Release Changes

Release History

Version Date Description
3.6.0 2010-01-12 This is a maintenance release of NASAView, which fixes a couple of issues.
3.5.0 2009-11-30 This is a maintenance release of NASAView, which provides a fix to correctly handle Band Interleaved by Pixel Qubes.
3.4.0 2009-09-22 This is a maintenance release of NASAView, which includes a fix to support 32-bit images.
3.3.0 2009-03-06 This is a maintenance release of NASAView, which includes support for 64-bit images.
3.2.0 2008-10-01 This is a maintenance release of NASAView, which includes support for the Linux 64-bit platform and numerous bug fixes.
3.1.0 2008-07-28 This is a maintenance release of NASAView, which fixes issues found during beta testing of release 3.0.0.
3.0.0 2008-06-09 This release of NASAView represents the beta release for JPEG-2000 and improved Mac OS X support.
2.14.0 2007-06-20 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.13.0 2006-03-23 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.12.0 2005-10-13 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.11.0 2005-03-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.10.0 2004-10-04 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.9.0 2004-05-06 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.8.0 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.7.0 2003-06-05 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.8 2003-04-04 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.7 2003-03-06 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.6 2003-02-17 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.5 2003-01-18 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.4 2003-01-13 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.3 2002-11-03 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.2 2002-10-15 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.6.1 2002-09-17 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.5.8 2001-12-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.5.3c 2000-05-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.5.3b 2000-04-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.5.3 2000-01-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
2.5.2 1999-07-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
1.2.5b 1998-10-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
1.2b 1998-02-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.
1.1.2.b 1997-06-01 Maintenance release for NASAView.

Release 3.6.0 - 2010-01-12

Type Changes By
fix PDSEN-253 - NASAView does not correctly parse a label where a statement value starts with a blank line. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-254 - For a Band Interleaved by Pixel Qube, NASAView does not correctly calculate the total number of bytes in the qube. mcayanan

Release 3.5.0 - 2009-11-30

Type Changes By
fix PDSEN-252 - NASAView does not correctly display Band Interleaved by Pixel Qubes. mcayanan

Release 3.4.0 - 2009-09-22

Type Changes By
fix PDSEN-220 - NASAView does not display 32-bit images. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-248 - NASAView does not support multiple TABLE objects that span across multiple FILE objects. Also does not support FILE object names like OBJECT = MY_FILE. mcayanan

Release 3.3.0 - 2009-03-06

Type Changes By
add PDSEN-195 - NASAView does not display 64-bit images. mcayanan

Release 3.2.0 - 2008-10-01

Type Changes By
add Add support for 64-bit Linux platform. mcayanan
update PDSEN-143 - The View Histogram pop-up window is too small and cannot be resized. mcayanan
update The band strengths in the Band Selection window now default to a value of 1 instead of a value of 0. This allows a user to simply click on the Apply Selection button to display the multi-banded images. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-117 - Scrolling block to scroll the display window horizontally doesn't work when viewing table objects. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-130 - NASAView does not display an object named "HEADER_TABLE" when selecting it from the hierarchy menu. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-138 - The 'Close' menu option does not work when a PDS label is displayed using the 'Full Label' option. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-144 - NASAView crashes when attempting to open certain MOC images. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-156 - Help menu in the Mac version of NASAView causes a program crash. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-159 - NASAView does not display MGS MOLA images correctly. mcayanan

Release 3.1.0 - 2008-07-28

Type Changes By
update PDSEN-126 - Create a more detailed user guide. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-137 - NASAView crashes when attempting to save an image as a JPEG. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-139 - NASAView does not handle JPEG-2000, multi-banded images. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-140 - Qube file crashes NASAView. mcayanan

Release 3.0.0 - 2008-06-09

Type Changes By
add PDSEN-112 - Support for JPEG-2000 in accordance with SCR 3-1003. mcayanan
add PDSEN-113 - Support for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above. mcayanan
update PDSEN-122 - NASAView no longer requires both image display direction keywords to be present in a label to determine the proper orientation of an image. SAMPLE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION and LINE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION now have default values of RIGHT and DOWN, respectively. An error message will be displayed if there is a conflict in values. For example, if SAMPLE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION is "RIGHT", and LINE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION is also set to "RIGHT" or "LEFT", then an error message is produced. mcayanan
update PDSEN-125 - The content of the error message that appears when a required format file cannot be found has been changed to be more helpful to the user. It now says "Line : Unable to locate required format file: ". mcayanan
fix PDSEN-123 - A program crash was occurring when a label encountered CONTAINER objects with long names. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-127 - Fix to display 32-bit, multi-banded images properly. mcayanan
fix PDSEN-132 - Fix to display a label from a MOC image properly when selecting the 'Full Label' menu item. mcayanan

