Reduced time for initial scan of data by up to 75%, which significantly reduced time to create plot window if array is extremely large (i.e., more than 50 million values). Shifted secondary scan off of event thread in order to avoid initially blank plot window in such cases.
· Use actual_range attribute for data min and max if array is of rank 2 and if attribute is present.
· Library: netCDF-Java updated (v. 4.2.29).
· Library: JDOM updated (v. 1.1.2).
· Library: Apache Commons Lang added (v. 3.1).
November 30th, 2011· Added "Combine Plot" button to Sources window toolbar in order to make ability to create combination plots more discoverable.
· Bugfix: "Remove all" toolbar button action did not test if datasets were in use before trying to remove them from datasets tree-table.
· Bugfix: Lat-vert and lon-vert plots could come up blank if source data stored with unexpected ordering.
· Basic Earth (aplot) mask for lon-lat plots upgraded to a higher resolution.
· Bugfix: Handling of fitted scale range and reporting of data min-max when all data in source array are invalid.
· Bugfix: Alt-click (option-click) on a lat-vert or lon-vert plot did not report info for correct coordinates if y axis had been "flipped".
· Watch out for auxiliary lon-lat grids with discontinuities (jumps) arising from longitude values crossing ±180°E or 0°E.
· Try to detect auxiliary lon-lat grids with global coverage, and if found account for the "seam" between opposite edges of the grid.
· Added option to draw grid on map plots as solid, dashed or dotted.
· Added ability to open some datasets compressed with gzip, bzip2 and Unix compress.
· Opening of both local and remote datasets now handled through a single Task so that a progress bar is shown while opening local datasets that require uncompression.
· "GRIB2" now accepted as a valid GRIB-2 file name extension.
· Library: SLF4J jars updated to v. 1.6.4.
· Library: Library: netCDF-Java updated to v. 4.2.27.
· (Mac) Use Apple application handler methods introduced in "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3".
October 20th, 2011· Bugfix: Interpolated lon-vert plots could omit some data depending on definition of array longitude dimensions and on specified endpoints of longitude acis.
· Watch for possible floating point error in specified valid_range limits when dealing with a variable which has been scaled (i.e., non-integral values packed as ints).
· "GR2" now accepted as a valid GRIB-2 file name extension.
· Improved validation of fill values in unsigned integer (byte, short and int) variables due to possibility fill value might be (errantly) reported might be reported as a negative number.
· Bugfix: Projection favorites table in prefs always initialized with all projections selected.
· Bugfix: When lat-vert or lon-vert plot y-axis flipped, any countours to be drawn were not inverted along with rest of plot.
· Bugfix: When lat-vert y-axis flipped, vector positions were not inverted.
· Bugfix: When lat-vert x-axis shown with south at left, vector arrowheads had incorrect orientation.
August 10th, 2011· Bugfix: Arrays that had dimensions of time and latitude and no others were recognized as plottable, but could not be plotted.
· Bugfix: Fill value in unsigned integral data array could be misinterpreted.
· Refactored NcAxis to better trap and report bad values on array axes.
· Re-wrote handing and display of vertical axis for lat-vert and lon-vert plots when longitudinal ticks selected.
· Dataset treetable in sources window now shows variable groups as branches if they are present (as in, e.g., some HDF files). NcNode and subclasses refactored so that toggling show-only-plottables would carry down to all child nodes in treetable.
· Bugfix: Creation of color tables from HDF palettes missing a step, thereby blocking subsequent creation of plot windows.
· Library: (Mac) Quaqua FC updated to v. 7.4.2.
· Library: netCDF-Java updated to v. 4.2.26.
June 22nd, 2011· Bugfix: Climate model calendar class calculated bad DAY_OF_YEAR for final day of year.
· Bugfix: Age limit on items in history list was not tested regularly.
· Refactored lon-lat data gridding class to use secondary gridders for different types of lon-lat grids (regular, projected, auxiliary).
· Bugfix: Alt-click (option-click) anywhere on a lon-lat map plot revealed no info if data were on a projected grid.
· Bugfix: Alt-click (option-click) on time-lat, lat-vert and lon-vert plots used wrong offset of x-y point and reported info for wrong cell.
· Refactored describe-point methods in plot data classes into methods in the various NcArray subclasses.
