Gradient Domain Operations, take 6

[Ginge]

Sure George, it looks like this.

ginge

[georg.viehoever]

Looks as if this has never been updated from the first version.
Juan, any comments? 
Georg

[Juan Conejero]

Hi,

The Mac OS X port of this module (kindly provided by Rob(pfile)) was released through the update-devel repository on July 31st as 20110731-macosx-x86_64-module.zip and 20110731-macosx-x86-module.zip, respectively for the 64-bit and 32-bit versions. The reference documentation was also distributed on the same date.

Ginge, do you have the update-devel repository enabled in PixInsight? See this thread for complete information.

[Ginge]

The Mac OS X port of this module (kindly provided by Rob(pfile)) was released through the update-devel repository on July 31st as 20110731-macosx-x86_64-module.zip and 20110731-macosx-x86-module.zip, respectively for the 64-bit and 32-bit versions. The reference documentation was also distributed on the same date.

Ginge, do you have the update-devel repository enabled in PixInsight? See this thread for complete information.

Hi Juan!

Yes, I do, and from the Installed Updates list I see that I have the abovementioned update installed already. However, an earlier update has been installed after the 20110731-macosx-x86_64-module.zip , namely 20110703-macosx-x86_64-module.tar.gz. Maybe this is causing the problem, in that case, how do I uninstall it?

Best regards,
Ginge

[Juan Conejero]

Ginge,

Yes, that's the problem. Hmm, that should never happen; maybe you've discovered a bug in the update system, or something very strange has happened to your PI installation.

Anyway, you can fix the problem following these steps:

- Exit PixInsight if you have it running.

- Select the PixInsight.app application bundle (in Finder) and right-click it. Then select 'Show package contents'.

- A new Finder window opens showing the contents of the application bundle. Look for a file named 'updates.xri' within the package's directory tree. Normally it should be located on the Contents/MacOS subfolder.

- Open updates.xri with a good code editor. Dashcode may suffice.

- Locate a line starting with "<package fileName="20110731". This is the beginning of an XML element. Locate the end of this element, which is a line with "</package>". For example:

   <package fileName="20110731 ...
   ...
   </package>

You have to delete all of the text starting with "<package" and up to "</package>".

- Save the file.

- Run PixInsight and the update should be available to your installation. It will replace your current GradientDomain module.

Alternatively, you can simply delete your updates.xri file, but then you'll get all updates available since the initial release of 1.7.0, which can be a hassle.

Let me know if this helps. I'm going to investigate how is it possible that an older update replaces a newer one. I designed the whole update system to rule out this possibility, so something is happening...

[Ginge]

Thanks Juan, that did the trick. I erased the update.xri and installed all updates once more. The GradientDomain module now looks more up to date, but PI still wants to install an older 20110703-macosx-x86_64-module.tar.gz update... which might prove a tad annoying after a while if it persists 

Clear skies!
Ginge

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Ginge,

Oops! This was an error in the update-devel repository for Mac OS X. It is now fixed; the 20110703 update will no longer appear when you check for updates (or upon application startup). Sorry for the extra trouble!

[Ginge]

No worries

Ginge

[georg.viehoever]

Hi,
this is a new source release of the Gradient Domain Module. Main features:
- fixing bug disovered by RBA
- improved bubble help
- improved documentation
- new documentation for the GradientsHdrCompression tool.

Details are listed in the changelist below. The documentation is too large to be attached here. I am mailing it to Juan in the hope that he will distribute compiled modules and documentation using the update system.
Kind regards,
Georg

CHANGES.txt:

Version 00.05.00.0003 (2011-10-15):
- integrated Juan's changes into documentation (mainly image sizes)
- added information about the contributions of others to the author tag of .pidoc
- removed head label in GUI, and set tooltip on ProcessInstance itself for
  both GradientsMergeMosaicInterface and GradientsHdrInterface. This is for conformance
  with other PI tools
- GradientsHdrCompression: reduced range of LogMin/LogMax parameter after Vicent's remark that the parameters are
  extremely sensitive. Also, the minimum logMin value is now coerced to zero instead of just
  being a small number. The defaults are all set to "neutral" now.
- GradientsHdrCompression: Improved bubble help and other help texts
- GradientsHdrCompression: Added help page.
- GradientsHdrCompression: Added module to HDR category (was Intensity Transform) to documentation
- GradientsMergeMosaic: Added reference to video tutorial to doucmentation
- GradientsMergeMosaic: Fixed issue identified by RBA in http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3295.msg23480#msg23480

 - Known issues:
 -- GradientsHdrCompression: Realtime preview sometimes does not follow settings correctly. Also
    has problems with STF.
 -- GradientsMergeMosaic with large Feather Radius values shows artefacts at the border of the merged images, if the image has a staircase structure there. This unfortunately cannot be easily avoided, and is discussed in the documentation.

Version 00.04.00.0002 (2011-07-24)
-First release that is fully functional and usually delivers results of the quality that I had in mind

[Ginge]

George, that last update is working beautifully! What a great tool! Thanks a bunch!

Clear skies,
Ginge

[georg.viehoever]

Newer message in http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3572.0, older messages in http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3289.0.
Georg