SETI@home-MapView

>>>History<<<

Version 6.54

The calendar now always starts in the month/year with the first entry (instead of december 1998) and ends in the month/year with the last entry (instead of current date).
Expanded calendar to support the years 2006 to 2010.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

HD 33564.
HD 81040.
HD 189733.

Some minor changes.

Version 6.53

Increased CSV loading speed.
Introduced thresholds for all result tables. The thresholds are adjustable in the setup of SETI@home-MapView.
Increased default threshold for Einstein@home coincidences from 25 to 27.
Dates of WU recording and processing are now viewable in the calendar for Einstein@home WUs, too.
Introduced a new score (called smv_score) for spikes. This score is calculated as: power*64*sqrt(chirp_rate+1)/fft_len.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

AB Pic.
Gl 581.
GQ Lup.
HD 4308.
HD 13189.
HD 109749.
HD 118203.
HD 149026.
HD 149143.
HD 188753 A.
HD 212301.
OGLE-BLG-071.

Added second planet around

HD 108874.
HD 128311.
HD 190360 (alias Gl 777A).
HD 217107.

Added third planet around

Gliese 876.
HD 37124.

Some minor changes.

Version 6.52 (beta)

Some minor changes and bugfixes.

Version 6.51 (beta)

Fixed a bug which caused SETI@home-II WUs to be drawn outside the skymap and therefore making them invisible.
Some minor changes.

Version 6.50 (beta)

Added support for the BOINC project Einstein@home.
Mouse-over effects in the skymap now work for BOINC results, too.
It's now possible to configure the colors used in the map.
Fixed a bug which prevented Active Desktop wallpaper from working for vertical stretch factors other than 1.50.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

HD 2638.
HD 27894.
HD 45350.
HD 63454.
HD 93083.
HD 99492.
HD 101930.
HD 117207.
HD 142022.
HD 183263.
HD 188015.

Many minor changes.

Version 6.31

Fixed a bug that prevented tables with more than 65535 entries from being sorted.
Expanded calendar to support 2005.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

HD 102117.
HD 117618.
HD 154857.
HD 208487.
OGLE-TR-10.

Added two planets around

HD 202206.

Some minor changes.

Version 6.3

If enhanced skymaps are installed, it's now possible to select the map for the wallpaper in the setup.
Multi-project installations of BOINC and the new time-slicing feature of BOINC v4.x are now supported.
The frequency bar and the calendar can now show topical WUs for BOINC, too.
Saving tables as CSV or HTML now works for BOINC tables, too.
SETI@home-MapView now ignores the project independent logfile "boinc.csv" of BoincLogX v1.1x.
Bad Ra/Dec coordinates no longer causes a floating point overflow exception.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

2M1207.
GJ 436.
HD 37605.
HD 88133.
OGLE-TR-111.
TrES-1.

Added third planet around

Mu Ara.

Added fourth planet around

55 Cnc.

Some minor changes.

Version 6.2

Added duplicate filter for SETI@home-I tables.
It's now possible to deactivate the duplicate filter in the setup of SETI@home-MapView.
Improved keyboard navigation in tables with hidden columns.
Improved speed of WU duplicate filter.
Some minor changes.

Version 6.1 (beta)

It's now possible to download and install the enhanced skymaps directly from within the setup.
Added a filter mechanism for the BOINC result and WU tables to avoid duplicate entries.
Column selections in the BOINC tables are now saved, too.
Fixed a problem with the CSV parser. Commas between quotation marks were not ignored.
Bad data in the time columns is no longer a problem for SETI@home-MapView.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

OGLE-BLG-235.
OGLE-TR-113.
OGLE-TR-132.

Some minor changes.

Version 6.0 (beta)

SETI@home-MapView now supports BOINC and can import the logfiles created by BoincLogX.
Logfiles generated by SetiMonitor can now be read, too.
Added option to create an Active Desktop wallpaper.
Fixed a bug which prevented SETI@home-MapView from displaying topical and processed WUs with a RA coordinate greater than 36 in the skymap.
Fixed a bug in wallpaper creation if "Highlight Arecibo region" is activated.
Fixed a bug that could prevent SETI@home-MapView from starting after deinstallation of an enhanced skymap.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

HD 330075.

Some minor changes.

Version 5.11

Fixed a bug which caused SETI@home-MapView to crash while viewing the gaussian table.
Some minor changes.

Version 5.1

The symbol size in the skymap is now adjustable.
Expanded calendar to support 2004.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

HD 59686
HD 70642
HD 219449.

Some minor changes.

Version 5.0

Added interactive displays to all kinds of graphics (skymaps, bars, calendars).
Added possibility to show only top-x WUs in the skymap.
Added ability to save parts of the skymap (only possible when using PNG format).
Enhanced plots in gaussian and pulse tables. The gaussian plot now shows the associated fft line.
The calendar now shows the average number of results for weekly and monthly divisons as supposed to. The total numbers can still be watched in the new interactive display.
Seti@Home-MapView can now import logfiles generated with StarMap.
Updated list of extrasolar planets:

Added planet around

HD 3651
HD 10647
HD 41004A
HD 47536
HD 65216
HD 73256
HD 104985
HD 111232
HD 142415
HD 192263
HD 216770
OGLE-TR-56.