Release 2.14.0 - 2007-06-20

Type Changes By
add Handle SAMPLE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION and LINE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION keywords, which allows images to be displayed with the preferred orientation. mcayanan
add The NASAView on the Mac platform is now a "gamma" release. It has been updated to reflect the current functionality seen on the other NASAView versions. mcayanan
update Change image information display from 'x' and 'y' to 'sample' and 'line', respectively. mcayanan
fix Properly find label fragments not co-located with the label. mcayanan
fix Check for LINE_INTERLEAVED and SAMPLE_INTERLEAVED band types once the multi-banded image is already open and we are re-selecting the band values again. mcayanan
fix Properly display SPREADSHEET objects when the label begins with a HEADER object. mcayanan
fix Properly display multi-banded images. mcayanan
fix Properly display bit columns with multiple items. mcayanan
fix Properly display column values when a user enters a row value greater than 7 digits in length in the "Go To Row Number" box. mcayanan
fix Properly Display 8-byte integer values. mcayanan

Release 2.13.0 - 2006-03-23

Type Changes By
add NASAView now has the ability to display images that are greater than 32767 lines and/or line samples. It will display these large images as a partial by first displaying the first 5000 lines and/or line samples. Users have the ability to browse through a large image by a new menu item called "Large Image Selection". See the NASAView users guide for more information on this new menu item. mcayanan
fix Fixed NASAView to properly display the correct IMAGE-type object if there are multiple IMAGE objects contained within a label. This is performed by opening up the hierarchy menu and then selecting any of the IMAGE type objects in the table. mcayanan
fix Fixed NASAView to prevent program crash when browsing through some Qube files. Problem crash when dealing with Qubes is not always consistent, but we've been able to fix some that we were able to catch. mcayanan
fix Fixed NASAView to properly display the correct x, y (line and line sample values) and DN values to the user when placing the mouse over an image. mcayanan
fix When you open a qube, display the spectrogram data, and then click on the "fwd" button to see the next band, NASAView would complain about not enough bytes being read. This was an error in the OAL library, which has been fixed for this version. mcayanan
fix When dealing with tables with only 1 column, but multiple items, NASAView would not go back to the previous item. This has been fixed. mcayanan

Release 2.12.0 - 2005-10-13

Type Changes By
update Users can now select SPREADSHEET objects from the hierarchy menu. mcayanan
update Updated the "About" section to include a new software disclaimer message. mcayanan
fix Made a bug fix where NASAView would sometimes incorrectly display LSB UNSIGNED INTEGER data. mcayanan

Release 2.11.0 - 2005-03-01

Type Changes By
add Added support for Band-Interleaved-by-Pixel Qubes. dschultz
update Re-compiled to create a Windows Installer package file (.msi). This gets rid of the user having to download the msvcr70.dll file, which is needed to run NASAView on a Windows platform. With this setup file, it will place all dependent and necessary files needed to run NASAview onto a single directory. mcayanan
fix Fixed capability to properly display the THEMIS RDR qube and the MER Mini-TES Qube. dschultz
fix Fixed capability to properly display a TABLE object when selecting from the hierarchy menu. mcayanan
fix Warning message now displays to the user if a label that contains a ^STRUCTURE pointer cannot be found. dschultz

Release 2.10.0 - 2004-10-04

Type Changes By
add Added capability to handle SPREADSHEET objects. mcayanan
update Continued improving NASAView's Qube-handling capabilities. dschultz

Release 2.9.0 - 2004-05-06

Type Changes By
update Restored capability to display integer columns as unsigned hex. mcayanan
update Made minor code changes to allow compilation on the MAC systems. dschultz
fix Replaced tab characters with spaces when printing text to XVT GUI since it is not supported in UNIX and LINUX systems. dschultz

Release 2.8.0 - null

Type Changes By
fix Fixed bug to correctly display values of type MSB_INTEGER and LSB_INTEGER. mcayanan

Release 2.7.0 - 2003-06-05

Type Changes By
fix Fixed bugs in MOC decompression and table plotting, hierarchy display, and hierarchy object selection. dschultz

