Change Log

0.6.1: 2017/11/10

  • Plot:

    • Fix logarithmic axes, broken by new matplotlib version 2.1.0.
    • Fix axis limits changed signal, not emitted with matplotlib 1.5.x and 2.0.x when the widget is resized.
    • Support displaying float128 data with matplotlib < 2.1.0.
    • Fix minor bugs with the crosshair cursor and the legends widget.

  • Update documentation on Zenodo DOI and Debian packages installation.

  • Fix the Debian packaging script for Ubuntu distributions.

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