· Modified handling of Equirectangular map plots so that one can "zoom in" via command-click (OS X) or control-click (others) and automatically switch to an Equirectangular (Regional) projection.
· Bugfix: Extraneous text sometimes appears to the right of tabs of tabbed panes on some platforms (e.g., Win7).
· Bugfix: Start-up crash on platforms using GTK+ look-and-feel due to UIManager Tree.* icons not found during tree-table construction.
May 27th, 2011· Bugfix: Saving plot settings to prefs was partially failing for lon-lat plots using map projections with extra parameters.
· Added "Autoset Parallels" button to lon-lat plot map controls when a conic map projection is chosen. When clicked, it will fill in the standard parallels with values 1/5 of the way in from the top and bottom latitudes of the map.
· Bugfix: Painting of lat-vert and lon-vert plots could appear blank if non-interpolated.
· Bugfix: Plot window status bar moved to wrong position when an animation export started.
· Better trapping of exceptions if user closes a plot window while an animation export is in progress.
· Library: netCDF-Java updated to v. 4.2.25.
May 13th, 2011· Bugfix: Export KMZ option in File menu was always enabled when lon-lat plot was created, but would then fail silently if KMZ could not be created for map's projection.
· Bugfix: Checked item in Plot Size sub-menu not updated when Larger/Smaller item used to change plot size.
· Bugfix: Lon axis range controls for lon-vert plots did not correctly reset if entry was outside of (-180,180) range.
· Min and max values of vertical axis range may be specified in lat-vert and lon-vert plots.
· More informative error dialog if attempt to open a remote catalog encounters something other than parseable catalog XML.
· Bugfix: Show min-max and show projection footnote checkbox controls were not working for lon-lat plots.
· Added checkboxes to preferences for scale min-max footnote visibility and lon-lat map projection.
· Bugfix: Array data panel tabs not updated correctly if a combination plot created, and a third array added to the plot frame to replace one of the prior two.
· Library: netCDF-Java updated to v. 4.2.24.
April 30th, 2011· A Java SE 6 runtime environment is now required to run Panoply. This means the Mac OS X version will no longer run on older G5 Macs.
· Library: netCDF-Java updated to v. 4.2.23. This includes GRIB java update to v. 8.0.28.
· Drop use of PlotListeners in individual PlotPieces and instead use chained parameterChanged calls from root of PlotPiece tree.
· Replaced lon-lat plot type hierarchical menu in plot menu with menu item that toggles back and forth between map/zonal option.
· Plot target pop-up menu removed from Datasets Browser toolbar. Now invoked by a popup-trigger click (richt-click or control-click) on the Create Plot button.
· More helpful error dialog when unable to create data array from variable previously deemed plottable.
· Added Bookmarks menu.
· Recent Files sub-menu in Files menu replaced by History sub-menu in Bookmarks menu.
· Added View menu, populated mostly with items formerly in Plot menu. Toolbar icon label toggle moved from preferences to View menu.
· Added option to flip vertical axis in lat-vert plots in case of ambiguous orientation of data.
· Completely re-wrote TreeTable GUI component, eliminating need for a backing JTree, and correspondingly refactored TreeTableNode class and subclasses.
· Datasets Browser window renamed Sources and re-designed so that it has three possible displays in a tabbed pane Two displays added as extra tabs are THREDD/OpenDAP catalogs listing, and bookmarks panels as display choices.
· Added option to change size of scale tick mark labels. Default size also increased slightly.
· Re-designed popup color menus to offer more choices from a palette rather than a list.
· Added ability to read sinusoidal grid mappings for lon-lat data if tagged in CF-like manner. (Sinusoidal not yet in CF spec.)
· Added animation, allowing user to export a sequence of frames stepping along an independent dimension of a plotted variable in AVI or MOV video format or as a sequence of JPG, PNG or TIFF files.
· Added ability to create lon-vert plots.
· Management of several projected lon-lat data grids recoded in order to deal with changes in NJ-4.2 projected grid handling.
· Plot size may be re-sized using the Larger and Smaller menu items in the View menu.
· "Standard" plot size has been increased by 20% in both dimensions. Added 'Extra Small' and 'Super Jumbo' pre-set options.
· Library: (Mac) Quaqua FC updated to v. 7.3.4.
