Grace list of changes
5.1.6
Parser
! [ES] implemented region on set evaluation: REGNUM(selectset)
* [ES] implemented applying region and logical restrictions to a set:
RESTRICT(selectset, vexpr) and RESTRICT(selectset, REGNUM, onoff)
! [ES] implemented KILL REGNUM
* [ES] added SUM(vexpr)
* [ES] allow accessing array segments (e.g. x[4:10])
Portability/Compilation
* [ES] use the bundled Xbae by default to make sure we don't come across
a buggy version installed
* [ES] upgraded to T1lib-1.3.1, which fixed several bugs (see below)
* [ES] re-wrote Motif checks; in some rare cases, Motif libraries might
be misdetected
* [ES] added a "My Computer" (actually, a list of drives) file selection
box chdir entry for the Cygwin port
* [ES] check for FFTW library version >= 2.1.3
* [ES] fixed compilation on systems without setlocale()
Bug fixes
* [ES] re-loading projects with polygon regions defined might result in
memory leaks and wrong region evaluations
* [ES] optimize (again) updating large pulldown selectors (rep. #1082)
* [ES] axis label with "Auto" placement was misplaced/absent with tick marks
and labels disabled on the respective side (rep. #1086)
* [ES] in the interpolation and histogram dialogs it wasn't checked that
the source and destinations sets were different (rep. #1084)
* [ES] when the invert x-axis flag was turned on, pie charts were wrongly
reproduced in all but screen outputs (rep. #1092)
* [ES] when saving project under the same name, don't warn about file
overwriting (rep. #1094)
* [ES] there might be problems finding fonts under non-Unix environments
(rep. #1013). This was a T1lib bug, in fact
* [ES] text overlining didn't work for Symbol font (rep. #1026). This was a
T1lib bug, in fact
* [ES] fixed calculation of x-correlation. Previously, a broken x-covariance
was calculated
* [ES] lines starting with spaces weren't parsed by the command interpreter
(rep. #1101)
5.1.5
Functionality
* [ES] honour X axis start value and invert flag in pie charts
* [ES] extended maximum allowed line width to 20
Interface
* [ES] automatically adjust Xresources for low-resolution (800x600) displays
so all dialogs fit in the screen
* [ES] allow for setting via the GUI negative gaps in bar charts (rep. #1059)
* [ES] allow to select font and symbol sizes up to 1000
* [ES] make the size scale controls change by 25 and angle controls by 10
when pressing Ctrl+Left/Right arrows on them
Parser
* [ES] implicitly cast to boolean double arguments used as bool
Documentation/Info
* [JS] added man page for convcal
* [ES] added examples of XYCOLOR set presentation and reciprocal axis scale,
contributed by Nels Dumin
* [AM] include libpng, libjpeg, and libpdf versions in the `-version' and
"Help/About" outputs
* [ES] documented S$ and S_ special parser set names
Bug fixes
* [ES] PS output might be broken for plots containing XYCOLOR sets
* [ES] when Line type:left/right stairs was selected, drawing with a
dashed line of multiple short steps broke the dash pattern (rep.
#1024)
* [PM] the argument of --with-printcmd configure switch wasn't quoted
* [ES] make result file output line-buffered instead of block-buffered
* [LM] date format hint was ignored in the parser
* [ES] legend and viewport dialog were not updated when moving legend or
resizing graph from canvas
* [ES] std. dev. was calculated using n instead of n-1 in the denominator
(rep. #1042)
* [ES] fixed crash under some platforms with zero width world/view
coordinates (rep. #1014)
* [ES] optimize updating large pulldown selectors (e.g. in the "Edit block
data" popup)
* [ES] fixed broken AA font rendering and potential crash when the color
palette size exceeded 128 (rep. #1061)
5.1.4
Bug fixes
* [ES] reading in a project file right after printing to a raster file
(PNG, JPEG,...) caused a crash (rep. #990)
* [ES] in the "Sample points" dialog, even when the "log. expression" is
selected, one had to input some values into start/step input fields
anyway
* [AM] ellpe(x) and ellpk(x) in fact returned ellpe(1-x) and ellpk(1-x),
respectively (rep. #989)
* [ES] "graphno OFF" merely makes the graph hidden instead of killing it
5.1.3
Interface
* [AM/ES] set icon's title = project name (rep. #957)
* [ES] when switching to log scale, set major/minor tick settings to 10/9
respectively (rep. #826)
Documentation
* [ES] docs updates (including reps. #926, #965)
* [EV] fixed a typo in Tutorials (rep. #916)
Parser
* [ES] added "HELP url" and "HELP" to the parser
* [LM] added "AUTOSCALE ONREAD NONE|XAXES|YAXES|XYAXES" to the parser
Drivers
* [MD] produce MIF files with a textflow in which the graph is included, so
it can be included in another FrameMaker document
* [ES] list used fonts in %%DocumentNeededResources in the PS output
(rep. #956)
Portability/Compilation
* [AM] allow to specify print command at config time
* [AM] fixed problem compiling bundled Xbae (rep. #959)
Bug fixes
* [ES] fixed rounding error in calculation of pulldown menu length
(rep. #929)
* [RL] precision of offsets in the Axes dialog were restricted to two
digits (rep. #911)
* [AM/ES] double click on canvas with a pie chart might cause crash
* [EV] legend entries for BARDY and BARDYDY sets weren't drawn
* [MD] fixed conversion table for non-ASCII codes in the MIF driver
(rep. #946)
* [LM] reading in data files with floats when they were explicitly signed
and positive resulted in parse error
* [ES] failure to save project to a file due to wrong permissions didn't
produce an error message
* [ES] using non-standard fonts might crash the PDF driver
* [ES] specifing a file-only output device with "-hdevice" didn't actually
set the output to file (rep. #899)
* [ES] the "Rescale plot on page size change" option in the
"File/Print setup" dialog had no effect if the selected device was
X11
* [ES] fixed (actually, just now implemented) automatic axis label placement
