ChangeLog for xmmselect
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Version 2.64.9 - 2005-08-09 (AI)
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+ (TaskLauncher.cc) filterTable now calls evselect with the parameter
"updateexposure" set to "yes".
Version 2.64.8 - 2005-08-04 (AI)
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+ Xmmselect documentation updated.
Version 2.64.7 - 2005-02-22 (AI)
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+ Updated DEPEND file.
Version 2.64.6 - 2004-05-11 (AI)
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+ (TaskLauncher.cc) fixed a problem related to xmmselect and grace.
Now, when xmmselect is closed, we call the Grace::killAll()
method that close all Grace subprocess.
Version 2.64.5 - 2004-02-25 (AI)
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+ Documentation updated.
Version 2.64.4 - 2004-02-11 (AI)
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+ fixed SOC-SPR 2504. The file (src/XmmSelectGui.cc) deals with
the new especget parameter "srcspecset".
Version 2.64.3 - 2004-01-29 (AI)
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+ fixed problem with "New table" option.
Version 2.64.2 - 2004-01-27 (AI)
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+ fixed SOC-SPR 2494: Propagate selection expression to especget.
+ fixed SOC-SPR 2498: "OGIP sprectral products" runs on
Timing mode data.
Version 2.64.1 - 2003-12-17 (AI)
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+ Fixed bug in TaskLauncher.cc file (SAS-SCR-0021)
Version 2.64 - 2003-12-09 (AI)
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+ implemented SAS-SCR 21: Optimise selection and I/O
Version 2.63 - 2003-11-03 (AI)
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+ changed USEDLIBS in src/Makefile for static builds.
Open SOC-SPR/SCRs:
+ SCR 21: Optimise selection and I/O
Version 2.62 - 2003-06-30 (GV)
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+ (TaskLauncher.h) MOve the include of qapplication.h as early as
possible. This, together with selectlib-4.68, closes SOC-SPR-2460.
Version 2.61 - 2003-06-19 (GV)
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+ (ExprConstructor.cc, TaskLauncher.cc) QString to string
conversion needs an ascii() call in order to work.
Version 2.60 - 2003-06-16 (GV)
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+ Misc. fixes to make gcc-3.3 happy: include <cassert> and/or
proper initialization of base classes.
Version 2.59 - 2003-05-02 (UL)
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+ fixed minor problem with construction of std::string from QString
in src/ColumnSelector.cc [closes SPR 2439: xmmselect fails to compile
on mir (Qt 3.1)]
Version 2.58 - 2003-03-03 (UL)
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+ better error message in case of failed expression validation
+ closed SPR 2359: No backscale when making multiple products
(backscale now always run when spectrum has been generated)
Version 2.57 - 2003-03-11 (UL)
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+ fixed spelling error in error message text (SPR 2415); also
spell-checked all other message texts
Version 2.56.1 - 2003-03-05 (UL)
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+ more minor standard C++ compliance fixes (enforced by gcc-3.2)
Version 2.56 - 2003-01-21 (UL)
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+ properly continue in case of failed eregionanlyse
+ minor stdc++ compliance changes enforced by gcc-3.2
Version 2.55 - 2003-01-08 (UL)
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+ fixed typo in dialog window text
+ changed text wrapping policy in selection expression widgets (should
fix SPR 2327 (TBC))
+ main selection expression widget no longer limited to three lines max
Version 2.54 - 2002-12-12 (UL)
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+ fixed problem with GUI layout figure in the doc
Version 2.53 - 2002-12-10 (UL)
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+ another minor doc fix
Version 2.52 - 2002-12-10 (UL)
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+ minor improvements to doc
+ no longer show eregionanalyse dialog
Version 2.51 - 2002-12-05 (UL)
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+ improved ds9 re-launching policy in case session was closed down
manually
+ updated doc w.r.t new especget/eregionanalyse support (OGIP
spectral products generation)
Version 2.50 - 2002-11-26 (UL)
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+ Import of regions AND- or OR-wise (user selectable)
+ support for true background regions in ds9 (I/F to especget)
Version 2.47.1 - 2002-11-18 (UL)
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+ extended preference file with event attribute selections
Version 2.47 - 2002-11-13 (UL)
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+ refined support for eregionanalyse
Version 2.46 - 2002-09-18 (UL)
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+ added support for eregionanalyse (experimental); needs imgdisplay-1.34
