pyqtgraph/CHANGELOG

pyqtgraph-0.9.9  [unreleased]

  API / behavior changes:
    - Dynamic import system abandoned; pg now uses static imports throughout.
        - Flowcharts and exporters have new pluggin systems
    - Version strings:
        - __init__.py in git repo now contains latest release version string
          (previously, only packaged releases had version strings).
        - installing from git checkout that does not correspond to a release 
          commit will result in a more descriptive version string.
    - Speed improvements in functions.makeARGB
    - ImageItem is faster by avoiding makeQImage(transpose=True)
    - ComboBox will raise error when adding multiple items of the same name
    - ArrowItem.setStyle now updates style options rather than replacing them 
    - Renamed GraphicsView signals to avoid collision with ViewBox signals that
      are wrapped in PlotWidget: sigRangeChanged => sigDeviceRangeChanged and
      sigTransformChanged => sigDeviceTransformChanged.
    - GLViewWidget.itemsAt() now measures y from top of widget to match mouse 
      event position.
    - Made setPen() methods consistent throughout the package

  New Features:
    - Added ViewBox.setLimits() method
    - Adde ImageItem downsampling
    - New HDF5 example for working with very large datasets
    - Removed all dependency on scipy
    - Added Qt.loadUiType function for PySide
    - Simplified Profilers; can be activated with environmental variables
    - Added Dock.raiseDock() method
    - ComboBox updates:
        - Essentially a graphical interface to dict; all items have text and value
        - Assigns previously-selected text after list is cleared and repopulated
        - Get, set current value
    - Added Flowchart.sigChartChanged
    - ImageItem.getHistogram is more clever about constructing histograms
    - Added FillBetweenItem.setCurves()
    - MultiPlotWidget now has setMinimumPlotHeight method and displays scroll bar
      when plots do not fit inside the widget.
    - Added BarGraphItem.shape() to allow better mouse interaction
    - Added MeshData.cylinder
    - Added ViewBox.setBackgroundColor() and GLViewWidget.setBackgroundColor()
    - Utilities / debugging tools
        - Mutex used for tracing deadlocks
        - Color output on terminal
        - Multiprocess debugging colors messages by process
        - Stdout filter that colors text by thread
        - PeriodicTrace used to report deadlocks
    - Added AxisItem.setStyle()
    - Added configurable formatting for TableWidget
    - Added 'stepMode' argument to PlotDataItem()
    - Added ViewBox.invertX()
    - Docks now have optional close button

  Bugfixes:
    - PlotCurveItem now has correct clicking behavior--clicks within a few px
      of the line will trigger a signal.
    - Fixes related to CSV exporter:
        - CSV headers include data names, if available
        - Exporter correctly handles items with no data
        - pg.plot() avoids creating empty data item
        - removed call to reduce() from exporter; not available in python 3
        - Gave .name() methods to PlotDataItem, PlotCurveItem, and ScatterPlotItem
    - fixed ImageItem handling of rgb images
    - fixed makeARGB re-ordering of color channels
    - fixed unicode usage in AxisItem tick strings
    - fixed PlotCurveItem generating exceptions when data has length=0
    - fixed ImageView.setImage only working once
    - PolyLineROI.setPen() now changes the pen of its segments as well
    - Prevent divide-by-zero in AxisItem
    - Major speedup when using ScatterPlotItem in pxMode
    - PlotCurveItem ignores clip-to-view when auto range is enabled
    - FillBetweenItem now forces PlotCurveItem to generate path
    - Fixed import errors and py3 issues in MultiPlotWidget
    - Isosurface works for arrays with shapes > 255
    - Fixed ImageItem exception building histogram when image has only one value
    - Fixed MeshData exception caused when vertexes have no matching faces
    - Fixed GLViewWidget exception handler
    - Fixed unicode support in Dock
    - Fixed PySide crash caused by emitting signal from GraphicsObject.itemChange
    - Fixed possible infinite loop from FiniteCache
    - Allow images with NaN in ImageView
    - MeshData can generate edges from face-indexed vertexes
    - Fixed multiprocess deadlocks on windows
    - Fixed GLGridItem.setSize
    - Fixed parametertree.Parameter.sigValueChanging
    - Fixed AxisItem.__init__(showValues=False)
    - Fixed TableWidget append / sort issues
    - Fixed AxisItem not resizing text area when setTicks() is used
    - Removed a few cyclic references
    - Fixed Parameter 'readonly' option for bool, color, and text parameter types

