Opticks 4.3.1 - It's Coming...

Coding for Opticks 4.3.1, just finished up. The first release candidate should up and available on the Opticks website by the end of the week (August 7th). From there, it's testing and then barring any problems the final build of 4.3.1 will release on August 25th. Ok, now that I've thrown all the important dates out, why should you care?

Because it's got some awesome stuff in it, that's why.

Here are my favorite features/fixes:

• Mouse Panning - Ok, so I helped work on this feature, so I'm a little biased. But, seriously open an image and press and release the middle mouse button to activate the mouse pan mode (or you can press Ctrl+Shift+E while your mouse is over an image). Give a try, I think you'll end up liking it.
• JPEG2000 Importer - more data importers is always a good thing right? This currently works on the Windows 32-bit version of Opticks and nothing else and will open .jp2 and .j2k files. Currently, this importer loads the entire image into memory.
• Tiled Tiff Support for the GeoTiff Importer - again, loading more data is always a good thing in my book. If you had a GeoTiff that didn't load it before, give it a try in a 4.3.1.
• Control the number of Most Recently Used Files - you can now set the number of most recently used files that are stored by editing the preference in "Tools\Options...". Anything from 0 to 16 is valid, 5 is the default.
• Faster Start-up - who doesn't like faster start-up? I helped work on this one too, so I'm biased here as well. Opticks now does a better job of caching information about plug-ins, so that the start-up time can be improved.
• Dynamic Texture Generation now supported on Linux - this feature has always been pretty cool, but you could only use it on Windows. Now, you can use it on Linux.
• Fixed Import Options Dlg regression - There was a regression when selecting datasets from a file for import in the 4.3.0 release. This has now been fixed in 4.3.1, so that 4.3.1 will behave like 4.2.5. If this problem affected you, it was annoying, but no need to worry about that if you upgrade to 4.3.1.

Check out the list of all 63 issues that were fixed (there's a bunch of other really nice fixes in there) and find your favorite new features/fixes.

You can download a nightly build that has all the 4.3.1 fixes. You can find the nightly Windows installers here. And the Solaris installers here.