Waveme: Free timing diagram drawing tool

[nitzan]

Waveme can be run, as is, on Linux by using Wine.
I tested Waveme with Wine (development version 1.9.21) on Fedora 24 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

[nitzan]

is there any chance of a linux-native version?

Dave,

Thank you for your feedback!

Waveme runs, as is, on Linux via Wine www.winehq.org.
I tested this on Fedora 24 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Installing Wine on those distros was absolutely painless for me. Please give it a try.

After spending quite a bit of time on a native Linux port, I concluded that it will not be practical.
Unlike Windows and MacOS, there is no "one" Linux binary, that I will need to create, but many,
with visible UI differences and behaviors (some of which are bugs...).
Linux distros differ by their version of the graphics library (GTK), and so does the wxPython GUI toolkit that I use,
and distros differ by their version of the C library (libc) -
creating too many binary combinations and bugs that need to be chased around.

In a sense, the Wine project has done that already, for many Linux distros and MacOS.
Thus, I realized Wine was the right way to go.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 1.2 is now available.

- PDF page orientation can now be set (portrait or landscape).
- Improved user experience when running on Linux/Wine.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 1.3 is available.

New features:
1. In Bus waveform, each segment can be further customized:
- Each data (D) segment can have its own line and fill color, fill style and label color.
- Each Don't care (X) and Hi-Z (Z) segment can have its own label color.
2. Convert from color to black-and-white diagram, stored to a new file.

[timb]

Waveme version 1.3 is available.

New features:
1. In Bus waveform, each segment can be further customized:
- Each data (D) segment can have its own line and fill color, fill style and label color.
- Each Don't care (X) and Hi-Z (Z) segment can have its own label color.
2. Convert from color to black-and-white diagram, stored to a new file.

Very nice!

Thanks for working on this.

[nitzan]

Version 1.4 is now available.

New features:
- Bus waveform:
Segment drawing is more flexible. A segment now has 3 (instead of 2) independently specified portions: Transition to level, level, and transition from level.
* This allows for a waveform to start and/or end with the level portion of a segment.
* Multiple segments can be placed back-to-back, with only the outliers having non-zero transitions. This gives the appearance of a single segment with multiple regions.

- Along arrow:
Select whether to show the right and/or left guidelines.
* This makes it possible to draw an arrow pointing in only one direction, and without guidelines around it; or
* A straight line, without arrow heads nor guidelines.

Bug fix:
- Signal and Bus waveform:
Incorrect empty segment after undo of segment deletion.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 1.5 is now available.

Bug fix: Gaps dialog box did not open.

[TomS_]

Any chance you'll open source it?

Agree. Having to use Wine to run something that is written in Python on a Mac or Linux just seems like too many hoops to me.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 1.6 is now available.

New features:
- Superscript and subscript: supported in all text entries.
- Waveform name: Can be individually customized per row (font, color and alignment).
- All waveforms support segment labels, with identical and expanded customization options.
- Signal and Bus waveform, segment label vertical position: can be placed above a segment too.
- Multiple segment selection in Bus and Signal waveforms: supports duplicate, delete and move operations.
- Auto Bus and Auto Signal waveforms:
  * Added support for first, multiple gap, and last segments.
  * Segment labels:
     - Text can surround the auto-generated numeric values.
     - Supports wrap around, and initial wrapped around numeric values.
- Row copy and paste operations allow copying a row from one diagram to another.
- Title: Horizontal position can now be relative either to the whole diagram, or to the waveforms area.
- Horizontal grid lines:
  * Can select not to show in Spacer Rows.
- Vertical grid lines:
  * Can select not to show in Spacer Rows.
  * Can end on a given unit.
  * Can draw groups of vertical lines with a gap in between.
  * Can draw single vertical lines.
- Along Arrow:
  * Option not to show horizontal line.
  * Option to extend guidelines to cover arrow's own waveform.
- Aware of multiple connected monitors.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 1.7 is now available.

New features:
*   Signal waveform: Added D (Data) segment.
*   Across arrow: Arrow head can be bidirectional: Head can be drawn at the "From row" end, as well as at the "To row" end.

[nitzan]

Waveme 2.0 is now available.

This version includes UI changes for faster user interaction:
- Adding a new item immediately adds the item to the diagram, using default values, and then opens an edit dialog for further adjustments to the new item.
- An "Apply" button was added to all edit dialogs, General options and Waveform options dialogs. Now you can apply your changes to a diagram, while the dialog stays open, allowing you to observe and make adjustments faster.
- Row arrows are managed with a tabbed notebook dialog.
- Row labels are managed with a tabbed notebook dialog.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 2.1 is now available.

New feature:
    In Auto-bus and Auto-signal dialogs, auto-label values are not allowed to be left empty.

Bug fix:
    Redraw dialog window after a change in selected font to prevent dialog box from being drawn incorrectly.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 2.2 is here!

