IDV version 2.1 available for download and testing

• To: IDV Users <idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, idvdevelopers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: IDV version 2.1 available for download and testing
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:09:29 -0700

Hi All-

IDV version 2.1 is available for downloading. New features
since the IDV 2.0 release in August include:

User Interface Changes
# New Field Selector Layout
# Dashboard improvements
# Tools interface changes

Display Changes
# Pressure surfaces as topography
# Labels on color filled contours
# 2D data plan views
# Displayed Data Range
# Display Control Properties
# Display List Properties

Data Changes
# Level subsettting for grids

Other Changes
# Support for import/export of Google Earth KML/KMZ
# User configurable mouse and keyboard bindings
# Plugins
# ISL improvements
# Animation Rendering

Performance enhancements
# Wind vector field display
# Level subsetting
# Point observation loading
# Level II radar volumes
# New Contouring Alogrithm

Various Bug Fixes


For more details, see the release notes at:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/userguide/ReleaseNotes.html

You can download this release from the IDV downloads page:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/


Please note that this will be the last release that is compatible
with Java 1.4.  The next release (2.2 - sometime in the spring)
will require Java 1.5.  This will mainly affect those users
who start the IDV with Webstart since the installers already
have Java 1.5 bundled with them.

Happy New Year!

Don Murray & Jeff McWhirter