Grapher 6 Release History
Version 6.3.28 (June 15, 2006)
- Corrected worksheet window not being able to be minimized.
- Fixed crash caused by changing the gradient fill colors for the page fill.
- Fixed crash that could occur under certain circumstances when changing the worksheet used by axis grid lines.
- Confidence plot disappearing under certain conditions corrected.
- Fixed crash caused by changing PI tabs while a clipping value was still being edited.
- Automation: axes can now be positioned relative to the same type of axis (e.g. X axis to X axis).
- In 3D XYZ bar charts, all grouped charts now correctly change orientation when the orientation is changed.
- Corrected crash caused by certain Grapher 5 files containing top-level axes.
- Fixed crash caused when there is no data for a custom fit to work with.
- Legends now correctly display gradient fills for bubble plots.
- Help now accessible from client installs.
- Corrected the axis spacing control sometimes being disabled when it should not be.
- Fixed Shift+F1 to work properly with the menus.
- Modified OLE object editing such that embedded Grapher objects will now always be edited within the Grapher application itself rather than in the client application.
- Fit curves now properly change axes when the owning plot's axes are changed.
- Contour maps now only redrawn when necessary.
- Minor tick label format now uses the default tick properties but with the size reduced by 2.
- Automation: added command AutoLegend::LineLength(double length) to get/set legend line length.
- Some help file improvements made.
- Corrected crash when saving a file created using Windows New command.
- Corrected crash when using Apply button in Position Axis dialog when called up from Object Manager.
- When changing text via a script, the text background setting is maintained.
- Fixed drawing of bubble plot lines when using a gradient fill.
Version 6.2.24 (December 9, 2005)
- New capability to load data from dBase (DBF) files into worksheet.
Version 6.2.23 (November 29, 2005)
- Fixed problem causing extraneous duplicate entries in the line styles table.
- First/last worksheet row values are now updated when the data column of a histogram is changed.
- Closing the Grapher help window no longer causes Grapher to be moved behind any other open applications.
- The creation of duplicate line styles when adding a custom line style has been corrected.
- In polar plots, data points that have values outside the limits of a polar radius axis are no longer plotted.
- 3D minor line colors are no longer always set to the 3D major line color.
- Eliminated 'ghost' lines that were present in 3D XYZ plots that were using a blank worksheet.
- Fixed ternary Y axis being placed incorrectly when resizing ternary graphs.
- Fixed crash caused by entering a value greater than 32,767 in the surface function plot rows/cols values.
- Fixed crash caused by clicking on another PI tab while the axis Spacing control was active.
- When using gradient fills with 2D pie charts the fill now correctly moves with the chart.
- Gradient fills are no longer available for use with 3D pie charts.
- Fixed unexpected closure of Grapher after adding legend and hitting enter twice.
- Maximum option string length for the automation Export command increased.
- Fixed problem of PI tabs disappearing when using the View | Managers menu to close the PI.
- Entire polar graph now moved when using the X/Y position controls in the toolbar to move a polar radius axis.
- Fixed plots not being updated when making changes to multiple axes in multiple graphs.
- Legend is now pasted when pasting as a metafile.
- Drawing of ternary plot labels using different alignments has been corrected.
- Vector plot now uses the default symbol when the plot is created.
- Corrected certain contour maps not overlaying the surface map correctly.
- The default axis length is now used when creating a new axis through the add plot command.
- A crash that could occur on certain systems when using the Page Setup dialog has been fixed.
Version 6.1.21 (August 25, 2005)
- Out of range date/time values no longer cause "Internal inconsistency detected” error.
- Renamed objects sometimes being reset to their default name has been corrected.
- The main window is no longer enabled when getting fit statistics from within the fit dialog.
- Fixed escape key not always cancelling digitize mode.
- Corrected contour levels fills being overwritten by the map's background color.
- An error message is now displayed when any bubbles of a bubble plot exceed the logical space. In addition, these bubbles are set to zero size.
