v2.2.1

This is the final release to support NXgeometry. Instead, templates should use the field depends_on and NXtransformations to position components, and use NXoff_geometry to describe volume shapes. NXcylindrical_geometry can be used for exactly cylindrical components.

There are various bug fixes included in this release compared to v2.2.0.

v.2.2.0

What's Changed

• Done button in array dataset widget by @kmurica in #1018
• Fixed issue with unflattened lists by @kmurica in #1019
• Adding handling for float case that was missed in previous PR by @kmurica in #1020

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v.2.2.0

v2.1.0

What's Changed

• ECDC-3189: Adding se00 writer module by @kmurica in #1010
• fixing units bug by @kmurica in #1011
• Unit magnitude consideration for slits and box geometries by @kmurica in #1012
• ECDC-3262: Enable NeXus skeleton file creation by @kmurica in #1013
• ECDC-3280: Adding f144 stream module by @kmurica in #1015
• ECDC-3265 fixing se00 type by @hurvan in #1014
• ECDC-3282: Adding repetition of box shape geometry for NXdetector components by @kmurica in #1016

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.1.0

NeXus Constructor v2.0.0

News

A major overhaul of the NeXus constructor has been done in 2021 and 2022.
The most impactful changes that the user will directly notice are following:

• Changes to NeXus tree structure and tree view. It is now possible to build any arbitrary NeXus structure by adding and editing groups, components, transformations and file writer modules.
• Upgrade from PySide2 to PySide6.
• Overall improvements to the graphical user interface such as component highlights in 3D view, colors, camera settings and many more.
• Countless bug fixes.

What's Changed

• Fixing windows-specific transformation view UI issue by @rerpha in #694
• 662 - fixing array attributes not being set correctly by @rerpha in #691
• Adding general information about purpose of nexus constructor by @rerpha in #698
• #699: Adding "getting started" page by @rerpha in #700
• Make start guide link more prominent in readme by @matthew-d-jones in #704
• Encourage virtual environment usage by @mattclarke in #705
• Fix test file locations by @mattclarke in #706
• Update README.md by @mattclarke in #707
• Removed explicit instructions for interviews by @mattclarke in #713
• Attempting to make nexus-constructor.py work from any directory by @rerpha in #708
• Use streaming-data-types module from pypi by @matthew-d-jones in #725
• Model change part 1: Add component window by @rerpha in #695
• Disabling nexus actions + silx treeview by @rerpha in #696
• 726 shape model change by @rerpha in #735
• 730: transformations model change by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #738
• 728 Fixing edit component window by @rerpha in #737
• Model change cleanup by @rerpha in #743
• 730: Preserving distance information by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #742
• 730: Distance change updates Instrument View by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #746
• Make default translation along z by @matthew-d-jones in #747
• Add flake8 to precommit hook by @matthew-d-jones in #748
• Add more mypy configuratino by @matthew-d-jones in #750
• 730: Transformation magnitudes in UI value spinbox by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #753
• 754: Restore transformation view tests by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #755
• 736 pixel data by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #756
• Get field value fix by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #759
• 741 use numpy dtypes by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #761
• 731: Fix attributes by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #762
• Refactor extract dataset and attribute value types by @matthew-d-jones in #765
• Try using 7zip for archiving on windows by @matthew-d-jones in #766
• Refactor top level of model by @matthew-d-jones in #767
• Add as_dict methods to some model classes by @matthew-d-jones in #770
• 763 chopper shapes by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #764
• 772: Fix add row by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #775
• 771: Edited component loses transformations by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #776
• Reduce dependency on external code by @matthew-d-jones in #777
• #745: Fixing external transformations by @rerpha in #752
• 773: Remove no shape cube when component is edited by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #780
• 714: Fix zoom to component by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #781
• Fixing typos in ev42 advanced options by @rerpha in #784
• #769: Storing attribute type information + adding asdict method for attrs by @rerpha in #785
• 782: Load from JSON prototype by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #788
• Fix freezing app on windows by @matthew-d-jones in #794
• updating to 5.15.0 by @rerpha in #795
• 757: Some work on reading Transformations by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #792
• 799: JSON component depends on by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #801
• 800: Read OFF Geometry from JSON by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #802
• 800: Load cylinder information from JSON by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #804
• Fix coverage reporting by @rerpha in #812
• Close edit or attrs window when the parent dialog is closed by @rerpha in #806
• Fix for JSON loading warning dialog immediately closing after being shown by @rerpha in #810
• 786 missing as dicts by @rerpha in #793
• 805: Loading JSON pixel data by @DolicaAkelloEgwel in #807
• 814 Fix set_field_value by removing optional dtype and making dtype required by @rerpha in #815
• Use official flake8 precommit hook by @matthew-d-jones in #818
• Extract strings into constants wherever possible, use ValueTypes class by @rerpha in #817
• 813: Pixel mapping loading by @rerpha in #819
• Output forwarder config flatbuffer file by @matthew-d-jones in #822
• Model change cleanup by @rerpha in #820
• 824 json loading fields by @rerpha in #826
• ECDC-2007 Fix linter and macOS build issues by @amues in #828
• Use virtualenv for OSX CI builds by @matthew-d-jones in #831
• Correct transformations by @matthew-d-jones in #830
• 799 json depends on loading by @rerpha in #825
• Update to latest pyside to avoid Mac-based crash by @mattclarke in #838
• Implement saving and loading depends_on chains of transformations by @matthew-d-jones in #834
• changing datatype check to check for integers and not floats by @kmurica in #842
• Correct link to jenkins build badge by @ebadkamil in #845
• Add isort as a pre-commit hook by @ebadkamil in #849
• 843 fix json warning bug by @kmurica in #850
• 722 Show Button labels in ToolBar by @ebadkamil in #847
• Update Getting started README by @ebadkamil in #846
• 717 component edit add confirm window by @kmurica in #848
• 719 Raise buttons which are currently selectable by @ebadkamil in #851
• ECDC-2397: Change toolbar button background color if enabled by @ebadkamil in #853
• ECDC-2448: Add About Window by @ebadkamil in #854
• Ecdc 2395 fix mypy errors by @kmurica in #855
• Updated json structure by @SkyToGround in #856
• Fix minor UI issues by @SkyToGround in #857
• Various minor bug and ui fixes. by @SkyToGround in #858
• ECDC-2406: Remove file writer control functionality. by @ebadkamil in #860
• ECDC-2700_fixing_hdf5_links by @kmurica in #859
• Rearrange json utilities module by...

