Revision History

Client

Version 1.441 [2008-10-29]

Moved some items on Settings "Config" tab to new "Display" tab.
Added "Reset view after inactivity" setting.
Added additional items to "Filter" settings.
Added "Filtered-Out Events" item to 'View' menu.
Added "Center if away from middle" setting to 'AutoSelect' tab.
Updated OpenMap library to version 4.6.4
Modified to use user-home directory for write-access (configuration, storage and log) files.
Improved Internet IPv6 support and implemented modifications for possible IPv6-related server-login issues.
Increased ShakeMap-download timeout from 30 to 60 seconds.
Changed default value for "Suppress auto-select after manual" setting on 'Filters' tab to 10 seconds.
Fixed emailer-message issue where miles/kilometers-distance values were wrong when a non-US locale was in use.
Fixed issue with web-services-server connection where canceling initial fetch of messages would result in old messages still coming in and then a reconnect.
Using updated QWCommon modified to release more CORBA resources when closing connection.
Updated QDM "regions.xml" file to "2008-03-19 10:43:06" version.
Updated "gdata/LocationNoteData.txt" file.

Version 1.4 [2007-08-14]

Added support for "Kiosk Mode".
Added optional "Day/Night Shading" map layer.
Fixed action of "ShakeMap" and "drill-down" Event-menu and popup-menu items when operating on currently-selected event.
Fixed small memory leak (in products cache).
Added support for ANSS-EQ-XML-format messages.
Modified to handle ShakeMap-product messages whose link value does not end with "intensity.html".
Modified web-services-connection support to prevent program from getting "stuck" if server is unresponsive.
Modified processing of QPager/CUBE ".SMB" layer files to ignore lines containing only characters with ASCII codes lower than the space character.
Fixed issue where if an existing event became low QDM-priority via an update the event would not be removed.
Added support for "none" option with product buttons.
Updated location-note-data file.

Version 1.31 [2006-08-28]

Integrated emailer functionality via "Recipients" and "Email" Settings tabs.
Added new World-Map layer to distribution and setup so upgrade will replace world-lines/area layers if they are in their default states.
Added "World Lakes" to default layers set.
Changed visual-alarm flash color to red.
Added ability to sort right-side events list via headers.
Added options in "View" menu for right-side and lower panels.
Modified to show leading 'T' on "Tsunami" event messages in right-side events list.
Added support for selecting next/previous message with "Tsunami" product.
Added "Locale name" item to Settings "Config" tab.
Added "Measurement units" item to Settings "Config" tab (for selecting measurement units for the bottom panel and the scale layer).
Moved "Edit" and "Add" items to top of "Layers" menu.
Added support for connecting to a QW Web Services Server.
Added support for layer-zip archives and layer-defaults file (".ldf" extension).
Implemented remote-layers viewer panel (via "Add Layers" | "Remote" button).
Added "Copy" button to "Alarm Regions" dialog window.
"Global" alarm now referred to as "audible-visible" alarm.
Added "Modify Regions" button to 'Alarm' tab on settings dialog.
Modified to properly handle alarm-region polygons that bridge the +/-180 degree longitude line.
Fixed non-English locale problem with configuration file.
Fixed missing "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on file chooser and tree list problem on Macintosh.
Fixed bug where double-clicking on alarm-recipients list was not disabled while add/edit-region window was active.
Added "Place ShakeMap layers before" setting.
Enhanced auto-select (and drill-down) behavior for events that generate a ShakeMap or are above a given magnitude threshold.
Added "AutoSelect" settings tab.
Added "Suppress auto-select after manual" item to "AutoSelect" settings tab.
Modified to always auto-select events that trigger an audible-visible alarm.
Added "Drill-Down Map on Event" item to "Event" menu.
Added fill and line color options to configuration window for "tool-tip" Shape layers.
Added "Tool tip enabled" item to layer settings for tool-tip-shape layer.
Added "min/max zoom scale visible" items to layer settings for map layers.
Modified to show "zoom-out" icon on "Layers" menu-item when associated layer is hidden via zoom-scale-visible layer-setting.
Modified to show current zoom-scale value in mouse-over tool-tip text for "Reset Zoom" button.
Improved layer-error messages shown when required layer-files are missing.
Modified to show red text on "Layers" menu item if layer error occurred while loading.
Modified to show dialog after adding layer if error message reported by layer.
Added default "Max zoom scale visible" value of 50000000 to "CA NV Faults" layer.
Updated QDM "regions.xml" file to "2006-04-12 19:05:00" version.
Added support for running program in "CISN Alert Map" mode.
Added "Center map on auto-selected events" setting.
Moved "Max event from server age" setting to "Connection" tab.
Modified to fix issue where switching to new server could result in already-received non-event-update messages being re-requested.
Modified to make sure selected item in right-side quake list stays visible after event added.
Modified "Event Viewer" program to display event times in GMT.