- Corrected problem of very long file names causing crashes.
- Back wall fill of a XZ contour map no longer overwrites the contour map levels fills.
- Feature change: The NULL criteria clipping has been modified. When the 'Data columns only' checkbox is checked, the NULL criteria will be applied only those columns being used for data. When unchecked, the NULL criteria will be applied only to those columns selected using the 'Select Columns' dialog.
- Fixed changing the gradient fill of a graph title by using the Apply button in the color map dialog causing the title to be set to the center of the graph.
- Fixed crash caused by creating a surface data map from a single point data file and attempting to get the grid info.
- Enabled XZ contour map menu commands for the worksheet and worksheet manager windows.
- When changing an existing surface data map or contour data map to a data file that causes a failure in the gridding (e.g. a data file with only one data point), the map is updated to reflect the lack of data rather than continuing to display the previous grid.
- Corrected graph default title text not being saved when setting the default graph title text value.
- Corrected some objects not enabling the Reset button in the default setting dialog when it should be enabled.
- When attempting to create a map from a date set that is coplanar (all data lies in a horizontal plane), an error message is displayed and the map is created as an empty (blank) map.
- Fixed crash caused by changing an axis's limits by changing a limit, not closing the edit box by hitting enter, and then selecting a different tab in the PI (e.g. the tick marks tab).
- When a plot has no data, the worksheet first and last rows are now set to zero.
- Tweaked color scale label drawing to be more accurate.
- Added error message that is displayed when attempting to create a map from a worksheet with insufficient data.
- Corrected level calculation hanging when dealing with very small differences between Z min and max.
- Modified PI behavior when auto update is off to eliminate it doing some updating before Apply button is pressed.
- Fixed program potentially hanging or crashing when working with fits that have all their worksheet data removed.
- Corrected error message sometimes being display when trying to bring up help via the Help | Contents command.
- Default position of zoom toolbar changed to be the right of the position/size toolbar.
- When opening a graph file that references Excel sheets, and the sheet names have been changed in the Excel file, the program will now query for a new worksheet to be used.
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Bar chart selection indicators not being drawn in the correct position when graph is rotated has been fixed.
- Bar chart selection indicators sometimes not being drawn when bar chart is set to horizontal corrected.
- Corrected bar chart labels being drawn in the wrong position when graph is rotated.
- Overlays may now be used with surface function maps.
- Fixed display of overlays when using old graph rotation method.
- Modified failed to save document error message to state if the file is read-only.
- Fixed crash caused by trying to save read-only file after turning off read-only attribute of file.
- Eliminated error message when changing number of slices for pie chart when there are no valid slices.
- Corrected problem in gridding a file that could result in the wrong limits being calculated for the map. Modified grid information command to use consistent X, Y, Z labeling for maps.
- Demo no longer allows grid files to be exported.
- Corrected display of non-angled 3D Y axis labels being drawn mirrored.
- Line plot and bar chart error bars are now displayed correctly when the graph is rotated.
- When a dynamic field is used for the default legend title, this field is now correctly updated when a new legend is created.
- Corrected wrong font being used in list boxes in PI after changing PI font.
- A scroll bar is now displayed in the criteria 'Select Columns' dialog if needed.
- Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y now effect the worksheet window when the Worksheet Manager is the active window.
- Corrected some display text in the Graph Wizard.
- 3D bar and floating bar charts, and 2D/3D histograms will now automatically set axes to use date/time labels if the data is in date/time format.
- Corrected bounds box display of 3D XYZ bar and floating bar charts when the plot has no data and the graph is moved.
- Fixed crash triggered by bringing up the axis position dialog of the box-whisker X axis through the Property Inspector position control of the axis's section.
- Feature change: If a confidence plot has a fill, the fill is displayed in any legends that the confidence plot appears in.
- Changing a text objects text value via automation not updating the text has been corrected.
- Ternary X axis title is now rotated when its angle is set to be non-zero.
Version 6.00 (July 7, 2005)
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