Release Notes for P01-09-02 (last updated 11/26/2003):

The latest revision of this document is located here.

The previous release notes is located here.

Installation:

• Upgrading to LATTE 1.9:
  • As usual prior to installation the old LATTE directories should be renamed to Online_Pxx-xx-xx and VxWorks_Pxx-xx-xx where xx-xx-xx is the previous release number. This allows the user to go back to an earlier release if there is a problem with the latest release.
  • After installation runControl.cfg file needs to be carried over to the new installation. If you have created a runControl.cfg in the RunControl directory, this needs to be copied to the new Online\RunControl directory. If runControl.cfg exists in another directory and you are using the "runcontrolmain -c" option to specify a specific configuration file location, then no need to move the file.
  • There is a syntax change between 1.7 and earlier releases regarding the user list in the configuration file. If you look at the runControl.cfg.sample file in RunControl directory, you'll see that under the [users] section, the id is now before the equal sign, this change was required to support full names with spaces in them. Please modify configuration files accordingly.
  • Also RunControl\runId.cfg file from earlier releases needs to be copied over to the new installation directory. The machine ids needs to be updated to ensure uniqueness. runId.cfg.sample file contains comments indicating machine id assignments for each subsystem. This scheme allows for 100 teststands per subsystem and 999999 runs per teststand. If RunControl fails to access the runId.cfg after loading the application script it will throw an exception.

Qt and PyQt Related:

• This release requires and uses Qt 3.2.2 and PyQt 3.8.1. All the required libraries can be found in the DLLs directory.
   
• pyuic.exe is also provided in the same directory and should be used to generate python code from the .ui files. The best way of doing this is to run setupRunControlMain.bat before running pyuic. This way an older version of pyuic won't be used by mistake.
   
• If sub-systems are doing any GUI development using the Qt Designer, they need to download and compile Qt 3.2.x on their systems.

Documentation:

• Compiled help file (CHM) name now has the release number in it.

Hippodraw:

• This LATTE release contains HippoDraw version 1.3.3.
   
• Please refer to the following links for documentation on this release:
     -  HippoDraw (html)
     -  HippoDraw Python Interface API (html)

Functional blocks and registers:

• Added GDAB error codes to LATInterfaceException class
• Fixed GGEMMG register name casing.
• Added waitForMaskEnable method, which waits until the enbleMask() is called. This is usually needed for non self-triggering scripts where the _commandSynch thread needs to wait until RunControl actually enables the mask before continuing.

RunControl:

• Fixed a bug where runcontrol.cfg was being saved in an incorrect directory in certain cases.
• PYTHONPATH changes in preferences now take effect immediately. No need to restart RunControl.
• Fixed a bug where comment tuples were not being converted to strings before they were being written to the FITS file.
• Modularized sub-system GUIs. Now RunControl expects to load a widget class which may or may not
  exist that represents the specific sub-system GUI. For ACD it looks for AcdPanelImpl, for CAL it looks for CalPanelImpl and for TKR it looks for TkrPanelImpl. See AcdPanel.ui.sample and AcdPanelImpl.py.sample in the RunControl directory for an example on how to implement it.
• Added standalone preference setup utility setPreferences.
• Added reload exclusion for scipy, weave and qwt.
• Added support for read event timeouts.
• Added optional reload argument to importModule to prevent reloading in the case of suites.

Command Client & Server:

• Added GGEMWIN block and the corresponding registers.

Event Client & Server:

• Added READ_TIMEOUT_ERROR constant to the event client.
• Implemented checkOnlineStatus and checkGGLTstatus methods for checking against the different error status codes.

EBF:

EBF version 3.1.6 is included with this release. See release notes "EBFrelease.txt" in EBF directory.

GOSED:

• Added automatic load of first tower and first range.
• Fixed layer labeling YZ TKR projection.
• Added error and diagnostic led buttons.

MessageLogger:

• Got rid of the print message that executes when duplicate logs occur

Testsuite:

• Added test application testAppEvtTO.py for event timeouts.
• Do not induce stopRun if running as part of a suite.
   

Schema and Configuration:

• Fixed a case for Python 2.3 where the module to be loaded was not being searched in the current directory.

Version Information:

(Retrieved by running versions.bat while in /Online directory)
The modules ending with _FW denote COMM board firmware and the modules ending with _HW denote COMM board hardware revisions.

Added cfitsio version. User scripts can retrieve it by executing cfitsio.__version__

Module	Version
EBF	3.1.6
GAEM	2.1.2.1
GAEM_FW	3.1
GAEM_HW	1.1
GGLT	1.3.6.0
GGLT_FW	AEM: 3.1, TEM: 2.2
GGLT_HW	1.1
GNAT	1.0.21.0
GTEM	libgtem.o1.3.4.0 libgtem_CALv4.o 1.3.4.1
GTEM_FW	2.2
GTEM_HW	1.1
PyQt	3.8.1
Python	0x20203f0
Qt	3.2.2
XBRD	0.0.3.0
XBRD_FW	1.2
XBRD_HW	1.1
cfitsio	2.470
cmdCli	1.39
cmdSvr	1.61
evtCli	1.63
evtSvr	1.65
gAttr	1.23
gConstraint	1.6
gEGU	1.6
gGroup	1.3
gLAT	1.43
gNode	1.27
gRule	1.3
gSchemaConfig	1.34
gutil	1.17
logging	0.4.7
sihippo	1.3.3
versions	1.27
xml	0.8.3
Component	Version
TEM
GCRC
GTRC
AEM
GARC
GAFE

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