REVISION HISTORY

REV.

DATE

NEW FEATURES

BUG(s) RESOLVED

3.3.7.3

6/05/2010

CHANGES IN VISTA.

  1. New menu arrangements

3.3.7.1

23/02/2010

 

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Linker error in last build! Rebuilded all code.

3.3.7.0

17/02/2010

CHANGES IN VISTA.

  1. Freeware version

 

 

3.3.6.1

17/10/2009

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL .

  1. Added motorized lens control

 

 

3.3.6.0

17/10/2009

 

 

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Optimization of the number of created images. Sequence, focus, etc always try to use the existent image server if  the "NEW BUFFER" control is unchecked.

3.3.5.9

31/3/2009

CHANGES IN VISTA

 

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Changed the use of default directory in SAVE As command, if the iamge have proper path name this will be used else default directory path is used.

3.3.5.8

25/2/2009

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. COMMANDER command enhancement, it is possible in CONVERT to change also the image information for all selected files.

 

 

3.3.5.7

5/2/2009

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Default directory in Load/Save are now always taken from SELECTED image path name.
  2. Image server show path name in the PopUp help..
  3. Improved driverr for USB,FireWire cameras and video inputs.

 

 

3.3.5.6

3/2/2009

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Updated CFITSIO to 3.1
  2. Full code resync with 3.5 SP1 C++ library.

 

 

3.3.5.5

16/1/2009

CHANGES IN VISTA

 

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Image export from a multiframe now create a correct date/time sequence into the output files.

3.3.5.4

11/11/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

 

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Image saving as TIFF 16 bit don't crash anymore.

3.3.5.3

07/11/2008

 

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Save of a ROI in DIMF format is.now correct.
  2. Incorrect IMI destroy resolved.

3.3.5.2

28/10/2008

 

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Improved memory management now full memory is handled.

3.3.5.1

14/10/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Added 3 new vars in formula field of the CALIBRATE command. avgImage as mean of the image, avgDark as mean of dark image and avgDarkFlat as mean of tha dark of flat image.
  2. Help updated.
  3. DirectX/WDM camera driver updated.
  4. Added to CALIBRATE command LOW and HIGH threshold.
  5. On MATH command "All frame" check box.
  6. Added STOP command (via ESC also) to sop long process.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. CALIBRATE command: crash resolved when you click CANCEL button and calibrated images is already closed.
  2. CALIBRATE command: increase of the buffer length to 1Mb for each input field.

3.3.5.0

16/09/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Full code regeneration with VS 2008, it is required to be installed the MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2008 RUNTIME LIBRARIES (X86, IA64 AND X64).
  2. Added CIRCLE tool
  3. Added ANNULUS tool.
  4. File commander.
  5. Star Magnitude evaluator.
  6. Equatorial calibration.
  7. Equatorial readout with gnomonic inverse projection
  8. SkyView image check from equatorial calibrated images.
  9. Overlay graphics added: SIGHT, GRID...
  10. Many process commands are now applied to multiframe.
  11. Ultra-precise image alignment for multiframe.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. User sequence control.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. FITS now save corretly all common keywords.

3.3.0.7

30/07/2008

CHANGES IN JAVASCRIPT

  1. Full control of GRID added (see roiAnalyze.js for more info).
 

3.3.0.6

21/07/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. FITS files are now saved with the use of CFTSIO library.
  2. ViSTA now acccept SOCKET commands.
  3. Added the system clock syncronization via NTP server.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Now ViSTA can't opened twice.

3.3.0.5

11/07/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Added SkyView frontend, now is possible to retrieve any images from this survey server.

3.3.0.4

7/07/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Copy and Paste function now copy also image informations.\
  2. Calibrate command now work with multiple files.

3.3.0.3

24/06/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Direct load and save of multiframe image format (MNG, GIF, ..) are now supported.
  2. TIFF now support 16 bit format in load and save.
  3. 3D plot can now save animation sequence.
  4. User can specify a formula for readout cursor in Image Info in the Editor menu.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Camera control show all infos for saved dark and flat used for calibration.
  2. Added the control for vertical magnification, useful for spectral images.
 

3.3.0.2

10/05/2008

CHANGES IN JAVASCRIPT

  1. Added "selectedRoi" method in DIL class.
  2. Added "Ver" method in DIL class.
  3. Added "frames" method to DIL class.
  4. Added "frame" method to DIL class.

3.3.0.1

4/04/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Delta time stored in sequence taken from WDM direct X camera is now correct.

3.3.0.0

17/03/2008

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Update of all libraries.