(rep. #744)
* [ES] projects with sets using symbol char from the upper half of the ASCII
table weren't saved correctly
* [ES] line width of drawing elements wasn't accounted for in the bbox
calculations, which in rare cases resulted in a wrong EPS bbox
5.1.2
Functionality
* [DB] implemented baseline setting to the set (y) average
Interface
* [ES] don't hardcode file extensions in file selection dialogs, but define
them via X resources instead (rep. #671)
Documentation
* [ES] HTML docs now include tables of contents
Parser
* [ES] added "PAGE RESIZE xdim, ydim" which sets the page dimensions of all
output devices (in pp) and rescales the current plot accordingly
Drivers
* [ES] implemented font kerning in the (E)PS output
* [ES] added option to choose document data (7bit/8bit/binary) for the PS
driver
Portability/Compilation
* [AM] OS/2 updates
Bug fixes
* [ES] "-saveall" filename argument was ignored (rep. #841)
* [ES] not enough arguments to "-world" or "-viewport" could cause crash
* [ES] with "Auto redraw" disabled, several operations still caused an
immediate redraw
* [ES] backslashes in text strings weren't escaped in the (E)PS output
* [AM] interpolating non-monotonic data by spline caused crash or
meaningless results (rep. #866)
* [ES] for some non-standard fonts and/or encodings, the (E)PS output might
be binary while declared as 8bit clean
* [ES] path in print setup
* [ES] too wide pulldowns in "Edit block data" if block data contained too
many columns
* [ES] it was impossible using GUI to disable annotated values in the XYZ
set type
* [LM] creating sets with strings from block data might crash
* [ES] fixed a floating point rounding bug in the polygon clipping which
(in rare cases under some OS's) caused set filling be performed wrong
(rep. #874)
* [ES] fixed a bug in the Xbae widget crashing under a multi-head X server
(rep. #878)
5.1.1
Functionality
* [ES] interpolation now takes into account all data set columns
* [ES] normalized histograms can be calculated
* [ES] histograms with varying bin widths - abscissas of a set can be used
as the bin mesh
* [EV/ES] added GraceOpenVA() function to the grace_np API
* [ES] \V{} escape code in strings - baseline shift
* [ES] \n escape code in strings - new line
* [ES] a region can be linked only to a single graph
* [UH] implemented logit axis scale
Interface
* [ES] "Edit/Locator props" popup rewritten
* [ES] "Spline" popup removed
* [ES] "Interpolation" popup rewritten; now includes the former "Spline"
functionality
* [ES] "Histograms" popup rewritten
* [ES] "Arrange graphs" rewritten (including reps. #368, #592, #735)
* [ES] double click on a set selector entry now pops up the SS editor
* [ES] date/time format can be used in the SS editor to display/enter values
* [ES] many other enhancements in the SS editor
* [ES] if the XmHTML widget library is available, it will be used for
displaying on-line help ("Gracilla"). The libhelp support is
scheduled to be withdrawn soon
* [ES] removed -[no]logwindow command line options and X resource
* [ES] removed -arrange, -cols, and -rows command line options
* [ES] "Results" and error message windows merged into "Console"
* [ES] menubar added to the "Graph appearance" dialog
* [ES] "File/Read/Sets" and "File/Write/Sets" moved to the "Data/Import"
and "Data/Export" submenus, respectively
* [ES] "File/Read/Parameters" and "File/Write/Parameters" moved to the
"Plot" menu
* [ES] renamed "File/Device setup" to "File/Print setup" and added
"View/Page setup" (same dialog but with X11 as the selected device)
* [ES] split axis/tick label offset input fields into two
Documentation/Info
* [WB] some fixes/additions to the User's Guide
* [AM] include Xbae version in -version and "Help/About"
* [DP] User's Guide additions
* [EV] Tutorials updated
* [AM] man page corrections
* [ES] re-enabled on-line help for several dialogs
Parser
* [ES] removed restriction on the max line length (512) in parameter files
* [ES] SPLINE, ASPLINE, and INTERP removed and INTERPOLATE added which
includes the functionality of the former ones
* [ES] added RAND(N) - creates an array of N random numbers
* [ES] HISTO renamed to HISTOGRAM and syntax changed
* [ES] changed syntax of ARRANGE command
* [ES] removed UNLINK REGNUM FROM selectgraph; now that a region links to a
single graph only the command makes no sense
* [DP] added READ NXY CHRSTR for reading in data in the NXY format
Portability/Compilation
* [ES] configure checks for netCDF version
* [AC] a couple of configure fixes
* [AM] check for build/runtime Xbae version match
* [AM] OS/2 updates
* [JH] VMS updates
Bug fixes
* [ES] fixed text under/overlining in SVG
* [ES] fixed dashed patterns for thick lines in SVG
* [ES] a bug in interpolation caused crash under some conditions (rep. #783)
* [ES] fixed overflowing of some tables in dvi output of the User's guide
* [ES] fixed interpolation of reversed arrays (rep. #675)
* [ES] fixed a memory leak in interpolation using splines
* [ES] there was no automatic canvas refresh after performing interpolation
* [ES] there was no automatic canvas refresh after changes in locator props
* [ES] fixed "\\" in strings
* [ES] check for positive page dims and dpi in device setup (rep. #779)
* [ES] invert logics of the yesno dialog popped up if printout is truncated
(rep. #778)
* [JSB] text color might be wrongly set on raster devices with antialiasing
off (rep. #803)
* [ES] memory leak fix in the SS editor
* [ES] "File/New" didn't update project description in "File/Save as"
* [ES] graph operations on killed graphs result in crash (rep. #805)
* [ES] drawing objects cursor remained active after closing window
(rep. #807)
* [ES] switching between (overlaid) graphs updated the locator bar only
after pointer move (rep. #808)
