ADAMS (Posts about UI)

Debug view in side panel

FracPete — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:31:00 GMT

The Flow editor now displays the debug view as a side panel rather than in a separate frame, which makes it less confusing when debugging several flows at the same time. ;-)

Final update for the year

FracPete — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:39:26 GMT

Here is the final update for this year. Later on today, I will prepare a new release.

'Tis the season! ;-)

Well, actually mainly because of all the GUI improvements and the new adams-nlp module.

Fixes

Renaming variables, callable actors, events and undo/redo no longer result in the flow wobbling around (better queuing in Swing thread)
Improved the layout of the search panels, allowing for proper resizing and avoiding accidental hiding of search box

Changes

Plots now offer a Copy plot menu item from the right-click menu, to copy a screenshot of the plot to the clipboard
Count control actor now offers a monitor variable which allows resetting the internal count whenever the variable changes value
The Create callable actor menu item from the Flow editor's right-click menu now allows the creation callable actors under CallableActors, GridView and TabView.

Additions

Copy to clipboard target got added to the Send to functionality, which allows you to copy text, tables and graphical components (= screenshots) to the system's clipboard
TextOverlay added for simple text overlays in plots (eg SequencePlotter/SimplePlot); gets used by the Weka plugin for classifier errors to display key on lines drawn on screen

Stay tuned!

upcoming release

FracPete — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:40:28 GMT

Just a heads-up that I'll be making a new release tomorrow.

Since last week, only a few things changed:

fixed a flicker issue when processing videos in the flow and displaying the individual frames with a custom zoom in the ImageViewer (zoom got reset to 100% before changed to custom zoom)
adams-weka: added WekaGetCapabilities transformer to retrieve capabilities from classes like Filter, Classifier and Clusterer. The WekaCapabilitiesToInstances and WekaCapabilitiesToSpreadSheet conversion use this information. The former to generate random data, the latter to output the capabilities in tabular format.
the Flow editor now allows you to define keyboard actions (eg adding or enclosing actors using a specific actor) to speed up flow development (see manual "Keyboard actions")

Fingers crossed that tomorrow's release goes smoothly. :-)

time for an update

FracPete — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:03:56 GMT

I'm running out of space on my piece of paper here, so I think it's time for an update. ;-)

Fixes

fixed some regressions in the flow editor due to changes relating to better Swing thread queuing
- when copy/pasting actor with variable, variable disappeared
- creating a callable actor didn't no update the tree immediately
the showProperties option of the ImageViewer sink now works inside the DisplayPanelManager as well

Changes

added the DATETIMEMSEC type to the DateTimeType enum
added DATETIMEMSEC support to the following conversions
- ConvertDateTimeType
- DateTimeTypeToString
- ExtractDateTimeField
- StringToDateTimeType
added DATETIMEMSEC support to the following actors
- DateTimeTypeDifference
- SpreadSheetConvertCells
- SpreadSheetConvertHeaderCells
Flow editor: long files now get shortened for the tab; hovering over the tab reveals the full name
Cast control actor no longer throws a cast exception when using Unknown
data containers now list Notes and Reports in the debug inspection as well
adams-spreadsheet: SpreadSheetSetCell and SpreadSheetGetCell now support Row objects as well apart from SpreadSheet ones
adams-heatmap: the report table in the HeatmapDisplay can be hidden now
native ADAMS file choosers now offer a Filter text field which allows the display of files/dirs to be restricted to the ones that contain this substring (case-sensitive) - useful when looking for a single file or group of files in directories with 1000s of files
adams-weka: the WekaModelReader now has an option makeThreadSafe which attempts to make the loaded classifier thread-safe, if necessary (using the ThreadSafeClassifierWrapper mentioned below)

Additions

adams-heatmap: added the CountValues meta-generator
adams-heatmap: added TextOverlay for HeatmapDisplay sink
adams-core: added support for named counters, i.e., counters that count how often a string passes through
- CounterInit (standalone/transformer) - initializes/resets a named counter in internal storage
- CounterAdd (transformer) - increments the counter for the string representation of the token passing through
- Counter (source) - outputs the names with their associated counts as spreadsheet
adams-weka: added an interface ThreadSafeClassifier that indicates that a classifier is thread-safe (Weka classifiers/filters aren't by design) and a generic ThreadSafeClassifierWrapper meta-classifier that attempts to make the wrapped classifier safer (there are no guarantees, though; if the code is bad by design, this won't help either)

Just a heads-up... There will be a new release coming up in the next couple of weeks (as part of my preparations for a data mining workshop end of November).

fixes and additions

FracPete — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 23:55:28 GMT

Time for a little round-up of what's happened to ADAMS lately...

Fixes

sluggish behavior of flow editor (opening/saving/undo) due to regression in EnumOption option handling class (finding/registering property editor on demand was very slow)
obtaining subsets from Notes objects only returned the first element of each type
TryCatch control actor properly flushes the tokens of its subflow when an error occurs
Upper/LowerCase conversions take locale into account
ImageProcessor tool works properly with the revamped ImageFileChooser dialog
PreviewBrowser tool displays arrays in a more sensible fashion
WekaFileReader didn't output an Instances object if no rows present

Addtions

print support got added to the PDF viewer (tool and sink)
ImageHistogram sink added to adams-imaging
additional actors for the adams-heatmap module * HeatmapArrayStatistic transformer * HeatmapLocateObjects transformer * HeatmapHistogram sink
Heatmap viewer can display a histogram of current heatmap