3.2.3.1

11/11/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Import of GIF/MNG animation are now corrected. Bug introduced by delta-time.

3.2.3.0

30/10/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Javascript is now executed by jasper library.
  2. Javascript console in/out is redirected to log window.
  3. It's possible save/print log window.

3.2.2.9

30/10/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. New output window defined.
  2. New Javascript definitions.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Minor bugs.

3.2.2.8

15/10/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. ViSTA window restart problem finally resolved?
  2. Always forced replacement of char \ with / in images path name.

3.2.2.7

7/09/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Added live mode for surface plot and profile, the plot is updated at every image regeneration. To achive this feature you must always work wit ROI.

3.2.2.6

12/07/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. ViSTA caption is always fixed, this resolve the window restart problem when an image is maximized.

3.2.2.5

02/07/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Image filled with zero don't generate crash on statistics request.

3.2.2.4

11/06/2007

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Functions updated for HiRes V features.

3.2.2.3

18/05/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Delta-time in multi-frame images is now corrected when you build a multi-frame from multiple files.
  2. The format YYYY/MM/DDTHH:MM:SS is now correctly read in FITS format.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. FLAT and DARK correction are automatically removed on the change of time exposure, binning, gain or frame size.

3.2.2.2

20/04/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. ViSTA now accept to display cammands and pop up help in different languages. At the current revision only Italian language is available.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Focusing and sequence now accept contrast control on the fly.
  2. Update for the control of the new Discovery Plus camera model.

3.2.2.1

22/03/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Enabled the "loop" for the frame selection in multiframe commands.
  2. Added the command "play one time" in multiframe commands.
  3. Saving of image sequence now check the overwrite.

3.2.2.0

13/03/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Now the program hold the image "SAVE" directory.
  2. Now the program hold the image "EXPORT" directory.

3.2.1.9

5/03/2007

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Multiframe images in DIMF format now store interval time between each frames, this value is also showed on the title bar.
  2. Play command for multiframe images can be now setted.

3.2.1.8

3/03/2007

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Added a check button to enable/disable automatic increment of the fram number at each acquisition.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Multiframe export use the leading zeros in the file name build. N < 10 is without zeros, N < 100 is 00 to 99, etc.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. File format with multiple extension name (TIF - TIFF or JPG - JPEG) are now saved correctly.

3.2.1.7

21/02/2007

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Image stretch itsn't changed in sequence display.

3.2.1.6

19/02/2007

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Added Electra Plus specific controls.

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Division by 0 bugs removed in the main progress bar.

3.2.1.5

24/11/2006

CHANGES IN JAVASCRIPT

  1. setUserGain method now work fine.

3.2.1.4

25/10/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Added the command pulsed mode.

3.2.1.3

25/07/2006

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Hot & Dark pixel analisys now show also the value.
  2. Images can be now saved also in DICOM format.

3.2.1.2

12/07/2006

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. The license data is now also accepted via command menu.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Added the temperature parameters used into the stability display.

3.2.1.1

7/07/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Default image name now accept control character with several data specifier. It is possible to report into the image name CCD temperature, binning value, exposure time, gain etc.
  2. Target CCD temperature equilibrium is now notified via sound and displayed a pixmap.

3.2.1.0

16/06/2006

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. New histogram graphics.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Millennium bug removed from FITS image files.

3.2.0.9

15/06/2006

CHANGES IN VISTA

  1. Added delete frame command for multiframe image.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Multiframe generation from multiple files command now delete all loaded images from ViSTA desktop.
  2. Millennium bug removed from old IMG DTA image files.

3.2.0.8

5/06/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Default image name (camera was the default name) is now settable.

3.2.0.7

22/05/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Interval delay accept values up to 99999 s.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New color and graphics for the histogram.

3.2.0.6

6/04/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Date localization removed from the license.

3.2.0.5

27/03/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Added KINETICS capability.

3.2.0.4

21/03/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Wrong license date is now correctly handled.

3.2.0.3

17/03/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Don't apply DARK or FLAT correction to BIAS.

3.2.0.2

9/03/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Re-compiled all ViSTA code with VC7.1.

3.2.0.1

3/03/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New Cubic Fit command (experimental).

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. New aspect for the camera control panel.

3.2.0.0

21/02/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New license file.

3.1.9.12

17/02/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. All graphics (ROI, DLine, Flag, Text) are now saved into DIMF file format.

