JETDSP for IDL - Latest Version

JETDSP releases after May 2003 are identified by their CODAS SU number alone.

SU 15322

New features:

• Implementation of dynamic legend text (CFR 13171)

• Dialog positioned wrongly on screen (CFR 15061)
• Data read but plots not visible (CFR 15060)
• Remove .netrc file reading code (CFR 12149)

SU 15267

New features:

• Implementation of radial error bars
• Now is compiled and uses IDL 7.1 on Jac and on Solaris

SU 15223

New features:

• First implementation of error bars

SU 15181

Bug fixes:

• Read transp data on FC10 (CFR 14633)

SU 15122

Bug fixes:

• Start in legend (CFR 14700)

SU 14865

Bug fixes:

• Smooth routine (CFR 14032)
• Transforminf routine (CFR 14378)

SU 13233

Bug fixes:

• Now ignores user's startup file (CFR 11683)

SU 13231

Bug fixes:

• Excessive memory usage for large signals in plots with axis limits (CFR 11663)

SU 13197

Bug fixes:

• Pulse 65536 behaves as pulse 0 (CFR 11635)

SU 12442

New features:

• Plotting performance has been improved for very large signals
• Annotation (lines and text) is now saved with your standard set (CFR 9885)
• Annotation can be edited - select it with the mouse and click and drag it around the plot (CFR 9885)
• I have started releasing jetdsp code in a form that you can use in your own IDL programs - see the jetdsp toolkit.

Bug fixes:

• Saving empty PPF comments (CFR 9936)
• Loss of data information on reshot of single valued signals (CFR 9598)
• Deferred reading of MDSplus signals (CFR 9247)
• Case-sensitivity of JPF node names in listing (CFR 8746)
• Removing all legend text for a signal (CFR 8513, CFR 9953)
• Slow printing of large signals (CFR 7387)

SU 11687

New features:

• (CFR 9588) Pulse number in title. Embed the string %PULSE% in your plot title, and click reshot, to display the pulse number in the title of a standard set without fixing it to a particular pulse.

Bug fixes:

• (no CFR) IBM signal processing bug introduced by SU 11563. This cause division using the / symbol to fail.

SU 11563

New features:

• You can supply command line options to the program, including the standard set to read and the pulse to read it for. Type 'jetdsp -h' to see the full range.
• You can run jetdsp in batch - so that its output goes to a graphics file without starting the menus. Type 'jetdsp -h' to see how to do this.
• You can list the available PPF sequence numbers for the given pulse.
• The 'read signal' dialog remembers which type of data you were reading last.
• The File-Preferences dialog gives you the option to use your hardcopy set up (line width, font etc) on your exported graphics files

Bug fixes:

• PPF browsing - of DDAs and Datatypes - now only reports values valid for the sequence number given(CFR 7451)
• Loss of title after styles are changed on the plot window(CFR 7520)
• Mozilla is now the browser used to open the manual on JAC Linux(CFR 9391)
• More elimination of unnecessary password and .netrc file checks. (CFR 7741)

SU 11188

New features:

• The plotting routines can be forced to allow data vectors containing NaN and Inf values through. The unplottable data for these is simply omitted. This is only in effect if the Graphics Preference 'Plot Signals with NaN/Inf' is set.

Bug fixes:

• Configuration files now use '~' rather than the explicit path corresponding to $HOME (progress towards fixing CFR 7244)
• The read_ascii sav file works with the current version of IDL (CFR 8696)
• Tests for quota exceeded are made on writing files (CFR 8760)
• NoNaN and NoInf functions now work for -NaN and -Inf, and have been moved to the f(x) menu (CFR 8777)
• Elimination of unnecessary password and .netrc file checks. (CFR 8826)

Release 2.3.8

Main new features are:

• MDSplus access to local files.
• Ability to list datatypes alphabetically or in order they were stored.
This can be toggled in the Preferences dialog under 'Interactive Program'
• Saving of selected signals in standard sets.

