Phil Weinstein / Accomplishments -- Sept 2013

Phil Weinstein / Accomplishments -- September 2013 -- Edit 10-4-2013

General Development Accomplishments

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
New: Multiple Account Method Selector
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With a design similar to the Multiple Object Account Method Selector, the new Multiple Account Method Selector allows the user to inspect and reassign methods of an arbitrary set of Accounts within a RiverWare model. It is accessible from the Accounts Manager Dialog -- from the dialog's Account menu and the account list's context menu. The method selector is initialized with whatever accounts (if any) were selected in the Accounts Manager Dialog -- additional accounts can be added using the general Account Selector. The Multiple Account Method Selector will be available in RiverWare 6.4.

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
DMI GUI Enhancements / DMI Year Mapping Group
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General DMI GUI Enhancement:

DMI Group icons ("[G]") were developed which include an indication of group content -- with respect to Input DMIs and Output DMIs. Four variations are provided: (1) empty, (2) Input DMIs only, (3) Output DMIs only, (4) both Input and Output DMIs. Unfortunately, these new icons show up only in the DMI Manager dialog and supporting detail and selector dialogs. We don't yet have a way of showing wide icons in the DMI menu. A distinct set of icons was also developed for the new DMI Year Mapping Groups ("[M]").

DMI Year Mapping Group Dialog Enhancements:

Year Mapping Group "Year in Database" values are now initially undefined (i.e. not defaulted to the run year).
DMI Year Mapping Groups support a user-editable description.
Year mapping data is now displayed in a GUI table rather than in a list view in order to support multiple cell selections for: (a) multiple cell edits, and (b) copy and paste operations, e.g. to and from an Excel spreadsheet.

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
Improved Slot Dialog window auto placement and size adjustments.
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Improvements were made to the initial placement and auto-sizing behavior of Slot Dialogs, with special provisions for multiple-screen workstations. Slots having many columns -- more than what can be viewed on one screen -- were posing usability problems. Open slot dialogs are now initially limited to a single screen size, their windows are initially made fully visible within their screen, and slots which naturally exceed a single-screen size are no longer automatically fitted (resized) as a result of subsequent user operations. These and additional related enhancements have been documented with Gnats 5386.

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[I.A.2] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Bug Fixes
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5325: Curves and Markers on Printed Plots are Way Too Thin
... See document: R:\doc\plotting\PlotPrinting\Rw64\PrintedCurveWidth.pdf
5364: Not able to export Object Coordinates from the Object Coordinator Manager
5382: Global function icons on RPL Palette function list are tiny.
5384: Persistence support for Maximized state of RiverWare workspace
5386: Improved Slot Dialog window auto placement and size adjustments. (See description above).

Maintenance Accomplishments

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[I.A.4] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Software Maintenance
File Chooser Dialogs
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Evidence of file system instability with one of the two forms of file chooser dialogs used in RiverWare (the custom Qt version) -- see Gnats 5364 -- motivated us to change all file chooser dialog uses to the native Windows file chooser. This has been completed for the RiverWare 6.4 release. A new RiverWare file chooser class (RwFileDialog) was created in order to migrate all uses of the undesirable file chooser to the native file chooser. This has the additional potential benefit of providing a central point from which additional file chooser features can be implemented, such "application-level file history" recording, and making available the full path of the picked file to the system clipboard -- though we have not yet enabled those features. (Not all RiverWare file chooser uses are currently implemented with the new RwFileDialog class).

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