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Now that 3.1.1 is out, the beta resets. There are features that are hidden in the release version but are visible in the beta so they can be tested and refined.
Data Object - Still refining this.
Scalar Field command
Column - Number From String
Running log of changes.
- 2/24: 3.1.1 just came, reset the beta.
- 2/24: Added a few functions related to day computation. hour, minute, isAM, isPM that takes as input the number of seconds from 1/1/1970.
- 2/24: Fixed an issue with the dgraph command line utility - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1041
- 2/25: Fixed a pretty nasty error in LOESS when you used a weight.
- 2/28: Fixed an import issue (character out of bounds)
- 2/28: Added a "Clients" sub-menu at the bottom of the context menu for columns. Useful when you have complicated files. This is still under development, so suggest additions/tweaks.
- 3/1: Added Supplier to the Column context menu and added a few more tweaks to the presentation.
- 3/3: Tweaked the Clients/Suppliers menu some more. Changed the visual feedback used to indicate where the column/command/variable is located.
- 3/3: Added an action/gear menu to most of the drawing commands. Right now, most of them just have the Suppliers/Clients sub-menu but I will add entries here.
- 3/3: Added a gear menu to the variables.
- 3/7: Added the text commands \ell, \R, \Z, \C, \Q - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=767
- 3/7: Fixed a color scheme match error for the Points command when the color match column was longer than the x,y columns and you were using a string match.
- 3/7: Exploring formatting options for the tick marks. Right now only working on the scientific number format.
- 3/8: Added a new option for the style sheet - lines. Specify the dash pattern for four lines and select that style from the menu where you select line styles.
- 3/9: Added an engineering option for the number formatter - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1052
- 3/11: Fixed a problem with the command selector. Also tweaked things so that it doesn't include a group sub-menu when there is nothing there to select.
- 3/12: Added a couple of new mask options - "Found in" and "Not in" which allows you to specify a column of strings or numbers and use that as a set. For example if you want to include a row if the type is one of five possible values, instead of using a mask with five rows you make a column with those five entries and select it for the "Found in" column. If you want to look at the complement, just switch to "Not in".
- 3/12: The automatic formatter now works for the split axis.
- 3/14: Tweaked things to avoid a crash.
- 3/14: Found the cause of the crash/excessive error messages.
- 3/15: Enabled 64 bits again.
- 3/21: Fixed a copy problem. Couldn't copy a text column.
- 3/30: Fixed a crashing bug when using the Engineering formatter
- 3/31: Added more functionality to the Context menu in the drawing commands.
- 3/31: Can extract the Mask from a Plot command, considering adding this to other drawing commands as well.
- 3/31: Fixed a axis spacing bug when you had a single line for the main axis but multiple lines for additional axis.
- 4/1: Fixed a circular reference bug for the expression column.
- 4/1: Fixed a problem with the engineering format.
- 4/6: Worked on the Connect command a bit. What happened was that when you zoomed in on a graph (cropping) and exported a pdf/svg there was a lot of data that was clipped. So even if it wasn't visible, applications like Photoshop and Illustrator would still see the additional lines and adjust the bounding box. If you run into issues like this with other drawing commands let me know.
- 4/9: Fixed an issue with the Analysis command. Still pretty raw.
- 4/13: Fixed a crashing bug in the Analysis command when you clicked on the Presets menu.
- 4/16: Tweaked the Analysis command, improved grouping and added support for a legend. Also added an option to display values on the bars.
- 4/17: Tweaked the padding range so that if the range is [c,c], it will draw tick marks.
- 4/17: Fixed the legend for the Analysis command. Also added support for date columns.
- 4/20: More tweaks for the Analysis command, now called "Matrix Analysis". Looking for feedback regarding functionality.
- 4/23: Added a label option for the Points command that allows you to specify a constant label. This means that if you are only drawing a single point, you don't have to create a column for the label.
- 4/25: Added a mask option for the Bar command. Remove the "Left Stairs" option. That was a slightly strange visualization anyway. Merged the "Bar Type" and "Direction" menus into a single menu. Old files get automatically changed and should not be opened on older versions of DG.
- 4/25: Fixed a label issue in the Plot and Lines command.
- 4/25: Added back a border for the legend entries for Bars. Also, the Bar command uses the same style to draw its fill color.
- 4/26: Added a context menu option to the Matrix Analysis command. Also the option to extract the row and column number (int the matrix) for each row (in the table).
- 4/28: Think I finally fixed the crop mark issue when printing - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=801&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
- 4/28: Changed how the bouncing arrow closes itself (when you extract a column).
- 4/29: Added a method to extract rows and columns from a Pivot table (the new name for the Matrix Analysis command). - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1038
- 4/30: Added "Only ticks" to the Extra Axis command - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1066
- 4/30: Fixed an edit issue for the string column when mapping was selected - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1065
- 5/1: Added a "Select Row" mechanism to select one or more rows.
- 5/1: Fixed a problem with horizontal and vertical lines when you vary the color - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1068
- 5/4: The non-automatic setting was ignored in the axis when you used a date axis. Changed that. Most of the non-automatic options won't be useful for dates, but the Labels option will be.
- 5/5: Added a method to vary the color of a bar (in the Bar command).
- 5/5: Added an additional drawing style for Extra Axis - Nothing, which means that you only draw the grid lines.
- 5/6: Added a "Include bottom" check box for the Bar command. This draws a line at the bottom of the bars, not just the top.
- 5/6: Beefed up the Pivot commands (more calculation methods) and added a method to extract the bin locations as values and not just text. Wrote a help document for the command (use the ? button in the lower right corner).
- 5/7: Added a "Copy Mask" and "Paste Mask" for drawing commands that have a mask. Simplifies sharing a mask.
- 5/7: Added a field so that you can specify a uniform width for all bars. Before you could use a column of widths, but in order for all to have the same width you needed to make a constant column.
- 5/8: Added two more functions - second() and dayofweek() that take in an epoch time (like the date column uses)
- 5/9: Changed how Bar deals with automatic widths. Now it goes through the data set and sees if there is a uniform step size. So if there are parts where there is a missing value these bars show up as empty rather than wider like before. That means there should be fewer cases where you want to specify the width. The varying widths were not very clean and trying to move away from that.
- 5/10: Fixed a bug that caused a hang - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1073
- 5/13: Added a new fill option for the Bar command - Neg/Pos so that you can fill negative and positive bars with different colors. Quicker than using the mask command or using a color scheme.
- 5/14: Fixed a couple of issues with the Bar command - http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1074 and http://www.visualdatatools.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1075
- 5/14: Now the SVG exporter can export embedded bitmaps. That also means that the procedural texture fill is exported. The file will be fairly large however, since the image is saved as an embedded png.
- 5/14: The SVG exporter also exports embedded pdf's. This works with the svg renderer on the mac, and I'm curious to know if it works elsewhere.
- 5/15: Added support for rotation when exporting svg images.