Version 1.2 [2005-04-27]

Integrated "Event Viewer" program, runnable via 'Tools' menu.
Integrated "Emailer" program (functionality to be fully integrated in future).
Added "User's Guide" item to "Help" menu.
Modified InstallAnywhere installer to use Java 1.4 on Mac to fix clipped product-buttons issue.
Added banner file "Yellowstone_VObs_banner.gif".
Fixed issue where connection-status or receiving-event dialog window could get "stuck" (after minimize).
Fixed bug where changing server after entering login password would result in incorrect password value being saved.
Modified "Launch Browser" so that "file" URLs will work with a non-default launch command under Windows.
Fixed response to hitting <Esc> while loading-events dialog window shown (terminate program).

Version 1.1 [2005-02-14]

Implemented work-around for Java 1.4.2 bug (4711700) that could result in 'NullPointerException' at startup.
Fixed issue where earthquake-event mouse-over tool-tips were not updated after time zone changes.
Improved client handling of shape and ShakeMap files containing invalid data.

Version 1.0 [2004-12-08]

Modified initial servers to be the four "quakewatchX.cisn.org:39977" servers.

Version 0.92Beta [2004-12-03]

Fixed issue where the color-editor "preview" panel was missing when using Java 1.4.2 or later.
Fixed issue where the text on "color" settings buttons could be hard to read when using Windows XP.
Fixed issue where "Communications error..." window could be shown when there was no real error.
Modified to show "enter-local-server" window if no servers can be reached the first time the program is run.
Modified so that if the server-host-address is empty and the "Enable fail-over to alternate servers" checkbox is selected then one of the alternate servers will be chosen at random and used as the server.
Added support for redirection to other servers.
Updated OpenORB to version "1.4.0_17Nov2004" (for Java 1.5 support).
Updated QDM to version "1.1.4 Level 2004/10/07".

Version 0.91Beta [2004-10-14]

Implemented login username/password for server connection.
Fixed bug where the "Remove ShakeMap from Map" menu item wouldn't work while the program was scanning for "Hazus" data.

Version 0.9Beta

Implemented integrated program-upgrade capability via automated and manual notification from the server.
Modified layout of lower event-information panel to show enhanced data-source information.
Added authoritative-indicator tooltip to event-ID text.
Added "US Towns" layer.
Added "CA NV Faults" layer, with map mouse-over tips for fault names.
Added map mouse-over tips for earthquake events.
Added new splash screen and banners to distribution.
Added "Show Banner" menu item to "View" menu.
Set default filter min/max lat/lon values to zero.
Changed default reset-view map zoom-scale value to 80000000.0.
Added and implemented new "Place ShakeMap layers after" setting.
Added "Settings" text-button to menu bar.
Added optional "Settings Summary" panel.
Added "Help | Funding Sources" menu item.
Fixed issue where displayed legend was not updated after change to color scheme.
Fixed issue where a product message linked to an event via a QDM merge could overwrite an existing product with the same event-ID as the event.
Improved notifications for missing layer files.
Modified so that config-file error does not always result in loss of layer configuration.
Updated to QDM 1.1.3 Level 2004/09/21.

