Final changes for glvis-4.4

[tzanio]

📆 Target release date: May 7, 2025

🔴 TODO:

🟢 DONE:

• Vector 1D grid functions including R1D #330
• Update Copyright to 2010-2025 #333
• Loading of data collections #332
• Finalize and merge this PR into master
• Website changes for glvis-4.4 web#17

🟡 After the release:

• Update pyglvis
• Update glvis-js

⚪ Optional:

• Support time navigation #325
• Update CI to test installation with both GNU make and CMake #241
• Add style check to PR CIs
• Updating GLVis mesh vector or scalar solution without drawing a new mesh #272
• Calling VisualizationSceneSolution3d from own application #274
• Refactoring to remove global state #170
• [WIP] Improved transparency with dual depth peeling #166
• Future Improvements 🚀 #133
• Support for visualization of particle data
• Adaptive geometry refiner
• Raytracing?!
• Better vector graphics output
• Improved testing with random keys

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR updates the release version from v4.3.2 to v4.4 in the documentation to reflect the upcoming final release.

• Updated the release badge URL in README.md.
• Updated the release badge URL in CONTRIBUTING.md.

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File	Description
README.md	Updated release badge to indicate version v4.4.
CONTRIBUTING.md	Updated release badge to indicate version v4.4.

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• CHANGELOG: Language not supported
• vcpkg.json: Language not supported

[najlkin]

How about #325 ? We could add at least loading of that data collections if not time navigation 🤔

[tzanio]

@najlkin, can you help resolve conflicts?

[najlkin]

Fixed, but the visually pleasing alignment of the backslashes depends on the size of Tab 🤤 . With the default size 4 in VSCode, it is nicely aligned now 😄 .

[tzanio]

Fixed, but the visually pleasing alignment of the backslashes depends on the size of Tab 🤤 . With the default size 4 in VSCode, it is nicely aligned now 😄 .

Made it all spaces, but for the record: tab is clearly 8 spaces

[tzanio]

@mlstowell and @najlkin -- can we improve this CHANGELOG entry? As it is, it may not be clear what is the difference with the previous one...

[najlkin]

The previous one says scalar elements with 3 vector dimensions. This says vector elements with 3 range dimensions, so they are different to me 🤔 But it is true it is more technical than most of the items around here, but I do not know how to rewrite it keeping the difference clear.

[tzanio]

ok, lets leave it as is

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR prepares the final changes for the glvis-4.4 release. Key changes include cleaning up unused commented-out code for not-yet-implemented readers, fixing a spelling mistake in a comment, and updating version badges in documentation.

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File	Description
share/palettes-cet.txt	Removed extraneous dash line
lib/data_state.hpp	Fixed spelling typo in a comment (“unqiue” → “unique”)
lib/coll_reader.hpp & .cpp	Removed outdated commented-out code for unimplemented readers
glvis.cpp	Removed commented out options related to unimplemented readers
README.md & CONTRIBUTING.md	Updated release badges to reflect version v4.4

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[najlkin]

Ok, if glvis-js and PyGLVis work, I think we are ready to go 🚀
(Just a reminder, the changes of the code line references on the web pages should be done against this branch rather than master as here are some extra changes)

[tzanio]

this branch is now a release candidate for glvis-4.4