· Library: GISSmap updated to v. 1.4.6.
July 1st, 2010· Try to check for multiple simple lon-lat grids in a dataset, even if it violates convention.
· Added "Export as labeled text" option for source variables.
· Caching directory (if necessary; e.g., when creating GBX fies) moved to standard location, and flushed when program exists.
· Bugfix: Log-10 scale checkbox was not messaging data handler.
· Use ScaleDescription to manage scale min and max, tick values, and contours.
· Library: (Mac) Quaqua FC updated to version 7.0.1.
May 27th, 2010· Also provide Windows version which uses 64-bit launcher.
· Added "Combine" method for working with two arrays in one plot. Acts similar to "Average" option, but if one array's data point value is NaN, other array's value is used rather than assign NaN to data point.
· Re-factored lon-lat map grid spacing to allow non-integral values.
· Bugfix: Data on simple lat-vert grid recognized but plotting not enabled.
· Bugfix: (Windows) Cut, copy, paste and select-all in text field non-functional if invoked from menu items rather than as keystrokes.
May 4th, 2010· Slightly improved plot creation speed by modifying AbstractData#findextrema().
· In addition to app directory, scan user's library directory ($HOME/Library/Application Support/GISS/ on OS X and $HOME/.gissjava/ elsewhere) for color tables and overlay files.
· Improved handling of time zones in RelativeTime variable dimensions.
· Bugfix: Sometimes not recognizing axes of data on rotated-pole lon-lat grids.
· Bugfix: Did not deal well with RelativeTime dimension units defined as floats rather than integers.
· Bugfix: User-defined label for time axis of time-lat plots ignored.
· Library: (Mac) Quaqua FC updated to version 6.5.
April 5th, 2010· Added *.h5 as a recognized HDF file extension.
· Watch out for use of implicit dimensions for data on auxiliary lon-lat grids.
· Bugfix: Subtitle plot object visible in plot window and in PS output when no subtitle applied.
· Bugfix: PDF output failed, and failed quietly.
· Bugfix: Double error dialog when unable to create netCDF array object to plot.
March 27th, 2010· Always use fine interpolation for all projected lon-lat grids.
· Improved cell fill scheme for maps of auxiliary lon-lat gridded data.
· Look for explicit cell corner variables attached to auxiliary lon-lat gridded data dimensions.
· Added "Export CDL*" option for dataset or variable selected in Datasets Browser. Note the asterisk; the output is not quite legal CDL and cannot be used as input to ncgen without some editing.
· Added "Export CSV" option for variable selected in Datasets Browser. Output format is plain text with comma-separated values. Note: output is not localized.
· Re-factored several grid fill and interpolation methods to reduce redundancy.
· Re-factored NcArray2D constructor to allow for easier sub-classing.
· Eliminated distinction between screen and print for line colors and strokes.
· Added pale gray and smoke gray to choices in various color menus.
· Use DocumentListeners on several text fields for quicker changing of plot text.
· Refactored painting of "data image" from gridded data.
· Left-right orientation of lat-vert plots and lon-lat zonal line plots controlled by checkbox rather menu.
· Added sub-titling capability.
· Further tweaks to vertical layout ofplots, most notably of lon-lat zonal line plots.
· Bugfix: Open-file process allowed a file to be opened multiple times concurrently.
· Bugfix: Changing to different longitude slice in lat-vert plots excruciatingly slow.
· Bugfix: Interpolated lat-vert and time-lat plots not filling in area at poles as intended if most-poleward data points are "close" to poles.
· Library: GISSmap updated to v. 1.4.4.
· Library: (Mac) Quaqua FC updated to version 6.4.1.
February 20th, 2010· Restored two choices for differencing arrays and added two division combination choices.
· Bugfix: Number parser rejected exponentials if they included an explicit plus-sign, e.g., 3.0e+16.
· Bugfix/Library: (Mac) Quaqua FC reverted to v. 6.2.2 because preview panel caused application crash on Intel Macs using OS X 10.5.8 and Java 1.6.
· Library: GISSmap updated to v. 1.4.3.
January 27th, 2010· Bugfix: Drag and drop from desktop into Datasets Browser failed silently if there was an error.
· Bugfix: Relative time parser did not understand use of "Z" to denote UTC+0 timezone.
