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Today we're releasing TimeChart 1.0.0, one of the latest graphing applications for control systems!
Built with [Python Display Manager (PyDM)](https://github.com/slaclab/pydm "PyDM"), this inaugural release of TimeChart aims to meet most of the control operators' charting requirements. This initial release offers the following features:
Performance
* Responsive graph drawing, scrolling, scaling, pausing/restarting, and zooming in/out
* Responsive and modern UI with dynamic layouts adaptive to the user's actions
Customizations
* Graphing in synchronous and asynchronous modes
* Customizable Redraw Rate, Data Sampling Rate, Ring Buffer Size, and the time duration in Hours : Minutes : Seconds to automatically allocate a ring buffer large enough to collect the duration's data
* Elaborative appearance settings available for each curve and most of the graph's visual elements, such as Title, Legend, Background Color, Axes and Grids
Data Exporting and Importing
* Export the curves' data to a CSV file
* Export the graph's current settings to a JSON configuration file
* Export a graphic snapshot of the graph into a PNG file
* Import a graph's JSON configuration file and start TimeChart's plotting immediately
Acknowledgements
* Special thanks to facility stakeholders, hhslepicka, mattgibbs, teddyrendahl, and all other early contributors for getting this special project off the ground.
We anticipate TimeChart's features to keep growing; how fast it is depends on your contributions and support. Appreciate all feedback, ideas, suggestions, and bug reports. Try out TimeChart today!