Version 0.36Beta

Fixed issue where a product message linked to an event via a QDM merge could overwrite an existing product with the same event-ID as the event.
Modified so that if an event is deleted and a previously-received QDM-low-priority duplicate of the event exists then the duplicate event is pulled in to replace the deleted event.
Added "Libraries" text to "Help | About" dialog.
Modified to dump stack trace to "QWClient_crash.txt" after unexpected program crashes.
Fixed bug with alarm-regions-edit-panel not displayed after program restart via increase in max-loaded-age setting.
Updated "gdata/LocationNoteData.txt" file.
Updated to QDM 1.1.2 Level 2004/07/16.

Version 0.35Beta

Added automatic removal of old downloaded ShakeMap data files.
Added zoom-scale view options to location layers.
Added product-message cache to handle product messages that arrive before their associated event message.
Improved error-handling when files for configured layers are missing.
Increased product-buttons widths slightly to prevent "ShakeMap" button label from getting trucated on some systems.

Version 0.34Beta

Implemented ShakeMap auto-download improvements.
Added "Alarm Regions" functionality, accessible via the "Tools | Alarm Regions" menu item.
Added "Minimum depth for alarm" item to alarm settings.
Added "Tsunami" product-button option.
Implemented ShakeMap-stations layer download.
Implemented automatic HAZUS-files download.
Modified "stations" layers to use triangle-shaped location symbols.

Version 0.32Beta

Added ability to configure functions of "product" buttons on lower quake-information panel.
Added alarm-criteria items for maximum depth and verified/reviewed status.
Fixed bug where, after a new server was specified, a server on the alternate-servers list would be connected to instead.
Fixed bug where new event messages might not be saved into the local persistent archive if the server clock is ahead of the local clock.
Added handling for negative-event-age issue that could result in 'ArrayIndexOutOfBounds' exceptions.
Updated program launchers to provide a larger maximum memory heap size limit.
Fixed bug where some "Help"-menu items were, at times, unable to be displayed.
Updated 'LocationNoteData.txt' file by adding more "global" locations.

Version 0.3Beta

Added Settings Manual documentation, viewable via the new "Help | Settings Manual" menu item and the new "Help" button on the "Settings" window.
Modified communications code to always check for event updates when reconnecting to a server.
Modified so that updates to existing events can also trigger alarms (not just new events).
Modified to remove any ShakeMap layers associated with an event when the event is deleted.
Added retry capability to ShakeMap data download.
Modified to remove the scale display whenever the zoom-scale would make it larger than 500 miles.
Modified to make sure that display indicators for newly-arrived products are updated immediately.
Modified latitude/longitude filtering so that if both min and max are set to zero then lat/lon filtering is disabled.
Modified so that when a text-comment product is not a URL it will be displayed in a popup dialog.
Fixed bug where if the currently-selected event was updated, showing its products or information would reference old data.
Fixed quake-list selection issues when list updated.
Fixed to react properly to the "Server connection timeout" parameter being set to zero (never timeout).
Improved code threading related to displayed GUI components.
Added "Reset Zoom" button and menu item.
Added factory configuration defaults file ('conf/QWClientDefaultsConfig.xml').
Updated location-note locations file ('gdata/LocationNoteData.txt').
Updated default map to show all continents.
Added splash screen at startup.
Added configuration-settings item for banner-graphic file (also sets up splash screen).
Modified to send all console output to "log/QWClientConsole.txt" (which can help with debugging).
Modified to prevent more than one instance running out of same directory.
Fixed doubling of wait-time between consecutive failed connection attempts.
Added support for sending client-information properties when connecting to a server.