· Bugfix: Last color in scale colorbar "overflowed" right edge.
· Bugfix: Last row of array data table might be hidden behind horizontal scroll bar.
· Library: JDOM updated to version 1.1.1.
· Library: GISSmap updated to version 1.4.2.
· Library: (Mac) Upgrade Quaqua FC to version 6.3.1.
· Library: Upgrade GRIB to version 6.0.19.
November 28th, 2009· When looking up variable's units attribute string, check for "unit" (case insensitive) attribute if "units" is not present.
· When looking up variable's long name attribute string, check for "title" (case insensitive) attribute if "long_name" and "standard_name" are not present.
· Bugfix: Selection status of plot window items in the Window menu not updated correctly when user selected front window.
· Bugfix: Layout of credits help window not right when window reduced to half or less of original size.
· Bugfix: Status bar at window bottom not painted (i.e., left transparent) on non-Mac OSes.
· Minor interface tweaks.
October 25th, 2009· Bugfix: Creating a combination plot via use of the target menu was blocked by a perpetual "busy" message.
· Watch out for data on projected lon-lat grid but with bad GeoX or GeoY axis.
· Bugfix: (Mac) Plot-type dialog and plot windows not completely painted when first shown on PowerPC Macs using Java 1.5.0_20 (and possibly other 1.5 JREs).
· NcArray2D refactored to allow for extracting 2D slice data in chunks if grid is very large (over 10 million data points) in order to avoid blowing out memory usage. For example, global topography at 2' resolution.
· Added HE4 and HE5 to list of extensions recognized by HDF filename filter. However, this does not necessarily mean that Panoply will recognize and plot data in HDF-EOS datasets.
· Bugfix: Grid not drawn for lat-vert plots if vert axis was set to grid point index.
· Watch out for axes values set to NaN; replace with 0.
· Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 1.3.2.
· Library: (Mac) Upgrade Quaqua FC to version 6.2.
October 1st, 2009· Added Clear Menu item to Recent Files menu.
· (Mac) Bugfix: Appearance of toolbar at top of Datasets Browser window when viewed on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
· Bugfix: Show Contours & Vectors menu item did not work.
· Eliminated floating progress windoid. Replaced it with status bar at bottom of application windows.
· If started from the command line, added option to allow for multiple instances of Panoply to run at one time. Use "-multi" argument.
· Added ability to save plot images in uncompressed TIFF format.
· Added ability to save plot images in uncompressed JPEG format.
· Bugfix: Possible null pointer condition could break examination of a lon-lat variable using alternative grid.
· Bugfix: Annoying Datasets Browser repaint flicker on some platforms.
· Library: Updated netCDF-Java to version 4.0.49.
· Library: (Mac) Upgrade Quaqua FC to version 6.0.1.
· Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 1.3.1.
July 23rd, 2009· Added ability to export lon-lat map plots in KMZ format (for use in, e.g., Google Earth), but only if map uses "Equirectangular" or "Equirectangular (Regional)" projection.
· Bugfix: CPU demand spike caused by programmatically called garbage collection being invoked much too often.
· Bugfix: Construction of variable tables in plot windows was taking far too much time.
· Added partial ability to read color palettes included in HDF5 files. Limited to "STANDARD" or "STANDARD8" palettes using RGB color model.
July 11th, 2009· Added ability to open GRIB datasets. However, cannot plot data therein unless it is tagged according to a known netCDF convention.
· Altered PlotFrame class to no longer re-use closed plot windows but to dispose of them entirely and create new ones from scratch. An old memory leak issue in Apple's Java related to the screen-top menu bar has been fixed at some point in the last few years.
· Library: Updated netCDF Java to version 4.0.48.2.
· Library: Updated Quaqua FC to version 5.4.
· Bugfix: (Mac) Could not launch on OS X 10.4 due to query for system property first defined in 10.5 and due to null font in spacing components.
July 1st, 2009· Improved handling of CPT color tables, especially those using HSV color model.
· Added ability to read GIMP Gradient (GGR) color tables.
· Added ability to read SVG gradient color tables.
· Added several additional colors to color pop-up menus. (Note: Old "green" is now "lime").
· Added ability to open HDF4 and HDF5 files. However, cannot plot data therein unless it is tagged according to a known netCDF convention.
