6.0

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Mantid Workbench Changes

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New & Improved Features

Plotting

  • New preferences can be set in File > Settings > Plots:
    • Tick customisation
    • Enabling grids by default
    • Colorbar scale preference to linear or logarithmic
    • Show (Hide) legend checkbox
  • In Figure options > Curves tab multiple curves can be selected and removed at once. The delete key was added as a shortcut
  • Add an autoscale checkbox to figure options
  • Improved plot generated scripts to better support major and minor tick settings at time of generation
  • Enabled the plotting of individual functions in the fit browser. Plotting of each function can be performed by right clicking on the fit function within the browser and selecting plot
  • 1D Plots from MantidPlot project files can be loaded in Workbench
  • Plots containing axvline and axhline can be successfully reproduced by project save
  • Vertical and horizontal markers on a plot no longer appear in front of the legend
  • Allow plotting a 1D spectrum (plot, overplot, plot_with_error, overplot_with_error) from an IMDHistoWorkspace with only 1 non-integrated dimension (but do not enable SliceViewer)
  • Wireframe plots no longer spill over the axes when their limits are reduced
  • Colorbar limits on colorfill plots allow greater precision and scientific notation
  • The zoom selection box has greater contrast with the image for SliceViewer and colorfill plots
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SliceViewer

  • The colorbar scale can now be set to Log which differs from the existing Symlog option as it prohibits negative values
  • Replots when the underlying workspace is modified .
  • Improved spectra selection, which should ensure that high counting spectra are shown immediately when opened.
  • Dynamic binning has been enabled for MDHistoWorkspaces with an attached original in the SliceViewer. Manual rebinning options are now also shown.

Sample Logs

  • SampleLogs in multiperiod event workspaces are now filtered by current period
  • Added QLineEdit to SampleLogs widget to allow filtering its entries

Interfaces

  • Migrate Step Scan interface to Workbench
  • Expose Instrument View control to Python
  • Add the possibility to copy and paste shapes in the InstrumentViewer using Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V
  • In the InstrumentViewer, the integration scroll bar can be moved, widened and shrunk using the arrow keys
  • Add a Python function to replace the workspace being shown by InstrumentViewer
  • A system to group samples and avoid repetition in DrILL has been added. See the DrILL documentation for more information.
  • Automatic data export in DrILL. See the DrILL documentation for more information.

Miscellaneous

  • Added a Dx data tab on the Show Data table when a workspace has Dx data
  • Improved the clarity of error messages generated by algorithms when access to a file is denied due to insufficient user permissions
  • Remove Load and Fit algorithm dialogs from autocompletion

Bugfixes

SliceViewer

  • Displayed data updates correctly when changing axis selection
  • The axis limits for non-orthogonal data are now calculated to display all data for that zoom level
  • Axes limits of sliceviewer are now updated correctly when orthogonal axes were transposed.
  • Now monitor spectra and spectra with nan or inf values are ignored in determining axes limits
  • Opening SliceViewer for a workspace with a text axis is now handled correctly.
  • Cursor data now work for Direct or Indirect data
  • It is now not possible to zoom in too far on MDE workspaces
  • Only enable SliceViewer for MDEventWorkspaces with 2 or more dimensions
  • Ellipsoid axes of integrated peaks are correctly transformed when axes swapped
  • A number of issues with displaying ellipsoid peak shapes have been fixed
  • For the elliptical shell of integrated peaks, the inner background radius is now correct
  • The background shell of spherical peaks is now plotted if inner radius equals the peak radius
  • The sort order of peaks in the peaks overlay has been corrected
  • Now the correct view is displayed for orthogonal axis indices in non-orthogonal view
  • Displayed peaks update if the underlying PeaksWorkspace has been changed, removed or cleared

Miscellaneous

  • For ragged workspaces, the data table can be shown, they can be plotted, and colorfill plots have the correct horizontal extent
  • Script generation for bin plots now matches the output bin plot from a data table
  • Show spectrum numbers instead of workspace index in plotBin
  • A bin plot for a workspace with a numerical spectrum axis, the x axis values are from the numerical axis rather than the spectrum numbers
  • A colorfill plot rescales after the underlying workspace is replaced
  • Editing legends in-situ is now also possible on Linux platforms
  • Removing the last curve on a plot is now handled smoothly
  • In figure options the axes title is synced between the axis and curves tabs
  • Error handling for using broken e notation for plot axis limits
  • The error every value in figure options now matches the plotted error bars
  • Deleting rows or columns in a TableWorkspace is handled smoothly
  • The fit button in the fit browser is now disabled when all functions are removed
  • Pressing Esc to close ManageUserDirectories is now handled correctly
  • Fixed a crash when selecting Show Detectors on a workspace with a spectrum which is missing an EFixed and is not a monitor.

Release 6.0.0