Version 2.45 - 2002-07-10 (UL)
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+ added support for especget (experimental)
+ replaced 'strstream' -> 'stringstream'
Version 2.44 - 2002-05-27 (UL)
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+ made param-2.0 compliant
Version 2.43.3 - 2002-05-17 (UL)
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+ closed SPR 2307: does not close previously launched ds9 session upon exit
Version 2.43.2 - 2002-04-11 (UL)
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+ create "CHANNEL"-vs.-"RATE.STAT_ERR" plot when spectrum of rates was
generated by evselect ("withzcolumn=true")
Version 2.43.1 - 2002-02-06 (UL)
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+ updated preference file
+ table name is now dislayed in GUI
Version 2.43 - 2002-01-24 (UL)
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+ 'makeratecolumn=true' is now default in LC extraction; plotted with
error bars (needs dsplot-1.14)
+ fixed minor memory leak problem
Version 2.42 - 2002-01-23 (UL)
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+ now depends on daltools-1.0
+ added support for evselect's 'makeratecolumn' parameter (now depends
on evselect-3.43)
Version 2.41 - 2001-12-13 (UL)
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+ now depends on backscale 1.0
Version 2.40.1 - 2001-10-31 (UL)
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+ now depends on dscalc-2.0
Version 2.40 - 2001-08-14 (UL)
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+ identical to 2.39.4
Version 2.39.4 - 2001-08-14 (UL)
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+ closed SPR 2123: "fonts"
font size of expression string is no longer fixed
+ bug fix in conversion of ds9 region to column coordinates
Version 2.39.3 - 2001-06-11 (UL)
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+ do not terminate spectrum-extraction-viewing cycle if backscale has
failed to complete successfully
Version 2.39.2 - 2001-05-17 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 2046: Does not recover from error in backscale
Version 2.39.1 - 2001-05-15 (UL)
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+ now invokes backscale with 'badpixlocation' parameter set to
event set name (fixes SPR 2042: BACKSCALE computation looks for TYPE)
Version 2.39 - 2001-05-04 (UL)
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+ now DEPENDs on backscale-0.2
+ documentation updated
Version 2.38.1 - 2001-04-25 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1994: Error in region intersection
Version 2.38 - 2001-04-24 (UL)
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+ brought in line with evselect-3.35 (removal of calculatebackscale)
+ fixed SPR 1992: incorrect spatial extraction for PMS data
+ run backscale task as part of spectrum post-processing (off by d/f)
Version 2.37 - 2000-12-20 (UL)
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+ some trivial changes to make optimizer happy
Version 2.36 - 2000-12-05 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1857: No error message on failing to generate products
+ fixed SPR 1875: Incorrect interval from grace
+ fixed SPR 1879: Cannot use current event list as output
Version 2.35.4 - 2000-11-14 (UL)
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+ added missing USEDLIBS in src/Makefile for static build
+ fixed typo in dialog text
Version 2.35.3 - 2000-11-07 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1811: Too long selection expressions confuse "xmmselect"
+ import of DSS upon startup now displays modeless dialog with message
saying that table has already been filtered with this expression
+ all preference selection expression dialogs are now modless dialogs,
i.e., they stay open while GUI is active
Version 2.35.2 - 2000-10-31 (UL)
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+ display evselect runtime error messages in dialog box
Version 2.35.1 - 2000-10-27 (UL)
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+ more sensible GROUPS entries
Version 2.35 - 2000-10-26 (UL)
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+ bug fix - caused crash on exit
Version 2.34 - 2000-10-23 (UL)
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+ implemented SAS-SCR 5: writedss & updateexposure parameter defaults
+ implemented SAS-SCR 6: importation of selection expressions & setups
+ fixed SPR 1763: crash when making lightcurve with maketimecolumn
unchecked
+ fixed SPR 1708: Seg fault when importing an invalid 1-d region from grace
+ fixed SPR 1743: xmmselect 2D regions from ds9 off by 0.5 pixel
+ fixed SPR 1706: Aspect ratio in sky images
(evselect is now invoked with squarepixels=true by default)
+ implemented all missing features (used to give not-implemented warning):
* Load new table
* Reload table
* Delete column (via dsrm)
* Add new column (via tablcalc)
* Add PHASE column (via phasecalc)
+ introduced preference mechanism (needs new package "preferences")
