External Data Plug-in and Data Extraction Tool - Change Log

Version 2.2.0 - Released 6/15/2020:

• Functionality was added to allow exporting Microsoft EXCEL .xlsx formatted spreadsheets from the data extraction tool for NRC databank input sources.
• The data extraction tool was updated to include the ability to select the engineering unit system (SI or British) when exporting to ASCII or Excel.

Version 2.1.0 - Released 3/4/2020:

• Updated to work with Java 11. Methods that have been deprecated in Java 11 have been refactored to use the appropriate Java 11 equivalent.

Version 2.0.7 - Released 3/2/2015:

• An issue was resolved in the Data Extraction Tool which prevented the generation of valid EXTDATA pib files from NRC databank data. This issue was encountered when reading NRC databank data which did not follow the original convention for naming and locating time channels.
• The UI was updated to provide a cleaner look and feel and better uitility.
• The time channel selection como box now defaults to the time channel with the largest number of time slices (if they are all the same then the first time channel encountered will be chosen).

Version 2.0.5 - Released 9/5/2012:

• An issue in the EXTDATA Animation plug-in support was resolved that could cause intermittent failures during fast running interactive animations.

Version 2.0.4 - Released 10/11/2011:

• An issue was resolved that prevented the Data Extraction Tool from storing its user preferences (window location, etc.) until at least one file had been exported by the user.

Version 2.0.3 - Released 7/11/2011:

• A set of EXTDATA Channel Name Patterns were added to Data Sources in the Animation Plug-in to support using beans that rely on "Volume IDs" with jobs of type EXTDATA.

Version 2.0.2 - Released 5/13/2011:

• Added support for using skip forward and skip back from an animation connected to an EXTDATA source.

Version 2.0.1 - Released 5/6/2011:

• Re-enabled the online help set.

Version 2.0.0 - Released 2/4/2011:

• Updated to work under SNAP 2.0.

Version 1.6.0 - Released 9/29/2010:

• Added support for animating interactive jobs that use the EXTDATA format for their plot file.

Version 1.5.1 - Released 4/30/2010:

• An updateFileHeader method has been added to ExtDataWriter. This method is used to update the end time and the number of time slices in the file heaser during and/or after program execution.
  

Version 1.5.0 - Released 1/8/2010:

• The Calculation Server interaction logic was updated to support the new CAFEAN RPC communication package in SNAP 1.2.0.

Version 1.4.0 - Released 11/19/09:

• The Data Extractor application now supports exporting NRC Databank data to a text file. The exported file may be space, tab, or comma delimited.

Version 1.3.0 - Released 7/17/09:

• Custom-unit support has been implemented for EXTDATA files. Post-processing support in SNAP now reflects the correct units and conversions for files that embed engineering unit codes.
• The ExpFileSample.java class bundled with the plug-in to demonstrate writing AptPlot files from Java has been updated to indicate additions to the functionality and semantics of EXTDATA files.

UPDATE 10/25/2006:

• Fixed an intermittent problem that could occur when the data is used as a slaved data source.
• Updated to release the data file when the job is unloaded by the calculation server.

UPDATE 9/18/2006:

• Updated to work with under the new SNAP 0.25.0 Runtime.

UPDATE 4/27/2006:

• An issue was resolved that would cause the calculation server to repeatedly rebuild the plot file cache for EXTDATA files during use resulting in server instability. It is recommended that all ext.cache files for existing runs be removed after this update to ensure that they are recreated properly.

UPDATE 1/13/2006:

• A data caching algorithm was implemented which provides an order of magnitude improvement in performance.
• Modal child dialogs were fixed in the Data Extraction Tool to prevent them from being hidden.