6. Changelog Version 3.0.0

6.1. itom

Version 3.0.0 (2017-04-07)

(more than 250 commits in itom repository)

• demoDataObject.py modified for a clearer overview of important features

• demo about image distortion simulation and determination added

• demo for paramEditorWidget added to demo/ui

• fixes due to high-dpi display

• added message in the CMake-files in pluginTemplates to print the plugin name in the CMake output

• documentation: workaround of vtk linker exception under linux

• added some classinfo descriptions for motorAxisController and paramEditorWidget

• added documentation with demo script of how to set legendTitles in a 1d plot with the help of tags.

• update documentation of 1d and 2d plot

• updated documentation due to modified widget wrappers (QComboBox::itemText accessible via python call)

• fix in ItomBuildMacros.cmake, macro POST_BUILD_COPY_FILE_TO_LIB_FOLDER if the given library list is empty

• added a paramEditorWidget which can for eg. can be used to acess parameters of a geniCam instance

• added itemText method to qlistview (widgetWrapper) and some code formatting

• documentation updated for new pickerChanged signal of itom1dqwtplot

• updated setup documentation of itom

• added python_unittest function checking the behavior of dstack

• modified widgetWrapper member function to return ito::RetVal instead of bool, for better error diagnostics

• style sheet adaptation for plugin documentation

• fixes for some missing type registrations in Qt meta type system

• added python-based cameraToolbox, containing a module ‘distortion’ to determine radial distortion, scaling and rotation of a distorted grid of points (including their undistortion). This can be used for characterizing optical systems e.g. based on single chessboard or regular point-grid patterns.

• incremented AddInInterface to 3.1.0 due to further, binary-compatibility breaking changes in AddInManager and other parts

• from Qt5.5 on, an automatic parsing of enumerations and their keys in terms of strings is possible. Added this feature to improve python slot-calls.

• added a static dataObject function called dstack to stack different dataObjects

• added a new python command to copy the whole dataobject meta information of a dataObject

• pythonEngine, load Variables: name/key compatibility improvements

• itom_unittests dataObject saturate_cast_test fix problems with rounding of rgba to gray values.

• itom_unittests operatorTest changed, that the operation: matrix divided my matrix has no zero values.

• bugfix in ito::DataObject::deepCopyPartial for 1xm vs. mx1 objects where the lhs object is a roi of a bigger object. Including unittest in python_unittests environment.

• added marker for docked or undocked scriptEditorWidget

• improvements in unittest: application will be build in itom-build directory for a better access to required libraries

• show size of numpy array in detail window

• unittest and changes in dataObject::copyTo (no reallocation if rhs dataObject has already the right size and type)

• changed behavior of copyTo, rhs is not reallocated when regionOnly is passed and it already has the correct type and size.

• improvements in unittest: application will be build in itom-build directory for a better access to required libraries

• added unittest for externally started AddInManager

• Qt4 compatible version of AddInManagerDLLr

• updated German translation

• some security checks and comments added to new constructor of DataObject.

• changes in tex_demo.py. There seems to be a bug in matplotlib 2.0.0, when using savefig command in combination with unicode!?

• added dataobject contructor for single cv::Mat

• added some documentation about the Latex support for Matplotlib Text layout

• re-add missing LinguistTools library

• Integrated changes in commontk project: https://github.com/commontk/CTK/commit/5db3f9320ed50b9d8179236cd3e84694dd7153ec

• Updates in conf.py of user documentation due to changed default settings in QtHelpBuilder of Sphinx

• update all-in-one development setup documentation

• documentation: brief section of the global plot settings. Added some new settings

• improved documentation about unfound font in Matplotlib

• added max function for complex valued dataObjects, returning the largest magnitude (and its position)

• Added function to check for gui support to addInInterfaceBase and AddInBase

• added more features to some ParamMeta classes

• contributors adapted

• removed some memory leaks in Python C-code and removed some unused methods in PythonEngine

• fixes issues with special characters in filename of itom.loadMatlabMat and itom.saveMatlabMat

• some test scripts with scipy added (can also be used to check proper installation of scipy)

• added Redistributable Visual Studio 2015 to setup

• documentation: package list for linux updated

• more cmake information for linux

• added default style settings for qwt plots into the properties

• redesign of dataObjectFuncs to provide a clearer helper class for verifying, comparing and preparing dataObjects

• domain itom.bitbucket.org replaced by itom.bitbucket.io

• ito::ParamBase::Type: flag NotAvailable added for temporarily unavailable parameters

• added PenCreator Button, BrushCreatorButton and FontButton to UI-Designer

• ito::Param::getMetaT<_Tp>() added as templated-version for ito::Param::getMeta() such that the C-cast can easily be replaced by the template parameter.