* [GJ] canvas didn't refresh on autoscale shortcut (rep. #809)
* [ES] initial values of fit parameters with bounds set were printed wrongly
in the "Results" window
* [ES] disable canvas events on hidden graphs
* [ES] white space at the beginning of text strings wasn't accounted in bbox
calculations
* [ES] fixed wrong initial canvas size in the free page mode (rep. #821)
* [ES] fixed set split crash
* [ES] couldn't use constant expressions in "Load & evaluate" (rep. #828)
* [ES] a severe memory leak in "Load & evaluate" fixed
* [ES] regions were displayed wrongly on plots with several graphs
5.1.0
Functionality
* [ES] VMAP plots implemented (rep. #440)
* [ES] BOXPLOT sets re-implemented. The control over appearance details is
more detailed than in Xmgr (including rep. #188)
* [ES] XYSIZE sets implemented (a generalized form of "bubble" plots)
* [ES] XYCOLOR sets implemented (rep. #484)
* [ES] pie charts implemented
! [EV] set restrictions in "Window/Point explorer"
* [ES] \#{} escape code in strings - allows to enter non-printable chars by
their hex codes
* [ES] \r{} escape code in strings - text rotation
* [ES] \q, \Q escape codes in strings - start/stop text slanting (rep. #716)
* [ES] \l{} escape code in strings - slanting text with any factor
* [ES] \t{}, \T{} escape codes in strings - generic text coordinate
transforms
* [ES] \R{} escape code in strings - changes color inside a string
(rep. #535)
* [ES] \Fl, \FL escape codes in strings - start/stop ligature processing
* [ES] \Fk, \FK escape codes in strings - start/stop kerning pair processing
* [ES] more font encoding files added
! [ES] alternative tick labels ("transformed" axes) (rep. #93)
* [ES] changed default placement of error bars to two-sided (rep. #737)
* [ES] for XYBAR/XYBOXPLOT sets draw the symbols in the legend with the
fixed height (of the legend text) for better readability (rep. #741)
! [ES] user-defined tick labels are no longer allowed without tick mark
positions
! [ES] autoticking now alters # of minor ticks only if the current value
is anomalous
* [LM] allow to use 'T' as date-time separator (as recommended by ISO8601)
* [ES] new fonts from GNU gs-5.50 (including the euro symbol)
Interface
! [ES] re-designed "Create by formula"; any set type can be defined
! [ES] controls for justifications of strings cover all possibilities
(vertical and horizontal alignments)
! [ES] combined point ops dialogs into one, "Window/Point explorer"
* [ES] print all point data (was only x, y) during point tracking
* [ES] (optional) set comments in set selectors
* [ES] "File/Describe" merged with "File/Save as"
* [ES] reading in block data no longer resets set column selectors
* [ES] implemented the color sync option in the "set app." dialog
* [EV] "-barebones" command line switch (switch all tool bars off)
* [ES] annotated strings can be modified in the spreadsheet editor
* [ES] in "File/Device setup", introduced options to sync page size of all
devices and rescale plot on page size change
Drivers
* [LM] FrameMaker MIF driver added (rep. #590)
* [LM] implemented SVG driver
* [ES] PS Level 1/2 option in the EPS driver
* [ES] now any font encoding is correctly represented in (E)PS output
* [ES] added under/overlining to the E(PS) driver (rep. #756)
* [ES] PS output made a bit more compact
* [ES] under/overlining now works in PDF output
* [ES] PDF driver setup options: 1.2/1.3 compatibility and compression
level
* [ES] use "thin" lines in X11 driver if the line width <= 1 pixel
* [ES] list fonts, colors and other resources in the metafile driver
* [ES] don't rotate output in EPS landscape mode
* [ES] optionally set hardware resolution in PS output
* [ES] in PS driver, option to select input tray: auto/manual/match page
dimensions
Documentation/Info
* [AM] omit a few GUI-specific flags/help strings when compiling a GUI-less
exec
* [EV] Tutorials updated - added a regions section and updated the create
by formula
* [LM] added usage help for convcal
* [HS] updated instructions for Motif-2.1 bug work-around
(<Ctrl>+<left mouse button> = crash) in the FAQ
* [ES] re-structured the FAQ
* [ES] documented numeric operators and functions
Parser
* [ES] finally, introduced variables (usual and 1D arrays)...
* [ES] as a result of the above, removed scratch arrays (A, B, C, D)
! [DP] SWAP selectset AND selectset
* [ES] EXIT(iexpr)
* [ES] enlarged parser buffer to 4K
Portability/Compilation
* [ES] new configure options (including rep. #757)
* [ES] the GRACE_HOME dir is now set by `configure' as PREFIX/grace
(rep. #758)
* [ES] checks for proper versions and consistency of libs and includes
* [AM/ES] checks for Motif/LessTif run-time clash
* [ES] the grace_np Fortran wrapper is compiled independently of whether a
F77 compiler has been found
* [JH] VMS updates
* [AM] OS/2 updates
Bug fixes
* [ES] "duplicate graph" caused memory corruption (rep. #752)
* [ES] too long text strings (>255) crashed Grace (rep. #759)
* [ES] parser errors in too long lines (>255), if processed from a RTI
caused crash
* [ES] using very long formulae (>~100) in the non-linear fit caused
memory corruption
* [ES] text strings were justified by the lower edge of the bounding box
instead of the baseline (rep. #710)
* [ES] "-" in PS output was squeezed (rep. #711)
* [RW] empty src/buildinfo.h prevented further compilation (rep. #717)
* [ES] fixed \m{} in the beginning of a string
* [AM] fixed reading in files with DOS <cr>
* [ES] graph overlay fixes (including rep. #734)
* [ES] fixed spurious error message about non-monotonic bins when
calculating histograms (happened sometimes due to a rounding error)
* [ES] histogramming from command file crashed (rep. #736)
* [KS] the lower error bar in BARDY and BARDYDY was shadowed by bar
* [ES] rescaling did not follow mouse (rep. #715)
* [JM] a workaround for strange behaviour of some versions of Motif resulting
