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| Re: Pv Wave Version 5.0 [message #2961 is a reply to message #2959] |
Mon, 17 October 1994 06:59   |
landers
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New stuff in WAVE 5.0, snipped from the Release_Notes file:
- PLATFORM SUPPORT:
In keeping with Sun Microsystems corporate direction, the OLIT version of
Wave Widgets and WAVE Toolbox will not be available in this release
or in any future release.
PV-WAVE for the Silicon Graphics platform has updated to IRIX version 5.2
which provides for dynamic linking and sharable objects. The LINKNLOAD
function is now available for the Silicon Graphics platform.
- GUI-BASED DEBUGGER
Wavedbg is a source level debugger with a graphical user interface
for debugging PV-WAVE CL procedures. It is currently available only
on Unix platforms. Features include:
. Display a list of source files used by executing program
. Display source code currently being executed, or any other source
. Edit source from within Wavedbg, save, recompile, and continue
. Regular expression based searching in source files
. Breakpoints to control program execution
. Display list of all variables in current execution context
. Examine values of scalars, arrays, and structures
. Mark variables for dynamic display as values change
. Hooks for your favorite editor
. On-line help
- MAPPING
This release of PV-WAVE includes a powerful and easy to use
tools to read map data and generate a wide variety of map
projections.
The Mapping tools include the following procedures:
MAP - plots a map with a specified projection
MAP_CONTOUR - plots (overlays) contours on a map
MAP_PLOTS - plots vectors or points on the current map projection
MAP_POLYFILL - fills specified regions of a map
MAP_REVERSE - converts X-Y coordinates to longitude/latitude
MAP_VELOVECT - overlays a 2D vector field plot on a map
MAP_XYOUTS - adds text to a map
Features of the Mapping capability include:
. Simple, easy to use interface to 16 basic map projections
. Satellite projection for a true 3D representation of data
. Two built-in map datasets, easy to integrate custom map datasets
. Controllable data resolution
. Ability to create base maps on top of warped images
. Grid lines and labeled axes
. Ability to easily add new, user-defined map projections
. Source code is provided for easy customization and extensibility
. Three ways to draw lines between points, including great circle lines
. Easy calculation of ground distance between two points
. Transform 2D screen or data coordinates to longitude/latitude
Two map datasets are included with PV-WAVE: The World Databank II
for global maps, and a dataset based on the USGS Digital Line
Graph data for U.S. maps. You can easily create a PV-WAVE
procedure tailored to read other map datasets and integrate them
with PV-WAVE's new mapping capability.
- HDF/NetCDF SUPPORT
PV-WAVE now provides an extensive interface to the NCSA HDF C
Library. The interface is divided into base functions and
convenience routines. The base functions provide direct access
from PV-WAVE to the HDF library.
- NEW APIs FOR ACCESSING WAVE VARIABLES FROM C AND FORTRAN
Included with this release are a number of new C- and FORTRAN-callable
functions which programmers can use to get information about PV-WAVE
variables, create new variables, modify existing variables, and use
existing variables as parameters to Wave functionality. These
functions can be called from user-written C or FORTRAN code which is
in turn invoked via the LINKNLOAD command.
- AVAILABILITY OF PV-WAVE:SIGNAL PROCESSING TOOLKIT
A separately licensed, signal processing toolkit designed to work
with PV-WAVE Advantage is now available. The PV-WAVE:Signal Processing
Toolkit is designed to provide PV-WAVE Advantage users with a rich set of
functionality specifically for signal processing applications. The
Toolkit is included with the PV-WAVE Advantage V5.0 distribution along
with an evaluation softkey.
- NEW CONVOLUTION AND CORRELATION ROUTINES
Two new functions have been added to PV-WAVE Advantage:
CONVOL1D - Compute discrete convolution
CORR1D - Compute discrete correlation
- NEW KEYWORD ON SAVE COMMAND FOR PV-WAVE POINT & CLICK COMPATIBILITY
- CHANGES TO LIBRARIES: files have been added and changed in the
Standard Library, and the User Contributed Library.
The following procedures and functions have been updated in the
Standard Library.
bilinear.pro (modified)
defroi.pro (modified)
grid.pro (modified)
grid_2d.pro (modified)
interpol.pro (modified)
nint.pro (modified and moved from lib/user)
poly_dev.pro (modified)
poly_plot.pro (modified)
all procedures containing the STOP command (modified)
The following procedures and functions have been updated in the User
Contributed Library.
array_stats.pro (added)
emacs_keys.pro (added)
envelope.pro (added)
hex_to_float.pro (added)
guitools/demo/get_plot_coords_ex.pro (added)
guitools/ice_fit/* (added)
color_palette_all.pro (added)
cursor_design.pro (modified)
nint.pro (modified and moved to lib/std)
pfill_menu.pro (added)
plotm.pro (added)
plotm_examples.pro (added)
print_table.pro (added)
read_bmp.pro (added)
read_xbm.pro (added)
show_license (added)
sleep.pro (added)
solid.pro (added)
sum.pro (modified)
tvclip.pro (removed)
wposmenu.pro (moved from lib/std)
xfd.pro (added)
- BUG FIXES/GENERAL ENHANCEMENTS
Many bugs have been fixed, and minor enhancements addressed, based
on customer input.
In particular, substantial improvements have been made to the
usability and functionality of the controls provided in PV-WAVE
for specifying clipping rectangles.
- LMTOOL: PROTOTYPE GUI INTERFACE TO LICENSE MANAGEMENT
A prototype of a new, graphical user interface to the complete
suite of softkey entry and license manager control is available
in $LICENSE_DIR/bin/lmtool. The prototype is presently only
available on Unix platforms.
- UNSUPPORTED CONNECTIVITY TO THE TCL/TK SCRIPTING LANGUAGE.
A set of routines, based on code written by Joe VanAndel at the
National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR), provides Tcl/Tk
users access to PV-WAVE variabes and command line, including the
window operations. At the time of this release, the routines
which connect Tcl/Tk to PV-WAVE are unsupported.
- UPDATE TO FRAMEVIEWER VERSION 4.0.3 FOR ONLINE DOCUMENTATION
Online documentation is now viewed via FrameViewer version 4.0.3.
Although there are many benefits to version 4.0.3, the downside is
there is no support for DEC ALPHA OSF/1, DEC ULTRIX or OpenVMS
platforms. Support on SunOS with a Sparc 10 requires the SunOS
patch #100726-12.
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| Re: Pv Wave Version 5.0 [message #3042 is a reply to message #2959] |
Mon, 24 October 1994 08:04 |
landers
Messages: 45
Registered: May 1993
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In article <387a19$6do@news.mic.ucla.edu>, todd@artemis.ess.ucla.edu (Todd Ratcliff) writes:
|> When will PV~Wave 5.0 be available?
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|> Todd
It is shipping now. I think they were on schedule (1st of Oct) with the
release. The recent floods in Houston may have slowed things down - VNI's
shipping dept is there.
Of course, if you're like me, they will ship the CDs to your company/
university Config. Mgmt. group, who'll re-mail them to the Site
Libraries, who'll check them out to the Admins, who'll then install
it at their leisure. Around here, this can be a several month process
(most of the time spent in the last step).....
;Dave
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