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<td><br><h2>Ploticus version 2.40, released on 15 Jan '08</h2></td>
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Version 2.40 Jan'08
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<a href="news.html">What's new page</a>
<a href="news_old.html">Earlier change logs</a>
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In Version 2.40
a revision pass was done affecting all script and attribute parsing, with the goal of
eliminating attribute length restrictions where possible, and reducing string copy operations.
A lot of code was "touched", probably including code that is not excercised by our usual QA regimen.
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<h2>New features:</h2>
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<a href="catlines.html">
<b>proc catlines</b><br>
<img src="../gallery/thumbnails/catlines1.gif" border=0></a>
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<b>proc tree</b><br>
<img src="../gallery/thumbnails/tree1.gif" border=0></a>
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<li> <a href="getdata.html">proc getdata</a> ... data sets using the bar character (|) as field delimiter are now supported.
Also, there's now <tt>delim: auto</tt> which tries to automatically determine data field delimitation.
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<li> <a href="processdata.html">proc processdata</a> ... new actions: summary, summaryplus, raccum ... new attributes binsize, binmod
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<li> <a href="rangebar.html">proc boxplot</a> (formerly proc rangebar) ... functionality change.. it now produces a
set of boxplots in a similar way to how other procs (such as proc bars) operate. Any existing scripts using proc rangebar
will require attention.
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<li> new <a href="pl.1.html">pl(1) command line options</a>
-pixsize (to set exact size of result image in pixels), and
-cputime (to set cputime resource limit). As usual these have equivalent settings in
<a href="page.html">proc page</a> and/or <a href="settings.html">proc settings</a>
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<li> <a href="autorange.html">axis autorange</a> now supports the following: nearest=Nminute nearest=second nearest=Nsecond
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<li> <a href="image.html">proc image</a> (formerly called proc import)...
gifs can be imported. Images can now be incorporated into SVG plot results. Clickmap support.
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<li> <a href="symboldetails.html">symboldetails</a> ... imgfile, imgwidth, imgheight
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<li> <a href="color.html">color</a> ... color specifications using notation such as xFEDCBA now supported
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<li> Slanted axis stubs are now supported. See <a href="axis.html">proc axis</a> stubvert parameter
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<li> A number of other new attributes that are specialized or of minor interest
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<h2> Changes that could break existing scripts</h2>
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These are listed <b><a href="news.html">here</a></b>.
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<h2> 2.40 Bug fixes</h2>
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<li> bug related to legend-driven bar graphing
<li> direct pixel data points inherit current line dashing .. symboldetails needs to set linetype to plain
<li> segfault occuring after error 12040 "DISPLAY=" ?
<li> svg compile and swf segfault bugs
<li> proc getdata - recent fix related to #field names and #data fields needs to take filters into account
<li> proc categories - when cats specified literally, trailing whitespace is taken as part of category
<li> proc image segfaults with -x11
<li> proc lineplot - gapmissing autozero not working right
<li> segfault when -csmap is used with long urls
<li> proc processdata MIN, MAX - not affected by 'resultformat' but should be
<li> First x stub is a little higher than the others
<li> gd color bug when degenerate data row encountered [color change bug - lineplot gapmissing and fill options]
<li> prefab chunk_title - align= was giving backward results
<li> proc bars - segments - code bug demonstrated by gallery/timeline2.htm
<li> proc bars - instability related to color change optimization (wild draw location)
<li> prefab cumufrac - no curve produced for certain input data (see msg 1974)
<li> clickmap - the clickmap entries for plot elements sitting on top of a clickmap grid are written too late
in the map and mouse doesn't respond. For gif/png/jpg imagemaps, need to write map entires in this order:
1) plot element regions 2) xy grid regions 3) single-dimention grid regions. (svg uses the opposite order)
<li> scripts having embedded CSV data (w rows > 255) can break script processor causing instability.
<li> proc annotate instability on filled rectangle draw caused by unitialized bd* vars
<li> proc curvefit - xfield was required, but doesn't need to be
<li> legend - repeated use of legends eventually gives "Sorry, too much legend content" msg
<li> prefab overlays - each run needs to output a code into the dumpfile that tells pcode to do a graphics init.
Otherwise, run 2 inherits current color (other settings?) left behind by run1
<li> proc axis - stubround - 1st stub seems to be often omitted even when it is a round value (snps/distplot)
<li> URL encoding shouldn't encode '.' or other normal punctuation chars..
<li> floating bars weirdness
<li> instability when trying to #set a var to length > 334 chars
<li> instability when supplying a long perl script with #proc getdata commandmr
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<a href="../doc/Copyright.html">Copyright Steve Grubb</a>
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