in several popup windows being too big (rep. #720)
* [AH] on some platforms, "make install" moved files instead of copying
(rep. #743)
* [AM] feature extraction didn't update set lists (rep. #731)
* [ES] fixed triangle symbols (now correctly centered)
* [ES] font antialising was broken on X displays with 24 bits per pixel
format of pixmaps
* [EV] feature extraction/FFT was incorrectly determining if the set length
was a power of 2 (unimportant if FFTW was used)
* [ES] upon loading a project, set print file name automatically (rep. #641)
* [ES] fixed a memory leak in set sort
* [ES] fixed bugs in set and point operations with sets containing annotated
strings (including rep. #767)
* [ES] in "Window/Results...", the vertical scrollbar was missing when
compiled with Motif-2.1
* [ES] closing (by means of window manager) a dialog with file selection
box in it rendered the window unusable next time it was popped
up (rep. #743)
5.0.5
Functionality
! [ES] long drawing paths (of polylines and polygons) with length exceeding
a threshold are transformed to be shorter than the limit; the latter
is adjustable in "Edit/Preferences" popup. This works around internal
restrictions of some devices, notably old X11 and PS, causing visual
data point drops (rep. #634, #651)
Interface
* [ES] the "Autoscale on read" option moved back from "Edit/Preferences"
to "File/Read sets"
! [ES] added "Autoscale on load" for creating sets from block data
* [ES] added possibility to select target set(s) produced from a block
data (rep. #87)
Documentation/Info
* [ES] added docs on adding/replacing fonts
* [AM] miscellaneous FAQ updates
Portability/Compilation
* [AM] OS/2 updates
* [JH] VMS updates (including rep. #681)
* [ES] fixed compilation on HP/UX-11.0
* [ES] compilation outside of the source tree is now possible
Bug fixes
* [HS] fixed text string copy/edit bug (rep. #661)
* [LM/ES] under some conditions, project or parameter saving caused
crash (rep. #678)
* [ES] quotes were not escaped in several places (append/prepend strings
of tick labels, avalues etc)
* [LM] setting reference date worked incorrectly since did not ignore
current reference date
* [ES] a Linux libc5/locale memory leak workaround (rep. #676)
* [ES] a parser memory leak fixed
* [ES] applied a patch to fix a nasty memory leak in the bundled T1lib
* [ES] compiling GUI-less version failed (rep. #680)
* [ES/HS] a workaround for bug in Motif-2.1 (<Ctrl>+<left mouse
button> crashed) (rep. #685)
* [OT/ES] fixed a floating point overflow, causing crashes on non-IEEE
compliant FPU (rep. #689)
* [AM/ES] problems with autoscale and log axis scales (rep. #325, #688)
* [ES] killing set data erroneously set the "hidden" flag of the set on
(rep. #691)
* [ES] hidden sets were not saved (rep. #338)
5.0.4
Functionality
* [ES] nonl-fit: added region restrictions (rep. #251)
* [ES] nonl-fit: added optional stat weights
* [ES] print some basic statistics on the non-linear fit quality
* [LM] implemented proper rounding for date/time axis formats
* [ES] in PS output, issue an explicit page size selection call. This
should allow to automatically choose between several input trays
with different paper (for printers that have mutiple trays, of
course)
Interface
* [ES] nonl-fit GUI reworked (including part of rep. #77)
Documentation/Info
* [AM] docs on building DL modules under OS/2
Parser
! [ES] extended variant of NONLFIT added: NONLFIT (selectset, vexpr, nexpr).
The vexpr argument is an array of weights (of proper length)
Defaults
* [ES] the default template had the 2-digit year format enabled and
the wrap year set to 1900, imitating older versions. Changed to
off and 1950 respectively - should be more Y2K compliant :)
Portability/Compilation
* [ES] upgraded to T1lib-0.9.2 (fixing rep. #650)
* [AM] OS/2 updates
* [AM/ES] header files of the bundled Xbae and T1lib could in some cases
clash with system-wide installations of respective library
Bug fixes
* [ES] strings (titles, legends,...) with only spaces in them caused crash
(rep. #640)
* [ES] enabling bounds for fit parameters in the non-linear fit popup
crashed Grace (rep. #642)
* [HF/ES] fixed bug in creating sets from block data (rep. #644)
* [ES] "rawbits" PPM format was broken on big endian machines (rep. #645)
* [ES] in the non-linear fit window, set was deselected after each step of
fit (rep. #646)
* [JB] WRITE setselect crashed
* [ES] fixed crash when selecting "Show data-less" or "Show hidden" from
set popup menus (rep. #652)
* [LM] fixed a few bugs in the date/Julian day conversion
* [LM] fixed "day of week" format that was broken for negative dates
* [ES] use "%g" format in the point tracking window
* [ES] selecting multiple graphs in "graph appearance" corrupted titles/
subtitles (#566)
* [ES] couldn't parse data from multicolumn files containing non-numerics
fields (rep. #655)
* [ES] the user tick locations were saved with insufficient precision;
now we use the same format as for storing data sets (rep. #298)
5.0.3
Functionality
! [ES] added "Fixed" graph type (rep. #556)
* [ES] XYR set is back
! [ES] filled circles in XYR (rep. #206)
* [ES] RtoL text advancing (not yet if using device fonts)
! [ES] extended options for line arrows - see "examples/arrows.agr"
* [ES] automatic allocation of drawing objects; -maxlines and like
command line options removed
* [LM] RTI is processed also when running in gui-less or batch mode
* [LM] millisecond resolution of timer
! [ES] added XYdXdXdYdY set type
! [ES] color & pattern of error bars can be selected independently from
symbols
! [ES] arrow clipping of error bars (rep. #451)
* [ES] no limit on number of columns in block and nxy data reads anymore
(reps. #357, #596)
* [ES] empty line works as set delimiter (#540)
* [ES] added JPEG backend
* [ES] added PNG backend
