#651 Could the Events List tool return orbit events?

[Ivar Christopher]

Is there a way to update the Tools -> Events List tool to pass something like an orbit number event to the dom, instead of a simple epoch range?

I have a case where a vap obtains datasets from a jyds which expects the input timerange to be an orbit identifier, for example

orbit:http://emfisis.physics.uiowa.edu/events/rbsp-a/misc-support-files/rbspa-half-orbit-periods.txt:1510_OUT

I can see that this could be rather tricky, as a standard events file would not have access to the above URI, but would simply have

2014-03-17T22:02:05.165 2014-03-18T02:31:14.135 1510_OUT

for that half orbit.

[Jeremy Faden]

I made it so that the TImeRangeToolEventsList could fire off event datum ranges with the labels, but more work needs to be done.

[Jeremy Faden]

I also made it so that you can have the macro ${TIMERANGE,CONTEXT=...}, for example:

dom.plots[0].title='%{TIMERANGE,NOORBIT,CONTEXT=http://emfisis.physics.uiowa.edu/events/rbsp-a/misc-support-files/rbspa-half-orbit-periods.txt}'
dom.timeRange= datumRange( '2012-08-31 12:13 to 16:43' )

[Jeremy Faden]

Ivar noticed that once the orbits file is read, that the definition (start time, end time) won't be reread, even when the green play button is pressed on the events list tool. I've added a resetOrbitsFor method which will force a reload.