IDV 1.0.1 release available

• To: idvusers <idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
• Subject: IDV 1.0.1 release available
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:50:52 -0600

Hi-

A maintenance release (1.0.1) of the Integrated Data Viewer
(IDV) was made available for download today. You can find
information on downloading at:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/UserGuide/IDV_starting.html

This is primarily a bug fix release, with a couple of new
features added in for good measure:

- new shapefile control allows you to load in the polygons
  from an ESRI shapefile (.shp).  This allows you the flexibility
  to load in custom maps.  This work is preliminary and will
  be expanded for more efficient reading and access to the
  metadata in the .dbx and .idx shapefile in a future release.
  You can load in a shapefile from the Files/URL menu.

- improvements in the memory usage when loading Vis5D files.
  Time subselection only reads data for the times requested.

- You can now select multiple files in a directory from the
  Files/URL data selector and the   IDV will try to create
  datasources for them.  If a particular datasource can take
  multiple files, those will be grouped   together and a single
  datasource will be created.  For example, this allows you to
  load in a set of McIDAS images at once.

- better labelling of profiler time/height displays

- probe points/lines now automatically scale when you zoom in and out.

- each control legend now has a "Details" command which describes
  the source of the data that is displayed in the depiction.  You
  can access this by right clicking on the legend and selecting
  the details menu.

- users can now specify the units of the vertical scale in 3D displays.
  This is currently limited to units convertible with meters
  (km, ft, furlongs, fathoms, etc)

- users can now specify the preferred mode of sampling for all probes
  (except the grid skewT) through the user preferences dialog.  Choose
   between VisAD's WEIGHTED_AVERAGE and NEAREST_NEIGHBOR modes.
   For the data probe control, you can set the sampling method for
   each parameter, with the default being the global user preference.
   This is handy for checking on grid values when looking at a
   textured color shaded plan view display.

- Major bugs fixed:

   - surface data in netCDF files can now be read in again.  This
     broke in the 1.0 release

   - when all data with times are removed from the display, the
     time widget indicator now clears

   - correct times are selected when subsetting times on datasets
     with jumbled (i.e., non-ordered) times.

   - bundles with McIDAS AREA files can now be restored.

   - projections and other properties are now correctly restored when
     loading in a bundle with multiple map display windows.

If you have questions or problems with the IDV, please
contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Don Murray
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