Version 2.3.7

Release 2.3.6

Bug fixes including:

• y-axis problems when zoomed to range for which Y values are very close to zero(CFR 8506)
• Cannot read data out of the ITER profile database if the tree is JET(CFR 8517)

Release 2.3.5

Bug fixes including:

• Viewing of X vector in the 'View Selected Signal Data...' for 3D signals (CFR 8475)
• Intermittent absence of calculated exponent in axis title

Release 2.3.4

Features added since 2.3.3 are:

• Reading of double precision JPF time vectors (CFR 8216)
• Reading of NORD floating point JPF data (CFR 8480)
• File export directory is remembered (CFR 7685)

Bug fixes:

• Occasional data plotted outside of axes (CFR 7405)
• Hershey font causes CGM output to fail (CFR 8209)
• View selected signal now works in the background (CFR 8415)
• Removing all signals from a View and Print window causes window to crash (CFR 8386)
• Too many pulses in Read Signal dialog means that the program will not restart (CFR 8045). This has been fixed by - on closing the program - only saving the first of the specified pulses for the next session. If this inconveniences you please email us and we will increase the number of pulses saved.
• Forced path extension when saving style (CFR 7773)
• CGM export has black background (viewed in Visio and Illustrator) (CFR 8499)

Release 2.3.3

Bug fixes including:

• The new name field in the slice signal dialog is ignored when creating a new signal.
• Line colours not consistent when reshotting if some signals are absent
• IBM signal processing unable to cope with placeholder signals
• Trying to plot a hidden (plot=0) 3D signal along with other non-hidden signals causes an error.
• Using tab key to navigate the read signal dialog leads to xmanager errors in the console window from which jetdsp was started
• Processed signal names saved in upper case
• Selected signal info dialog can't be closed when too large for window

Release 2.3.2

Bug fixes including:

• More information if standard set save fails
• Zoom fails if first signal is a placeholder

Release 2.3.1

• Fixes bugs in 2.3.0

Release 2.3.0

Features added since 2.2.0 are:

• Ability to manage signal definitions with no data. These appear in the signal list with their names in brackets. Convert them to signals with data using 'Read All Unread' from the 'File' menu.
• Crosshair cursor
• Reshot keeps signal definitions in the list even if they aren't read in for this shot
• Slicing a PPF signal using the signal processing menu gives a signal with the same name as that created by the slice-on-read option
• Contents of signal table are maintained between sessions

Bug fixes include:

• Axes disappearing when in the lowest row of a vertically squashed plot
• Printer selection bugs on Solaris

Release 2.2.0

Features added since 2.1.1 are:

• Y-axis zooming
• Shared pulse number between all signal reading dialogs
• Integration of signals.
• Smoothing using a window of a given width rather than number of points.
• New functions to remove bad data points. See window here and Limit etc. here for details.
• Unplottable signals now excluded from plots.

Bug fixes include:

• Problems found with IDL 5.5 in TED code and window sizing.
• Renaming of signals on reading improved to not change numeric part of Datatypes.
• URL's of signals read from standard sets updated correctly.

Release 2.1.1 (JAC)

Features added since 2.1.0 are:

• Ability to read a standard set for a range of pulses.
• Improvements to signal processing.

Bug fixes include:

• Fixes to MDS+ interface

Release 2.1.0 (JAC)

Features added since release 2.0.4 are:

• Better printer selection
• Quicker plot-number entry on the main signal table
• Select non-contiguous signals from the main signal table for plotting (click on the 'M' column next to the required signals and then choose 'Plot Marked Signals')
• More information in the main signal table
• Cut and paste signals within the main signal table
• Negative sequence numbers have been included for PPFs. Sequence 0 refers to the latest sequence, -1 to the previous one and so on.
• PPF Status flags are displayed
• More information on PPF reading errors

Bug fixes include some fixes to IDL signal processing

Note that the choice of RDA/Direct client is now made at install time. You should use your JETNET userid and password to access data. If you don't have one, username 'ppfread' and password 'ppfread' will work to read data.

Release 2.0.4 (JAC)

Features added since release 2.0.3 are:

• Access to MDS+ Data
• Keyboard shortcuts

Bug fixes include better IBM standard set reading

Release 2.0.3 (JAC)