New features:

- Expanded support for clipboard copy/paste operations to Bus and Signal segments, row arrows and row labels.
Now rows, segments, arrows and labels can be copied and pasted either within the same diagram or in another diagram.
- Along arrow guideline can now be from any row to any row, instead of from current row to any row.

Bug fixes:

- Row copy/paste was broken.
- Saving to a PDF file with "A4" page size and "Portrait" orientation created a "Letter" page size instead.

What's next?

I'm looking into adding analog signal drawing capabilities to Waveme, turning Waveme from a digital-only into a mixed-signal waveform drawing tool.
Please share your needs, and post some analog drawings, that you'd like to create with Waveme.

[nitzan]

Version 2.3 is now available.

New features:

- Export (save) diagram to SVG image file format.
- Directly export (save) color diagram into a black-and-white image file or PDF document.
No longer needs to first save as a black-and-white diagram, reload that diagram, and only then export.
- Open a diagram file with drag-n-drop onto Waveme's window.
- Value-lines: A new row element.
Horizontally drawn lines across a waveform, with tick marks and labels to the left of the waveform.
Most commonly used with analog signals to denote vertical values.
- Labels can be rotated, instead of only be horizontal. Applies to labels, arrows and value-lines.
Rotation is only supported when using True Type fonts.
- Signals can now start with a D value. If first segment is also a D, the left-end will be shown opened.
- Bus and Auto-bus waveforms can have open ends when using D and X segments, instead of only closed ends.

[nitzan]

Version 2.4 is a bug fix.

Across arrow: vertical shape had incorrect to/from unit selections.

[nitzan]

Version 2.5 is here, just in time for Waveme's 3rd anniversary.

New features:
- Analog waveform drawing:
Signal row now supports 3 new analog segment types: Sine, Linear and Ramp/RC time constant.
A mix of both digital (L, H, Z, X, D) and analog segment types can be drawn in the same row.
- Quickly change Signal and Bus segment width without opening a dialog box, by mouse dragging, keyboard shortcuts, toolbar buttons or menu commands.
- Project and image file dialogs now show an initial suggestion based on the diagram's name, and remember last directory location for each type.
- Default font is now OS and local system dependent.

Bug fix:
- Gaps: Handled occasional incorrect drawing of an edge's middle pixel.

[nitzan]

Waveme version 2.6 is now available.

New features:
1. Adjustable waveform region height in Signal row.
Useful in a mixed-signal diagram, where rows with Analog waveforms can be drawn taller than rows with digital waveforms.
2. Precise arrow positioning within a waveform region, in addition to Top/Center/Bottom positions.
3. Time Axis (new row type).
4. Option to apply a default font, excluding its color, to all existing labels, segment labels and arrow labels, thus preserving their color.
5. Additional dash line styles for grid, arrow, and value-line. DOT_DASH style is deprecated.

Bug fix:
- SVG image drawing limitations were resolved with an updated GUI library.

[nitzan]

Version 2.7 is now available.

Bug fixes:
- Time axis conversion to black-and-white.
- Web links open in default browser.

[alpelectronics]

Version 2.7 is now available.

Bug fixes:
- Time axis conversion to black-and-white.
- Web links open in default browser.

Hi nitzan. It is a great software. We are using it a lot. However we really want to have an option to change the thickness of the waveform lines. Would it be possible to add it?

I also believe that if you open source it can get more attention as it is a great tool.

Regards,
Caner
Alp Electronix

[nitzan]

Hi Caner.

Thank you for your feedback, and I'm glad you find Waveme useful!

All line-based objects are 1 pixel wide. I don't plan on changing that, unless I hear more requests for this.
What's the reason that you need thicker waveform lines?

[nitzan]

Version 2.8 is now available.

New features:

    Open recent diagrams: In File menu; the 9 most recent diagram files can be re-opened.
    Open last diagram, if none was provided on the command line.

[nitzan]

Version 2.9 is now available with a bug fix for broken General options dialog.

[jpyeron]

A little confused by the https://waveme.weebly.com/license.html (modified Apache 2.0?) and https://waveme.weebly.com/download.html (no source link) pages, does not look like you have made it open source or source available yet.

Any chance you'll open source it?

I don't currently plan to open-source Waveme. Perhaps when I'm done having fun with it...

Do need a grant to assist on making it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software so security reviews can be conducted, bugs fixed, and feature patches may be contributed back?

[nitzan]

Waveme is not open source.

[nitzan]

Version 3.0 is available.

New features:

-    Line width of any element can be adjusted between 1 - 21 pixels, instead of only being 1 pixel.
-    Clicking within the "waveform area" of an Auto-bus, Auto-signal, Time axis or Spacer row, selects the row, which is just like clicking on its row name.
-    Selected segment(s) start and end drawing unit is shown in the middle of the status bar at the bottom of the window.