Phil Weinstein / Accomplishments -- December 2013 -- Edit 1-08-2014

General Development Accomplishments

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   New: "Limited Data Checking on Tables in Optimization": Data Model and GUI Support
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Internal and user interface provisions were developed to support limiting optimization checking of TableSlot values. The idea is that many tables include extreme values which are applicable to simulation of extreme (e.g. flood) conditions. But those extreme values don't have the qualities required for optimization solutions which are generally used under relatively normal hydrologic conditions. The data checks performed before an optimization run should be applied to only the "moderate" ranges on those TableSlot values.

The basic data model and GUI support for new "Optimization Minimum and Maximum" values were added in December 2013. Control/Exec-style DMI support for these provisions were completed in early January 2014. In December, the following TableSlot provisions were developed:

  1. New association between "X" "Y" "Z" optimization variables and particular TableSlot columns.
  2. New TableSlot column attributes indicating whether "optimization limits" are supported.
  3. New TableSlot column optimization limit numeric attributes: optimization min and max.
  4. GUI support for editing Table Slot column optimization min and max values:

These provisions are not yet used within the optimization TableSlot checking algorithms (as of December 2013).

The following document describes these new provisions:

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[I.A.2] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Bug Fixes
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Maintenance Accomplishments / December 2013

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[I.A.4] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Software Maintenance
   Fixes to the Qt3-to-Qt4 port of the SCT's series data table (plus minor usability enhancements)
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A broad set of SCT fixes and minor usability enhancements were implemented. Many of the problems addressed by this work were a result of the Qt3-to-Qt4 port of the SCT's series data table developed in March and April, 2013 for RiverWare 6.4.

These SCT changes were applied to RiverWare 6.4.2 and 6.5:

  1. The 'Double Click Data Cell Toggles Detail Rows' general configuration option wasn't functioning. Double-clicking in a detail row cell (in the aggregated SCT views) was instead starting an edit of the "clicked" detail cell.
  2. In the Horizontal Timestep Aggregated View, the triangle-arrow treeview control column (for showing and hiding detail rows within a timestep aggregation block) was overly wide. This occurred only in the release (non-debug) build.
  3. Unintentionally starting an incell edit, and then clicking away, caused the cell's flag to be changed to "Input" (as a result of the cell editor's text being applied to the slot value). Now, when an edit completes with the edited value matching the original value (with display precision), the edit is not applied. (Note that it would be useful for users to know that any edit can be aborted by hitting the ESC key).
  4. A change to a series slot's time range as a result of running an Input DMI caused the SCT to be scrolled to the beginning of the time range. This no longer occurs.
  5. Red crosshatching on slot column headers -- to indicate slots on objects for which dispatching is disabled -- was not showing up in certain Windows desktop themes. This was addressed by crosshatching all cells for such slots (in the vertical time axis views).
  6. The "Go To" (-slot item) operation wasn't scrolling the SCT to that item in a sufficiently precise way -- it was only insuring that the picked slot item was visible. Now the picked slot item is scrolled to the top (or left side) of the SCT's window (depending on the SCT's current axis orientation).
  7. During an incell edit, the left and right arrow keys were moving the edit cursor one character to the left or right within the text being edited. A sponsor preferred that those keys terminate the edit and move "focus" to the adjacent data cell (i.e. to the left or right).
  8. In the horizontal time axis views, when an incell edit was active, the Tab key was navigating to the wrong cell: one below the cell to the right.
  9. Changes to the configuration of column header content (e.g. optional display of units or the aggregation summary function) did not always cause updates to the column header display.
  10. The SCT Configuration dialog's "Summary" tab gives four choices for the conditions under which timestep flag colors are shown in representative vertical "slices" of aggregation summary cells (as cell background colors). Not all choices had been implemented.
  11. Notes on series slot values were not correctly being displayed as tooltips.
  12. A mistake was made in the implementation of the SCT configuration lock status. It had been preventing incell edits.
  13. The "Close SCT?" confirmation popup is no longer shown if the SCT configuration was locked, and remained locked, since the last time the SCT configuration was loaded from, or saved to a file.
  14. The effect of the SCT configuration lock has been made broader. This lock now disables:
    1. The controls on all of the tabs of the SCT Configuration Dialog, and that dialog's "OK", "Apply" and "Reset" buttons.
    2. Config >> Defaults >> Apply Default Settings
    3. Aggregation >> Timestep Aggregation Config ...
    4. Aggregation >> Set Summary Functions ...
  15. The SCT configuration lock button's tooltip was made dynamic. In now states the current lock state and indicates the effect of clicking that button.

Additionally, the following minor SCT enhancements were applied to only RiverWare 6.5:

  1. For clarity, the "Display Slots as Integer Indexed" checkbox on the "General" SCT configuration tab changed to: "Series indices:  (o) Timesteps (standard)  (o) Integers" (i.e. two radio buttons).
  2. On the Horizontal Timestep configuration tab, the "Text labels in Slot Divider Rows" checkbox was reworded as "Show Text labels in Slot Divider Rows" to be consistent with similar options on that tab.
  3. On the Scalar and Other Slots SCT tabs, the first column used to show item numbers indicating the custom order of slots within those lists. This column was a somewhat redundant and unimportant component of those lists' ordering controls, and is no longer shown.
  4. In the Aggregated Horizontal Timestep view, detail row headers show the relative date/time of the detail row (relative to the date/time of each column). These had been aligned on the extreme right side of the row header's "Slot" column. Now, they are still right aligned, but toward the left side of that column (indented from slot labels in the aggregation summary rows).
  5. On the toolbar, the Flag / Flag-Color buttons' "enabled" state (indicating applicability to the current cell selection) appeared as pressed in, which was confusing. Instead, they are now fully framed (whereas disabled flag buttons are not). Also the disabled flag buttons now have gray text instead of black.

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