+ updated documentation
+ substantial internal changes
Version 2.33 - 2000-07-26 (UL)
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+ a couple of minor bug fixes
Version 2.32 - 2000-07-20 (UL)
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+ depend on imgdisplay-1.23 (new v3.0 ds9 region file format)
+ markers with the color "red" will not be considered in region
import; allows selective import of regions (see also SPR 1448)
Version 2.31 - 2000-07-18 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1678: trick needed to set event filters to be zero
+ upper/lower bounds of of numerical columns are now always determined
upon startup even if no TLMIN/TLMAX attributes are present
Version 2.30.6 - 2000-07-05 (UL)
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+ closed SCR 1657: scroll bar wanted on selection expression
Version 2.30.5 - 2000-06-28 (UL)
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+ updated DEPEND
Version 2.30.4 - 2000-06-28 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1620: wrong use of error macros
Version 2.30.3 - 2000-06-20 (UL)
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+ invoke task via task() method instead of calling then directly; this
fixes SPR 1392 : XMMSELECT should propagate the command line to the
header of the FITS
+ fixed SPR 1619: incorrect error message:
+ make use of new macros \XSPEC, etc. in doc
Version 2.30.2 - 2000-06-16 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1458: Some warning/information messages which are unnecessary
+ fixed SPR 1385: External tools referenced using \task{} macro
Version 2.30.1 - 2000-06-05 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1368:defaults for writedss and updateexposure do not make sense
(changed d/f value for updateexposure to 'false')
+ fixed SPR 1387: Misc changes to task description
Version 2.30 - 2000-05-10 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1329: gui layout too wide
(reduced spacing between adjacent rows - updated default value of
parameter centerpaneheight)
+ fixed SPR 1260: xmmselect crashes when producing two spectra
(there was really nothing to fix - problem could not be reproduced)
+ fixed SPR 1189: xmmselect does not recognise its own selection
(any DSS information in table is now detected and the user is
given the option to import the selection expression)
+ minor documentation update
Version 2.29 - 2000-05-09 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1253: Incorrect time region selection expression
+ fixed SPR 1271: latex doc fails
+ added task info file
Version 2.28 - 2000-04-14 (JBa)
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+ GUI is now a proper qt-based task
+ fixed documentation
Version 2.27 - 2000-04-13 (JBa)
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+ is now proper task!
+ uses base class SasTaskWindow, so we have a default Sas Window
+ executed locally without static initializers
+ integrated XmmSelectApp and XmmSelectGui (removed XmmSelectApp)
Version 2.26 - 2000-02-25 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1205: Incorrect selection expression
Version 2.25 - 2000-02-15 (UL)
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+ now depends on evselect-3.12 (this fixes SPR 1148: region not properly
transformed when imagebinning=imageSize)
Version 2.24 - 2000-02-10 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 1084: Easy to overwrite products without realising
+ fixed SPR 1086 : task crashes when trying to read in 1D region
+ fixed problem with integer SpinBox widgets that are associated with
integer columns (they always had a fixed default validity range of
[0, 99] if the corresponding column had no TLMIN/TLMAX set)
+ default names of producs end now in ".ds"
+ added support for evselect's histogram product
(this fixes SPR 1132: XMMSELECT does not have the "histogram" button)
+ added status message bar
+ no longer require that an image has to be accumulated before a region
can be read from ds9
(this fixes SPR 1135: Quick recovery from an XMMSELECT crash)
+ implemented Help function
+ better geometry managment; aligned widgets
+ documentation updated
Version 2.23 - 1999-12-16 (UL)
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+ brought in line with selectlib-4.23
+ fixed SPR 987 : production of an event list within a given region
(with destructive filtering) does not work.
+ fixed SPR 995 : Export of polygonal regions from GRACE to XXMSELECT
Version 2.22 - 1999-11-30 (UL)
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+ feeding an array as table lead to core dump (this must be fixed
in the Dal which allows to access Arrays as tables - workaround
implemented)
Version 2.21 - 1999-11-23 (GV)
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+ same as 2.20.1, but xmmselect cannot cope with 1.2.3 in VERSION!.
Version 2.20.1 - 1999-11-23 (GV)
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+ (src/TaskLauncher.cc) in line with latest selectlib names.
