Change Log

0.6.0: 2017/10/02

• OpenCl. Tomography. Implement a filtered back projection.
• Add a PrintPreview widget and a PrintPreviewToolButton for PlotWidget.
• Plot:
  • Add a context menu on right click.
  • Add a ComplexImageView widget.
  • Merged abstract Plot class with PlotWidget class.
  • Make colormap an object with signals (sigChanged)
  • Add a colorbar widget silx.gui.plot.ColorBar.
  • Make axis an object, allow axis synchronization between plots, allow adding constraints on axes limits.
  • Refactor plot actions, new sub-package silx.gui.plot.actions.
  • Add signals on PlotWidget items notifying updates.
  • Mask. Support loading of TIFF images.
• Plot3d:
  • Rework toolbar and interaction to use only the left mouse button.
  • Support any colormap.
• Hdf5TreeView:
  • Add an API to select a single tree node item (setSelectedH5Node)
  • Better support and display of types.
  • New column for displaying the kind of links.
  • Broken nodes are now selectable.
• StackView. Add a setTitleCallback method.
• Median filter. Add new modes (reflect, mirror, shrink) in addition to nearest.
• IO:
  • Rename module spectoh5 to convert. Add support for conversion of fabio formats.
  • Support NPZ format.
  • Support opening an URI (silx.io.open(filename::path)).
  • Group methods .keys, .value and .items now return lists in Python 2 and iterators in Python 3.
• Image. Add tomography utils: phantomgenerator to produce Shepp-Logan phantom, function to compute center of rotation (calc_center_corr, calc_center_centroid) and rescale the intensity of an image (rescale_intensity).
• Commands:
  • silx view:
    • Add command line option –use-opengl-plot.
    • Add command line option –debug, to print dataset reading errors.
    • Support opening URI (silx view filename::path).
  • silx convert. New command line application to convert supported data files to HDF5.
• Enable usage of silx.resources for other projects.
• The silx license is now fully MIT.

0.5.0: 2017/05/12

• Adds OpenGL backend to 1D and 2D graphics
• Adds Object Oriented plot API with Curve, Histogram, Image, ImageRgba and Scatter items.
• Implements generic launcher (silx view)
• NXdataViewer. Module providing NeXus NXdata support
• Math/OpenCL. Implementation of median filter.
• Plot. Implementation of ColorBar widget.
• Plot. Visualization of complex data type.
• Plot. Implementation of Scatter Plot Item supporting colormaps and masks.
• Plot. StackView now supports axes calibration.
• I/O. Supports SPEC files not having #F or #S as first line character.
• I/O. Correctly exposes UB matrix when found in file.
• ROIs. Simplification of API: setRois, getRois, calculateRois.
• ROIs. Correction of calculation bug when the X-axis values were not ordered.
• Sift. Moves package from silx.image to silx.opencl.

0.4.0: 2017/02/01

• Adds plot3D package (include visualization of 3-dimensional scalar fields)
• Adds data viewer (it can handle n-dimensional data)
• Adds StackView (ex. Visualization of stack of images)
• Adds depth profile calculation (ex. extract profile of a stack of images)
• Adds periodic table widget
• Adds ArrayTableWidget
• Adds pixel intensity histogram action
• Adds histogram parameter to addCurve
• Refactoring. Create silx.gui.data (include widgets for data)
• Refactoring. Rename utils.load as silx.io.open
• Changes active curve behavior in Plot. No default active curve is set by default
• Fit Action. Add polynomial functions and background customization
• PlotWindow. Provide API to access toolbar actions
• Handle SPEC, HDF5 and image formats through an unified API
• hdf5widget example. Inspect and visualize any datasets
• Improves mask tool
• Deprecates PlotWindow dock widgets attributes in favor of getter methods

0.3.0: 2016/10/12

• Adds OpenCL management
• Adds isosurface marching cubes
• Adds sift algorithm for image alignement
• Adds octaveh5 module to insure communication between octave and python using HDF5 file
• Adds silx.utils module containing weakref and html-escape
• Adds silx.sx for flat import (helper for interactive shell)
• Adds HDF5 load API (supporting Spec files) to silx.io.utils module
• Adds SpecFile support for multiple MCA headers
• Adds HDF5 TreeView
• Adds FitManager to silx.math.fit and FitWidget to silx.gui.fit
• Adds ThreadPoolPushButton to silx.gui.widgets
• Adds getDataRange function to plot widget
• Adds loadUi, Slot and Property to qt.py
• Adds SVG icons and support
• Adds examples for plot actions, HDF5 widget, helper widgets, converter from Spec to HDF5
• Adds tutorials for plot actions, spech5, spectoh5, sift and fitmanager
• Improves right axis support for plot widget
• Improves mask tool
• Refactors widgets constructor: first argument is now the parent widget
• Changes plot documentation and add missing module to the documentation

0.2.0: 2016/07/12

• Adds bilinear interpolator and line-profile for images to silx.image
• Adds Levenberg-Marquardt least-square fitting algorithm to silx.math.fit
• Histogramnd changed to become a class rather than a function, API and return values changed
• Adds HistogramndLut, using a lookup table to bin data onto a regular grid for several sets of data sharing the same coordinates
• Adds legend widget and bottom toolbar to PlotWindow
• Adds a line-profile toolbar to PlotWindow
• Adds ImageView widget with side histograms and profile toolbar
• Adds IPython console widget, to be started from PlotWindow toolbar
• Adds Plot1D widget for curves and Plot2D widget for images
• Adds ROI widget for curves in PlotWindow
• Adds a mask widget and toolbar to plot (2D)
• Renames silx.io.dicttoh5 to silx.io.dictdump
• Adds configuration dictionary dumping/loading to/from JSON and INI files in silx.io.configdict
• Adds specfile wrapper API compatible with legacy wrapper: silx.io.specfilewrapper
• Transposes scan data in specfile module to have detector as first index
• Set up nigthly build for sources package, debian packages (http://www.silx.org/pub/debian/) and documentation (http://www.silx.org/doc/)

0.1.0: 2016/04/14

• Adds project build, documentation and test structure
• Adds continuous integration set-up for Travis-CI and Appveyor
• Adds Debian packaging support
• Adds SPEC file reader, SPEC file conversion to HDF5 in silx.io
• Adds histogramnd function in silx.math
• Adds 1D, 2D plot widget with a toolbar, refactored from PyMca PlotWindow in silx.gui.plot