Version 0.29Beta

Added support for automatic "fail-over" switching to alternate servers.
Improved message processing so that if an existing event-message record is superceded (via QDM processing), any existing products are copied to the new event-message record.
Implemented zoom limit (at 1000ft) that works for both tool-icon and mouse-drag zooming.
Implemented removal of displayed ShakeMaps in response to received delete-ShakeMap-product messages.
Added support for "(probable quarry explosion)" indicator on location note.
Updated QDM "regions.xml" file.
Improved error handling on user-requested ShakeMap downloads.
Fixed issue of window frame repositioning after old-layer removal at startup.
Various improvements made to client-to-server communications.
Fixed potential lockup bug during automatic download of ShakeMaps.
Fixed problem with simultaneously downloading multiple ShakeMaps during initial update from server.
Updated QDM "regions.xml" file to "2003-10-03 15:06:04" version.

Version 0.28Beta

Implemented management of the client's persistent event history so that the local event archive does not become too large.
Various improvements made to the resend-request implementation.
Added and implemented a new QuakeWatch client/server service method for fetching the server name (defined in the server's configuration file).
Added user-confirmed program restart in response to increase in the loaded-events age setting.

Version 0.27Beta

Implemented resend-request of messages at startup to allow the client to catch-up on missed messages.
Implemented "live" detection and resend-request of missed messages to allow the retrieval any messages missed while the client is running.
Added support for the QDDS "Trump" event message-type (used with QDM-style event merge).
Added the ability to download ShakeMap files ("shape.zip", etc) to the local disk.
Added ShakeMap legend ("basic" and "detailed" versions).
Modified so that ShakeMap layers may be manually added.
When loading a ShakeMap for an event that is already displaying the same ShakeMap, the new ShakeMap replaces the old one.
Added "Max time to show ShakeMaps" setting that allows automatic removal ShakeMaps displayed on the map after a given number of hours.
Various improvements made to the ShakeMaps-on-map display implementation.
Added "Remove ShakeMap from display" item to ShakeMap-button menu.
Added 'ShakeMap' items to the "Event" menu (and the quake-list right-click popup menu).
Improved and made "Products" and "ShakeMap"-button menus be consistent.
"Products"-button menu now shows date/time for each product received.
Modified so that all received data messages are saved to the client event-history file (instead of just those that were accepted using the current filter and storage-max-age parameters).

Version 0.26Beta

Initial version of client-to-server login implemented.
Initial version of ShakeMaps-on-map display implemented.
Fixed "event-verified" issue; "verified" flag (and other changes) now accepted as long as the event-version-number is greater than or equal to the previous value.
Improved reconnect logic (no longer allowed to give up).
Implemented client request of immediate 'Alive' message from server (reduces connection-verified delay).
Server address information now shown in connection status.
Added test and warnings for minimum version of Java allowed (v1.3).

Version 0.25Beta

Communications improvements made that allow the program to run behind a firewall/NAT without any custom configurations.
Added ability to save and load program configurations.
Added dialog window that appears the first time the client is run that asks the user if they want the "Simpson-map" or "CUBE/REDI"-style color scheme configuration.
Improvements made to display of Info/Products/ShakeMap buttons.
On "Tools"|"Settings" panel, "Reset" and "Default" buttons now effect only the currently displayed tab.
Improved log-file management.

Version 0.24Beta

Fixed bugs in display updating in response to filter settings changes.
Added "Event age >= 1 hour color" setting and support, including modified legend display.
Modified default color scheme (red: last hour, blue: last day, yellow: last week, transparent: >= 7 days.
Added "Symbol pixels per magnitude" setting, which allows the relative sizes of epicenter squares be modified.
Changed warning text to "Notice: Earthquake data may be preliminary and subject to change".
Implemented a fix for the issue of the initial User Agreement display showing up blank on some systems.
Added "I Agree" / "Exit Program" buttons to the initial User Agreement display.

Version 0.23Beta

Added progress indicator to "Loading events from history file" dialog window.
Added display of "User Agreement" via the "Help" menu.

Version 0.22Beta

Improved source list of locations for "location note" displays.
Added settings for enabling/disabling of audible and visual alarms and a maximum event age setting for alarms.
Added option to disable audible beep on new events.

