- 1.29.3 (Doug Mink, SAO, March 20, 2000)
- Fix minor bugs in WCS subroutines found by gcc
- 1.29.2 (Doug Mink, SAO, March 9, 2000)
- Change multiple WCS separator from : to %.
Fix bug so all multiple extension FITS files can be read.
- 1.29.1 (Doug Mink, SAO, February 28, 2000)
- Implement multiple WCS selection using :name or :character appended to
filename.
- 1.28.5 (Doug Mink, SAO, September 29, 2000)
- Fix bug which caused Segmentation Faults at some zoom levels with large
images.
- Set FITS WCS if any CD matrix terms are in header, not just CD1_1 and CD2_2;
set rest to zero.
- 1.28.3 (Doug Mink, SAO, June 13, 2000)
- Improve handling of 1-D WCS data. Fix numerous warning-generating bugs.
- 1.28.2 (Doug Mink, SAO, June 13, 2000)
- If imh pixel file has no directory, *always* use the same as header file.
- 1.28.1 (Doug Mink, SAO, June 9, 2000)
- Read keyword values in hget.c even if no equal sign is present.
- 1.28.0 (Doug Mink, SAO, June 2, 2000)
- Clean up code using lint
- 1.27.4 (Doug Mink, SAO, May 10, 2000)
- WCS type defaults to linear if no CTYPEi keyword is present for an axis.
- 1.27.3 (Doug Mink, SAO, May 1, 2000)
- Fix .imh reading so pixel files in subdirectories of header files are read
properly.
- All dates in the old FITS format (dd/mm/yy) where the year ranges from
0 to 999 have 1900 added to them; for example, 01/05/100 becomes 2000-05-01.
- 1.27.2 (Doug Mink, SAO, March 27, 2000)
- Fix bug reading IRAF .imh files with pathnames longer than 67 characters.
Fix bug precessing coordinates which were at equinoxes other than J2000 or
B1950.
- 1.27.0 (Doug Mink, SAO, January 21, 2000)
- Upgrade WCS code to Mark Calabretta's WCSLIB 2.5
- 1.26.11 (Doug Mink, SAO, December 11, 1999)
- Fix bugs in date conversion which could screw up epoch for coordinate system
conversion.
- 1.26.10 (Doug Mink, SAO, December 10, 1999)
- Fix bug with strings starting with d and e which were assumed to be numbers
- 1.26.9 (Doug Mink, SAO, November 17, 1999)
- Fix bug which disabled NCP projection
- 1.26.8 (Doug Mink, SAO, November 5, 1999)
- Bug fix release
- 1.26 (Doug Mink, SAO, August 19, 1999)
- File types are now checked by reading the file, if no extension is
present, so the -fits command line argument should be unnecessary.
The -face command was added to display a specific quad cube face.
6 decimal places are displayed when WCS tracking is toggled to degree mode
using the h key. Longitude and latitude are now displayed as
dd:mm:ss.ss dd:mm:ss.ss when the h key is used, instead
of hh:mm:ss.ss dd:mm:ss.ss.
- 1.25 (Doug Mink, SAO, November 23, 1998)
- Several features were added to support overplotting of catalogs in
region files as produced by the
imcat program
in the WCSTools package:
- -reg command added to read a region file and display it
- SQUARE, DIAMOND, CROSS, and EX shapes added for input region file
- Label regions with comments read from same line of input region file
- [ and ] commands added to toggle region and region label display
- z command added to cycle through zoom levels
- beter support for IRAF .imh version 2 files
- version and help command line options added
- f command added to print the FITS header of an FITS or .imh image
- Fix bug in inverse COE projection
- 1.24 (Doug Mink, SAO, September 4, 1998)
- Add -ccursor command to start up with pointer in center of image
- Add -fn command to set commands for Fn function keys
- HOME command added to warp cursor to center of image
- Rename fitsio.* to fitsfile.* to avoid conflict with cfitsio
- Rename imhio.c to imhfile.c for consistency with fitsfile.c
- 1.23.2 (Doug Mink, SAO, July 16, 1998)
- Fix CSC and other quad cube projections
- Add key 1-9 commands for direct third dimension selection
- 1.23.1 (Doug Mink, SAO, July 13, 1998)
- Bug fixes in WCS subroutines
- Improve handling of 3-dimensional data
- 1.23 (Doug Mink, SAO, July 7, 1998)
- Bug fixes in and restructuring of WCS subroutines
- wcsinit.c: New file made up of header-accessing parts of old wcs.c
- wcs.c and mainkey.c: Add support for multiple faces of quad cube images