! [ES] any set type now may have an additional column of text strings
associated; as a result, the XYSTRING set type removed
* [ES] canvas page dimensions, as saved in the project file, set the
page dimensions of all devices (which afterwards can be adjusted
separately)
* [LM] Grace now can parse input data in several date/time formats,
including the recommended ISO8601
* [LM] reference date for date conversions is adjustable
* [LM] 2-digit format for years for the current century is now optional and
the wrap year is adjustable
Interface
* [ES] start in the command line interface (CLI) mode if the exec's
name is "grace"
! [ES] dataset operations GUI re-worked
* [ES] new canvas hotkeys for drawing objects (rep. #585)
* [ES] changind axis scale to Log updates world min if necessary
(rep. #625)
! [ES] all file selection box (FSB) dialogs replaced (fixing reps. #465,
#549, #568)
* [ES] "File/Working dir" removed, since this option is in any FSB now
* [ES] "File/Read/Block data" removed - it's in the "File/Read/Sets" now
* [EV] in the non-linear fit popup, allow to use expressions when giving
bounds for the loaded function
! [ES] applying changes in "Set appearance" for multiple sets selected
doesn't act on legends by default; this can be changed from the
"Options" menu (part of rep. #588)
* [ES] added "File/Revert to saved"
* [ES] -nxy command line flag requires a filename immediately after it
* [ES] use GXinvert rather than GXxor for rubberband lines by default
! [ES] "Evaluate expression" rewritten
* [HS] invert selection in set/graph lists
! [ES] removed column width controls from SS editor; the spreadsheet
columns may be resized with Shift+middle button
! [ES] option to select set string column from block data
Documentation/Info
* [AM/ES] many more buildinfo details are displayed by "-version" command
line option
* [LM] many User's Guide additions/updates
* [AM/ES] added man page for grace/xmgrace/gracebat
* [AM] added man page for grconvert
* [AM] FAQ updates (including rep. #562)
* [ES] FAQ updates (including reps. #580, #587)
* [ES] "Help/Examples" menu tree
Parser
* [HS/ES] several logical constructs of mixed type arguments (vector and
scalar) didn't work
* [ES] added '?' and ':' to the operator precedence list; no conflicts in the
parser anymore
* [ES] no need for () around boolean expressions
! [ES] new color selection options: COLOR "name", COLOR (R, G, B)
! [ES] PRINT TO DEVICE added; PRINT TO "filename" doesn't actually
print, only sets the output to a file (rep. #605)
! [LM] TIMER NUMBER - set timer's resolution
! [ES] G.S can be used anywhere
! [ES] allow to use SET[index] amd GRAPH[index] for set & graph
selections
! [EV] REVERSE setselect
APPEND setselect TO setselect
SPLIT setselect number
! [ES] no setno.extremetype
! [ES] extremetype(vexpr)
! [ES] expressions can be used virtually in any statement (where only numbers
were allowed formerly)
! [ES] checks for expression types
! [ES] JDAY function (has been never documented) renamed to DATE
! [ES] removed INDEX and LOAD SCRARRAY
! [ES] added MESH (a la linspace)
! [ES] several statements per line are allowed, separated by ';'
* [ES] PAGE SIZE x y -> PAGE SIZE x, y
! [LM] REFERENCE DATE, DATE WRAP onoff, DATE WRAP YEAR iexpr
! [ES] strict array length checks
Defaults
! [LM] the default value for the timer has been reduced from 1000 to
200ms
* [ES] sformat is saved in projects
Portability
* [ES] configure honours $CC; if available and not overridden, gcc will
be picked
* [ES] motif find fix
* [ES] Irix-6.5 config fix (rep. #558)
* [ES] compilation errors when using some weird old versions of make
fixed (rep. #583)
* [ES] configure checks for declarations of all math functions
* [ES] removed the remnants of support for Motif-1.1
* [ES] PDF driver updated to use pdflib-2.01
* [ES] updated to Xbae-4.7 (which fixed rep. #560)
* [ES] T1 font machinery updated to T1lib-0.9.1
* [ES] no need for GD lib (for raster drivers); a customized version is
included
* [AM] OS/2 updates
* [JH] VMS updates
Bug fixes
* [MR] popping up PS GUI setup window caused crash (rep. #563)
* [ES] set split was broken in 5.0.2
* [EV] frequency/period feature extraction fix (rep. #538)
* [ES] in the PS driver, pattern fills were not opaque (rep. #567)
* [ES] crosshairs were left as lines on canvas (rep. #571)
* [ES] description length was limited to 2K (rep. #575)
* [ES] setting negative offsets for PS driver was impossible via
GUI (rep. #579)
* [ES] antialiased (default) text strings were invisible on mono X terminals
(rep. #582)
* [ES] join sets is working now (rep. #513)
* [ES] error bar clipping wasn't enabled
* [ES] error bars were drawn above symbols
* [ES] settings from "Ellipse props..." were ignored
* [ES] Bitmapped strings with no AA were broken in the PDF output
* [ES] non-POSIX locales caused invalid PS output in rare cases
* [LM] detect cases of accesses beyond array bounds of drawing objects
* [ES] problems with operations with sets of different lengths (rep. #227)
resolved
* [HS] "Start load at" of the regression window was ignored
* [ES] non-linear fit didn't work in batch mode for any but S0 set
* [ES] fixed crashes with log axes (rep. #282, #525)
* [AM/ES] fixed crashes when major tick spacing was equal to 0 (rep. #591)
* [AM] the default filename of hardcopy output was truncated at first
period (rep. #593)
* [LM] several bugs in date formats fixed
* [ES] locator properties didn't work; changing the locator format
caused chaotic behavior (rep. #621)
* [ES] patterned fills of ellipses gave segmentation fault (rep. #616). This
was a GD library's bug, in fact
Misc
* [ES] removed GD and GIF backends (the latter due to patent issues)
* [LM] an auxiliary utility added (convcal) to convert between "usual"
and julian day date formats. This obsoletes the former greg2jul.c
and jul2greg.c utilities.