Version 0.21Beta

Initial QDM-based event-merge support implemented.
Put in new default color scheme.
Put in maximum zoom-scale limit.
Lowered lat/lon tracker display to 3 decimal places.
On the "Help"|"About" screen, replaced reference to TriNet with CISN (http://www.cisn.org).

Version 0.20Beta

CORBA messaging package changed from ORBacus to OpenORB.
Added support for magnitude-based alarms (audible sounds and visual flashing).
Scale information now shown on map.
Improved width-layout and scrolling on floating quake-information panel.
"Are you sure" box now appears before layer removal.

Version 0.15Beta

Implemented ability to add, remove and edit map layers.
Reconnect-to-server logic and connection status indicator implemented.
Added settings for filtering by data source codes.
Added settings for configuring OS command used to launch a browser window.
Changed circle symbols on map to squares.
Added setting for "Selected symbol color".
Added clock to display.
Made time zone on displayed date/times configurable.

Version 0.14Beta

"Help"|"Revision History" display is implemented.
Event symbol age colors modifiable in Settings.
Default behavior is to have newly arriving events be auto-selected. There is a new configuration item that enables/disables this.
Map view location and zoom-scale made persistent.
Filtering parameters for minimum magnitude, maximum age and latitude/longitude bounds modifiable via the GUI.
Added "Max auto-select age" and "Max stored event age" options to Settings.

Version 0.13Beta

The client can receive and display the event messages.
The client can read messages from an event "history" file and can add received messages to the file.
The client can read parameters from a configuration file.
Basics of map display and manipulation are in place.
Event age and magnitude are indicated by color and symbol size on the map display.
Detailed information on events may be displayed.
Event products (such as ShakeMaps) are made available for display in a web browser.
Map legend is present (and able to "float" separately).
"Warning..." disclaimer is present on screen.
Option to change program-name text displayed in program title bar and on "About" panel; defaults to "CISN Display".
Option to specify graphic file shown as banner above map; defaults to CISN graphic.
Program window frame size and position are persistent.
"Time" fractional seconds to two decimal places; lat/lon fractional seconds to four decimal places.

Server

Version 0.66Beta [2008-10-20]

Added QWCorbaOutputter configuration parameter 'subscribeAllDefaultFlag' and changed default QWCorbaOutputter behavior to deliver no messages if no domain/channels are subscribed to.

Version 0.65Beta [2008-07-22]

Added "outputters" support and QWCorbaOutputter module.
Modified QDDS feeder to log "Not enough characters in message" error at "debug" level instead of "warning" level.
Added averaging to excessive-thread-count detection.
Added slight delay between tracked-log-message trigger and status report output (to allow multiple "simultaneous" messages to be included in the same report).
Modified CUBE-format parser to handle numeric strings that have whitespace before a plus sign.
Added 'CubeToAnssEQXML' and 'CubeToQWXML' test utilities.
Using updated QWCommon (client-side communications layer) modified to release more CORBA resources when closing connection.

Version 0.64Beta [2008-03-25]

Added status report configuration parameters and implementation.
Added QWServices methods 'getStatusReportTime()' and 'getStatusReportData()'.
Modified clients manager to allow recovery of username when client connection has timed out but client then reuses connection.

Version 0.62Beta [2007-09-21]

Modified processing of incoming message-elements so that whitespace between elements is removed and control characters within elements are encoded to "&##;" strings.
Fixed bugs in CUBE-message parser where incomplete CUBE-field items could result in 'StringIndexOutOfBoundsException' being thrown.

