ryanmelt
Here’s COSMOS 4.4.0! 52 tickets have been incorporated including 18 new features, 19 bug fixes and 15 general maintenance changes.
Overall this is just a stability bug fix release, but there are a few interesting changes. For one, max packet reception speed has been greatly increased due to ticket #911. CmdExtractor can now output in a CSV format. ScriptRunner has a recently opened file menu section, and the show_backtrace feature is now a menu option as well. There is much better support for giving absolute paths to config files on the command line. There is also a new LED type widget to display boolean telemetry.
Enjoy and see below for the full list of changes.
Breaking Changes:
The faster identification in ticket #911 does come with a potentially breaking change. The improvement requires that all packets for a given target be identified using the same fields (bit offset, bit_size, and type). This is the typical configuration, and breaking this pattern is typically a dangerous/bad choice for interfaces anyways, but previously COSMOS did default to handling packets being potentially identified using different fields in the same target. If you have a target that still requires that functionality, you need to declare CMD_UNIQUE_ID_MODE, and/or TLM_UNIQUE_ID_MODE in the target’s target.txt file to indicate it should use the slower identification method.
New Features:
- #822 CmdExtractor CSV Output Option
- #854 ScriptRunner open multiple files from File->Open
- #877 Graph in PktViewer during Replay should open TlmGrapher in Replay
- #878 Debugger enhancements
- #886 Add show_backtrace menu option to ScriptRunner/TestRunner
- #891 Ability for protocol write methods to write send commands to the interface that owns it
- #893 Canvas image ease of use
- #895 prompt should take color and font options
- #911 Fast Identification
- #918 Limits bar widget display specified range
- #934 Recent Files list in Script Runner File menu
- #938 Test Runner disable start buttons
- #956 Templated Protocol Limited to One Target per Interface
- #964 Improve error message when accessing packets during initialization
- #986 Script Runner should note Disconnect mode in log
- #987 Tools should support absolute paths on the command line
- #990 Add Boolean Telemetry Widget
- #1017 Data Viewer component for colored text items
Maintenance:
- #880 tmp output not capitalizing targets
- #884 Documentation updates
- #913 Workaround Travis accept failures
- #914 Increase json_drb start timeout
- #925 Script syntax highlighting improvements
- #930 Update COSMOS Travis builds
- #940 Update keyword documentation
- #953 Simplify Launcher.bat files
- #955 Document tool command line options
- #995 Test Runner should use LOAD_UTILITY to better match scripting
- #998 Enable raw logging when LOG_RAW used
- #1000 Add IgnorePacketProtocol to defaults
- #1005 Celsius is misspelled
- #1008 Move handbook assets out of outputs
- #1010 Widget documentation and cleanup
Bug Fixes:
- #870 TlmViewer Block Widget exhibits weird scrolling issue
- #874 Demo commanding screen can’t run scripts
- #882 Demo background task unable to be restarted
- #889 FixedProtocol does not identify packets when leading bytes discarded
- #908 Bad Hex String Conversion in Command Sender
- #909 Replay doesn’t work with TlmGrapher when loading saved_config
- #916 Allow FORMAT_STRING before STATES
- #919 Limits Checking Enabled Status on Properties Dialog not accurate
- #920 Gemfile may be too strict in ruby-termios version requirement
- #927 Error if DECLARE_TARGET with no SYSTEM target folder
- #945 Screenshotting on Macs may not work
- #948 Unable to connect limits monitor to replay server
- #966 OpenGL Builder is Expecting “EarthMap1024x512.gif”, but Packaged GIF is “Earthmap1024x512.gif”
- #975 Multiple Errors in a chain of ScriptRunner Methods
- #978 ScriptRunner breakpoints don’t get set on the correct line
- #980 Include target REQUIRE files in marshal
- #983 Line number discrepancy in TestRunner Report/ScriptRunner output
- #992 missing method in xtce_converter; process_xtce
- #1022 Table Manager TABLEFILE doesn’t support subdirectories
Migration Notes from COSMOS 4.3.0:
To upgrade to the latest version of COSMOS, run “bundle update cosmos” in your COSMOS project folder.
See the COSMOS documentation for directions on setting up DART: http://cosmosc2.com/docs/v4/