3.1.9.11

14/02/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Direct show for color images of the RGB components or as CMY, CMKY.
  2. Added the capability to read Nikon, Kodak, Canon, Olympus, Fuji, Minolta, Epson, Foveon camera raw.
  3. Cursor positioning via cursor key is allowed, for precise pixel pointing.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Direct filter control via function keys now display correctly the filter name.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. "Convert To" in "Process" menu don't crash for invalid conversion.

3.1.9.10

10/02/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Enabled pixel and colon correction on the fly.

3.1.9.9

1/02/2006

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. New USB driver.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Several new icons and bitmap not embedded in the previous version.

3.1.9.8

23/01/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New icons.
  2. Image zoom and fit with mouse wheel.
  3. Line shift command added.
  4. All convolution filter are now conservative.
  5. New control panel for WDM direct X cameras.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Cut and paste now work with ROI and not.

3.1.9.7

12/01/2006

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Thumbnail output is now in binary mode.
  2. Improved memory management for large images in JPEG, TIFF, etc.. formats.

3.1.9.6

28/12/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added thumbnail commands (experimental).

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New printer function, now all images are printed with automatic fitting by printer resolution.

3.1.9.5

20/12/2005

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Fast filter selection with function key F1 to F8.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Resize command now set a correct size and source parameters on "LOW FFT" function.

3.1.9.4

5/12/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Automatic garbage collector for the javascript.

3.1.9.3

22/11/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added image import via TWAIN driver with 8/16/24/48 bit image format.
  2. New Image export command, Excel and CSV format are available.
  3. Added CSV format in ROI export.
  4. In all export command you can choose the "channel" for color images.
  5. Analysis of the full vertical binning.
  6. Camera raw library is updated to 1.300.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Better management of the heap memory.

3.1.9.2

16/11/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Incorrect RAW file loading.

3.1.9.1

2/11/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Camera raw library is updated to 1.295.
  2. Update of the DCL library to 5.0.0.
  3. New math parser it is 4x faster.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Corrected the gain displayed on ELECTRA camera.

3.1.9.0

21/10/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Camera raw library is updated to 1.288.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Display commands or process command don't change anymore the window size of the image.
  2. Daughter images by image processing inherits display settings.

3.1.8.9

6/10/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Open file dialog now accept file preview and store last selected file format.
  2. When you create a ROI it's size is showed in real time.
  3. ROI creation and resize is showed as XORed image.
  4. Image caption show only file name without the path.
  5. Camera raw library is updated to 1.288.
  6. Splash screen is removed, it is displayed only in demo mode.
  7. RESIZE command inherit the contrast of the source image.
  8. Multiframe loading inherit image infos by loaded files.
  9. New GOTO command in multiframe toolbar and menu.
  10. The image selection (as root) can be done via a double click on it.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Wrong program revision corrected.
  2. DIMF saving for 16 bit color image corrected.
  3. Wrong color image autoalignment corrected.
  4. Better centroid calculation is used in autoalignment.
  5. LENS tool is not more maximized when the desktop area is maximized.

3.1.8.8

28/9/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Update of the "camera raw" library, new raw file formats added.
  2. New control of the "camera raw" library, is available from FILE>OPTIONS>CAMERA RAW.
  3. Drag and Drop is now accepted, via file(s) name or directly via an image.
  4. Reduced the number of the DLLs used for the library.

3.1.8.7

15/9/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Wrong equation in histogram command (20%-80%) resolved.

3.1.8.6

14/9/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added the control of the toolbars.
  2. Added a specific toolbar for SCRIPT actions.
  3. Several correction for context and what's this help.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Added the possibility to run a javascript after each acquisition.

3.1.8.5

13/9/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added SEQUENCE menu.
  2. Updated with Qt library 3.3.5

3.1.8.4

12/9/2005

 

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Crash resolved for images taken from clipboard.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Corrected the cooler status when program restart.

3.1.8.3

9/9/2005

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. New arrangement of the camera control.

3.1.8.2

5/9/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New load & Run script command is added.

3.1.8.1

5/8/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Convolution filter don't change the image dynamics.
  2. New command for image alignment.
  3. Improvement of the Unsharp masking.

3.1.8.0

29/7/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added EVALUATE button on PALETTE EDITOR dialog.
  2. New commands for sensor characterization.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. All dialogs are now non reentrant.
  2. Minor bugs.

3.1.7.9

25/7/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Several new commands added in javascript.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. BW to COLOR command doesn't crash when you select a COLOR image!.

3.1.7.8

18/7/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Several new commands added in javascript.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. New layout in focus tab.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. MORE button into histogram now work.

3.1.7.7

13/7/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New display command, starting from a ROI you can fit it at the maximum display size of the MDI.
  2. New "ROI save" command, directly you can save images by ROI contents.
  3. New arrangement for menu PASTE.
  4. New arrangement for menu GEOMETRY.
  5. New DUPLICATE command.

