ChangeLog

Changes from 0.6.5 to 0.7.0 (in development)

• Implemented support for Python 3.x (closes: #76). In order to run GSDView with Python 3 it is necessary to have GDAL >= 1.10. GSDView now requires Python >= 2.6.
• Now it is possible to toggle the full-screen mode using a tool-button or a keyboard shortcut.
• The exectools package now uses unicode buffers.
• Improved zoom control in case of high resolution mice or touchpads.
• Renewed sphinx theme. The HTML sphinx theme has been renewed. It is now based on the pydoctheme.
• The packaging scripts have been updated to run with the new PyInstaller 2.0.

Changes from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5 (13/11/2011)

• New gsdtools package providing extra utilities for geo-spatial data handling. The gsdview.gsdtools module has been renamed into gsdview.imgutils.
• New functions for KML export and dataset area display on “Google Earth” and “Google Maps” (see #67)
• Fixed workaround for incorrect GCP handling of ENVISAT stripline products
• Fixed global exception handler
• Fixed calls to external GDAL utilities by adding quotes to config options
• Fixed an unicode related issue in calls to gdal.SetConfigOption
• Improved PyInstaller packaging (upgreded to 1.5.1)
• Fix plugin loading when no plugin have to be loaded
• Support for PySide (closes #86, see also #87)

Changes from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4 (14/11/2010)

• Restored full compatibility wirh GDAL 1.6.x series
• Metadata export and printing (#84 and #85)
• mainwin.py module renamed into mdi.py
• Set numeric locale to “C” at application startup in order to prevent issues with GDAL statistics serialization in virtual files
• Improved management of Qt4 items type
• Strongly improved GDAL dataset dialog
• Update to the new debian package format and new packaging standards

Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3 (13/08/2010)

• Switch to the new PyQt4 signal/slot API (close #42)
• Switch to PyQt4 API 2 for QString, QVariant etc (close #83)
• All classes that inherit from Qt objects or widgets now can be initialized using keyword arguments for Qt properties and signals setup
• Improved overviews handling:
  • overview items are no more displayed in the treeview by default. It is possible to get the old behaviour by checking the appropriate flag in the preferences dialog (close #51)
  • enabled action for overview computation in the dataset item context menu
  • the GDAL info dialog for raster bands has a new tab for overviews that also allows computation of new overviews (close #74)
• Improved complex datasets support
• Improved sub-datasets handling
• Improved Radarsat2 support
• Now exectools.Qt4OutputHandler emits signals

Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2 (20/07/2010)

• System info reporting improvements
• Fix system path setup in frozen environments
• Exectools package improved (close #57)
• Always use (x,y,z) convention for geometric transforms
• Enabled complex selection on all lists and tables (close #68)
• New button for stopping external tools (close #58)
• Drop GDAL 1.5.x series: now GSDView requires GDAL 1.6.1 or higher
• Statistics and histograms computation now is fully asynchronous (close #45). Configuration of custom histogram parameters in the GDAL info dialogs is temporary disabled.

Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (09/05/2010)

• Basic support for RGB views (#18)
• Use global exception hook to catch un-handled exceptions (close #28). An error dialog is showed and the application quits.
• New mouse manager component (#41)
• Re-factoring of graphics items components
• New tool (plugin) for image stretching (close #54)
• Strongly improved GDAL info dialogs (enhancement #39 and #49). Now dialogs show more info including:
  • image structure metadata
  • histograms (only in table form at the moment)
  • color tables
  • metadata for ˆIMAGE_STRUCTUREˆ, ˆSUBDATASETSˆ and ˆRPCˆ domains (standard domain was already available)
• Plugins re-factoring
• Auto detect GDAL framework binaries on Mac OS X (close #37)
• Improved support for Mac OS X (#31, #32, #33, #34). None Qt >= 4.6.2 is required on Mac OS X.
• Reduced a bit the time required for datasets opening (see #29)
• Improved the algorithm to determine the overview levels to compute at band opening time (see #40)
• Now it is possible to pre-compile UI files into python modules and use generated modules to set the GUI up. If pre-compiled python forms are not available the GUI is set up using Qt UI files directly.
• Now use docutils for generating the manpage (#50)
• Packaging using PyInstaller (#25)
• Other bug fix (#38, #48, #53)

Changes from 0.5.9 to 0.6.0 (24/08/2009)

• New plugin manager module (close #21):
  • configurable search path for plugins
  • support for zip imports and eggs (not tested)
  • a new tab in preferences dialog allows to configure plugins manager via GUI
• Fixed bug in sub-datasets handling
• Improved debian packaging (close #20)
• API reference added to documentation
• Resources handling re-factoring (close #23)
• Initial support for PyInstaller packaging (#25)
• Improved project layout: exectools in now an independent python package, no more a sub-package of gsdview (close #27)
• setuptools support (close #24)

Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.5.9 (10/05/2009)

• Complete application rewrite:
  • new architecture that allows multiple backends for actual data access (currently only GDAL backend is provided)
  • updated dataset browser with new contextual actions
  • now the application uses a Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
  • pluggable about dialog (plugins can add their own tab)
  • preference dialog
  • splash screen
• Improved GDAL configuration handling (without application re-spawning)
• New function for converting a numpy array into a QImage: now PyQwt is no more a strong dependency

Version 0.3.0 (18/05/2008)

First public release