5.0.2
Functionality
* [ES] graphs and sets are allocated dynamically; -maxgraph, -maxsets and
-graphsets removed
* [ES] XY chart is back
* [ES] XYZ set type is back
! [ES] new chart set presentations: stacked line and scatter
! [ES] new options for charts (different bar border/fill colors and
patterns etc)
! [ES] inter-bar gap for bar charts is adjustable (rep. #198)
! [ES] new set type: BarDY (bar charts with error bars)
* [ES] precision can be used for XYZ sets (rep. #519)
* [ES] new set auto-coloring is back
* [ES] added 16 new patterns
* [ES] added a few more line styles (rep. #305)
! [ES] legends can be displayed in reverse order (rep. #205)
* [ES] legends are drawn by default
* [ES] enhanced backward compatibility with Xmgr
* [ES] in free mode, auto-re-scale all the plot objects (imitating Xmgr)
(rep. #537)
! [ES] color map stuff (rep. #512)
! [AM] auto-scaling with range restrictions
* [LM] added internals for RT (real time) input monitoring
! [LM] grace_np library now uses anonymous instead of named pipes
! [ES] write format is used for all dataset types
! [ES] FP line widths (rep. #483)
! [ES] locale, if available and set, is used for numeric labels
* [ES] in case of crash, Grace tries to save the project anyway
! [ES] added an option to fill (or not to) the page background
* [ES] Grace honors $GRACE_PRINT_CMD environment variable (rep. #522)
* [ES] PS and PDF drivers optimized for speed and file size
* [ES] added color/gray-scale and bbox:tight/page options to the EPS driver
* [ES] added adjustable printer page offsets to the PS driver
* [ES] warning issued on truncated printout (if display and hard-copy
device aspect ratio don't coincide, for example)
Interface
! [ES] menu shuffles
! [ES] new graph selectors - with many operations available from the popup
menu (right mouse button)
! [ES] new set selectors - with many operations available from the popup
menu (right mouse button). Set selectors in the Data/* popups are
of the old style yet
* [ES] pattern selectors have pattern bitmaps displayed
* [ES] line style selectors have dash bitmaps displayed
* [ES] graph number for ops is automatically graph that has focus
(rep. #104)
! [ES] (approximate) number of tick divisions for auto-ticking is set in
"Axis properties" now instead of "Autoscale"
! [ES] a simplistic (by now) fonttool added
* [ES] removed all set pick operations
! [ES] "Set appearance/Edit/*" now act on selected sets only
* [HS] it's possible to refer to the index of blockdata as column 0
via command line (rep. #464)
* [ES] removed -xy, -xydy etc command line flags; use -(set)type instead
* [ES] -source stdin removed
! [ES] "-" and "stdin/stdout" can be used anywhere (rep. #486)
* [ES] Block data window reworked
! [ES] canvas events redone
* [ES] immediate feedback for drawing object reposition/editing is
back (rep. #532)
! [ES] Activate/Edit/Create/Reactivate Set menu confusion eliminated
(rep. #136)
* [ES] print popup fixes
! [ES] in the X11 driver, put dots every 0.1 viewport (visible only
if the page bg is not filled)
! [ES] <Ctrl+E> from text inputs fires up font tool
* [ES] xwindow title has "Grace: " prefix prepended and, if project is
modified, "(modified)" suffix
! [ES] removed "Clear all" and added "New" instead
! [ES] removed "Verify Pick sets operations" option, added "Don't
ask questions" (same as -noask)
! [LM] added -dpipe command line switch for monitoring an already open
file descriptor
* [ES] removed -symcolorbug command line option
* [ES] removed -dc/-nodc, -redraw/-noredraw, -GXxor/-GXinvert command
line options
* [ES] max error count upon reading in reduced from 50 to 5
Documentation/Info
* [ES] old HTML docs removed; a draft version of User's Guide added
* [EV] Tutorials prepared. It's a recommended reading not only for newbies,
especially taking into account the rudimentary state of the User's
Guide
* [AM] -version additions
Parser
* [ES] device commands (rep. #490)
! [ES] VXMAX and VYMAX - max viewport values of the current device
! [ES] TRUE/FALSE and ON/OFF are interchangeable
! [ES] NEW - start new project from scratch using default template;
NEW FROM "filename" - start new project from scratch using filename
template
! [ES] MAP COLOR color_id TO (R, G, B), "colorname"
(0 <= R, G, B < 256)
! [ES] S$ - currently processed (in parser) SETNUM
! [ES] S_ - recently assigned SETNUM (e.g., after a data have been read in)
! [ES] SETNUM.ID - id of the set (i.e., S5.ID is 5)
! [ES] G$, G_ and GRAPHNO.ID - same as above, but for graphs
Defaults
* [ES] toolbar X resources
! [ES] use IsoLatin1 encoding if Default.enc is not found
* [ES] gracerc magic path
! [ES] gracerc re-read upon SIGHUP
* [ES] templates (rep. #520)
Portability
* [LM] grace_np library now compiles and works correctly on OS/2 and Win32
(in addition to all Unices, of course). There is an unresolved
problem with VMS, though
* [ES] added configuration for use of lcc as compiler
* [JH] VMS updates
* [AM] OS/2 updates
* [ES] grconvert works on Win32
* [ES] Win32 port should compile out of the box
Bug fixes
* [ES] configure issued wrong messages
* [ES] drawing objects might not be drawn sometimes
* [ES] fixed patterns #7, #14 and #15
* [ES] fixed rounding errors in clipping routines (in particular, rep. #476
and #504)
* [EV] a feature extraction bug fixed
* [ES] view/world coords in string edit (rep. #469)
* [LM] input data line length restriction removed (rep. #260, #357,
#443)
* [ES] npipe "buffer overflow" fixed
* [ES] npipe load bug fixed
* [LM] linear regression on a two-point set was performed wrongly
* [ES] spreadsheet fixes and clean-ups (rep. #203, #259, #409)
* [ES] auto-scale fixes (rep. #510)
* [LM] configure fixes
* [LM] updated several explanation strings on example files with the new
GUI layout
* [LM] the correct stack depth was displayed only after cycling
* [ES] regions and graph fixed points not drawn in hardcopy output anymore
* [ES] if no set has a legend string defined, the empty legend box is not
drawn (even when legends are enabled)
* [ES] Disk/Pipe selector was broken (rep. #454)
* [ES] Set appearance/Data/Load comments didn't update GUI settings
for the currently selected set (rep. #474)
* [ES] ignore non-printable characters in formulae (rep. #241)
* [ES] working dir not initialized (rep. #470)
* [ES] `make tests' failed if ran before `make install' (rep. #491)
* [ES] incorrect postscript output of bar charts fixed (rep. #341, #410)
* [ES] fixed crash if applying axis settings to all graphs (rep. #503)