pyqtgraph-0.9.8  2013-11-24

  API / behavior changes:
    - ViewBox will auto-range when ImageItem changes shape
    - AxisItem: 
        - Smarter about deciding which ticks get text
        - AxisItem.setScale(float) has the usual behavior, but .setScale(None) 
          is deprecated. Instead use:
          AxisItem.enableAutoSIPrefix(bool) to enable/disable SI prefix scaling
    - Removed inf/nan checking from PlotDataItem and PlotCurveItem; improved 
      performance

  New Features:
    - Support for dynamic downsampling and view clipping in PlotDataItem and 
      PlotItem
    - Added 'connect' option to PlotDataItem and PlotCurveItem to affect which 
      line segments are drawn
    - Support for FFT with non-uniform time sampling
    - Added BarGraphItem
    - OpenGL:
        - Added export methods to GLViewWidget
        - Wireframe meshes
        - GLLinePLotItem gets antialiasing, accepts array of colors
        - GLMeshItem accepts ShaderProgram or name of predefined program
        - Added GLBarGraphItem
    - LegendItem:
        - User-draggable
        - Allow custom ItemSamples
        - Symbol support
        - Support for removing items
    - ScatterPlotWidget, ColorMapWidget, and DataFilterWidget are stable
    - TableWidget:
        - Made numerically sortable
        - Added setEditable method
    - AxisItem ability to truncate axis lines at the last tick
    - arrayToQPath() added 'finite' connection mode which omits non-finite 
      values from connections
    - pg.plot() and pg.PlotWidget() now accept background argument
    - Allow QtProcess without local QApplication
    - Support for dashing in mkPen()
    - Added Dock.close()
    - Added style options to flowchart connection lines
    - Added parentChanged and viewChanged hooks to GraphicsItem 
    - Bidirectional pseudoScatter for beeswarm plots
    - Added exit() function for working around PyQt exit crashes
    - Added PolylineROI.getArrayRegion()

  Bugfixes:
    - Many Python 3 compatibility fixes
    - AxisItem:
        - Correctly handles scaling with values that are not power of 10
        - Did not update grid line length when plot stretches
        - Fixed unicode handling in AxisItem label
    - ViewBox:
        - Overhauled to fix issues with aspect locking
        - ViewBox context menu elements are no longer deleted when using 
          flowchart with pyside
        - Fixed view linking with inverted y axis
        - Prevent auto-range disabling when dragging with one mouse axis diabled
        - Ignore inf and nan when auto-ranging
    - ParameterTree:
        - fixed TextParameter editor disappearing after focus lost
        - ListParameter: allow unhashable types as parameter values.
    - Exporting:
        - ImageExporter correctly handles QBrush with style=NoBrush
        - SVGExporter text, gradients working correctly
        - SVGExporter correctly handles coordinate corrections for groups with 
          mixed elements
    - ImageView:
        - Fixed auto-levelling when normalization options change
        - Added autoHistogramRange argument to setImage
    - ScatterPlotItem:
        - Fixed crashes caused by ScatterPlotItem
        - Fixed antialiasing
    - arrayToQPath performance improved for python 3
    - Fixed makeQImage on many platforms (notably, on newer PyQt APIs)
    - Removed unnecessary scipy imports for faster import
    - GraphItem reports pixel margins to improve auto-range
    - Add backport ordereddict to repository; old OrderedDict class is removed
    - Corrected behavior of GraphicsView.setBackground
    - Fixed PySide bug listing image formats
    - Fixed QString -> str conversions in flowchart
    - Unicode file name support when exporting
    - Fixed MatplotlibWidget + PySide
    - Fixed 3D view updating after every scene change
    - Fixed handling of non-native dtypes when optimizing with weave
    - RemoteGraphicsView fixed for PyQt 4.10, Python 3
    - Fixed GLLinePlotItem line width option
    - HistogramLUTWidget obeys default background color
    - ScaleBar complete rewrite
    - GraphItem obeys antialiasing flag
    - Workaround for PySide/QByteArray memory leak
    - Fixed example --test on windows, python3
    - Luke finished dissertation


