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  ProEssentials v6 Maintenance Info

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7/1/08

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.72 on 07/01/08.

1) ExportImageDpi was accidently limited to 50, now 0 is valid, but range is 50 to 600. Setting to zero disables and DpiX and DpiY can be used for full control.
2) Fixed a problem with GraphPlusTable set to show graph and table where some long vertical point labels were causing a corrupted image.
3) Fixed issue with Pe3do 3d scatter and line PlottingMethod with Null inbetween two identical points, second line was not drawn.
4) Fixed Font dialog showing duplicate far east fonts starting with @.
5) Fixed font problem when RenderEngine=GdiPlus where some fonts do not have a normal setting (i.e., only italic), caused an issue of text disappearing.
6) Fixed TextExport feature which was not exporting at full maximum precision when selected.
7)
Fixed a rare issue with setting Subsets and Points to same value and not passing data which caused our memory pre-allocation logic to overwrite last data point if it existed.
8) Fixed Pie rendering when only 1 slice, 2d view, and gradient effect was selected but not drawn.
9) Fixed an issue if no CustomMenuStates are defined with a custom menu implementation, then enable/disable logic for custom menus would not take effect.
10) Fixed an issue where hatched bars via PointHatch and PointColors were not properly caching when identical colors and different hatches were used.
11) Fixed an issue with very small pie charts, RenderEngine = Gdi or Hybrid, and slice percentages less than 1% causing slice to draw as full ellipse.
12) Fixed an issue with RenderingEngine = GdiPlus, VertOrient90Degrees = True, text not being justified correctly. Also tweaked text metrics for vertical GdiPlus rendered text (shrinking padding making a slightly tighter image.)
13) .NET WinForm Pesgo, Pepso were not supporting the MiddleButton AllowZooming features.
14) Fixed Subset legend for case when SimpleLineLegend = False and small charts not showing subset sample color.
15)
ExportDialog, PrintDialog, and TextExportDialog are now centered within main parent window to match the CustomizationDialog logic.

02/04/08

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.70 on 02/04/08.

1) Fixed an issue with CursorMode and CursorPromptTracking combined with TXAxisComparisonSubsets.
2) Fixed an issue with movable GraphAnnotations combined with data requiring high precision.
3) Improved fonts and rendering quality by reducing proportional font sizes for very long and narrow charts.
4) Serialization was storing cursor handles and this has been removed. Serialization will now restore cursors
to default internal cursors settings. This could potentially alter current code behavior but would be very rare. If
setting custom hand or arrow mouse cursors and temporarily persisting, you will have to reset your custom cursor settings
upon your restore.
5) Fixed Daylight savings for cases where Hour setting is zero. NewFoundland time for example.
6) Fixed PEvsetA for use with string property arrays.
7) When ZoomInterfaceOnly is non zero, the zoom threshold is reduced to one pixel instead of the default 20 pixels.
8) Made a change to prevent subset-legend area from getting larger than 1/2 of chart height. SubsetLabel font sizes
will be reduced to fit. Could potentially alter a chart's look if using many subsets in a legend but overall improves quality when allowing sizing of chart.
9) Fixed a slow draw issue with Area plotting method and NoHiddenLinesInArea feature.
10) Fixed polar charts not supporting ImageAdjustLeft / ImageAdjustRight properties.
11) Fixed problem with using both DeskBitmaps and GraphBitmaps with gradient start and end colors identical.
12) Fixed Log Scales, non exponential labels, comma formatting.
13) Fixed a label positioning issue with X Axis Vertical Log scales combined with LogScaleExpLabels false.
14) New feature, ShowRYAxis = 5 will hide bottom y axis for RoseCharts.
15) Fixed polar chart not supporting Area plotting method.
16) Fixed YearMonthDayPrompt = Enabled when GdiPlus was used to render text.
17) Fix to now sort High-Low area plotting method when using PlottingMethods property array.
18) Rendering improvement, mono-chrome area, areastacked, high-low area plotting methods, now removed white border as it could misrepresent the data when large data sets were used.
19) Fix with PlottingMethods() and legend not using correct colors with High-Low area charts.

9/23/07

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.68 on 9/23/07.

1) Fixed an issue with Pesgo Scientific graphs and Bar PlottingMethod when XData was different between subsets.
2) Fixed a bug where ScrollingVertZoom = True and AllowZooming = HorzPlusVert caused a glitch in inital rendering.
3) Fixed a divide by zero error rendering a RosePlot with Subsets = 1.
4) Real-Time table annotation updates via DrawTable function was not drawing text centered or right justified.
5) v6 Pro now includes 64 bit DLL and import lib as well as 64 bit .NET interfaces.

8/23/07

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.64 on 8/23/07.

