Instrumentation Components Release Notes
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Instrumentation Components Release Notes Release: 5.0.2 - V5 SP1 Installer 86 Build: Release 12 Nov 2015 Date: This document is organized into the following sections... Revision History Installation OPC Technical Support Revision History ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 5.0.2 Service Pack 1 Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed issues with Embarcadaro XE2 and above 64-Bit compilation and source path issues. New Features: 1. Added support for Embarcadero Rad Studio 10 Seattle (Delphi & C++ Builder). 2. Added new Win32 & Win64 Folders for VCL binary files. These new folders are sub-directories of the common source directory for the specific developemnt environment. ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 5.0.0 Service Pack 0 Bug Fixes: 1. iThreadTimer ActiveX property editor crashing issue fixed. Would occur when setting any timer Enabled property to True and clicking the Ok or Apply button. New Features: 1. Added support for Embarcadero XE7 (Delphi & C++ Builder). 2. Added support for Embarcadero XE8 (Delphi & C++ Builder). 3. Added full support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit application development... o All Embarcadero Development Environments starting with XE2. o Includes 32-Bit and 64-Bit OCX Builds. o Includes 32-Bit and 64-Bit OPC Distribution Builds (iOPC5_32.dll & iOPC5_64.dll) o Supports 64-Bit Debugging on any Microsoft 64-Bit OS. 4. Upgraded iPlot control drawing routines for increased performance. ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 4.1.0 Service Pack 5 Bug Fixes: 1. None. New Features: 1. Upgraded controls to support Embarcadero XE6 (Delphi + C++ Builder). ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 4.0.8 Service Pack 4 Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed mouse increment/decrement issue on the iSwitchQuad control. You would not be able to change the ValueX or ValueY property value while the CTRL or SHIFT key was being held down. 2. Fixed plot channel YMean calculation bug. The GetYMean function would always return 0. 3. Fixed GetYInterpolated function return value issue. The return value is a boolean indicating if the returned value is valid or not. For interpolated values, the boolean return value was always correct. For the case where no interpolation was necessary because the target x-value match the x-value of an actual data-point and the data-point y-value was null, the returned value was incorrectly reported as valid. Because the plot control data-cursor utilizes the GetYInterpolated function, these fix also corrects the same issue with the data-cursor. New Features: 1. Upgraded controls to support Embarcadero XE2 (Delphi + C++ Builder). 2. Upgraded controls to support Embarcadero XE3 (Delphi + C++ Builder). 3. Upgraded controls to support Embarcadero XE4 (Delphi + C++ Builder). 4. Upgraded controls to support Embarcadero XE5 (Delphi + C++ Builder). 5. Upgraded design-time licensing manager to support development on 64-Bit operating systems. ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 4.0.6 Service Pack 3 Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed iKeyBoard control SavePropertiesToFile issue. The control was not saving out the settings for individual buttons. 2. Fixed various Unicode issues with using the Plot Control's SavePropertiesToFile and LoadPropertiesFromFile methods. New Features: 1. Added Transparent Support to iRotationDisplay rotated images. 2. Upgraded plot control channel running statistics to support nulls and empties. 3. Upgraded All Instrumentation Products to support C++ Builder XE. 4. Upgraded All Instrumentation Products to support Delphi XE. 5. Upgraded All Instrumentation Products to support RAD Studio XE. ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 4.0.4 Service Pack 2 Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed LoadPropertiesFromFile bug which would misinterpret carriage- return/line-feed characters. The result would be multi-line text being corrupted into single-line text strings. 2. Fixed iSwitchSlider Unicode display bug. 3. Fixed iSwitchRotary Unicode display bug. 4. Fixed data-cursor y-value issue when the channel was in Differential mode and the Snap-To-Data-Point option was enabled. The data-cursor would display the value for the previous data-point. 5. Fixed double key-press bug. Affected control's which support increasing or decreasing their value through key presses. For example, pressing the up-arrow key on the SwitchSlider or SwitchRotary would cause the value to increase by 2 steps. (Note: This bug would not occur on Vista or Windows 7). 6. Added ClipToAxes property to the Plot/XYPlot control ActiveX iPlotLimitX interface. This property has always existed, was always accessible through the property editor, but was missing on the ActiveX version iPlotLimitX COM interface (Was not an issue with the VCL version). New Features: 1. Added support for Delphi 2010. 2. Added support for C++ Builder 2010. 3. Added Support for RAD Studio 2010. 4. Upgraded all ActiveX controls to support Unicode. 