- mainkey.c: Add h key command to switch between degrees and sexigesimal RA and Dec
- 1.22 (Doug Mink, SAO, May 15, 1998)
- Implement ecliptic coordinate tracking using e key
- Implement equinox of image coordinates (header EPOCH = date, 2000, 1950);
Add i command to track in equinox of image, as an alternative to j or b
- wcs.c: Implement Mark Calabretta's WCSLIB projections, IRAF TNX projection,
and WCSTools polynomial projection (uses COi_nnn keywords)
- Lots of small changes to wcs.c subroutines
- 1.21 (Doug Mink, SAO, January 14, 1998)
- iraf2fits.c: Add support for IRAF 2.11 .imh files
- readiraf.c: Change code so all .imh files can be read on any architecture
- wcs.c: Fix bug so DSS image coordinates can be converted to B1950
- 1.20 (Doug Mink, SAO, October 25, 1996)
- cmddisp.c: Add cursor commands in new subroutine, parse_cursor()
- cmdpars.c: Add call to parse_cursor()
- wcs.c: Add plate scale to wcscent() (SAOimage WCS descriptive message)
- 1.19 (Doug Mink, SAO, August 13, 1996)
- Fix many small bugs in WCS library; match to wcslib-1.1
- wcs.c: Add more possibilities to simple WCS, including systemless
coordinates which cannot be translated by j, b, or g keys
- 1.18 (Doug Mink, SAO, February 9, 1996)
- The Q key no longer exits from SAOimage when an image is being
displayed in IMTOOL mode.
- Fix size problem with image pixel value in cursor tracking window
- Switch display mode instead of printing for B, G, and J keys
- Get rid of pipe error message if displaying an image from the
command line.
- readiraf.c: Read arbitrary, rather than fixed-sized, IRAF image header
- wcs.c: Add simple WCS if RA, DEC, and SECPIX (arcsec/pixel) keywords
are in the header. Assume north at top, east at left of image.
- 1.17 (Doug Mink, SAO, December 14, 1995)
- Add WCS tracking for IRAF images
- readiraf.c: Add conversion to FITS header and WCS initialization
- iraf2fits.c: New subroutine to convert IRAF headers to FITS headers
- hput.c: New subroutine to add parameters to FITS headers
- 1.16 (Doug Mink, SAO, November 7, 1995)
- platepos.c: Add 0.5 pixel offset between FITS image pixels and DSS
plate pixels for more accurate astrometry from DSS plates.
- worldpos.c: Fix WCS bug when dealing with WFPC preview images which
have horizontal declination and vertical right ascension.
- 1.15 (Doug Mink, SAO, October 18, 1995)
- wcs.c: Add new subroutine, wcscent, to print image center and size
so it is not automatically printed
- platepos.c: Fix RA,DEC ->image pixel subroutine so it works
- panwndw.c: Fix pan box to display images correctly
- prntcurs.c: Fix WCS check before printing WCS information
- readarr.c: Skip to correct image directly instead of fudging header length
- 1. Improvements for VMS from Harry Payne at STScI
- 2. Makefile for Linux from Peter Teuben at UMd
- 3. Additional bug fixes from Jay Travisano at STScI
- 1.14 (Doug Mink, SAO, August 18, 1995)
- wcs.c: Move wcs structure outside of file, but still allocate it with
wcsinit()
- wcscon.c: New subroutine to convert between FK4, FK5, and galactic
coordinates
- cmdparse.c: Add new commands to set coordinate system for cursor tracking
- mainkey.c: Add new commands to print cursor position in any coordinate
system.
- mgfyctrl.c: Blank part of coordinate field if display length gets shorter
- 1.13 (Doug Mink, SAO, May 5, 1995)
- platepos.c: Fix bug in DSS plate solution subroutine
- readint.c: Add Martin Bly's (Starlink) modification for 64-bit-long machines
- hget.c: Replace strstr() string search with faster homebrew version, strsrch()
- 1. Numerous bug fixes suggested by Corby Jacobs of STScI and Grant Privett
of Starlink
- 2. Changes to make ANSI C compatible
- 3. Changes for port to native Solaris C
- 1.12 (Doug Mink, SAO, March 8, 1995)
- platepos.c: compute WCS from Digital Sky Survey plate solutions
- 1. Major bug in DSS plate solution subroutine found May 3, 1995
- 1.11 (Doug Mink, SAO, January 20, 1995)
- Add ability to handle narrow files which previously crashed SAOimage
when the pan box could not display them, at the request of the SWAS team.
