.. _changelog:
ChangeLog
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.. :Source: doc/CHANGES.txt
:Version: 1.2.1
:Author: Antonio Valentino
:Contact: a_valentino@users.sf.net
:URL: http://bestgui.sourceforge.net
:Revision: $Revision: 706 $
:Date: $Date: 2009-04-13 11:51:36 +0200 (lun, 13 apr 2009) $
:License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
BESTGUI-1.2.1 13-Apr-2009
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- improved checks and fault tolerance in preview generation
- more robust ".ini" files loading
- updated HMI files to best v. 4.2.2b
- improved Check param type
- updated xopen to version 1.1 of the recipe 51433 (python cookbook)
- compatibility with python 2.6
BESTGUI-1.2.0 16-Aug-2008
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- documentation largely reworked and updated
- the sphinx_ tool is used to generate the entire documentation set
- a new API section have been added to the user manual
- fixed py2exe standalone application and installer
- now the subprocess handler explicitly sets the workdir and the environment
of the external tool
- fixed workdir handling
- support for BEST v. 4.2.0 and higher
- added checks on PyGTK version
- added support for gtksourceview2
- improved BEST version detection
- now the py2exe standalone packaging works again (fixed a bug in BESTGUI
re-spawning performed on windows platform for setting language related
environment variables)
- logging improved
- added new command line options: one to enable debug mode and one to set
the logfile name
- improved BEST tools defaults (input/output folders)
.. _sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
BESTGUI-1.1.0 14-Aug-2007
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- command line parameters handling
- smart environment handling improved (unittest added)
- window state saved in the configuration file
- new the user can choose to enabled/disabled previews by default or to
get a pop-up dialog for confirmation
- improved preferences dialog
- Python versions <= 2.3 are no more supported: subprocess module removed
from the distribution, compatibility code removed as well
- PyGTK versions < 2.6 are no more supported: compatibility code removed
- coding style improved
- updated copyright notice
- removed "licenses" folder (no more needed)
- improved setup environment (debian packaging completely rewritten)
- fixed subprocess2 incompatibility win python2.4
- fixed an infinite loop on preview generation (win32)
- language setup fixed
- bug-fix in ESAAnnotationsViewer
- many other bugfix and minor changes
BESTGUI-1.0 14-May-2007
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- new logo
- "bestgui" script improved: now it also works with symbolic links
- subprocess module updated to the last revision available on the python.org
svn repository
- minor improvements in docstrings
- MANIFEST file inclusion in the source distribution fixed
- new xopen module (from python cookbook recipe 511443)
- improved email_hook for the about dialog: it now uses the xopen.mailto
function for sending e-mails with the user's default e-mail client
- bugfix in the preferences.get_browserlauncher function: now it actually uses
the user provided webbrowser name
- minor changes in exectools
- finalize method fixed in exectools (check whenever self.subprocess.stdout
is None)
- fixed typo errors in paramset.CoRegistrationParamSet: now the improved
co-registration dialog is correctly used
- improved platform check
- several minor changes and bug fix
BESTGUI-0.99 07-January-2007
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- output viewing capabilities added:
* a preview of the output image is showed in a separate tab together with
the image annotations (for almost all the tools that produce an image as
output)
* the output view is also available for the Header Analysis and the
Ancillary Data Dump tools and for all the tools that produce a standard
TIFF file as output (Quick Look Generation, Footprint etc).
- now it is possible to view the parameters file as text further than as a
form (the text view uses gtksourceview when available)
- when best is running a blinking light is showed near the progress-bar
reporting the program activities in a finer way
- coding style improved (PEP 8)
- improved webbrowser handling
- improved dialog messages formatting in exectoolsgtk.GtkDialogLoggingHandler
- tested on python 2.5
- info.py module added
- new logging sub-system based on the standard logging module
- new exectool.py and exectoolsgtk.py modules include all the tools for
running external processes, controlling them and getting their output;
exectoolsgtk.py also includes gtk adapters for the logging sub-system
- documentation updated: dic/hmispec.txt strongly improved
- several minor changes and bug fix
BESTGUI-0.98 22-August-2006
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- THANKS file added
- New vertex editor dialog (AoI and Vertex Editor improved)
- Custom dialog for the co-registration tool
- New tag and improved context menu in outputlog
- New utility function for safe expression evaluation: this improves the
security when conditions from HMI files are evaluated (thanks to Alex
Martelli)
- ParamSet classes improved:
* ParamSet decoration handling code moved in separate classes
* improved support for sub-sets and optional sub-sets
* AoIParamSet now uses an expander
* support for MultiSets
- GUI moved to single glade file
- Documentation and documentation style-sheets updated.
- StringVector (for multiple output files), Check, CheckChar and CheckString
parameter types added
- Parameters based on paramtype.Entry now have two new item in the context
menu: "Clean" and "Default"
- Improved BEST/STBX version retrieving and AboutDialog
- bugfix
* fixed support for parameters with multiple quoted values
* fixed variable name in conditions evaluation
* some fix in hmi files
* fixed bug that caused a wrong name to be displayed in the status-bar after
"Save As" or when "Open" a new file without closing the old one (in this
case the error happened only if the tool was the same for both files)
* fixed several bugs in AoI
* fixed duplicate file patterns retrieving
* fixed language setting on win32
* fixed the BEST version retrieving in win32
BESTGUI-0.97 01-June-2006
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- Support for PyGTK 2.4 (simple about dialog replacement added)
- File Dialogs now allows the file pattern selection
- The default extension for the output file names is showed near the insertion
field
- Improved non-blocking I/O from the sub-process in POSIX systems: now the
GUI is more responsive when a BEST job is running
- Improved support for old versions of BEST (SAR ToolBox)
- Fixed bug that caused the AoI form to be showed for every tool
- Function utils.getBestVersion now captures the stderr of the *best*
sub-process so it no more goes to the terminal
- Improved the Python search path setup in the launch scripts
- Desktop file for Linux (entry in the system menu)
- Fixed message dialog pop-up at program shut-down in py2exe binary executable
- Several bug-fix and improvements
BESTGUI-0.96 27-April-2006
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- Improved *Header Analysis* form
- Bugfix in *Save As* dialog setup
- Now BESTGUI supports Python >= 2.3:
* missing functions added to utils module
* subprocess module added to the project (pywin32 driver flag enabled)
* new 'licenses' folder added to the project for third part modules licenses
- Documentation improved
* README.html included in the source and binary packages
* a new section added in the BESTGUI User Manual: "Quick start guide"
* improved LaTeX style preferences for a better PDF documentation
BESTGUI-0.95 15-April-2006
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- NEWS.txt and Makefile added
- Improved setup environment for win32.
Now the setup script can generate:
* python installers (bdist_wininst)
* binary distributions (py2exe)
* installer for binary distributions (py2exe + InnoSetup)
- Bugfix: exception from webbrowser handled
- Bugfix in preferences handling
- Bugfix in utils.fixBrowserCmd
- Minor changes for python 2.3 compatibility
- Minor changes
BESTGUI-0.94 09-April-2006
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- First public release