· Width of scale bar now fixed and no longer dependent on number of colors in scale color table.
· (Mac) Choice of table stripe color now checks system prefs appearance setting for aqua/blue vs. graphite.
· Averaging checkbox added to longitude selector in array selection panel, rather than list average as last choice in pop-up menu.
· Bug fix: Background of controls on non OS X Leopard platforms.
· Bug fix: (Mac) Brushed metal appearance not (always) painted in Datasets Browser toolbar.
· Able to plot (Lambert) azimuthal equal-area grid mappings for lon-lat data if tagged using the CF convention.
· (Mac) Switched to Quaqua file chooser with option to specify file kind.
· Implemented delayed construction of table in Variable tabbed-panels if number of table data values was very large.
· Dropped Earth_5x4 outline and mask continental files from distribution and added USA_MWDB2 outline.
· Bug fix: Drag and drop of additional continent overlay file into lon-lat plot did not update map.
· Library: Updated netCDF Java to version 4.0.48.
May 22nd, 2009· Able to plot stereographic grid mappings for lon-lat data if tagged using the CF convention. (This is distinct from the polar stereographic gridding also described in the CF convention.)
· Bugfix: Yet more places where handling of numerical text input was not localized.
· Bugfix: Incorrect data gridding if switching to zonal average line plot from a regional lon-lat map plot.
· Bugfix: Layout of map controls panel not right on non-Mac platforms.
· Library: Updated netCDF Java to version 4.0.43.
April 17th, 2009· Able to plot Albers equal-area conic grid mappings for lon-lat data if tagged using the CF convention.
· Bugfix: Handling of numerical text input was not localized and could not handle European decimal comma.
· Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 1.2.2.
April 1st, 2009· Library: Updated netCDF Java to version 4.0.38.
· Now able to open and read netCDF version 4 datasets. Files created usng netCDF-4 should use .nc4 as a file name extension.
· Some data on alternative-projection lon-lat grids not explicitly recognized as such may instead be recognized and successfully plotted as being on irregular grids.
· Latitude range may be specified on latitude-vertical plots.
· Library: Updated GISS mapping to version 1.2.1.
December 23rd, 2008· Bugfix: Too coarse gridding for regional lon-lat plots (both for the Equirect-Regional projection and for zoomed-in azimuthals) that crossed the ±180°E meridian.
· Bugfix: Map center-of-projection controls "spontaneously" resetting to plot default values on one OS/Java combination (Mandriva Linux w/ Java 6).
· Bugfix: Array "slicer" controls could be sized unusably small if dimension name was extremely long.
· Bugfix: Masks did not display in Overlays Browser.
· Update GISS mapping library to version 1.2.0 and modify map controls and map preference controls accordingly. Library was updated so that 12 pseudocylindric projections allow for optional interrupted format.
· Added projection parameter controls to Overlays Browser.
November 30th, 2008· Library: Update GISS mapping library to version 1.1.4 (includes Interrupted Goode Homolosine projection).
· Library: Update Unidata netCDF-Java to version 2.2.22.28.
· Bugfix: Gridlines not drawn anti-aliased on some platforms/JRE combinations.
· Bugfix: Overly restrictive handling of Coordinates attribute resulted sometimes result in Variable not appearing to be plottable.
October 24th, 2008· Sped up reading in text outline overlay files (CNO files).
· Added use of binary outline overlay files (CNOB files), which may be read in 4-10 times faster than equivalent CNO files.
· Contour plots may optionally include lines corresponding to minor tick values on plot scale.
· Changed default color table from panoply.PA1 to panoply.GCT so that color boundaries were cleaner if used in a contour plot.
· Several minor tweaks to appearance of tree-table in Datasets Browser window and to data table in plot windows.
· Bugfix: Zonal-average lon-lat line plots did not convert grid line opacities to line weight when printing or when saving as PDF/PS.
September 16th, 2008· Modified progress windoid manager to reduce flickering.
· Library: Update GISS mapping library to version used in G.Projector 1.1.3.
· Library: Update Unidata netCDF-Java to version 2.2.22.26.
· Bugfix: (Mac) Datasets Browser not displayed after netCDF file opened via desktop icon double-click.
· Bugfix: Plotting of lon-lat data saved on some projected grids broken if grid dimensions did not use units of km.
