NXplotNd TODO List and Release notes

Please mail bug reports or suggestions to sludtke@bcm.tmc.edu.

TODO

1. BUG:Export text crashes program
2. DRAW: Image importing
3. DATA: Import data from clipboard
4. PLOT: plot selector -> icons
5. 2DVIEW: Point selection (click & mark data set)
6. MISC: Font selection in 3d view
7. 3DVIEW: Some sort of mouse based zoom in
8. PLOT: 3d vector plot
9. PLOT: 3d volume vis. (various)
10. MISC: API for adding plot modules
11. 3DVIEW: translate as well as rotate
12. MISC: better fitting alg.
13. EQN: User defined functions
14. 3DVIEW: 'Alternate' display mode, support in other plots
15. MISC: sliders for var/rot continuous/noncontinuous depend on machine spd
16. 3DVIEW: Bracket remaining objects with RiAttributeB/E ?
17. 3DVIEW: Allow ticks, not just grids
18. DRAW: expand drawing tools
19. DRAW: UNDO for drawing
20. MISC: Interface to mathematica or other symbolic math program?
21. 2DVIEW: polar coordinate axes ???
22. 2DVIEW: 2nd y axis for comparisons of plots on different scales
23. MISC: revert to saved and undo (?)

Completed changes (since 1.0b5)

• Isosurface plot now caches surface polygons. This allows MUCH faster rotation.
• PDB file import (ATOM and HETATM records).
• New update mechanism which avoids multiple updates. This can make a dramatic speed improvement in some cases.

Completed changes (since 1.0b4a)

• More 3d axis labelling options, super/subscripts now work on 3d axis labels
• Volume mesh data can now be imported
• Data may now be converted into a matrix after loading (Data Set Menu)
• Multiple data sets may be exported simultaneously.
• 3d brightness reduction upon first rotation fixed
• Fixed bug in 'Transform Column' Tool, destination column doesn't crash the program now.
• Added some new specialized functions (bessel transform, integration, derivative)
• A whole bunch of other bugs were fixed.

Completed changes (since 1.0b3)

• tab delimited ascii files can have label columns
• Import some .WKS and .WK1 files
• 3d scatter plot supports lines and bars
• 2d line/sym plot and 2d bar plot now support labelling individual data points
• fixed annoying 'delete' bug for plots and data sets.
• more work on the API examples/docs (not released still)

Completed changes (since 1.0b2)

• Log y axis possible on 2d plots (only supported by lsPlot and barPlot)
• 2/9/96: Multiple selection of plots and data sets (for delete, tools, etc ...)
• 2/8/96: New data tools for peak locating, 1 time xform of column in many data sets, etc ...
• 2/4/96: Docs for the DO API
• 2/3/96: Whew, finished the DO implementation for the API
• 1/25/96: New data inspector, incorporates spreadsheet style inspector.
• 1/22/96: Fixed bug, wrong legend color in line/sym plot
• 1/22/96: Columns can contain strings, not just numbers (for labels, etc ...)

Completed changes (since 1.0b1)

• 1/16/96: Axis labels and legends can use sub/superscripts and greek
• 1/16/96: 3D animations now render in the foreground (more efficient, less swapping)
• 1/16/96: View inspector bug fix when doing annotations
• 1/15/96: Time/date stamp option for 2d views
• 1/15/96: Added multiplot and stacked bars to Data Tools
• 1/14/96: Selected annotation objects deselected when printing.
• 1/12/96: Bar plots
• 1/11/96: Data Tools panel (many functions, see online help)
• 1/8/96: Different color for each symbol in symbol plots.
• 1/8/96: Stock style plot (hi, lo, open, close)
• 1/8/96: Mandelbrot Set function (just for fun, neat animations)
• 1/7/96: Histogram function
• 1/7/96: automatic updates when data() function is used
• 1/7/96: Defaults for 2d axis labels are now sane.
• 1/5/96: added 'alternate' 3d view for scatter plot.