- 1.10 (Doug Mink, SAO, December 22, 1994)
- Add use of CD matrix as an alternate to CDELT/CRROT WCS description,
at the request of Dennis Crabtree of DAO
- 1.09 (Doug Mink, SAO, October 19, 1994)
- Add World Coordinate System tracking
- hget.c: extract parameter values from FITS headers
- wcs.c: set of subroutines to initialize and format WCS information
- worldpos.c: version of NRAO worldpos to compute WCS from pixel coordinates
- prntcent.c: compute intensity-weighted center of 9x9 array around cursor
- prntcurs.c: display WCS of cursor position
- 1.08 (Doug Mink, SAO, May 9, 1993)
- Add linear autoscale base on histogram using -lfrac, fraction
- Display floating point images on byte-reversed (i.e. DEC) machines correctly
- 1.07 (NOAO, August 26, 1994)
- This was the last of several 1.07 releases
- NOAO modifications for use as IMTOOL with IRAF
- 1.06 (Mike VanHilst, SAO, August 14, 1991)
- disppsct.c: Generate EPS (Adobe v2.0), CDB
- Known bugs:
- 1. Sizes for images being displayed with less than full resolution can
be mis-calculated in some circumstances, resulting in an extra,
non-image line at the bottom.
- 2. SAOimage is NOT X11 ICCCM compliant in the following areas:
- a. It does not use resources for defaults (i.e. background and border
colors).
- b. No cut and paste mechanisms are supported
- 3. Massively zoomed tiny images may have coloring anomolies at the edges.
- 1.04 (Mike VanHilst, SAO, June 21, 1991)
- doc/manual.tex: Latex'd manual!
- all makefiles: Redone by NOAO for better porting
- ctrlcntn.c: Removed autoflush (bad for MIPS implementations)
- mainevnt.c: Fixed mask inconsistancy causing "bad file number" errors
- hfiles/imtool.h:Some new IRAF support (alternate paths to fbconfig)
- cmdimage.c cmdparse.c:
Added + type switches where switch can toggle feature on/off.
- hfiles/coord.h crdtemp.c dispbtmp.c dispdfse.c dispdthr.c disppxmp.c imgnew.c
mgfydraw.c sclctrl.c:
Fixed numerous bugs for handling of very small images.
- histlist.c: Fix for infinite loop problem
- btnlib/draw.c cmdparse.c wndwadj.c:
#ifdef'd kludge switches buttons to ZPixmap format for
ALLIANT server which does not display XYBitmap correctly.
- 1.03 (Mike VanHilst, SAO, Jan 1, 1991)
- csrcoord.c csrctrl.c csrdraw.c csrmove.c csrsave.c csrshape.c csrslct.c:
- csrtext.c (new):
- doc/cursor.txt doc/hardcopy.txt doc/region.txt:
- editdraw.c:
- mainkey.c mainslct.c:
- panel/cursor.menu panel/menucsr.h:
- rgnctrl.c rgnmake.c rgnread.c rgntoken.c rgnwpros.c:
New features for labeling images - arrow and text cursors
- clralloc.c: Permits users with 4-5 plane machines to try color features
- cmdimage.c: Removed restrictions on file names starting with non-alpha
- doc/manual.tex The manual has been Latex'd! (see manual.dvi - 36 pages)
- imgflip.c: Fixed rotation of long or skinny images
- imgnew.c: Fixed load_mainbuf buffer zeroing
- mainevnt.c: Fixed non-portable #ifdefs
- mgfydraw.c: Fixed fatal magnifier bug (noticed by users of small images)
- mgfyval.c: Upgraded optimal output format algorithm
- wndwconf.c wndwinit.c: Match arg typing to new Xlib.h (ANSII C type warning)
- 1.02 (Mike VanHilst, SAO, June 3, 1990)
- sclctrl.c: fixed bug which assigned wrong image type at init time
- clralloc.c: added colormap creation needed for OpenWindows and
SiliconGraphics
- wndwcre.c, editctrl.c: added ICCCM compliant focus message for window manager
- cmdimage.c: upgraded experimental real-time code
- 1.0 (Mike VanHilst, SAO, May 1, 1990)
- Changes from beta version:
- File names have all been shortened to an 8.3
(or smaller) format to enable movement through MSDOS file systems. A
second button appearance is available. Many internal code changes (to
aid in debugging and support socket IO, to name a couple).
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