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<td><br><h2>Ploticus prefabs - what's new</h2></td>
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<a href="../doc/welcome.html"><img src="../doc/ploticus.gif" border=0></a><br>
Version 2.41 Mar2009
</small><br><a href="../doc/prefabs.html">Prefabs</a>
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See also the <a href="news.html">ploticus what's new page</a>.
<h2>ploticus version 2.41 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> New parameters xgridskip, ygridskip, xgridblocks, ygridblocks, firststub, laststub
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.40 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> Due to underlying changes in proc rangebar / proc boxplot functionality,
the <b>compare</b> prefab, and the boxplot component of the <b>vdist</b> prefab, have been suspended.
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<li> A couple of minor bug fixes have been applied since 2.33
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.33 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> prefab scat - new parm ptstyle= filled or outline
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<li> prefab scat now use new sharper direct pixel data point symbols by default
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<li> prefab scat now has a maxinpoints= parameter (for regression line curvefit)
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<li> some prefab parameters cannot be set via #set statements in the data file.. because they are set
in the prefab script before getting the data. This has been clarified in the docs.
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<li> heatmaps - with contentfield= and values 0.0 -> 1.0 .. cutoff table was not automatically created properly.
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<li> heatmaps - cell coloring bug
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<li> draw prefab - win32 issue with dumpfile
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.32 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> <font color=FF0000>Caution:</font>
Prefabs are unsafe in <a href="cgi.html">direct CGI mode</a> and in any other situation
where unknown/untrusted users can directly or indirectly set or manipulate prefab parameters.
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<li> <a href="prefab_stdparms.html#legend">legends</a> - a number of new parameters added for doing things
like multi-column or multi-row legends, backing box, title, wordwrap.
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<li> <a href="prefab_pie.html">prefab pie</a> - <tt>wraplen</tt> parameter added - wordwrap on pie labels.
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<li> <a href=prefab_heatmap.html">prefab heatmap</a> - now supports <tt>title</tt> and related parameters.
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<li> <a href=prefab_chron.html">prefab chron</a> - bug fixed - date notations involving dots should now be ok.
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<li> General - several error messages generated by prefab scripts weren't being directed correctly
and caused script evaluation errors.
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.31 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> <a href="prefab_chron.html">prefab chron</a> now uses datematic for fallback defaults
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<li> you can specify "#usefname" (or similar) for axis label
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<li> <a href="prefab_chron.html">prefab chron</a> - <tt>lineclip</tt> parameter added
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<li> <a href="prefab_chron.html">prefab chron</a> - <tt>xmargin</tt> parameter wasn't working correctly - fixed
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<li> <a href="prefab_stdparms.html">standard parms</a> - new parameters <tt>xlbldistance</tt> and <tt>ylbldistance</tt>
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<li> <a href="prefab_dist">prefab dist</a> - <tt>savetbl</tt> is now correctly documented as a yes/no item.
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.30 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> New <a href="pl.1.html">command line options</a> <tt>-drawdump</tt> and <tt>-drawdumpa</tt>
which allow you to
<a href="prefabs.html#drawdump">overlay or combine results from separate pl runs</a>
- this opens up new possibilties when using prefabs.
The drawdump file can be rendered later in any desired format, using this command:
<tt>pl -prefab draw dumpfile=<i>filename</i></tt>
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<li> New prefab - <a href="prefab_compare.html">compare</a> - for comparing 2 - 4 groups
and optionally, subgroups.
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<li> New <a href="prefab_stdparms.html">prefab standard parmameters</a> <tt>xaxis</tt> and <tt>yaxis</tt>.
These allow you to render axes on left side, bottom, right side, or top of the plotting area, or any combination
thereof, or no axes at all.
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<li> New <a href="prefab_stdparms.html">prefab standard parameter</a> - <tt>inlinedata</tt> - allows
a small amount of plot data to be specified directly on command line.
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<li> Change - <a href="prefab_stdparms.html">prefab standard parameters</a> - <tt>yrange</tt> -
if a single token is specified (any value), it dictates a fixed minimum and automatic maximim.
Previously this was only supported when <tt>yrange=0</tt>. Caution: the behavior is now slightly
different: the fixed minima is overridden by encountered data that are less than it.
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<li> New parameters - <a href="prefab_compare.html">compare prefab</a> - <tt>ptselect</tt>, <tt>ptselect2</tt>..<tt>4</tt>
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<li> Caution - prefabs now have the new <a href="fonts.html">superscripts/subscripts capability</a> enabled by default.
This can be <a href="prefab_stdparms.html#misc">turned off</a> if desired.
Existing prefab applications that have pairs of '<b>^</b>' or '<b>`</b>' characters in titles or labels may be affected.
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<li> Caution - prefabs now have the new <a href="settings.html#encodenames">data field name encoding feature</a> enabled by default.
This can be <a href="prefab_stdparms.html#misc">turned off</a> if desired.
Existing prefab applications that display data field names (eg. in legends) and have '<b>_</b>' or '<b>|</b>' characters in data
field names may be affected.
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<li> Prefabs docs were overhauled.
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.21 - prefabs</h2>
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<li> Improvement - heatmap prefab - changed to use 'exact' category matching by default
<li> Fixed bug - heatmap prefab - If cutofflist was specified, no plot was produced.
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<h2>Ploticus version 2.20 - prefabs</h2>
Version 2.20 includes some new prefabs and significant improvements to existing prefabs:
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<li> New prefab: <a href="prefab_cumufrac.html">cumufrac</a> for generating cumulative percentage plots.
<li> New prefab: <a href="prefab_heatmap.html">heatmap</a> for displaying heatmaps, density grids, and similar displays.
<li> New prefab: <a href="prefab_vdist.html">vdist</a> for displaying distributions of one or two variables.
<li> <a href="prefab_chron.html">chron prefab</a> can now generate up to 4 curves or bar sets
(but not in tabulate mode). Also new axis options automonths, autodays.
<li> <a href="prefab_stack.html">stack prefab</a> can now generate stacked area plots.
<li> <a href="prefab_scat.html">scat prefab</a> can now generate up to 4 sets of data points using 4 different symbols.
<li> <a href="prefab_pie.html">pie prefab</a> can now generate pie graphs with slices of different color
determined by a data field, using a legend for the labels. Also a number of other new parameters.
<li> <a href="prefab_lines.html">lines prefab</a> new parameters gapmissing, numbers, accum, clip.
<li> <a href="prefab_stdparms.html">standard parameters</a> now include <b>ptselect</b> parameters
for selecting different sets of rows for different lines / bar sets / data point sets.
Other new standard parameters include <b>xnearest</b> and <b>ynearest</b>
for more control over axis min and max, <b>echodata</b>, and new legend-related parameters.
<li> New prefab: <a href="prefab_processdata.html">processdata</a> which allows ploticus to be used as a data processing
filter (no plots).
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None of these changes should affect old code.
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<a href="../doc/welcome.html">
<img src="../doc/ploticus.gif" border=0></a><br><small>data display engine <br>
<a href="../doc/Copyright.html">Copyright Steve Grubb</a>
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