* [ES] warning popup on exit sometimes appeared even after no changes
have been made (rep. #274)
* [ES] auto-scale didn't work if specified from the command line together
with some other arguments (rep. #385, #441)
* [ES] File/Write/Sets didn't work for multiple set selection (rep. #394)
* [ES] strange font size decrement (rep. #242)
* [ES] crashes on SGI when accents are used in the legends (rep. #268)
* [ES] Strings & Things : Default size is zero on HP (rep. #288)
* [ES] sometimes in plots with multiple graphs, one couldn't get the x axis
tick marks or labels to be displayed on any of the graphs except for
graph 0 (rep. #339)
* [LM] in applications linked against grace_np, a call to system() or
like functions would abort execution (rep. #382)
* [ES] Core dump in SetSelectedSet if optimized (rep. #366)
* [ES] misc other bug fixes
Misc
* [ES] memory consumption reduced (typically, 0.5 MB less than that
of 5.0.1 and about same as of Xmgr-4.1.2)
* [ES] removed "Coalesce sets" (will be back in 5.0.3)
* [ES] no input date/time formats (a smart input data filter is planned
for 5.0.3). Please use Julian dates for a time being
5.0.1
Functionality
! [ES] added FORMAT_SCIENTIFIC, FORMAT_ENGINEERING
! [ES] polar plots (a work in progress - far from being completed, but
definitely better than nothing :))
! [ES] added tunable offsets for tick labels (in particular, rep. #467)
! [ES] added option of placing axis ticks at rounded positions (rep. #124)
* [HS2] implemented axis label placement op (normal/opposite side)
(rep. #463)
* [HS2] changed tick and axis label offsets from (x,y) to
(parallel/perpendicular)
* [HS2] introduced tick label placement auto/spec (similar to axis label)
! [ES] fill rules for sets: winding/even-odd; not honored by raster formats
! [ES] smart colormap management: -install/-noinstall flags force a given
behavior; default is to switch to the private colormap automatically
as needed
! [ES] -rvideo now acts on all devices; XMgrace.reverseVideo removed from
the list of X resources
! [ES] selecting devices by names instead of numbers; "-device" command
line argument renamed to "-hdevice"; GR_HDEV not used anymore
! [ES] zero axes are back. Now, both "primary" and alternative axes can be
"zero" ones
! [ES] PDF device options added: binary/ASCII output; misc fixes
! [ES] GIF device options added: transparent and interlaced output
! [ES] PS device options added: grayscale/color; Level2 toggle is back (in
fact, nobody of developers has a Level 1 printer to really check it)
* [ES] fixed bug when text strings might be typed wrong sometimes in the PS
output
* [ES] all drivers slightly rewritten
! [ES] added PNM (PBM/PGM/PPM) device (both ASCII and "rawbits" outputs)
! [ES] Courier font family added
* [ES] added \f, \h, \v, \z, \m, \M and \d string controls. Load typeset.agr
in the "examples" dir to get an idea
! [ES] in the batch language, in any statement with FONT NUMBER, the
font selection can be done by fontname instead of the number:
FONT "fontname"
! [ES] Grace can now use any number of user-defined fonts, both in addition
and as a replacement for bundled ones (rep. #26)
Documentation/Info
* [HS] added a text (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/y2k.html)
on the Year 2000 problem (rep. #342)
* [HS2] new extended FAQ written
* [AM] version string includes GUI toolkit (Motif/Lesstif/None)
* [AM] help screen updated
* [ES] font docs (doc/fonts.html) updated
Portability
* [ES] configure should now be smarter about finding Motif (rep. #416)
* [ES] added configuration file for Interix (aka OpenNT) (rep. #437)
* [ES] SunOS4 build fixes
* [AM] OS/2 updates
Bug fixes
* [AM] "Read/Block data" crash fixed (rep. #445)
* [ES] Zooming now zooms exactly to the window specified by mouse (rep. #5)
* [ES] "AutoT" doesn't alter graph min/max values (rep. #165)
* [ES] killing sets in polar plots with parameters preserved caused crash
(rep. #125)
* [HS2] ellipses might be sometimes drawn incorrectly in X11
* [ES] a memory leak in "Edit String" fixed
* [HS] leap year function corrected
* [ES] XYString sets were not saved (rep. #452)
* [ES] Disk/Pipe selector was broken (rep. #455)
* [AM] fixed broken axis scaling when set min/max was +/- Inf
* [EV] stack manipulation fixed (#417)
* [AM] "-version" now outputs to stdout instead of stderr
* [ES] misc small fixes
5.0.0 (since Xmgr-4.1.2):
Functionality
* [ES] T1 fonts are used for all devices using the T1lib library of Rainer
Menzner. There should be no discrepancies anymore between characters
displayed and printed (rep. #16)
* [ES] routines of drawing layer rewritten from the scratch; Grace is now
almost WYSIWYG, except patterns (rep. #184)
* [EV] generic I/O filtering implemented (including rep. #240); see docs
for details
! [ES] reciprocal axis scale implemented (rep. #33)
* [EV] system-wide gracerc ($GRACE_HOME/gracerc) will be read at startup
time, if exists
! [ES] overlined strings are possible (\o \O) (rep. #176). Doesn't work with
device fonts yet
! [MM] extensions to regions including horizontal-inside, horizontal-outside,
vertical-inside and vertical-outside
! [MM] Grace will use the FFTW library for Fourier transform if present on
the system; see README.FFTW
* [MM] negative indices in "Drop points" allowed (counting from the end of
a set)
* [EV] added a new feature to be extracted - the integral of each set
! [ES] "unit" and "const" added to the possible proctype's for modules.
DEG (below) is an example what "unit" can be used for
! [ES] DEG and RAD are now meaningful. E.g., expressions like sin(90 deg)
and sin(pi/2 rad) both are legitimate (and equivalent!) ("rad" can be
omitted - it's there just for the sake of completeness)
* [ES] metafile driver (not in final state)
* [ES] PDF driver using the PDFlib of Thomas Merz; see README.PDF
* [ES] GIF/GD driver using the GD library of Thomas Boutell (rep. #14); see
README.GIF
* [ES] logarithmic scales can have any base (rep. #370)
* [ES] patterns and colors can be used simultaneously (rep. #291)
* [ES] power tick label format changed to work in scientific format
(rep. #361)
* [ES] \B in composite strings will reset the font to the string's initial
font (rep. #388)
* [ES] PS/EPS driver rewritten from the scratch
* [ES] X11 driver heavily rewritten
Interface
! [ES] removed "Plot/World scaling" popup
! [ES] re-designed axis props GUI popup (in particular, rep. #63, #313)
* [EV] point ops popup fixes
! [ES] graph appearance props GUI popup
! [ES] removed "Viewport", "Frame", "Titles" and "Legends" popups.
