RDV 1.9 Released

RDV 1.9 has been released and contains significant new features for viewing images and video, a new dial visualization, and support for exporting MATLAB files. A number of smaller improvements for plotting have been added in addition to a few bug fixes. Download the binary or source release and read or watch more about this release below.



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New features

• Support for zooming and panning of an image. A clickable navigation image can be used to jump around parts of an image when zoomed in.
• Filmstrip interface to view images sequentially.
• Support for viewing a thumbnail of an image to conserve bandwidth.
• DialViz, a visualization extension to view a numeric data channel on a dial.
• Export of data to the MATLAB MAT-file format.
• Support for port knocking authentication.

Improvements

• Cursors on an XY plot to indicate the current data point in a series.
• Zooming out of a plot via the mouse will remember previous zoom levels.
• Support for PNG and GIF images.
• Ability to hide the legend in a plot.

Bug fixes

• Can't connect to RBNB server with circular references.
• Children of shortcut servers aren't shown in channel list.
• Auto adjusting the domain axis in a time series plot does not work correctly.

Changes

• Plots set to auto range, don't always include zero anymore.
• The system look & feel is used now, so RDV should look more native to the platform it is running on.
• All RDV class were moved to the "org.rdv" package.