• Bugfix application stall on closing, when using AddInManager dll

• overloaded sizeHint in PenCreatorButton and added a brushCreatorButton

• implemeted a fontButton

• added “item” slot for qListWidget, which retrieves the text of the “item”th row

• added version.h (qitom / git) to sdk, added apifunction to read out filter version, author and plugin name

• added option for Python path as itom subdirectory

• added commonQtVersion.h and pclVersion.h to SDK files

• AddInManager now starts an instance of QCoreApplication if none is found

• unified names between IOHelper and FileSystemDockWidget

• added some missing metatypes

• added missing pcl integration

• pip manager adapted to changes for pip >= 9.0

• documentation added how to build itom under Fedora (tested with Fedora 25)

• changed order of methods in dataobj.cpp to support gcc under Fedora

• CMake syntax fix for CMake < 3.0.0

• prepare FindOpenCV.cmake to support Fedora

• moved apiFunctions to addin manager and restructured them, i.e. removing gui related functions. These were moved apiFunctionsGraph (which should be renamed to apiFunctionsGui actually)

• added addinmanager to sdk lib files, some minor cmake cleanup

• docstrings of itom.pointCloud, itom.point and itom.polygonMesh improved

• Clean up of unused includes

• plugin widgets can now be opened by plugin dock widget even if they have mandatory or optional initialization parameters

• Move AddInManager to DLL initial version

• property editor has context menu entry to select between sorted and unsorted representation

• pointCloud.moveXYZ added (offsets every point in a point cloud, comparable to pointCloud.scaleXYZ)

• closeItom event can be stopped by click on the Cancel button or press the ESC Key on the keyboard.

• console: double click on any type of warning (not only runtimeWarning) will open the corresponding script.

• make matplotlib itom backend backward compatible with matplotlib 1.4.x

• added openmp to dataObject

• dialog added to close itom, even if python is still running. User will be asked if itom really should be closed.

• itom debug icons changed into 64x64 size for 4k optimization. svg files of the icons added, too.

• itomWidgets: plotInfoDObject can handle rgba32 dataObjects

• improved error messages

• fix in matplotlib backend: avoid using single-shot zero-delay timer in “soft-draw” method to only redraw if the gui is idle. However, an itom.timer cannot be used in python multi-threaded applications

• matplotlib demo about surface3d plot added

• warning added to itom.timer if it is started in another python thread

• docked toolbar icons as well as margins of script editor are scaled based on screen dpi

• set remote search for Python documentation to python version 3.5

• global rework of all icons

• support 4k monitors: changed icons to 64x64 px and scaled UI items by the ratio (screen dpi / default dpi: 96)

• added pyparsing-2.1.10 to setup

• bugfix in WorkspaceDockWidget::updateActions(). Sometimes the return value of m_pWorkspaceWidget->numberOfSelectedItems() is different to the return item.size() of m_pWorkspaceWidget->selectedItems()

• pluginTemplates updated

• many bugfixes under Linux and Windows

6.2. Plugins

Version 3.0.0 (2017-04-07)

(nearly 100 commits in plugins repository)

• PGRFlyCapture: parameter ‘start_delay’ added to possibly allow blue screens when starting the device, followed by an immediate image acquisition

• test string parameters with different meta information added to DummyGrabber in order to better test the ParamEditorWidget and its demo, that is based on the DummyGrabber and DummyMotor.

• NITWidySWIR message, that NUC file was loaded deleted.

• parameter “name” in some plugins set to readonly

• updated plugin rst changelog

• DummyGrabber, DummyMotor: enhanced meta information for parameters to be better rendered with ParamEditorWidget

• fixes in GenICam if camera does not provide enough information about the image buffers

• GenICam plugin (currently only B/W cameras implemented) added. Requires GenICam v3.0 or higher to compile.

• adapted all ui files of plugins for the use of high dpi screens

• NITWidySWIR added message to print the plugin name in the CMake output

• Bugfix in DummyMotor jogging

• CyUSB plugin compiled with version 1.3.3

• MeasurementComputing plugin compiled with SDK Version 1.89

• added NITWidySWIR plugin

• inserted params into documentation of ThorlabsPowerMeter

• ThorlabsBP and ThorlabsISM updated to Kinesis 1.9.3 (from Kinesis 1.8.0 on, the parameters ‘slewRate’ of brushless piezos have been removed, since they were never implemented in the controller).

• removed wait_for_event from DslrRemote2 capture, as in the current form not working with Nikon Dslr - needs checking

• removed unused opencv calib3d from BasicFilters

• added automatic normalization to labeling filter, as without this the filter does not work correctly

• Moved labeling and findEllipses filter from ito internal plugins to BasicFilters

• BasicFilters: calcMeanZ: max z-depth is not limited

• DslrRemote2: Added execfunc to retrieve file list and to download file by name

• Working on DslrRemote2, first working version (windows), Linux still needs to be checked; Currently reading properties, capturing images and basic version of image download are working

• dataObjectArithmetic: improved mode 4 of filter ‘findMultiSpots’

• dataObjectArithmetic: improvements in findMultiSpots

• added filter ‘findMultiSpots’ to DataObjectArithemtic in order to quickly find multiple spots (using the center of gravity) within one image (or a stack of images).

