SAOImage DS9 Version 4.0 Release Notes

    Version 4.0

    1. 09.13.2004 AST: update to 3.4-4
    2. 09.13.2004 TCL/TK: update to 8.4.7
    3. 09.14.2004 WCSSUBS: update to 3.5.6
    4. 09.14.2004 TCLLIB:  update to 1.6.1
    5. 09.15.2004 TKTABLE: installed 2.9
    6. 09.20.2004 SAOTK: fixed a problem with calculating a regions rotational angle with a galactic or ecliptic wcs.
    7. 09.21.2004 SAVEFITS: fixed a problem with the savefits xpa and command line options.
    8. 09.21.2004 REGIONS: fixed a problem with updating region dialog boxes after a change in event file bin factor.
    9. 09.23.2004 DSS: if user selects dss2red or dss2blue survey, force server to eso.
    10. 09.23.2004 2MASS: add image server.
    11. 10.01.2004 DSS: fixed a problem with 'Update from current Frame'.
    12. 10.12.2004 MAKEFILE: add export-dynamic for linux so that external shared libs can be loaded.
    13. 10.21.2004 GUI: fixed a problem if while blinking the user changes the colorbar via mouse.
    14. 11.17.2004 IMAGESERVER: fixed incompatibilities between DSS and 2MASS.
    15. 11.19.2004 AST: update to 3.5
    16. 11.29.2004 FUNTOOLS: update to 1.2.4
    17. 11.30.2004 SAOTK: use NaN.h from Funtools. This corrects problems with new architectures.
    18. 12.03.2004 MAKEFILE: now support gcc 3.4.x
    19. 12.15.2004 XPA: fixed a problem with preserve regions command.
    20. 12.15.2004 HTML: fixed several problems with color matching within htmlwidget.
    21. 12.16.2004 GUI: fixed a problem with saving text from SimpleTextDialog.
    22. 12.16.2004 WCS: main wcs menu item now sets default marker coordinate system and skyframe.
    23. 12.16.2004 COMPASS: create compass now uses current marker dialog system and skyframe.
    24. 12.20.2004 POLYGON: fixed a problem with the exclude strip and rotation.
    25. 12.20.2004 COMPOSITE: add support for composite region.
    26. 12.22.2004 TEXT REGION: fixed a problem in which the text angle did not reflect the native coordinate system.
    27. 12.29.2004 IMAGESERVER: xpa and command line options are now synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.
    28. 12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: fixed a problem with sexigesmal from SIMBAD near the equator.
    29. 12.30.2004 NAMESERVER: xpa and command line options are now synchronous. The GUI is still asynchronous.
    30. 01.31.2005 VECTOR: add support for new VECTOR region.
    31. 02.08.2005 REGIONS: fix varies errors with definition of angles. Position angles are now defined as from first positive coordinate axis to second positive coordinate axis except in the case of equatorial wcs, in this case it is defined as from second positive coordinate axis to first positive coordinate axis.
    32. 02.16.2005 SCALE: added User menu options to clarify current scaling mode.
    33. 02.17.2005 LINUX64: fixed a problem with generating postscript.
    34. 02.28.2005 MOSAIC: add support for mosaic data cubes.
    35. 03.01.2005 STD Dialog: fixed several problems with ds9 not remembering the current working directory.
    36. 03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with a memory leak when rendering regions on the windows platform. We no longer try to clip against a clip region.
    37. 03.02.2005 WINDOWS: fixed a problem with command line options that require the ds9 window to be visible. We have to process all events with 'update' before the windows version of ds9 is visible.
    38. 03.03.2005 REGIONS: add support to all regions parsers for ms windows line terminators
    39. 03.03.2005 ANALYSIS: removed extra ';' at the end of all regions substitutions.
    40. 03.16.2005 FITS: increased fits file name size to 1024 chars.
    41. 03.17.2005 CATALOGS: are finally implemented!
    42. 03.24.2005 WINDOWS: implemented non-windows native standard dialogs. This allows uses to specify a file extension.
    43. 03.29.2005 FITY++: fixed a problem with filtering large bin tables while in mmapincr mode. We now insure that enough data is mmap'd for filter to build its good array.
    44. 03.29.2005 PRESERVE: fixed syntax errors with preserve regions and pan.
    45. 03.30.2005 REGIONS: fixed regions parsers to accept a regions file without terminator as the last character.
    46. 03.30.2005 ZOOM: all zooms are now specified in terms of x and y internally
    47. 04.01.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with grid options
    48. 04.28.2005 REGIONS: reimplemented basemarker,baseellipse,basebox classes.
    49. 04.28.2005 ZOOM: implemented support for different x and y zoom.
    50. 04.29.2005 XPA: update to 2.1.6
    51. 04.29.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to 1.3.0b3
    52. 04.29.2005 TCL/TK: update to 8.4.9
    53. 05.25.2005 REGIONS: update all regions code
    54. 05.25.2005 REGIONS: add EPANDA
    55. 06.07.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to 1.3.0b6
    56. 06.13.2005 SCALE: new LOG algorithm log10(i/s*1000+1)/log10(1001) where 0<i<s
    57. 06.13.2005 MAKEFILE: add support for FreeBSD
    58. 06.19.2005 FTP: all ftp opens now are in passive mode
    59. 06.28.2005 BIN: fixed a problem with -bin factor
    60. 06.28.2005 PAGESETUP: pagesetup command line options are no longer case sensitive
    61. 07.12.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to 1.3.0.b7
    62. 07.13.2005 REGIONS: new DS9 regions 4.0 format
    63. 07.13.2005 REGIONS: add copy,cut,paste,undo xpa and command line options.
