silx-kit/silx: v0.8.0: 2018/07/04

Graphical user interface: Plot: Adds support of x-axis date/time ticks for time series display (see silx.gui.plot.items.XAxis.setTickMode) Adds support of interactive authoring of regions of interest (see silx.gui.plot.items.roi and silx.gui.plot.tools.roi) Adds StatsWidget widget for displaying statistics on data displayed in a PlotWidget Adds ScatterView widget for displaying scatter plot with tools such as line profile and mask Overcomes the limitation to float32 precision with the OpenGL backend Splits plot toolbar is several reusable thematic toolbars Plot3D: Adds SceneWidget items to display many cubes, cylinders or hexagonal prisms at once Adds silx.gui.utils package with submitToQtMainThread for asynchronous execution of Qt-related functions Adds Qt signals to Hdf5TreeView to manage HDF5 file life-cycle Adds GroupDialog dialog to select a group in a HDF5 file Improves colormap computation with a Cython/OpenMP implementation Main API changes: Colormap is now part of silx.gui.colors ColormapDialog is now part of silx.gui.dialogs MaskToolsWidget.getSelectionMask method now returns None if no image is selected Clean-up FrameBrowser API Image Adds an optimized marching squares algorithm to compute many iso contours from the same image Input/output: Improves handling of empty Spec scans Add an API to NXdata parser to get messages about malformed input data silx.sx Allows to use silx.sx in script as in Python interpreter sx.imshow supports custom y-axis orientation using argument origin=upper|lower Adds sx.enable_gui() to enable silx widgets in IPython notebooks silx convert Improves conversion from EDF file series to HDF5 silx view Adds user preferences to restore colormap, plot backend, y-axis of plot image,... Adds --fresh option to clean up user preferences at startup Adds a widget to create custom viewable NXdata by combining different datasets Supports CTRL+C shortcut in the terminal to close the application Adds buttons to collapse/expand tree items NXdata view now uses the ScatterView widget for scatters Miscellaneous Drops official support of Debian 7 Drops versions of IPython console widget before the qtconsole package Fixes EDF file size written by EdfFile module with Python