The following describes the most significant changes which have
occurred in the AST library between versions V1.6 and V1.7:
- The FrameFrame class has a new method called
astAngleastAngle
which returns the angle subtended by two points at a third point within a
2 or 3 dimensional Frame.
- The Frame class has a new method called
astOffset2astOffset2
which calculates a position which is offset away from a given starting
point by a specified distance along a geodesic curve which passes
through the starting point at a given position angle. It can only be used
with 2-dimensional Frames.
- The Frame class has a new method called
astAxDistanceastAxDistance
which returns the increment between two supplied axis values. For
axes belonging to SkyFrames, the returned value is normalized into
the range
.
- The Frame class has a new method called
astAxOffsetastAxOffset
which returns an axis value a given increment away from a specified axis
value. For axes belonging to SkyFrames, the returned value is normalized into
the range
(for latitude axes) or zero to
(for longitude
axes).
- The PlotPlot class has a new method called
astGenCurveastGenCurve
which allows generalised user-defined curves to be drawn. The curve is
defined by a user-supplied MappingMapping which maps distance along the curve
into the corresponding position in the current Frame of the Plot. The new
method then maps these current Frame position into graphics coordinates,
taking care of any non-linearities or discontinuities in the mapping.
- The Plot class has a new method called
astGrfSetastGrfSet
which allows the underlying primitive graphics functions to be selected
at run-time. Previously, the functions used by the Plot class to produce
graphics could only be selected at link-time, using the options of the
ast_linkast_link command. The new Plot method allows an application to over-ride
the functions established at link-time, by specifying alternative
primitive graphics routines. In addition, the two new Plot methods
astGrfPushastGrfPush and astGrfPopastGrfPop
allow the current graphics routines to be saved and restore on a
first-in-last-out stack, allowing temporary changes to be made to the set
of registered graphics routines.
- The DrawAxes attribute of the Plot class can now be specified
independantly for each axis, by appending the axis index to the
end of the attribute name.
- A bug has been fixed in the Plot class which could result in axis
labels being drawn on inappropriate edges of the plotting box when using
“interior” labelling.
- A bug has been fixed in the IntraMapIntraMap class which could cause IntraMaps
to be corrupted after transforming any points.
- Bugs have been fixed in the FitsChanFitsChan class which could cause
inappropriate ordering of headers within a FitsChan when writing or
reading objects using NATIVE encodings.
- A bug has been fixed in the FitsChan class which could cause the
celestial longitude of a pixel to be estimated incorrectly by 180 degrees
if the reference point is at either the north or the south pole.