! [ES] removed "Error bars" and "Edit legends" popups.
! [ES] re-designed set appearance props GUI popup (rep. #311, #369 should be
fixed)
* [EV] added expression evaluation to text input fields in all widgets
* [EV] error window changed - only 1 window, not 1 window per error
! [EV] regression fits can be applied to specified interval and results are
printed out in readable form
* [EV] scrolled windows for explicitly requested expressions
* [EV] canvas hotkeys added
! [ES] re-designed print setup GUI popup (problems in rep. #372, #412
should be fixed)
* [ES] changing page size is possible for any device separately; the units
can be "pix"els, "cm" or "in" (rep. #108, #211, #216, #405)
Project files
* [EV] background color saved
* [MM] all regions, whether active or not, are saved to the file, so
temporarily inactive regions don't get lost
* [ES] page size is saved (rep. #312)
Parser
* [ES] cleaned grammar parser; instead of 350 shift/reduce and 231
reduce/reduce conflicts - > 61 & 0 respectively
* [ES] MAX() and MIN() renamed to MAXOF() and MINOF()
! [ES] removed DX, DY, IMAGE
! [ES] removed GRAPHNO *BAR SIZE NUMBER
! [ES] removed SETNUM = SETNUM etc
! [ES] removed CMAP, STATUS, STATUSBAR, TOOLBAR, LOCATORBAR, LOCATOR
Defaults
! [ES] default page layout changed from free to fixed
* [ES] \+ increases font size sqrt(sqrt(2)) times; \- respectively,
decreases. Sub/superscripts are 1/sqrt(2) of the preceeding font size
Portability
* [AM] implemented dynamic modules for OS/2
* [EV] popen() for VMS
* [JH/RN] VMS fixes
* [AM] OS/2 updates
Misc
! [ES] removed (broke) xwd image loading
! [ES] removed all app-defaults not specific to GUI
! [ES] \x and \b control sequences removed
Bug fixes
* [ES] "-mono" command line flag now works
* [EV] "-wd" command line flag fixed
* [EV] trying to create a new set preceded with soft kill of all sets
caused crash (rep. #367)
* [MM] FFT fixes
* [MM] when regions were read in from a saved file, they ended up linked
to all graphs
* [MM] in saved projects, REGNUM TRUE was used instead of REGNUM ON
* [EV] several sets can be linked to the same file as in xny data (rep. #269)
* [ES] crash on mono X servers fixed (rep. #285)
* [ES] canvas refresh (rep. #217, #271 #317, #333, #375)
* [ES] axis labels were not displayed if `display tick marks' wasn't
selected (rep. #3)
* [ES] coordinates of legend frame now corresponds to the left upper corner
of the frame (rep. #31)
* [ES] ticklabel format was reset by autoscale (rep. #119, #144)
* [ES] bounding box of EPS was calculated only approximately (rep. #123,
#145)
* [ES] legend frame didn't account for sub/superscripts (rep. #189)
* [ES] extraneous logarithmic tick marks were drawn in some cases (rep. #193)
* [ES] accentuated titles weren't centered correctly (rep. #195)
* [ES] switch to log scale with an axis containing zero might cause
error messages infinitely looped (rep. #210)
* [ES] filling of legend frame didn't work unless one turned the frame on
(rep. #215)
* [ES] the axes tick marks were behind set curves (rep. #224)
* [ES] popup positioning left up to WM for all windows (rep. #273)
* [ES] if graph contained too many ticks, autoscale was applied instead
of tick position recalculation (rep. #275)
* [EV] in "Point ops", 'Delete' ignored set number (rep. #293)
* [ES] once activated, legends fill frame couldn't be switched off
from within GUI (rep. #326)
* [CM] adding legends to plots with number of data sets exceeding the
default maximum caused a crash (rep. #344)
* [ES] arranging or rearranging graphs by means of the "arrange" dialog reset
previously set tick properties to defaults (rep. #356)
* [ES] user tick labels w/subscripts did not show up in PS output (rep. #383)
* [ES] FFT command didn't work correctly in parser (rep. #398)
* [HS] command line parsing was wrong in several places (rep. #400)
* [ES] misc. small fixes (including rep. #289, #406, #287)
Legend:
[EV] - Ed Vigmond <vigmonde@IGB.UMontreal.CA>
[RN] - Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.berlin.ptb.de>
[HS] - Henrik Seidel <henrik.seidel@gmx.de>
[JH] - John Hasstedt <John.Hasstedt@sunysb.edu>
[AM] - Alexander Mai <st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>
[CM] - Charles Myers <myers@oicinc.com>
[MM] - Marcus H. Mendenhall <marcus.h.mendenhall@vanderbilt.edu>
[HS2] - Heiko R. Selber <selber@fhi-berlin.mpg.de>
[LM] - Luc Maisonobe
[MR] - Mark Rintoul <rintoul@cs.sandia.gov>
[HF] - Harald Freyer <hf@nike.cup.uni-muenchen.de>
[JB] - Jesko Brudermann <jbruder@gwdg.de>
[OT] - Ovidiu Toader <ovidiut@ostrich.physics.utoronto.ca>
[RW] - Robin Williams <Robin.Williams@astro.cf.ac.uk>
[JM] - John McKitterick <jbmck@batc.allied.com>
[AH] - A. Stewart Hopkins <ahopkins@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
[KS] - Keith Stribley <keith@stribley.dabsol.co.uk>
[DP] - Donald A. Peterson <donald@nd.edu>
[WB] - Wolfgang Braun <braun@pdi-berlin.de>
[JSB] - J. Scott Berg <jsberg@bnl.gov>
[AC] - Alber Chin <china@thewrittenword.com>
[GJ] - Gerd Jahn <Gerd.Jahn@dss.dornier.dasa.de>
[UH] - Ulrich Harttig <harttigu@ucs.orst.edu>
[DB] - Dominique Bissieres <dominique.bissieres@turbomeca.fr>
[RL] - R. Lahaye <lahaye@postech.edu>
[MD] - Matthias Dillier <Matthias.Dillier@snb.ch>
[PM] - Petrie L M <lmp@ornl.gov>
[JS] - Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
[ES] - Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>
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