HydroChrono 0.3.2 – CLI polish & YAML/HDF5 & GUI robustness improvements

HydroChrono 0.3.2 focuses on CLI polish, robust wave inputs, exporting irregular wave data to HDF5 files, and a fix to the GUI pause/play button.

Highlights

• Progress bar updates in-place and respects --quiet
• Wave parsing shorthands: h/H, t/T/tp/TP/p/P, amplitude/A - with validation
• HDF5 export of irregular inputs: frequencies, spectrum, and free-surface time/eta
• Larger Play/Pause button with fixed label

What’s new

• CLI
  • Progress bar fixed
• Waves
  • Shorthand keys for height/period/amplitude
  • Validation errors for missing/invalid regular wave inputs
  • Irregular waves: corrected forcing, reproducible via seed
• Export
  • Writes /inputs/simulation/waves/irregular/{frequencies_hz, spectral_densities, free_surface_time, free_surface_eta}
• GUI
  • Enlarged Play/Pause button and improved text rendering

Install (Windows x64)

• Download HydroChrono-0.3.2-win64.zip
• Unzip; all required DLLs included (Chrono, HDF5, yaml-cpp, Irrlicht, MSVC)
• Run regression tests:
  python .\tests\run_hydrochrono\run_tests.py --all