Compatibility and bug fixes, cli improvements and code formatting

Changed

• migrate to psyplot-plugin-template !34
• Update psyplot min version !38

Fixed

• fix updating current projects in console !35

Added

• implement decoder command-line argument !36

As with psyplot 1.4.0, psyplot-gui is now continuously tested and deployed with CircleCI.

Added

• psyplot-gui does now have a CITATION.cff file, see https://citation-file-format.github.io

Changed

• psyplot is now officially licensed under LGPL-3.0-only, see #29
• Documentation is now hosted with Github Pages at https://psyplot.github.io/psyplot-gui. Redirects from the old documentation at https://psyplot-gui.readthedocs.io have been configured.
• We use CicleCI now for a standardized CI/CD pipeline to build and test the code and docs all at one place, see #28

Presets and more variable info

Changed

• psyplot-gui has been moved from https://github.com/Chilipp/psyplot-gui to https://github.com/psyplot/psyplot-gui, see #10
• variables in the dataset tree show now more content, see #16
• setting the rcparam help_explorer.use_intersphinx to None, will not use intersphinx on windows, see #20

Added

• The psyplot gui can now load and save preset files, see psyplot#24 and [#17 https://github.com/psyplot/psyplot-gui/pull/17]{.title-ref}__
• Add option to start the GUI without importing QtWebEngineWidgets #11
• Dockmixins (i.e. plugins) can now reimplement the [position_dock]{.title-ref} method that controls where the dock is exactly placed in the GUI (see #12)

This minor release builds upon https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/7447 to add better OpenGL support. There are no breaking API changes, only small changes for running tests with the module level UNIT_TESTING variable (see https://github.com/Chilipp/psyplot-gui/commit/44adb62d140936a7574ce63a9ff3c72b132b40eb)

From now one, python 2.7 is not supported anymore.

Added

• Added the possibility to change the central widget of the GUI
• Added remove_plugin method for psyplot GUI plugins

Changed

• removed MacOS app folder in python dist

monkey patch for ipykernel < 5.1.1 to fix https://github.com/ipython/ipykernel/issues/370

This release inline with psyplot-1.2.0 adds support for python 3.7.

Changed

• The HTML help explorer now also shows a table of contents in the intro and in the side bar to navigate to previously visited objects

This release mainly adds the possibility to create plugins into the psyplot-gui and it adds a new framework to allow the formatoptions to provide a custom interface to the formatoptions widget.

Added

• Added layout windows menu and default layout
• Added script and command command line arguments
• The pwd command line arguments now changes the working directory of the running GUI
• Added callbacks to the MainWindow class. This framework can be used on a low level to interact with the current GUI.
• The DataFrameEditor. A widget to display dataframes
• The implementation of the psyplot.plotter.Formatoption.get_fmt_widget method. Formatoptions now can add a custom widget to the formatoptions widget

This patch fixes a bug that prevented the startup of the GUI on Windows.

v1.0.1

Added

• added changelog

Changed

• fixed bug that prevented startup on Windows

This release is the first official and stable release which is also submitted to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). See the corresponding psyplot release for more information.

This release is also available via pypi

pip install psyplot-gui

or conda

conda install -c conda-forge psyplot-gui

Or you use the complete installation provided by the psyplot-conda package.

Note that this package has been renamed from psyplot_gui to psyplot-gui.