pyqtgraph-0.9.7  2013-02-25

   Bugfixes:
     - ArrowItem auto range now works correctly
     - Dock drag/drop fixed on PySide
     - Made padding behavior consistent across ViewBox methods
     - Fixed MeshData / python2.6 incompatibility
     - Fixed ScatterPlotItem.setSize and .setPointData
     - Workaround for PySide bug; GradientEditor fixed
     - Prefer initially selecting PlotItem rather then ViewBox when exporting
     - Fixed python3 import error with flowcharts
   
   Cleaned up examples, made code editable from example loader
   Minor documentation updates
   Features:
     - Added GraphItem class for displaying networks/trees
     - Added ColorMap class for mapping linear gradients and generating lookup
     tables
       (Provides gradient editor functionality without the GUI)
     - Added ColorMapWidget for complex user-defined color mapping
     - Added ScatterPlotWidget for exploring relationships in multi-column
     tables
     - Added ErrorBarItem
     - SVG and image exporters can now copy to clipboard
     - PlotItem gets new methods: addLine, setLabels, and listDataItems
     - AxisItem gets setTickFont method
     - Added functions.arrayToQPath, shared between GraphItem and PlotCurveItem
     - Added gradient editors to parametertree
     - Expanded documentation, added beginning of Qt crash course
   
   Bugfixes:
     - Fixed auto-ranging bugs: ViewBox now properly handles pixel-padding
     around data items
     - ViewBox ignores bounds of zoom-rect when auto ranging
     - Fixed AxisItem artifacts
     - Fixed GraphicsItem.pixelVector caching bugs and simplified workaround for
     fp-precision errors
     - LinearRegionItem.hoverEvent obeys 'movable' flag                         
                                                                                
                                        
     - Fixed PlotDataItem nan masking bugs                                      
                                                                                
                                        
     - Workaround for segmentation fault in QPainter.drawPixmapFragments        
                                                                                
                                        
     - multiprocess and RemoteGraphicsView work correctly in Windows.           
                                                                                
                                        
     - Expanded python 3 support                                                
                                                                                
                                        
     - Silenced weave errors by default                                         
                                                                                
                                        
     - Fixed " 'win' in sys.platform " occurrences matching 'darwin' (duh)
     - Workaround for change in QImage API (PyQt 4.9.6)
     - Fixed axis ordering bug in GLScatterPlotItem

pyqtgraph-0.9.6  2013-02-14

   Features:
     - Added GraphItem class for displaying networks/trees
     - Added ColorMap class for mapping linear gradients and generating lookup
     tables
       (Provides gradient editor functionality without the GUI)
     - Added ColorMapWidget for complex user-defined color mapping
     - Added ScatterPlotWidget for exploring relationships in multi-column
     tables
     - Added ErrorBarItem
     - SVG and image exporters can now copy to clipboard
     - PlotItem gets new methods: addLine, setLabels, and listDataItems
     - AxisItem gets setTickFont method
     - Added functions.arrayToQPath, shared between GraphItem and PlotCurveItem
     - Added gradient editors to parametertree
     - Expanded documentation, added beginning of Qt crash course
   