    64. 08.01.2005 GCC: add support for gcc 4.0. Remove backward support for gcc 2.96 or earlier.
    65. 08.03.2005 REGIONS: panda,epanda,bpanda, only render start/stop angles in red/blue when selected.
    66. 08.04.2005 SMOOTH: add smoothing algorithms boxcar,tophat,gaussian
    67. 08.15.2005 COLORBAR: add support for printing the colorbar
    68. 08.15.2005 FUNTOOLS: update to 1.3.0b9
    69. 08.15.2005 ZLIB: update to 1.2.3
    70. 08.17.2005 GUI: add View menu and prefs.
    71. 08.24.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with ciao pie regions.
    72. 08.24.2005 REGIONS: add invert selection.
    73. 08.25.2005 GUI: add display image window size.
    74. 08.30.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b6
    75. 09.12.2005 IIS: fixed a problem with iis and cursors.
    76. 09.12.2005 RELEASE version 4.0b7
    77. 09.15.2005 ARRAY: fixed a problem with loading array cubes from a file and determining the correct endian.
    78. 10.24.2005 BIN: if unable to find suitable cols to bin, chose the first and second column. This way, if you have table, it will always load, even if you don't know the column names.
    79. 10.25.2005 BIN: binning dialog box. if number of columns is too large to display, wrap the menu.
    80. 10.27.2005 CONTOUR: complete support for command line/xpa control of contour features.
    81. 10.27.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with convert and contours of zero length.
    82. 11.01.2005 FITS: fixed a problem loading very small arrays mmapincr
    83. 11.01.2005 VECTOR: small change to correct issue with gcc 4.0.1
    84. 11.01.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with wcs append/replace.
    85. 11.02.2005 GRID: fixed a problem with alternative linear wcs.
    86. 11.02.2005 WCS: fixed a problem with alternative wcs names. All wcs names are now lower case.
    87. 11.03.2005 CONTOUR: fixed a problem with contour convert after a catalog command.
    88. 11.03.2005 HELP: altered tk to pass -help to us. For -help, we now display a brief message and exit and for --help, we display the reference manual command line options.
    89. 11.09.2005 CATALOG: fixed a problem with starbase to trim column names of white spaces.
    90. 11.09.2005 CATALOG: add user specified RA/DEC column option.
    91. 11.10.2005 CATALOG: speed up catreg for large dbs
    92. 11.14.2005 GUI: the meus Cut,Copy,Paste,Clear now works for all dialog boxes on all platforms.
    93. 11.16.2005 REGIONS: fixed a problem with rendering arrows for line,vector,ruler, and compass with width>1.
    94. 11.16.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to remember file types.
    95. 11.17.2005 GUI: remove 'Use Cursors' Misc Option.
    96. 11.17.2005 GUI: Modified standard dialog boxes to remember filters.
    97. 11.18.2005 COMPOSITE: fixed a problem with loading composite regions with properties.
    98. 12.05.2005 RGB: Fixed a problem with wcs matching rgb frames .
    99. 12.08.2005 REGIONS: Fixed a problem general comment such as ## and #.
    100. 12.08.2005 HELP: reset previous behavior for -help. fv uses ds9 -help to probe for ds9. Until fv is changed, we need to support the prior behavior.
    101. 12.15.2005 X11: Insure that all X11 rendering is calculated in double precision until the very last, at which, the results are rounded to the nearest integer. This includes markers, contours, grids.
    102. 12.17.2005 PS: set default resolution to 150, from 72.
    103. 12.19.2005 GUI: add .ftz and .FTZ to default fits name filter.
    104. 12.19.2005 FREEBSD: added support for freebsd.
    105. 01.03.2006 FITSY++: fixed an overflow problem with mmap very large array files.
    106. 01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated DETECTOR and AMPLIFIER coordinate system menu items in menus and removed the preferences.
    107. 01.04.2006 GUI: reinstated ZMAX menu items in menus.
    108. 01.05.2006 CATALOGS: fixed a problem with rotated or flipped images and determining image size in ra and dec
    109. 01.05.2006 PROJECTION: fixed a problem move and moveto.
    110. 01.12.2006 COLORBAR: added numerics to colorbar.
    111. 01.18.2006 GUI: separte controls for min/max and low/high.
    112. 01.24.2006 HISTOGRAM EQU: is now based on low/high, not min/max.
    113. 01.27.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with updating the current colormap.
    114. 01.30.2006 PANNER: under truecolor visuals, the panner is now updated with the colorbar.
    115. 02.01.2006 TEMPLATE: tweak xmm templates for correct boresite.
    116. 02.03.2006 GUI: fixed Shift-Tab under linux.
    117. 02.03.2006 GUI: fixed a problem with loading multiple files, with -single command line option, followed by Match Frame. The frames where not realized so the coordinate systems where not valid.
    118. 02.03.2006 MARKERS: added the ability to toggle marker text.
    119. 02.08.2006 RELEASE version 4.0b8