5. Upgraded all property editors to display Unicode strings. ActiveX and VCL Version 4.0.2 Service Pack 1 Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed bug on the Plot control DataCursor which would occur when multiple x- axis where stacked end-to-end and the x-axis was in data-time mode. There would be a small error when the data-cursor calculated the x-value to display in the hint box. 2. Fixed AutoFrameRate issue which would result in the last frame not always being painted. Previously, when data collection was suspended, it was necessary to call the invalidate method to ensure the last frame was always painted. With this fix, you no longer need to call the Invalidate method. New Features: 1. Added PointerFillEnabled and PointerFillColor properties to the iSwitchSlider control. 2. Added the OnTimeBaseSecDivChange event to the iScope control. 3. Added the OnMouseDownObject, OnMouseUpObject, OnMouseMoveObject, and OnDblClickObject events to the iObjectCanvas control. These events will fire when the specific mouse effect occurs on a object within the control. The event parameters includes the handle for the specific object causing the event to fire. 4. Added Support for CodeGear Delphi & C++ Builder 2009. 5. Added CustomizeLabelEventText property to the PlotAxis object. This new property is used in conjunction with the OnXAxisCustomizeLabel event. It is only necessary to use this property in VBScript and JavaScript applications because HTML does not support passing text by reference. So in these types of applications, do not use the ALabel parameter passed in the event to modify the label text, and instead use this new property. ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 4.0.0 Service Pack 0 Bug Fixes: 1. None. New Features: 1. Added Support For Borland's Turbo Delphi. 2. Added Support For Borland's Turbo C++. 3. Added Support For Borland's RAD Studio 2007. 4. Added Support for Borland's Delphi 2007. 5. Added Support For Borland's C++ Builder 2007. 6. Added PointerFillEnabled and PointerFillColor properties to the iSlider control. 7. Added the following events to the iPlot and iXYPlot controls... o OnGetMouseCursorChannel o OnGetMouseCursorXAxis o OnGetMouseCursorYAxis o OnGetMouseCursorDataCursor o OnGetMouseCursorDataView o OnGetMouseCursorLegend o OnGetMouseCursorLimit o OnGetMouseCursorTable o OnGetMouseCursorAnnotation ActiveX and VCL/CLX Version 3.1.0 Service Pack 5 Bug Fixes: 1. Fixed property editor lockup issues in ActiveX containers when using the Color, Font, and etc dialogs. 2. Fixed scrolling issue with the plot legend. Would occur when the plot control was first resized such that not all legend items could be displayed and the scroll bars appeared. Then the user would need to scroll the list down one or more items. When the plot control was then resized large enough to fit all legend items, the list would still be scrolled and the scroll buttons would disappear. 3. Added missing WordWrap checkbox in the iLabel property editor. 4. Fixed the Plot axis Master-UI-Input issue that caused other axes to not respond to mouse-wheel movements. 5. Fixed Plot Annotation bug that would occur when the X-Axis was in DateTime mode. There was an error in the span pixels calculation for the width of the annotation. 6. Fixed PlotAnnotation OuterMargin being ignored when the style property is set to ipasTextBox and multi-line text is displayed. 7. Fixed issue with the plot control axis labeling where when in the Prefix mode, the 0.0 value tick label would show up as 2.78f (0.000000000000278) due to floating point storage/rounding issues. The new code detects this rounding issue and displays a hard-coded "0.0" string. 8. Fixed bug on the iXYPlot control data-cursor that would result in small inaccuracies with the returned X&Y values. 9. Fixed bug with Instrumentation controls that support saving strings properties to file and contained multi-line text. The symptoms would be when reloading the properties, multi-line string properties would only load the first line and all other lines would be dropped. 10. Fixed OnPositionOverMax and OnPositionUnderMin event not firing on Position/Scale type components. 11. Fixed resource leak in iLedRound control. Would result in a HRGN object being leaked each time the Led was drawn. 12. Fixed ALT key trapping problem on all controls in the ActiveX version. New Features: 1. Added SpanMinimum, MaxMargin, and MinMargin properties to the axes Tracking features. Use SpanMinimum to limit the minimum value for the Span. Use the MaxMargin and MinMargin properties to provide a margin above or below the data. These properties are also used when performing a ZoomToFit operation. 2. Added the ResetStartTimeOnFirstDataPoint property to the iPlotChannel object. This property is useful if you are adding data with an elapsed time using the AddYElapsedTime or AddYElapsedSeconds methods and you want the first data-point to start at zero. 3. Added AllowOutOfOrderXValues and DrawOutOfOrderXValues properties to the Plot control Channel type (iPlotChannel for VCL and iPlotChannelX for ActiveX). The iPlotChannel is designed assuming that the X-Values are incremental. This allows for high-speed drawing of the channel data using the y = f(x) formula. For a default plot control setup, you will not receive an error if you add data-points with an out-of-order X-Value.