Version 0.6Beta [2007-08-15]

Added support for the dynamic feeder-modules configuration file (via the new 'feederModulesCfgFile' configuration parameter).
Fixed issue with 'QWViaFileFeeder' where input files that failed parsing could get stuck in the 'process' directory and be processed again and again.
Modified to wait for feeder stops to complete before exiting program.
Modified to check for 'MsgSrc'/'MsgIdent' values in ANSS-EQ-XML-format messages (if enabled via new 'checkEQMsgIdentFlag' configuration parameter).
Minor improvement to CUBE-to-ANSS-EQ-XML-format message parsing (added "CUBE_Code" comments).
Modified 'CubeAnssEQParser' and 'CubeFormatParser' classes to detect and pass through XML-format messages and to allow spaces in date codes.
Added 'memorySizeWarnMBytes', 'threadCountWarnMargin', 'notifSvrStatusLogName' and 'notifSvrStatusWarnFlag' configuration parameters.
Updated OpenORB libraries (to "20061129_isti3" version).

Version 0.59Beta [2006-09-20]

Modified to recognize ShakeMap product-translation codes for Global and for ShakeMaps from other networks.
Updated OpenORB libraries (to "20060309_isti1" version).
Fixed issue where next "alive" message output by server could be delayed if "alive" message requested by a client.
Added 'QddsAnssEQ' feeder and support for "feederParserClass" configuration setting for 'QWViaFile' and 'QWCorba' feeders.
Fixed issue where client-versions update information would remain invalid after versions-info file was inaccessible and then accessible.
Modified to update the client-versions update information even if the last-modified time for the client-versions-information file is older than the one currently held.
Added configuration parameters 'msgKeyElement1Name' and 'msgKeyElement2Name'.

Version 0.58Beta [2005-12-14]

Updated to include QuakeWatch Web Services enhancements.

Version 0.57Beta [2005-09-16]

Fixed bug (introduced in version 0.55Beta) where updated client-versions-information was not detected by a client unless the client was restarted.
Modified to always generate clients-info log file (instead of only when CORBA QWServices were in use).

Version 0.56Beta [2005-07-13]

Modified cached-archive code to avoid thread 'interrupt()' calls that can be problematic under Solaris OS.

Version 0.55Beta [2005-06-08]

Modified processing of client-versions-info file to use separate thread and timeout to prevent possibility of client update not being offered because of indefinite file I/O access thread block.

Version 0.54Beta [2005-04-29]

Modified to properly recognize duplicate messages when data-message element of incoming message contains no child elements.
Modified to use feeder-data-source host name and message number to differentiate between received messages.
Fixed 'QWRelayFeeder' processing of feeder-data-source host name and message number values.
Added "Notification Service / CORBA-Event-Channel" and "QuakeWatch Messaging System Diagram" sections to manual.

Version 0.52Beta [2005-04-13]

Fixed so as to actually discard messages whose source is the feeder's own server.
Modified to prevent extraneous "Error parsing 'SrcHostMsgID'" messages.
Fixed processing of "-configFile" parameter when followed by an equals sign.
Put XML doc and revision history into QWServer manual.

Version 0.5Beta [2005-02-10]

Added server-statistics log output.
Added 'clientVInfoPollDelaySecs' configuration item.
Added support for requesting messages via feeder-data-source information.

Version 0.48Beta [2004-12-03]

Added clients-information-tracking log file.
Added support for redirection of clients to other servers.
Added login-information file option to QWRelay feeder module.
Modified to prevent 'QWRelayFeeder' from being able to connect to its own QWServer.
Added 'maximumMessageSize' configuration parameter.
Added 'publishNumericIPFlag' configuration parameter.
Added 'allowObsLoginClientsFlag' configuration parameter.
Changed to improved start/stop launching scripts.
Added command-line parameter "--configFile" for specifying the configuration file.
Added "QuakeWatch Server Administrators Manual".
Added troubleshooting section to manual.
Updated OpenORB to version "1.4.0_17Nov2004" (for Java 1.5 support).
Updated QDDS to version "1.3.3 Level 2004.11.08".

Version 0.47Beta

Implemented validation of client login username and password.

Version 0.45Beta

Added 'allowDuplicatesFlag' configuration parameter.
Added "units" attributes to event messages received via QDDS.
Updated to QDDS 1.3.2 Level 2004.09.18.

Version 0.43Beta

Implemented 'QWRelay' and 'QWViaFile' feeder modules.