PIMA: The Plug-in Mini-API

Mark your calendars because the next PIMA teleconference will be held on May 23rd at 0900(PDT)/1200(EDT)/1700(GMT)..

We plan on going over the upcoming PIMA distribution and getting feedback from all the PIMA users.

The new PIMA distribution includes:

• Updated ELT help to indicate if a plugin did not provide help
• Updates made to the GV implementation to run with the latest version of GV and an Updated IDL interface
• Additional support for Java version of TrXELT
• Additional shape file support for GXP and RemoteView
• Updates to allow for non-root installation and execution through Linux
• Updates to support Bash shell through Linux
• Fixed issues reported with PIMA Open Image that prevented the PIMA Open Image Dialog from launching correctly
• Additional Viper ELT interface
• Additional bug fixes to JPanel Issues and much more!

Check your email for specifics on the dial-in or email PIMA Admin < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > for details.

Thank you,

PIMA Support Team

This new release of PIMA now includes the ability to install plugins by a user.  The only plugin that is now included with PIMA is "Crop" so make sure that you also download the files of interest from the Plugins section of the PIMA site.  In addition, the following modifications were made in this release:

- Added Windows 7 support to PIMA.

- Fix issues with ELT version when using PIMA with GV:  Fixed ROI issues,
provided a convenience method to determine if user selected the Use Entire
Image checkbox (ELT version), fixed issue with opening results, fixed issue
with manually editing ROI pixel values, and install issues.

- Modified status bar to start indeterminant when jobs are run.  This is turned
off if and when job receives an initial status from algorithm.  Otherwise
remains indeterminant for duration of the job, thus providing some indication
that job is running.

- Modified PIMA Open Image frame and dialog to properly clean up and added
file permission checks prior to image conversion.

- Added Install Plugin dialog (Tools menu).

- Added usage to command-line client.

- Cleaned up sample source for ALGSample.

- Updated documentation.

- Bug fixes.

Although the version number suggests a minor bugfix release, this version now includes support for Socet GXP 3.2.0.  Additional fixes from the Release Notes are as follows:

- Fixed issue with correctly handling case when JPanel returns with no arguments when generating execution argument list.

- Fixed minor issues.

This is a primarily a "bug fix" release, currently available for Windows (Linux is in the works...).  The bugs addressed are as follows (from the Release Notes...):

Modifications in version 2.1.4_01:

- Modified installer to create scripts with line-endings based on the
installation platform.

- Modified to only enable results button when the current job tab contains
results from the previous run.

- Fixed issue with the ROI Image panel.  Fixed all units based on selected
displayed units value.

- Fixed issue with passing current user preferences to the image converter
including value for "Square Pixels", number of rows, and number of columns.

- Minor user interface changes.