• DslrRemote, next try … this time without libgphoto and only with libptp2 (strongly modified version, using new libusb)

• MSMediaFoundation: improvements to support more parameters especially for new HD webcams with full focus and white-balancing control

• rawimport added clean up of temporary directory and detection of dcraw output format (pgm or tiff)

• creation of all dock widgets protected by check if plugins are loaded by GUI-itom (not directly by externally loaded AddInManager)

• OpenCVFilters: corrected docstring of cvCalibrateCamera

• changed CMake to follow changed rules of CMake > 3.0.0 in order to prevent policy warnings

• Vistek: add missing VistekGigESDK files

• division of pclTools ModelFitGeneric file into various files due to linker bogobj issue

• SVS Vistek GigE SDK updated to 1.5.2

• DemoAlgorithms: demoWidget added

• more robust implementation of saveDataToTxt in DataObjectIO (concerning empty wrapSign and linux compilation)

• Config dialog of FireGrabber adapted to modern style. Parameter ‘roi’ added.

• added basci ascii export filter

• modification in ptgrey path detection

• Added newer MSVS version to PtGrey find library / binary

• DataObjectIO: filter ‘loadTXT’ adapted and optional encoding of text file added. If this is not given, the encoding of the text file is guessed.

• timeout parameter added to UhlText and UhlRegister

• IDSuEye prepared for SDK 4.81 which has a better support for some modern USB3 cameras

• added optional limit switches and jogging capability to dummyMotor, enabled event processing in waitfordone so asynchrone getpos are possible

• PCOCamera: this plugin can now also operate PCO.edge cameras (tested with PCO.edge 3.1)

• AndorSDK3: delay inserted into stopDevice() to avoid feature access errors

• IDSuEye also works with Thorlabs DCC and DCU cameras. The plugin ThorlabsDCxCam is obsolete now.

• PclTools: fix in loadPolygonMesh and loadPointCloud for ply format. Some docstrings improved

• ThorlabsISM: Character encoding fix

• ThorlabsPowerMeter: docstring fixes

• All work done… ready to use the ThorlabsPowerMeter plugin

• docstring fix in deviationValue of dataobjectarithmetic

• Bugfix in filter histogram; the parameter for definition of bin numbers is now used for 8bit images correctly

• many bugfixes under Linux and Windows

6.3. Designer Plugins

Version 3.0.0 (2017-04-07)

(more than 30 commits in designerPlugins repsository)

• others: from Qt5.5 on, an automatic parsing of enumerations and their keys in terms of strings is possible. Added this feature to improve python slot-calls.

• others: changed Icons to 64x64 size.

• others: linux Qt4 bugfixes, thanks to Goran

• others: bugfix in vtk3dVisualizer: yAxisLabel and zAxisLabel showed the same value

• others: corrected format of menu and messages

• others: re-add missing LinguistTools library

• others: changed CMake to follow changed rules of CMake > 3.0.0 in order to prevent policy warnings

• itom1dqwtplot: fix for setting legend fonts if some legends are hidden

• itom1dqwtplot: legendTitles can again be set via dataObject tags

• itom1dqwtplot: added “active picker” to 1DPlot, i.e. active picker can be get/set via the property …CurrentPickerIndex, in addition the signal pickerChanged when a picker has been altered

• itom1dqwtplot: docstring added for pickerChanged signal

• itom2dqwtplot: fixes in automatic linecuts at horizontal or vertical lines containing the min/max value

• itom2dqwtplot: fix to rescale color bar to right values if the value range is set to ‘automatic’.

• itom2dqwtplot: color bar can now display a logarithmic or double-logarithmic scale

• itom2dqwtplot: a zStack or a lineCut is now of the same complex type as the parent plot

• itom2dqwtplot: added api settings to individualize the z stack picker… added api settings to individualize the label of a drawed item… renamed some api functions

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: fixes when copying to clipboard or saving to a file (dpi related canvas size corrected). Screen dependent dpi has to be added in the future.

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: meta information widgets are copied to clipboard if visible

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: improved styles of picker, shapes, zoomer…

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: moved all tracker and shape labels by default on a white background. The Color of the letters are no longer changed by changing the color palette of a plot. The geometric element style is now accessible over the api

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: better acceptance for 2D dataObjects with more than 2 dimensions (e.g. [1,3,3]) in ‘plotMarkers’ slot

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: added property complexStyle to set whether the real, imag, abs, or phase in a 1D or 2D plot is displayed

• itom1dqwtplot, itom2dqwtplot: fix to reset cursor in some state transitions (e.g. from panner to line-cut)

• many bugfixes under Linux and Windows