1) Improved VC projects to build under VS2005 and previous versions.
2) .Net 2.0 Winform and WebForm controls are now compiled for platform 'x86' rather than 'any cpu' which allows applications to run on 64Bit XP and Vista via WOW64.
3) Bug fixed related to hundreds of VertLineAnnotations and HorzLineAnnotations using too many pens.
4) Fix related to potential crash for applications implementing a real-time Pesgo control and using ScrollingHorzZoom = True on Vista.
5) Horizontal line annotation type "8" was not show thick variation.
6) Fixed an issue with slow rendering when using thick subset lines and RenderEngine = hybrid.
7) Fixed an issue with movable, paragraph mode table annotations where a garbage character was appended to end of text.
8) Fixed an issue with table annotations containing more than 256 characters in any one cell, mostly related to paragraph mode.
9)
3D Waterfall plots with slices ending with a null data value caused a glitch in the image.
10) Graph annotations using vertical text justification caused all future annotations to default to vertical orientation if not explicitly controlled.
11) Fixed Polar chart issue where control disappeared when control height reached 100 pixels.
12)
ActiveX, WinForm, and WebForm interfaces were missing CustomGridNumberEX and CustomGridNumberETX properties.
13) Fixed a potential divide-by-zero error with small ranged y axis scales, zoomed into a smaller range while ScrollingVertZoom = True.

2/24/07

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.62 on 2/24/07.

1) Delphi/Builder PAS interfaces adjusted to handle Unicode strings.
2) Graph Annotations of thick line types were not enabling hot spots.
3) Pedo Webform control was not working correctly with larger than 128 elements within a single dimensioned array.
4) FloatingStackedBars=True and DataShadows=3D not correctly working when RandomSubsetsToGraph() was set to only show one subset.
5) Pie Chart fix, the Other* slice color was not consistently the color defined by SubsetColors(Points).
6) Pie Chart improved when RenderEngine = GdiPlus, DataShadows = 0 or 1, a new gradient effect is used to render slices.
7) Pie Chart improved slightly to better position slice labels.
8) Extra X Axes now supported with DateTimeMode
9) Fixed a drawing issue with LegendStyle = OneLineInsideAxis combined with Top X Axis or Extra Top X Axes.
10) Fix related to Point and Bubble plotting methods, GraphDataLabels = True, zoomed chart, some labels not in current view were still getting labeled.
11) Improved RoundRect annotations with Gdi+ as previous versions were using GDI to draw RoundRects.
12) Improved X axis log scales with respect to zooming/panning and intelligently constructing axis.
13) All background bitmap properties now support server based file names. Any image filename starting with "http:" is now read from a server rather than locally.
14) Area PlottingMethod option for ScatterMode 3D charts was not showing in customization dialog and setting was not serialized.
15) WinForms features Image.BitmapToImage and Image.PngtoStream fixed.
16) User Menu leak resolved related to Polar Charts unique to Rose Chart configurations.
17) Modified our WebForm controls rendered binary content by adding binary Content-Type header info.

1/31/07

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.60 on 1/31/07.

1) Fixed an issue related to a recent change introducing a potential buffer overrun when RenderEngine = GdiPlus and use of a font name over 16 characters.
2) Fixed an issue with the new Day Light Savings format changing in 2007.
3) New Demographic Pyramid plotting method. See example 035 within demo for more info.
4) New High-Low Area plotting method. See examples 022 and 136 in demo for more info.
5) YAxisOnRight feature was enhanced to support horizontal bars charts and new Demographic Pyramid charts. This allows the numeric scale to be on bottom of chart rather than top of chart..
6) Improved horizontal bar scales where grid line/tick was not anchored to edge of chart when in close proximity to chart's edge, as with normal scales.
7)
Slightly improved documentation. All short descriptions throughout the help system were re-read and about 30 needed updating.
8) Improved C++ WinForm Walk-Through.

1/10/07

Gigasoft has uploaded version 6.0.0.58 on 1/10/07.

1) The eval had a bug within its date expiration logic which was causing random problems. The retail version was uneffected.
2) All bitmap and gradient logic was ported to 100% GDI+ which represented a fairly large change from previous versions.
3) Added EmfType, EmfDc, and EmfBitmapGradients properties allowing more control over EMF export features.
4) Added improved EMF export features to the API as well as end user Export Dialog.
5) Added the TextRenderingHint property allowing control over default text anti-aliasing.
6) PEprintgraph and PEprintgraphEx printing with PrintTechnology = GdiPlus, font sizes were wrongly using ExportImageDpi rather than PrintDpi.
7) Fixed a bug related to new GraphAnnotation types PEGAT_POINTER_VECTOR_MEDIUM and PEGAT_POINTER_ARROW_MEDIUM.

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