   Bugfixes:
     - Fixed auto-ranging bugs: ViewBox now properly handles pixel-padding
     around data items
     - ViewBox ignores bounds of zoom-rect when auto ranging
     - Fixed AxisItem artifacts
     - Fixed GraphicsItem.pixelVector caching bugs and simplified workaround for
     fp-precision errors
     - LinearRegionItem.hoverEvent obeys 'movable' flag                         
                                                                                
                                        
     - Fixed PlotDataItem nan masking bugs                                      
                                                                                
                                        
     - Workaround for segmentation fault in QPainter.drawPixmapFragments        
                                                                                
                                        
     - multiprocess and RemoteGraphicsView work correctly in Windows.           
                                                                                
                                        
     - Expanded python 3 support                                                
                                                                                
                                        
     - Silenced weave errors by default                                         
                                                                                
                                        
     - Fixed " 'win' in sys.platform " occurrences matching 'darwin' (duh)
     - Workaround for change in QImage API (PyQt 4.9.6)
     - Fixed axis ordering bug in GLScatterPlotItem
   Plotting performance improvements:
     - AxisItem shows fewer tick levels in some cases.
     - Lots of boundingRect and dataBounds caching
       (improves ViewBox auto-range performance, especially with multiple plots)
     - GraphicsScene avoids testing for hover intersections with non-hoverable
     items
       (much less slowdown when moving mouse over plots)
   
   Improved performance for remote plotting:
     - reduced cost of transferring arrays between processes (pickle is too
     slow)
     - avoid unnecessary synchronous calls
   
   Added RemoteSpeedTest example


pyqtgraph-0.9.5  2013-01-11

   Plotting performance improvements:
     - AxisItem shows fewer tick levels in some cases.
     - Lots of boundingRect and dataBounds caching
       (improves ViewBox auto-range performance, especially with multiple plots)
     - GraphicsScene avoids testing for hover intersections with non-hoverable
     items
       (much less slowdown when moving mouse over plots)
   
   Improved performance for remote plotting:
     - reduced cost of transferring arrays between processes (pickle is too
     slow)
     - avoid unnecessary synchronous calls
   
   Added RemoteSpeedTest example
   Documentation:
   - Added documentation on export system
   - Added flowchart documentation and custom node example
   
   Bugfixes: 
   - prevent PlotCurveItem drawing shadow when unnecessary
   - deprecated flowchart.Node.__getattr__ -- causes too many problems.

pyqtgraph-0.9.4  2013-01-07

   Documentation:
   - Added documentation on export system
   - Added flowchart documentation and custom node example
   
   Bugfixes: 
   - prevent PlotCurveItem drawing shadow when unnecessary
   - deprecated flowchart.Node.__getattr__ -- causes too many problems.
   Bugfix: prevent adding invalid entry to sys.path when running examples

pyqtgraph-0.9.3  2012-12-29

   Bugfix: prevent adding invalid entry to sys.path when running examples
   Bugfixes:
   - SVG export text elements use generic font-family as backup, corrected item
   transformation issues
   - Fixed RuntimeError caused when clearing item hierarchies from ViewBox
   - Fixed example execution bug
   
   Packaging maintenance:
   - Added missing files to MANIFEST.in, fixed setup.py package detection
   - Added debian control files for building source packages
   - Fixed version numbering in doc, __init__.py

pyqtgraph-0.9.2  2012-12-29

   Bugfixes:
   - SVG export text elements use generic font-family as backup, corrected item
   transformation issues
   - Fixed RuntimeError caused when clearing item hierarchies from ViewBox
   - Fixed example execution bug
   
   Packaging maintenance:
   - Added missing files to MANIFEST.in, fixed setup.py package detection
   - Added debian control files for building source packages
   - Fixed version numbering in doc, __init__.py

pyqtgraph-0.9.1  2012-12-27

   Removed incorrect version numbers
   Correction to setup.py - use install_requires to inform pip of dependencies.
   Fixed doc version (again)
   Added debian control files
   bugfixes for new package structure

pyqtgraph-0.9.0  2012-12-27

  * Initial release.