V1.3.0

New Features

• Live File-writer control window - #635
  • Adding persistent settings for filewriter control window - #656
• Maximising main window by default - #638
• Mantid IDF support - #655
• Non-scalar magnitudes now show UI values which update the 3d view, as well as on file load - #647
• Mesh generation optimisations - #682
• Default type in stream objects is now double - #667

Bug Fixes

• Units not being displayed properly for transforms - #646
• Recursive, relative transforms now working - #651
• Units not validated against correctly - #675
• Byte-string values not displayed correctly in field widget - #677
• 3d view not updating when link is deleted - #684
• edit component button not greyed out when transformation is selected - #680
• end-of-chain depends on transformation error - #674
• transformations not being deleted when component is deleted (high priority as it renders the program unusable) - #672

V1.2.0

New features

• Pixel data is now filled in when editing a component - #522
• Fields are now filled in when editing a component
• Attributes can now be set on fields - #436
• Transformations are now loaded into the UI when a file is loaded - #512
• value_units can now be set on f142 fields - #588
• Higher precision for scalar vector values - #555
• User can now zoom into components - #582
• senv stream support added - #556
• Default broker can be used for f142 json output - #592
• Streams, arrays, groups, links etc can now be used for transformation magnitude - #609
• Transformation view UI improvements - #511

Bug fixes

• Scaling/DPI issues - #545
• Type conversion - #515, #519
• Preventing dependee_of field from being added to the filewriter JSON - #521
• Shapes not clearing after a new file is loaded - #528
• (Windows) - chopper drawing issues - #529
• Some values not changing when updating components - #533
• Exceptions when cylinder geometry based component is edited - #539
• UI issues when editing component, ok button greyed out - #541
• Edit component window no longer has "add component" as the title - #547
• (Windows) component selection highlight not working, UI improvements in general - #549
• Stream groups, loading and writing incorrectly - #558
• attrs validity not reevaluating when dtype changes - #581
• Loading bytestrings from nxs file - #586
• Blank options no longer being added to filewriter JSON - #589
• Misleading placeholder for topic in stream options - #591
• Stopping NC-specific NX_classes from being added to JSON, causing potentially incorrect NX_class values - #605
• Axis direction when editing a cylinder with zero height - #610

V1.1.0

Several bug fixes, adds 3d transformations, forwarder and file-writer command JSON writing and file-writer command JSON reading, as well as stream fields, pixel data, links and adding the ability to edit an existing component.

V1.0.1

Bug fixes

• Updated version number in setup.py

V1.0.0

First release for the NeXus-constructor.

Binaries available for Linux and Windows.

Known bugs:

• Adding a transform in the "add component" or "edit component" window does not work. Workaround: add the transform after adding the component in the left pane. (#112)
• Several QML warnings (see current issues #136, #179, #149)
• Program segfaults after selecting a file twice (#169)

Features added:

• Unit validation
• Dummy object for no geometry component
• Various UI changes such as scrollbars and removing bounce animations
• Selectable text fields
• File validation
• Executables on every PR build
• Updated to Qt 5.12.2
• Axis are now displayed in 3d view

Developer notes:

• Removed vector class and replaced with Qvector3D
• Unit tests added and some code refactored in the data model to make more readable and testable
• General OOP changes
• Added black formatting
• More documentation
• Wiki addition