IDV 1.0 beta 6 ready for download

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• Subject: IDV 1.0 beta 6 ready for download
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:15:08 -0600

The latest beta release of the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)
1.0 (beta 6) is ready for download.  For details on downloading
and running the IDV, see:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/IDV/

The IDV from Unidata is a software library and framework for
visualizing and analysing geoscience data. The IDV release
includes a Java(TM)-based software library, and a reference
application made from that software. It uses the VisAD
library (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html) for data
models and for creating visualizations, and other Java-based
utility libraries.

Highlights of new features in this release:

1) New data/display selection widget.  This is the most
significant User Interface change.  The DataSelection
widget replaces the old DataSources tree widget.  It
allows easier selection of datasources and displays from
within one widget.  We are interested in feedback on
this new feature.  If you would like to continue to use
the old DataSources tree widget, you can select this
through the User Preferences.

2) Reworked netCDF grid reading code.  This will allow us
to handle more types of grids, including AWIPS netCDF files.
Much of the utility of the classes in ucar.unidata.grid has
been moved to the ucar.nc2.dataset.grid package as part of
the netCDF 2.1 release.  Developers should take note of
these changes.

3) Preliminary work on time/height displays of wind
profiler data.

4) You can now color one isosurface by another
variable (ie. RH colored by T).

5) A more robust color table editor.

6) Various and sundry bug fixes, including:
       - winds in station model plots don't drift
       - maps now display correctly on global grids

7) Users can now interactively select which display types
they wish to use in the application through the User Preferences
editor.

This will be the last beta release of the IDV.  The next
full release will be in mid-June.

Please see the Unidata IDV Support page:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/IDV/docs/UserGuide/IDV_support.html

for how to provide input or report problems with the IDV.

Don Murray
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