3.1.7.6

11/7/2005

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. New GUI for the camera control, now the widget accept resize.

3.1.7.5

29/6/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Calibrate now use undo correctly.

3.1.7.4

27/6/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added Save As icon, also the file filter is saved.

3.1.7.3

20/6/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. CALIBRATE can work with color image but can use monochrome dark or flat image for calibration.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Corrected ROI operation on multiframe image.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Corrected the gain display with bit decimation activated.
  2. ELECTRA now starts with the corrected gain.

3.1.7.2

7/6/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. When reading RAW files the image server was not automatically setted and all this is a source of problem (program crash) if there is only one image into the MDI.

3.1.7.1

3/6/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

The handle of command line parameters is modified: tipically at the command line you can specify a list of image file names, for example: vista myImagefile.jpg "far/imagePath/My Picture.tif" is interpreted as command to load the specified image file. Now is possible, via command line switch, to specify several new commands to vista.

Valid switch are:

-e<pathname> execute a javascript specifed in pathname field.

-n don't display the splash screen.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Now the image sequence accept a delay between each new frame.
  2. The delay, in seconds, can be specifed in the third field of the exposure group.

3.1.7

24/5/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Wrong reading of RAW files.

3.1.6

19/5/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Drift resolved when ViSTA restart window position and size.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. In the paste version the gain value is always sent, now we sent the new gain value only when it change.
  2. DCL update, now standard parallel port work also under Win 2K/XP.

3.1.5

13/4/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Added the user menu.

 

3.1.4

17/3/2005

 

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. When edit image info flag isModified is now setted.
  2. FITS loading parse all camera infos.

3.1.3

10/3/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. New capability to load a lot of different CAMERA RAW image.
  2. Now image calibration work with color image also.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Bug created by VC 6.0 resolved with a patch.
  2. Several file format not accessible by File dialog.

3.1.2

4/3/2005

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Crash resolved in ANALISYS->Show Variance.

3.1.1

3/3/2005

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Bit decimation is now actived.
  2. Fan speed control is now actived.
  3. Added "Leading 0" for the saved sequence name.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. The toolbar position and the ViSTA MDI interface size are now saved and restored.
  2. New function to convert an image file sequence to a multiframe image.
  3. Qt library is updated with the rev. 3.3.4

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Crash resolved when you close a multiframe color image.

3.1.0

19/2/2005

CHANGES IN JAVASCRIPT

  1. JavaScript for the camera control is expanded.
  2. Update of ImageMagick library (6.1.9)

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. DCS don't update the correct CCD output.

3.0.9

5/1/2005

CHANGES IN JAVASCRIPT

  1. Added full camera control and some DIL methods.

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Created an interface layer between ViSTA and ImageMagick, to prevent some memory leaks.

3.0.8

2/12/2004

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Show/Load of dark and dark image taken from camera control.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Focusing stop temperature control

3.0.7

29/11/2004

  1. Update of ImageMagick library (6.1.5)
  2. Zoom factor for each axis, in this mode you can set an arbitrary aspect ratio without to change the image matrix.
  3. System information.
  1. Added into the installation program the missing file magick.xml
  2. Slow motion of a widget over a large image.

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Program when you select "nothing" as binning value.

3.0.6

19/11/2004

  1. Average and AlphaTrim filter for RGB multiframe
  2. Enableb JavaScript

CHANGES IN CAMERA CONTROL

  1. Corrected ROI interpretation in FOCUS and GRAB when MIRROR or FLIP is selected.
  2. Improved color image management.
  3. Change the image name on save images

CHANGES IN ViSTA

  1. Set of the previous file name in SaveAs
  2. Incorrect saving of single color image in dimf format.
  3. Wrong selection for RGB color mutiframe image.
  4. Correct export in multiple files of RGB multiframe image.
  5. Correct sequencing in RGB multiframe movie.

3.0.5

17/11/2004

  1. Color management is now completed under Camera Control
  1. Program crash using live zoom on zoomed images.

3.0.4

15/11/2004

  1. Added ImageMagick Library, a lot of new image format are available

3.0.3

11/11/2004

  1. Tiff write capability
  2. Tga write capability
  3. Read of single frame in mng format
  1. Incorrect automatic adding of the file name extension in saveAs.

3.0.2

10/11/2004

  1. Correct acquisition of a sequence with automatic DARK or FLAT correction.

3.0.1

9/11/2004

  1. Gif write capability.