Release 2.6.8 - 2003-04-04

Type Changes By
fix Fixed a bug involving THEMIS qube display. dschultz

Release 2.6.7 - 2003-03-06

Type Changes By
fix Fixed a bug in container processing. mcayanan
fix Fixed a bug in opening a compressed MOC image. dschultz

Release 2.6.6 - 2003-02-17

Type Changes By
update Table handling has been completely rewritten. It is now a GUI representation of TBTOOL. mcayanan

Release 2.6.5 - 2003-01-18

Type Changes By
update Made changes to speed up qube processing, particularly THEMIS RDR qubes with 32 bit real numbers. dschultz

Release 2.6.4 - 2003-01-13

Type Changes By
add Added processing for THEMIS RDR qubes. dschultz

Release 2.6.3 - 2002-11-03

Type Changes By
add Added processing for THEMIS EDR qubes. dschultz

Release 2.6.2 - 2002-10-15

Type Changes By
update Table processing is now working properly.

Release 2.6.1 - 2002-09-17

Type Changes By
add Ability to read THEMIS cubes.

Release 2.5.8 - 2001-12-01

Type Changes By
update Ability to detect some compressed MOC images. If the auto detect does not work use the "select MOC image" menu item.
update SAVE GIF AS and SAVE JPEG AS now work properly.

Release 2.5.3c - 2000-05-01

Type Changes By
add Ability to create a PDS Label for a raw image file.
add Abiltiy to create a PDS Label for a FITS image file.

Release 2.5.3b - 2000-04-01

Type Changes By
add BIT COLUMNS - Open Object, select Hierarchy, select column
add MOC IMAGES - A file will be opened in your working directory. It will contain a decompressed image with the same name as the file that was selected except that the extension will be .tmp. The file will not be deleted by NASAView.

Release 2.5.3 - 2000-01-01

Type Changes By
add Multi Spectrum images can now be displayed if: they are 8 or 16 bit images or they are BAND_SEQUENTIAL. They may be stretched and image histograms may be displayed and used to manipulate the image
update When displaying a label, or text object the native LF, CR characters may be replaced with for ease of viewing.
fix Date/time values in tables were being truncated.
fix Selecting an object from an displayed index object caused the object to be cleared from the display.
fix Selecting SHOW SIDEDATA for a non cube object caused the program to abort.

Release 2.5.2 - 1999-07-01

Type Changes By
update Objects may be selected from an open index list.
update Objects may be selected from the Hierarchy list.
update Row/Line numbers have been added to table displays.
update Table display column width increased to allow full name to be displayed.
update Program has been ported to SOLARIS 2.6 Common Desktop Environment.
update Histogram/Palette window size increased.
fix Label data could not be displayed after opening a table.
fix Text objects not always displayed properly.
fix Program crashed if no END OBJECT.
fix Attempt to write GIF file caused program to crash.
fix Display image topo problem appeared to be a data problem.
fix 16 bit signed integer image problem was a label related problem.

Release 1.2.5b - 1998-10-01

Type Changes By
update Enhanced CUBE display.
update Real 32 bit image display.

Release 1.2b - 1998-02-01

Type Changes By
add Displays TABLEs, TIME_SERIES, SPECTRUM, and Galileo CUBE objects.
update Under Options, NASAView now a) calculates an image histogram, b) allows contrast stretches via either scroll bar movement or min/max boundary line dragging, c) allows change to brightness via scroll bar movement or median indicator line dragging, and d) application of a number of color palettes.

Release 1.1.2.b - 1997-06-01

Type Changes By
add NASAView can be invoked as a Web Browser helper application by specifying: File Type - application/PDS, Action - nasaview, Extensions - lbl, img.
add NASAView can be invoked from a command line along with a PDS product file name.
update NASAView scales a 16 bit image to an 8-bit image in memory before displaying the image as a pixmap. The specification of MINIMUM and MAXIMUM pixel values in the label will save NASAView from having to search the raw image for these values.
update The stretch function can now be performed against either the pixmap image being displayed (modifies only a color lookup table and so can be undone but can not be applied successively) or for the image in memory (modifies image so cannot be undone but can be applied successively). The stretch algorithm is an 8-bit contrast stretch with the upper and lower 5% saturated.
update The "save gif" and "save gif as" functions use the 8-bit in-memory image as a source. This allows a stretched image to be saved as a gif file.