Version 2.20 - 1999-11-03 (UL)
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+ added support for new unsigned types in dal>=1.80
Version 2.19 - 1999-10-29 (UL)
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+ updated documentation
+ present warning dialog if for a numerical column user has given a lower
bound which is greater than the upper bound
Version 2.18 - 1999-10-28 (UL)
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+ use WCS keyword values only when projection is not RA/DEC-TAN
Version 2.17 - 1999-10-26 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 913: XMMSELECT discards all events when RGS 2-D selection
regions are used
+ added support for scatter plots including reading polygon regions
Version 2.16 - 1999-10-22 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 914: Incorrect expression created
added "Region" menu which has two check buttons for choosing between
union/intersection as the two possible ways to combine multiple
regions
+ fixed SPR 903: Light curve produced by XMMSELECT are displayed with
inverted axes
+ updated documentation
Version 2.15 - 1999-10-14 (UL)
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+ do not die upon errors in selectlib (catch all exceptions and
bring up corresponding dialogs)
+ fixed SPR 848: GUI too big
(new integer parameter centerpaneheight which control the number
of initially visible column buttons)
+ fixed SPR 854: ds9 reuses local file
(file names with absolute paths are now passed to the viewers)
Version 2.14 - 1999-09-21 (UL)
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+ aesthetics improvements (re-aligned column-buttons after Qt2 port)
+ version number shown in About dialog coincides now always with the
one in VERSION file
Version 2.13 - 1999-09-21 (UL)
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+ in addition to binning factors take also shifts into account in image
extraction
Version 2.12 - 1999-09-20 (UL)
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+ fixed SPR 742: invalid coordinates with special image modes
+ fixed SPR 778 : xmmselect crashes when using 2-D regions
+ take into account binning factors in image extraction
+ fixed problem with input table not being in the first extension
Version 2.11 - 1999-09-03 (UL)
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+ removed xmmselect_QOBJS from xmmselect_OBJS in src/Makefile (see
analysis section of SPR 724)
Version 2.10 - 1999-08-31 (UL)
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+ added DISTRIBUTION file
+ now a proper metatask (uses metatask lib)
+ generate time series files with TIME column
+ in line with dsplot-0.16
Version 2.9 - 1999-08-16 (UL)
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+ depends now in gui-1.0
Version 2.8 - 1999-08-03 (UL)
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+ brought in line with evselect-3.0
+ fixed crash-on-exit problem
Version 2.7 - (JBr)
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+ ported to Qt-2.0.1
Version 2.6 - 1999-06-08 (UL)
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+ brought in line with evselect-2.0
Version 2.5 - 1999-05-11 (UL)
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+ brought in line with error-1.18
Version 2.4 - 1999-05-10 (UL)
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+ erroneous reference to non-existent header file removed (caused
build failure)
Version 2.3 - 1999-05-06 (UL)
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+ prepared usage of 'tabcalc' task from within xmmselect
Version 2.2 - 1999-04-27 (UL)
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+ added QTooltip to expression "clear" button
Version 2.1 - 1999-04-23 (UL)
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+ bug fix: inspect data set names after parameter dialog before bringing
up viewers
Version 2.0 - 1999-04-16 (UL)
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+ changed parameter names to be in line with new SAS parameter naming
convention, hence, the increment in the major version number
+ made it dependent on selectlib-4.0
Version 1.5 - 1999-04-15 (UL)
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+ removed temporary FITS files from package delivery
+ closed SPR 548/549: xmmselect is not an SAS task
Version 1.4 - 1999-03-15 (UL)
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+ src/Makefile: added guibrowser to list of USEDLIBS (enforced by
latest gui 0.12)
Version 1.3 - 1999-03-02 (UL)
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+ test/Makefile: was the wrong one in v1.2
+ check buttons associated with image axis selection now carry labels
"X"|"Y" to indicate type of axis
Version 1.2 - 1999-03-01 (UL)
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+ comment from Jullian/Jean incorporated (code + documentation)
+ documentation revised
+ "Clear" button next to selection expression widget
+ new menu entries "File|New input", "Help|Help" (not yet implemented)
+ middle pane is now scrollable (geometry management in Qt is more
than painful ... ;)
+ bevel in scrollable area
+ new product button "Event list" (a fancy front-end to evselect)
+ each invocation of evselect goes now through it's parameter dialog
Version 1.1 - 1999-02-19 (UL)
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+ reading of region specifications from dsplot implemented
+ enhanced robustness
Version 1.0 - 1999-02-15 (UL)
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+ task now approved
+ dependent on imgdisplay-1.0
Version 0.4 - 1999-02-08 (UL)
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+ use SAS EXTERNAL mechansim to get Qt and Grace
+ use GUI libs to invoke used tasks (imgdisplay/dsplot/evselect)
through their parameter dialogs
Version 0.3 - 1999-01-29 (UL)
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+ minor fix to make it build under egcs 1.1.1
Version 0.2 - 1998-12-11 (UL)
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+ removed unnecessary FITS files from package
Version 0.1 - 1998-11-06 (UL)
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+ first usable, embryonic version, several features not yet implemented
+ layout subject to more changes