What’s New in UniPlot 5.4.0¶
This page describes the changes made to UniPlot 5.4.0 since version 5.3.4.
New Features¶
Data=>Dataset List: A style from the active data style file can be assigned to one or more selected datasets.
File=>Merge Documents: It is now possible to merge document pages from saved and unsaved documents.
ASAM-ODS: The login password is saved in encrypted form. The browser will use the last used login information. A login dialog box is only displayed if the login data has become invalid. To login under a different user, choose Login.
The first beta version of the netCDF-up is ready (see Overview UniPlot Data Files).
The first beta version of the updf file format is ready. (see Overview UPDF Files).
File=>More File Functions=>Synchronize Data Files. A plot window displaying selected signals and offset has been added.
Tools=>Formula Configuration: A new option, “Create a backup file before a formula file is overwritten”, has been added.
Diagram=>Link Axes Scales copies an axis scale to all document pages.
New UniScript Functions¶
| New Functions in UniPlot 5.4.0 | |
|---|---|
| @f{xyzvolume} | Calculates the volume, area or the quotient volume/area for a given 3D dataset. |
Modified UniScript Functions¶
| Changed Functions in UniPlot 5.4.0 | |
|---|---|
| DialogBox | DialogBox creates a dialog box with static text, edit fields, list boxes, combo boxes, check boxes, a report list (list with multiple columns), a property list box, a group box, tree control and buttons.The dialog box can be configured to be resizeable (see Dialog control |F @ xxx_callback|). |
| auto_ReplaceTextDialog | auto_ReplaceTextDialog can be used within an automation script to show a text dialog box. |
Bug Fixes¶
The following bug have been fixed:
(ID277) UniPlot would sometimes start without displaying a window if an IPW file was double-clicked in Explorer, and an UniScript function would display a message box during startup. This bug had been fixed in UniPlot 4.2.1 but found its way back into the program due to a new library.
(ID1345): 2D-Datasets: Sometimes a dataset could not be selected with the mouse. This error occurred mainly with datasets containing less than 512 data points.
(ID1347): Polar Plot: Curves in polar plot could not be selected with the mouse.
(ID1353): Data=>Data Exchange (Page): The option “Auto Scale all Axes” had no effect. The styles in the 2D-Style dialog box were sometimes displayed incorrectly.
(ID1365): StringToField could not be invoked with a single return parameter if the input string contained text elements.
Example: The following call would create a exception:
ret = StringToField("1.0\tTest\t3.0", "\t");
This bug occurred in all UniPlot 5.x versions.
(ID1366): Data Import: If elements in text data file contained characters with a code greater than 127 (e.g. ü, ö, ä) the characters were incorrectly converted. This led to incorrect attribute values in netCDF files. This bug occurred in all UniPlot 5.x versions.
(ID1368): PageSetBackgroundPageName: It was possible for a page to use itself as a background page or it was possible to use a page that already had a background page. This caused an error. In both cases the function will now return 0.
(ID1374): The tic function returned an incorrect value.
(ID1375): Diadem Import Filter: The
scale_factorandadd_offsetchannel attributes were missing.(ID1381): The strOemToChar function was incorrect in all UniPlot 5.x versions (Unicode bug).
(ID1387): Time Axes: Date/time values smaller than 1 created an error, e.g a time value 12:00 o’clock is saved as 0.5.
(ID1388): UTX-Filter: Spaces before the attribute name were not ignored. The attribute value was truncated by the number of spaces.
(ID1389): Data=>Data Exchange (Page): The dataset list displayed an incorrect NC file name. The first NC file name was displayed for all datasets.
(ID1391): obj_save: If the object contained strings with 0 characters or invalid characters like 0x01 or 0x02, the created file was invalid. The files could not be read with obj_load.
(ID1392): UniPlot 5.4.0 can be used with NT 4.0 again. The latest service pack (Service Pack 6.a) and Internet Explorer 6 must be installed. We do not test UniPlot 5.x with Windows NT 4.0 any longer. Therefore UniPlot may contain bugs that do not occur with Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
(ID1393): EPS Export: If the printer driver would write “Printer Job Language (PJL)” commands the EPS export did not work.
(ID1394): PagePrint: After a call of the PagePrint function, the document title displayed in the windows title was truncated after 32 characters. This bug occurred in the EPS and PDF Export.
(ID1396) Data=>3D-Dataset=>Z-Values: If the isoline vales where specified as -0.8,0.1,0.8 the value 0.0 was calculated as -1.38778e-16 and added to the list of values.
(ID1397): If a netCDF data file was opened with nc_open and then accessed with nc_create, the call did not fail. This would lead to a memory access violation. This bug only occurred in version 5.3.2 and 5.3.4.
(ID1402): fgetline: If the lines of a text file were separated by a single “r” character (older Macintosh files), “r” would not be identified as a line separator.
(ID1407): DialogBox, AppSetBatchMode: If UniPlot was in batch mode, a dialog box containing an OK callback function was still displayed. Normally all dialog boxes and message boxes are suppressed in batch mode.
(ID1410): Seldomly, nc_varput would write incorrect values for byte- and short channels. This bug occurred in UniPlot 5.3.2 the first time.
(ID1411): GetWindowsVersion did not return the minor version number. The function returned the same version for Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 (see documentation).
(ID1414): If UniPlot is using an INI file instead of the Windows registry to save program settings (command line key /IniFileName or environment variable UniPlot_Ini), a memory access violation would occur if UniPlot tried to read a string longer than 4096 characters.
(ID1418): The F1 key to open the online help did not work in dialog boxes created with the DialogBox function.
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