Added second planet around

HD 169830
Mu Ara.

Added third planet around

55 Cnc.

Some minor changes.

Version 4.1

Added the option to show the positions of stars with extrasolar planets. Special thanks goes to Jean Schneider for giving me the permission to use the needed data from his Extrasolar Planets Catalog.
Fixed a bug in the RA values of the coordinate grid.
It's now possible to show or hide the arecibo region in all skymaps.
Saving as PNG now needs less memory and therefore is much faster.
Speeded up creation of wallpapers.
Published some wallpaper options (like stretch factor) in the setup.
Seti@Home-MapView can now import logfiles generated with SetiSpy.
Some minor changes.

Version 4.0

Seti@Home-MapView is now delivered with an installer.
Added support for enhanced star maps with (much) higher resolutions. Please check the skymap page for further information.
The coordinate grid in the map is now hideable.
The calendar division can now be changed from daily to weekly or monthly.
Output graphics can now be generated as PNG or BMP files.
Added times bar display to show how long the WUs took to process.
The contents of the tables can be saved as a CSV or as a HTML file.
It's now possible to select more than one log directory to merge different logs into one view.
The directory selection dialog now allows selecting network paths.
Seti@Home-MapView can now import logfiles generated with many different utilities (like SetiDriver, SetiHide, SetiQueue etc).
Most options are moved from the popup menus to the main menu.
You can now save your settings.
Some minor changes.

Version 3.3

Added ability to automatically synchronise settings with Seti@Home-Log9x version 3.4.
Added chirprate bar display.
Fixed a bug in the calendar.
Some minor changes.

Version 3.2

Added possibility to choose the columns of the tables (right click on the table header).
Added "score" column to the pulse table.
Added progress bar during loading.
Added compatibility with the upcoming v3.5 of Seti@Home-Log9x.
Increased loading speed (by a factor of 5).
The setilog.csv created with Mark Loukkos SetiLog is now supported again.
Fixed a palette assignment bug.
Some minor changes.

Version 3.11

Fixed some minor problems.

Version 3.1

Added possibility to show a calendar were you can see how many WUs were processed on which dates.
The calendar is now auto-expanding.
Some minor changes.

Version 3.01

Now compiled with english compiler resources.
Fixed a small bug which caused an error 216 when using the wallpaper option.

Version 3.0

Added setup screen.
Added tables for pulses and triplets.
Added counter column to the WU table.
Added possibility to show the topical WUs in all kinds of wallpapers.
Improved speed when changing map options.
Reduced color depth of map to avoid dissipation of memory (especially when using the wallpaper option).
Expanded calendar until April 2001.
Some minor changes.

Version 2.1

Added WU table.
Added "maxpow" column to the gaussian table.
Added graphical "pot" view for the gaussian table.
Moved gaussian table and spike table to different pages.
Improved tables and sort function (up/down).

Version 2.0

Added compatibility with seti@home clients 2.0.
Fixed a problem with WUs moving between 23hr and 1hr.
Fixed a problem with big differences between calendar values.
Fixed problems with values greater than 255 (calendar and frequency bar).

Version 1.6

Added new view style "Results", which shows the result data in the map.

Version 1.5

Added Nov'98 and Dec'98 to the calendar.
Added the posibility to view results in calendar and frequency bar displays.
Added the option to view values in calendar (none, highest, all).
Added WU counter to the window title.
Added menu item to save the map.
New date calculation out of the julian date.
Changed the standart delphi icon to a better looking seti style icon.
Fixed positioning problem in zoomed maps.

Version 1.4

Added the possibility to view more than one topical WU.
Added showing of topical WUs in the frequency bar and the calendar.
Added different color options for WUs in skymap (Peak, Gaussian, Peak&Gaussian).
Added third color (dark green) for lowest data.
Added new view style "WU Move", which shows a line from start to end coordinates.
Added style value to the smv.ini section "wallpaper" to choose the view style for the wallpaper.
Added basic frequency numbers to the bottom of the frequency bar.
Added sort buttons for gaussian grid.
Added new column to gaussian grid.
Added gaussian and spike counter.
More precise WU positioning by using the middle between start and end coordinates instead of start coordinates.
Fixed some colors for better viewability.
Fixed some problems if setilog.csv doesn't exist.

Version 1.3

Added graphical WU creation calendar.
Added different view sizes for map (fit in, 1:1, 2:1 "zoom").
Added new result page for further support of Seti@Home-ResultLog.
The wallpaper now has the right aspect ratio or could be stretched.

Version 1.2

The Map in the Seti@Home-MapView window now always has the right aspect ratio.
Seti@Home-MapView now generates the map automatically at startup.
Fixed some problems with the directory statements.

Version 1.1

Added smv.ini to set the directories.
Added frequency bar display.
Seti@Home-MapView now uses the setilog.csv file from Mark Loukkos SetiLog programm.

Version 1.0

Seti@Home-MapView was born. :-))