Phil Weinstein / Accomplishments -- October 2013 -- Edit 11-1-2013 (minor edit 11-2-2013)

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   New: Workspace Ornaments
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A basic capability of adding display text and images to the workspace was developed for RiverWare 6.5. These are initially being called "Workspace Ornaments" but may end up being presented with a different name in the actual release. Workspace Ornaments:

• are supported on the Simulation and Accounting workspaces. (i.e. not yet on the Geospatial workspace);
• are saved in the RiverWare model file;
• are not selectable, but are moveable (by dragging with the mouse pointer);
• support a context menu with two operations: (1) "Edit..." and (2) "Delete" (with confirmation);
• can be edited also by double-clicking them;
• are drawn under all other RiverWare workspace graphics.
• show text with the canvas' font and text color (same as simulation object labels), left-aligned.

This is the first RiverWare feature which incorporates image data within RiverWare model files. The raw image data which was read from the image file picked by the user is precisely maintained, without modification. Transparent pixels and the alpha channel (partial transparency) are preserved and are supported in the RiverWare workspace.

Two project planning documents and a final "feature" document were prepared in the course of this work:

• Proposal: Workspace Ornaments for RiverWare 6.5 (10-22-2013)
  R:\doc\workspace\ornaments\WsOrnamentsProposal.docx
   
• "Barebones" Proposal: Workspace Ornaments for RiverWare 6.5 (10-23-2013)
  R:\doc\workspace\ornaments\WsOrnamentsProposal_BB.docx
   
• Workspace Ornaments for RiverWare 6.5 -- Features, Bake 1 (10-31-2013)
  R:\doc\workspace\ornaments\WsOrnamentsFeatures1.docx

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   New: Arrows on Physical Links
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Initial analysis and some development work was started at the end of October and continued into November. In October, the "Link" C++ class was extended to indicate whether arrows should be shown at either end of the link, and basic "rendering" was implemented. The following project planning document was written:

• Analysis: Adding Arrows to Physical Links (10-30-2013)
  R:\doc\Linking\LinkArrows_Analysis1.pdf

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   Running Multiple RiverWare Instances: Choice of Window Icon
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In RiverWare 6.4, the user can choose between four distinct window icons shown in the title bar of all windows of a running RiverWare program. This helps the user distinguish the windows of different simultaneously running RiverWare sessions. The window icon (four variations of the RiverWare logo) is selected from the Workspace dialog's "Utilities >> Windows >> Window Icon" menu.

Prior to this enhancement, a single alternate RiverWare window icon could be used for a RiverWare session by specifying "--alticon" on the command line (optionally configured in the window icon property for the RiverWare program). The "--alticon" command line parameter still functions; if specified, the yellow alternate icon is initially displayed.

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   Various Other GUI Enhancements
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1. Object Account Summary Dialog: A user-movable splitter was added between the selection controls and the series data display. Also, the dialog box no longer resizes when operating the selection controls.
2. Revision to Plot Marker configuration dialog alignment controls; they had been ambiguous in the prior implementation.
3. The RPL Palette is now accessible from the Workspace's Policy menu and from various RPL dialogs.
4. The DMI menu now shows DMI Group icons which distinguish groups by their content with respect to Input and Output DMIs.

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[I.A.2] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Bug Fixes
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• 5207: Support for Weekly Timesteps needs to be Hidden or Fixed. (It was hidden).
• 5220: Slot plot legend font reverts to standard font when slot value changes.
• 5284: (Partial, in progress) Submenu selections sometimes dropped (READ MORE BELOW).
• 5338: Control file DMI with wildcard exports non-visible slots
• 5386: Open Slot Dialog geometry management improvements, including better treatment of many-columned table slots on double-screen displays.
• 5391: Revised "Extended Precision" issue explanation when saving model.
• 5392: Slots not-in-use showing up in the GUI
• 5395: Printing line width factor incorrectly applied in Model Reports
• 5397: Multiple Object Method Selector not updating correctly
• 5398: Find Input Slots is finding too many accounting slots
• 5401: Open Object Dialog: Preserve user's selected order type.

Note on Gnats 5284 ("Submenu selections sometimes dropped"). An intermittent problem was discovered in Qt 4.8 where nothing happens when clicking on a submenu item; (clicking a second time does always work). A workaround fix for our "file-history" menus (in which the problem was occurring more often) was implemented for RiverWare 6.4. With a short video CADSWES produced to demonstrate the problem, Software support specialists at Digia were able to reproduce it and have added to the open submenu dysfunction bug (QTBUG-20094) which will be addressed in a future version of Qt.

The compilation of the CADSWES monthly maintenance accomplishments reports for FY 2013 (October 2012 through September 2013) was written. See this document:

• CADSWES - Releases, Software Maintenance, and Development Environment Work Summary – Fiscal Year 2013
  R:\doc\Accomplishments Reports\FY13\SoftwareMaintenanceSummaryFY13.docx

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