Digital Atmosphere - Equinox V1.00 released
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:06 am
Time has been extremely short lately but I have closed out the Fusion beta testing program and am releasing the latest version today (January 1, 2007) under the Equinox name.
Digital Atmosphere - Equinox V1.00
http://www.weathergraphics.com/dl
Only a small portion of all the suggestions have been included so far. Please don't get riled up if your particular issue is not fixed. Work will continue. It does take hours to do fixes on each issue, and there is a finite amount of time I have had available. My compiler shows that Digital Atmosphere Equinox clocks in at 149,573 lines of code (about 2.5 MB of source code). That definitely ranks as a large software project and is why I can't rush changes through.
I am locking the Testing Forum since I have taken the software off the beta track. Discussion may continue here.
Here's what's in Equinox V1.00 compared to the last Fusion that was released.
CHANGES
* SIGNIFICANT UPDATES IN THE HELP MANUAL (pull it up in the Help menu). A lot of time is being spent updating the help, esp. in the Appendix.
* Help files converted from WinHelp to CHM to ensure compatibility with Vista. This removes dependencies on Winhlp32.exe. (12/22/06)
* Fixed much of legend labelling; rewriting this to be displayed in AWIPS format.
* Fixed analysis labels to provide correct centering of individual labels and correct coloring. (12/27/06)
* Fixed problem with Canadian radar data import. Canada made some changes sometime in November 2006. This required some structural changes and a small change to the digatmos.rdy file. Part of this was to allow users to explicitly define the image type, since Canada's radar imagery was a GIF file but was actually a PNG object. (12/28/06)
* Support is added for NCEP high-res front bulletins. These are provided at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/codsus_hr and described at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/read_ ... l_hr.shtml . With these new bulletins, frontal positions are located to the nearest tenth of a degree (6 nm resolution) rather than nearest whole degree (60 nm). There is no need to use the older format. (12/29/06)
* Fixed Error 103 problem with GRIB import caused when certain data is not found in a file. This was caused by incorrect file handling. (12/29/06)
* Added support for public ECMWF data by making appropriate entries in digatmos.grd. Also introduced support for scaling of units based on digatmos.grd entries.
* Enabled support for Preferences > Maps > Label Graticule. (12/29/06)
* Fixed incorrect symbol type used for thunderstorms in METAR reports. Digital Atmosphere was mapping TSRA, TSSN, TSGR, etc to the ww code 91-94 sections rather than 95-99. This has been fixed. (12/29/06)
* Added thread processing command to code just before FTP uploads to allow system to catch up. This was resulting in null FTP uploads. (12/29/06)
* Enabled "check for updates" module to compare program version number with production version number on website and ask user once whether they want to update. (12/29/06)
* Added import of MADIS data direct from FSL (NOAA). This is included in a new Internet Retrieval resource list.
* Improved Internet Retrieval system to stream downloads into individual files, so binary files (like MADIS and future GRIB/BUFR) can be properly handled. Files are captured under different names in /data and are processed out to the Digital Atmosphere home directory under obs.asc, obs.bin, and nids.bin. The obs.*, nids.*, and madis.000 files are deleted before each new download. This also allows better management of content inside /data directory. (12/30/06-12/31/06)
* Added pointer URL search function in Internet > Retrieve. This was necessitated by the way SPC carries convective outlooks, and the fact that no static pages for this product exists. In Internet > Retrieve, URLs with a space in the middle are handled as pointer URLs. See the Internet > Retrieve help for more information. (12/30/06)
* Fixed convective outlook plotting. Changes in entire bulletin format prevented the plotting routine from working. (12/30/06)
Tim
Digital Atmosphere - Equinox V1.00
http://www.weathergraphics.com/dl
Only a small portion of all the suggestions have been included so far. Please don't get riled up if your particular issue is not fixed. Work will continue. It does take hours to do fixes on each issue, and there is a finite amount of time I have had available. My compiler shows that Digital Atmosphere Equinox clocks in at 149,573 lines of code (about 2.5 MB of source code). That definitely ranks as a large software project and is why I can't rush changes through.
I am locking the Testing Forum since I have taken the software off the beta track. Discussion may continue here.
Here's what's in Equinox V1.00 compared to the last Fusion that was released.
CHANGES
* SIGNIFICANT UPDATES IN THE HELP MANUAL (pull it up in the Help menu). A lot of time is being spent updating the help, esp. in the Appendix.
* Help files converted from WinHelp to CHM to ensure compatibility with Vista. This removes dependencies on Winhlp32.exe. (12/22/06)
* Fixed much of legend labelling; rewriting this to be displayed in AWIPS format.
* Fixed analysis labels to provide correct centering of individual labels and correct coloring. (12/27/06)
* Fixed problem with Canadian radar data import. Canada made some changes sometime in November 2006. This required some structural changes and a small change to the digatmos.rdy file. Part of this was to allow users to explicitly define the image type, since Canada's radar imagery was a GIF file but was actually a PNG object. (12/28/06)
* Support is added for NCEP high-res front bulletins. These are provided at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/codsus_hr and described at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/read_ ... l_hr.shtml . With these new bulletins, frontal positions are located to the nearest tenth of a degree (6 nm resolution) rather than nearest whole degree (60 nm). There is no need to use the older format. (12/29/06)
* Fixed Error 103 problem with GRIB import caused when certain data is not found in a file. This was caused by incorrect file handling. (12/29/06)
* Added support for public ECMWF data by making appropriate entries in digatmos.grd. Also introduced support for scaling of units based on digatmos.grd entries.
* Enabled support for Preferences > Maps > Label Graticule. (12/29/06)
* Fixed incorrect symbol type used for thunderstorms in METAR reports. Digital Atmosphere was mapping TSRA, TSSN, TSGR, etc to the ww code 91-94 sections rather than 95-99. This has been fixed. (12/29/06)
* Added thread processing command to code just before FTP uploads to allow system to catch up. This was resulting in null FTP uploads. (12/29/06)
* Enabled "check for updates" module to compare program version number with production version number on website and ask user once whether they want to update. (12/29/06)
* Added import of MADIS data direct from FSL (NOAA). This is included in a new Internet Retrieval resource list.
* Improved Internet Retrieval system to stream downloads into individual files, so binary files (like MADIS and future GRIB/BUFR) can be properly handled. Files are captured under different names in /data and are processed out to the Digital Atmosphere home directory under obs.asc, obs.bin, and nids.bin. The obs.*, nids.*, and madis.000 files are deleted before each new download. This also allows better management of content inside /data directory. (12/30/06-12/31/06)
* Added pointer URL search function in Internet > Retrieve. This was necessitated by the way SPC carries convective outlooks, and the fact that no static pages for this product exists. In Internet > Retrieve, URLs with a space in the middle are handled as pointer URLs. See the Internet > Retrieve help for more information. (12/30/06)
* Fixed convective outlook plotting. Changes in entire bulletin format prevented the plotting routine from working. (12/30/06)
Tim