1 Gwave NEWS --- history of user-visible changes. -*- text -*-
4 - minor fixes adaptating for stable guile-gnome-platform-2.16.1
5 - seems to be stable now
8 - Another alpha release using guile-gnome-platform, for wider testing
9 - Fixed "zoom dialog" for guile-gnome-platform
10 - Still having some occasional crashes, apparently due to memory corruption
11 that I haven't yet tracked down or pinned on guile-gnome-platform or anything else.
15 a "gwave2" version that uses Gtk+-2.0 by way of guile-gnome-platform.
16 Feature-wise, about the same as the previous release.
17 I think I've fixed most of the crashes. Known defects:
18 Several dialogs that should have defaults don't.
19 The change-waveform-color menu doesn't show the colors, just numbers.
22 - full-height vertical scrollbar appears if the total height of all
23 panels becomes larger than the window.
24 - new panel type "jumbo" stays larger even when things get crowded
25 - most deprecated guile calls removed. Guile 1.6 or later is now required.
28 - ALPHA RELEASE: may crash. do not rely on for production use.
29 - handling of multi-sweep datafiles
30 - vertical scrollbars on label/measure area in each wavepanel make handling
31 large numbers of waveforms easier.
34 - Got docstring extraction from C source to .txt files in doc directory working again
35 - applied submitted patch that cleans up warnings from gcc3 about multiline text strings in C code
38 - bugfixes to make the new print/plot stuff work better
39 - path to working gnu graph found by configure is passed to scheme code
42 - major new work on print/plot output, gnugraph and gnuplot backends
43 - simple data-export function
46 - tiniest bugfix to accconfig.h: left some CVS-conflict junk behind
47 - missing files src/xsnarf.h, src/xguile-snarf added
48 - Now a useful snapshot, while 20020419 didn't quite work.
52 - better handling of really huge hspice files
55 - fix RPM building and other minor build issues
58 - restore ability to compile with guile-1.3.4
61 - interactive Y-zoom and XY-area zoom added (see Readme)
62 - zoom-to-exact-size dialog box added
65 - better measurement: value at both cursors or difference in values at cursors
66 - enhanced handling of log scales
67 - yet more file-reading improvements and general bug fixes
70 - Saving wave and panel configuration as guile scripts.
71 - Executing guile scripts from menu or command line (-s <script> option)
72 - Remote control using the gwave-exec and gwaverepl utilities
75 - Spice3/Ngspice rawfile improvements: binary files now work!
76 - Other minor file-reading improvements.
77 - spice source code to examples for which I could still find it.
80 - Major improvements to handling of binary files produced by HSPICE.
81 - Overhaul of input of spice3/ngspice raw files; more robust and tolerant
83 - User interface improvements: tooltips added. User's .gwaverc no longer
84 required to do lots of standard setup. system.gwaverc can be copied
85 to $HOME/.gwaverc and edited to taste.
86 - sp2sp utility included for converting any spice file readable by gwave into
87 a convenient tabular ascii format.
90 - Logarithmic scales working on both X and Y axis.
93 - First public guile/guile-gtk release.
94 - Popup menu on visible-wave button can activate per-waveform dialog box
95 - Logarithmic scale on Y axis working; on X axis it isn't quite there yet.
98 - Merged in guile and guile-gtk; the GUI is mostly written in guile now.
99 - Some additional improvements to reading of HSPICE input. Reading partial
100 files from simulations still in progress works for ascii .tr0 files.
103 Improved handling of HSPICE ascii format in libspicefile - tested on files
104 from 98.4 on HP-UX and Solaris.
107 - Changed version naming scheme to one based on the date, rather than a number
108 that suggests some sort of progress on the scale from 0.0 to 1.0.
109 - Deleting and reloading waveform files
110 - Detects Gtk 1.0 vs Gtk 1.2, builds on either.
111 (assumes that Gtk+-1.1.x is like 1.2, which may even be correct somtimes)
112 - New structure for file-reading code uses a library libspicefile.a, which I
113 also use in some other tools.
114 - Should handle HSPICE AC analysis files without ".options probe" better.
116 known bugs and limitations in 19990601:
117 - panel setup after adding waveforms may not always be right, in particular
118 after adding first waveform to a panel. If the horizontal scale looks bogus,
120 - Although it can read HSPICE AC analysis files that have complex variables,
121 it doesn't display those variables correctly yet. Can't read spice3 or spice2
122 AC analysis rawfiles containing complex variables.
123 - I've had some trouble with my adaptation of the spice2 file reader.
124 - Doesn't always redraw after reloading a waveform file, do zoom all to fix.
127 - Inserting/deleting waveform panels.
128 - added right-button popup menu to waveform panels
129 - The compile/install process now uses automake and autoconf to generate
130 the familiar "configure" script
131 - An attempt at placing the variable list windows in a more convenient position
132 in relation to the main window. Getting this perfect under all window managers
133 is a losing proposition.
136 - Fixed bug in reading hspice files with lots of columns
137 - displays signal name list window for files read from the command line.
138 (note: it will probably be behind the main window)
139 - incorporated code contributed by Jeff Dionne for reading spice2 rawfiles
142 - Fixed bug and/or warning when first waveform is added to display
143 - Ability to drag vertical bar cursors around, in addition to click-to-place
144 - Added zoom-to-cursor function; if both cursors have been placed,
145 zooms so that the time between the cursors fills the display.
146 - Added zoom-to-window function. Select this menu option, then
147 press/drag/release mouse button 1 to indicate a region of the X
148 axis that then zooms to fill the display.
151 - Load multiple files at once, either from the command line or
153 - Some operations are moved to pulldown menus.