July 23rd, 2008· Changed layout of variable data table tabbed-panel, and added mouse-listener for activity on the table's column and row headers.
· Bugfix: Presence of a scalar coordinate variable (as defined in CF Convention ver. 1.3, sec. 5.7) made a variable look un-plottable.
July 5th, 2008· Added vector plotting capability to lon-lat and lat-vert plots.
· Added logarithmic scale option.
· Printing and also PS and PDF file output now always translate grid and contour line opacity to line weight.
· Now checks for boundary variables with indices swapped.
· (Mac) Datasets Browser looks more like a native app window, especially on OS X Leopard.
· Plot data tables made a bit easier to read.
· Percent differencing combination option removed.
· Bugfix: Background color menu item threw exception when invoked.
· Bugfix: Plotting of irregular lon-lat grids messed up when crossing ±180° longitude.
· Bugfix: Actual NaNs in dataset messed up finding the data min and max.
· Bugfix: Open-file menu command was broken.
· Bugfix: Units menu did not offer appropriate choices when plotting an Array 1 ? Array 2 plot.
· Library: Update netCDF-Java to version 2.2.22.22.
· Library: Update GISS mapping library to version used in G.Projector 1.1.2.
June 12th, 2008· Bugfix: Progress windoid was not staying in front of all other windows.
· Bugfix: Regridding of lon-lat data too coarse if output map projection was a conic.
· Added ability to plot lon-lat data structured irregular grids (e.g., curvilinear orthogonal grids) defined using 2D auxiliary coordinate variables.
· Bugfix: Data with RelativeTime axis based on standard calendar was not initialized to use GMT time zone.
· Bugfix: Dropped pixels in some interpolated plots of stereographic-gridded lon-lat data.
· Added ability to open NcML datasets, both locally and via HTTP.
· Bugfix: Missing library broke ability to load datasets via HTTP.
· Added fix-proportions button to equirect-regional map controls to quickly set lons and lats totrue scale at plot's central latitude.
· Updated JDOM library to version 1.1.
· Bugfix (Mac-only): Window flicker when application launch caused by double-click on a netCDF file icon.
· Added "Save Plot Settings to Prefs" command.
January 17th, 2008· Bugfix: Did not recognize dataset variables which were plottable only as time-lat arrays.
· Allowed for specifying max and min latitude when making time-lat plots.
· Now uses Unidata's netCDF-Java library version 2.2.22.16.
· Bugfix: Plot combination menu not correctly updated when second array added to plot.
· Bugfix: Synchronization problems occurred if too many data binning commands sent in rapid sequence to a plot.
· Added Julian Date and Modified Julian Date as recognized units of time for time-lat plots.
November 24th, 2007· Bugfix: A value dropped in calculation for zonal average plots, causing particular problems when examining regional data with narrow width.
· Bugfix: RelativeTime handler did not watch for "no_leap" synonym for "noleap" calendar.
· Check for possible redundant values in longitude axis as might appear, e.g., in datasets using IVE convention.
· Bugfix: Zoom-in/out cursors did not appear when appropriate keys pressed when viewing equirectangular regional map plot. No cursors appeared if plot did not have focus and if mouse was not in motion.
October 20th, 2007· Can display labels with contour plot levels.
· Can plot stereographic grid mappings for lon-lat data, specifically WRF model polar stereographic data.
· Updated to use Unidata's netCDF-Java library version 2.2.22.5 .
· Updated to use GISSmapping projections library consistent with G.Projector 1.1 , including three new conic projections useful for regional lon-lat plots.
· Scale popup menu/combobox made editable so that user may enter alternative units (e.g., "Celsius" if data are in degrees Kelvin).
· Preferences can save "extra parameter" settings should favored projection have such (e.g., a standard parallel).
· Bugfix: Drag-select in equirectangular regional map plots did not take into account size of plot component margin.
· Use JSplitPane in Datasets Browser window so that CDL description text area can be resized as desired.
· Added Reset button to preferences to restore default settings.
· Re-organization of some plot controls.
· Bugfix: Axis cell boundary variable name obtained from NJ's getBoundaryRef was always null.
· Some code refactored to take advantage of generics, varargs, and other new features in Java 1.5.
· Bugfix: (Windows) Popup trigger in datasets browser's treetable did not fire.
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