CADSWES Maintenance Accomplishment Report Compilation -- July 2015
Phil, original draft: 8-11-2015; revision 8-12-2015 (added two "unfunded development" tasks).
July 2015 Maintenance Highlights:
Report contributors:
(II) RiverWare Software Maintenance
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The following releases were generated this month:
RiverWare 6.7 Pre-release was sent to all RiverWare Users on July 17, 2015 for testing and acceptance. This involved writing release notes, regenerating the help PDFs, updating the builds areas, creating the release executable, updating the website, and sending out the release notification. Release notes can be found on the RiverWare.org website.
The following bugs were fixed:
Unfunded Development:
Workspace configuration: Initial Workspace View Scroll Locations and Zoom Levels
Development for this feature was started in June 2015, and completed in July. A new persistent configuration allows the user to indicate how each of the three workspace views are initially scrolled and zoomed after saving and reloading a RiverWare model file. The following can be specified for each workspace view:
- Zoom, a selection among the available zoom levels.
- Location, one of:
- Lower Left Corner
- Last Save Location
- Center-Most Object
- Center on [Specified Object]
Additional "Open Model in View" controls were added to allow the user to specify how the initially displayed view (of the three workspace views) is determined. The user can choose between these two options:
- "Last Saved Workspace View". This is the default setting. It implements the prior behavior with respect to the initially shown view after loading a model. The current view at the time of the last model save is restored as the current view.
- "Specify View". This setting causes the view selected within the new configuration dialog ("Initial Workspace Appearance") to be the initially shown view after loading a model.
This enhancement addressed Gnats 5657, "Default workspace location when loading a model is not always correct."
This overall feature is described in this document:
- Initial Workspace View Appearance Configuration / RiverWare 6.7 / July 2015
R:\doc\workspace\2015\InitialWorkspaceViewAppearance.docx
Unfunded Development:
Time Aggregation Series Slot Redesign
The Time Aggregation Series Slot configuration controls were redesigned. Previously the input slot selection and the aggregation function were picked with GUI controls in the open slot dialog. These have been moved to the aggregation configuration dialog box, which now has all aggregation-related configuration controls for this slot.
This redesign also incorporates these other changes:
(1) The "SUM" function was removed for FLOW units (and other unit types having an explicit "per time" factor). The other available aggregation functions are: Ave, Min, Max, First, Last.
(2) The units for the aggregation series are now explicitly settable by the user, instead of being automatically assigned. The user can choose between:
(a) Use Unit Scheme Default
(b) Use Custom Setting:
Units: [combo box] Scale: [1, 10, 100, 1000, 0.1]
Precision [integer spinner] Format: [Float, Scientific].(The Scale combo box is editable, so other unit scale values can be used).
None reported for July 2015.
The regression tests continue to be maintained on a daily basis. This involves updating the regression tests to exercise new developments in the code. Also, as new code is added to the development area, the model comparisons performed in the nightly regression tests usually show differences (for example, because a new method category may have been added). When this occurs, the regression tests need to be updated to reflect the current state of the development area so model comparisons do not fail. In addition, every week, the daily history of each regression test is analyzed to determine if the run time or model size has significantly changed because of new development.
A new version of Reprise license software (version 11.3) was incorporated into the CADSWES development process. Both 32-bit and 64-bit tar files were made of the relevant libraries and dlls. These were added to the win-config.pl script that is used to update the tools directory of development machines. The RiverWare code base was modified to compile with the new version of Reprise and these changes were committed to both the RiverWare 6.7 and the master development branches of the RiverWare code. The 32-bit and 64-bit overnight builds machines were updated for the changes and instructions were sent to all developers regarding the updates. Other task details related to this Reprise license software are enumerated below.
None reported for July 2015.
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