Phil Weinstein / Accomplishments -- February 2013 (3-8-2013)

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   (A) Scenario Manager Enhancements, Development
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Development of major enhancements to RiverWare Scenarios was substantially completed in February 2013. Final bug fixing and feature documentation was completed in early March. This work is intended to provide a simpler user interface and workflow for "stakeholder" scenario users. Enhancements include:

• Automatic generation and maintenance of a set of special snapshot objects to represent scenario outputs.
  
• New "Scenario Playbox" dialog providing:
1. Slider-controlled adjustments to scenario input slots.
2. "Easy" plotting of scenario output slots based on dynamic list selections of scenarios and slots.

The new Scenario capabilities are described in this feature document:

• RiverWare Scenario Enhancements / Scenario Playbox (3-7-2013; 15 pages).
  R:\doc\Scenarios\ScenarioMgrEnhanceWithPlayBoxFeature.fm

In February, development accomplishments included all tasks outlined in this design document:

• Scenario Manager Enhancements; Scenario Playbox / Design for RiverWare 6.3
  Revised 2-10-2013, 21 pages.
  R:\doc\Scenarios\ScenarioMgrEnhanceWithPlayBoxDesign.pdf

The following design changes were also made in February:

1. The Scenario Output Snapshot Object Slot List is presented in the Scenario Manager instead of the Snapshot Manager.
2. Added stakeholder option to Disable the Scenario Playbox for individual scenarios so that the one-to-three Scenario Playbox Input Slots can instead be directly edited in the conventional manner.
3. Added "Scenario Playbox" button on the bottom of the RiverWare Workspace. This button is shown only when a playbox configuration has been defined within the model.
4. Added ability to delete scenarios from the Scenario Playbox.
5. Added a playbox "slider" icon to Scenario Input Slot items in the Scenario Manager. See:
      R:\doc\Scenarios\ScenarioPlayboxSliderIcon.pdf
6. When creating a new scenario within the scenario playbox, the user provides the new scenario's name. (Previously, a scenario could be named only when saving it to a scenario file).
   

Additionally, the following general enhancement was made to Snapshot Object support:

Exporting and re-importing Snapshot Objects had not previously been fully supported in RiverWare: the associations of the Snapshot Object's slots with the original slots from which the snapshot was made had not been retained. This has been fixed. Now, when re-importing a Snapshot Object, these associations are restored. So, for example, the feature of plotting a particular slot and all of its Snapshot Object copies in a single plot now functions properly for re-imported snapshot objects. This was important also for loading a scenario file which now has an embedded Snapshot Object.

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Proposals and Estimate for New RiverWare Work
   (A) Suggestions for RiverWare Plotting Enhancements
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A list of possible enhancements to RiverWare plotting features was drafted. See this document:

• RiverWare Plotting Enhancement Suggestions; February 2013; Phil Weinstein
  R:\doc\plotting\FeatureIdeas\2013\PlottingIdeasPw-Feb2013.pdf
   

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[I.A.4] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Software Maintenance
   (A) Qt3 to Qt4 Port: Open Object Dialog
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Fixes were applied to the Open Object Dialog Qt4 port, completed in January 2012. These included:

1. Element Objects (in an Open Object Dialog for an Aggregate Object) are not to be sorted.
2. The context menu in the Methods tab wasn't operational.
   

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