Archive of cmsShow release notes

• 2011-03-09: cmsShow-3.11-2 released
  • Add options for track splitting in RhoZ projections.
  • Change DataFormats version to CMSSW_3_11_2.
• 2011-02-24: cmsShow-3.11-1 released
  • Support usage of TriggerResults from all processes in event filtering.
  • Fish-eye transformation for projected views.
  • Support multiple detail views.
  • Show current file and event index in window title-bar.
• 2011-02-03: cmsShow-3.11-stable released
  • Use 3_11_0 data-formats.
  • Fix problem with scaling of MET objects (note that some MET collections do have E != Et).
  • Improve calorimeter energy scale determination for projected views.
• 2010-12-17: cmsShow39-patch1 released
  • Do not show HO contribution to CaloTower in HCal purpose - provide special "HCal Outer" purpose for that.
  • Fix inactive filter-entry problem in "Event Filter" dialog. This only occurred when configuration was reloaded.
• 2010-12-06: cmsShow39-stable released
  • Several minor improvements and bug-fixes.
• 2010-11-25: cmsShow39-beta2 released
  • Updated ParticleFlow visualization: new "PF Lego" and "PF RhoPhi" views showing ECal RecHits (purpose PFEcalRecHit).
  • Fix flickering of table-views.
  • Add "Invariant mass dialog" (available from "Window" menu).
  • Improved debug option -- attach gdb on terminal signal.
• 2010-10-29: cmsShow39-beta released
• 2010-09-29: cmsShow39-alpha made available for download

cmsShow38

Release highlights:

• addition of iSpy view;
  • ability to show calorimeter rec-hits & clusters;
  • ability to show muon rec-hits;
• addition of LVL1 / Tech trigger table view;
• addition of HF lego view;
• addition of calo-tower detail view;
• visualization of particle-flow objects;
• cross-view highlight;
• detailed calo-tower feedback / tooltip;
• most EDM collections can be viewed in table view;
• improved configuration file format;
• configuration reload at runtime, e.g. ispy.fwc;
• filtering in dialog for adding collections;
• add control of transparency for collections and objects.

There are no known major issues or known bugs so please report any problems to hn-cms-visualization or fill out a bug report in savannah https://savannah.cern.ch/projects/fireworks/.

ChangeLog

• 2010-09-06: cmsShow38-patch1 released
  • Workaround for ROOT bug in number entry that prevented specifying of event-id containing more than nine digits.
  • Add checks for existence of track-extra information for muons.
• 2010-09-01: cmsShow38-stable released
  • Update data-formats to 3_8_2.
  • Small fixes in ROOT 3D graphics (drawing of calo-towers).
• 2010-08-20: cmsShow36-patch1 released
  • Fix a problem in track propagation. This affected propagation of muons when magnetic filed was zero (cosmics).
  • Several significant optimizations of object management were implemented. Simulated heavy-ion data was used for performance testing.
• 2010-07-21: cmsShow36 released
  • Add tooltips and improve legend of Track detail-view.
  • Fix positioning of RPC rec-hits -- chambers themselves are not drawn as correct geometry is not available.
  • Increase precision of the default track-propagator from 1mm to 0.1mm.
  • Read coil current needed to scale the magnetic field from data-file when available (present for files produced with 3_6).
• 2010-06-22: cmsShow36-beta-3 released
  • Linux tarball was still shipped with 3_6_1_patch4 data-formats.
  • Improved particle-flow configuration.
  • Improved scaling of particle-flow objects in lego-view.
  • Allow viewing of calo-towers and particle-flow particles in the same lego-view.
  • Make muon chambers assigned to a track transparent.
  • Add optional axis guides - enable them from the view controller dialog.
  • Improved legends, colors and tooltips in detail-views.
  • Fix display of pixel-tracks.
  • Fix display of Si-strip barrel modules attached to a track.
  • Add detailed controls for event handling in GL windows (to be put in rootrc):
    OpenGL.EventHandler.ArrowKeyFactor: 1.0
    OpenGL.EventHandler.MouseDragFactor: 1.0
    OpenGL.EventHandler.MouseWheelFactor: 1.0
• 2010-06-18: cmsShow36-beta-2 released
  • Update FWlite to tag CMSSW_3_6_3 (was 3_6_1_patch4 before).
  • Add control of transparency for collections and objects.
  • Fix placement of windows when restoring configuration (problem with determination of title-bar height).
  • Add prescale column to LVL1 trigger table.
  • Add option to switch from scene-centric to viewer-centric controls in GL viewer. To switch from default, put the following line into your ~/.rootrc:
    OpenGL.EventHandler.ViewerCentricControls: 1
• 2010-06-11: cmsShow36-beta-1 released
  • Update ROOT shipped in the tarball to avoid crashes due to missing dictionaries.
  • Update pflow.fwc to include PF MET.
• 2010-06-10: cmsShow36-beta released

-- MatevzTadel - 06-Dec-2010