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  ProEssentials v7 Maintenance Info

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1/4/12

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.1.0.6 on 1/4/12.

1) Improved dot and dash line types for Hybrid RenderEngine setting. Though the GdiPlus RenderEngine setting is byfar the most common now.
2) Fixed floating point issues when using ProEssentials with Delphi and Builder.

10/23/11

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.1.0.4 on 10/23/11.

1) Fixed an issue with arrow and pointer graph annotations not correctly pointing in up direction in some scenarios.
2) ShowRYAxis = LabelsOnly was not allocating enough space on right for label.
3) Fixed 64 bit DLL not loading 32 bit resources as should.
4) Fixed AxisFormatY feature where formatting was not properly swapping decimal and grouping symbols.
5) Added feature to disable pie gradient for GdiPlus render engine. See intellisense for PieGradientStyle property.
6) Fixed an issue with Pie not drawing correctly in some scenarios.
7) Fixed an issue with Pesgo bar plotting method not drawing correctly in some scenarios.
8) Fixed an issue with subset label hot spots and LegendLocation setting of left or right. Also improved text color for LegendStyle = 5.
9) Fixed PixelSizingThreshold property which was disabled. Allows for creating larger charts (more than 3300 pixels) and maintaining 1 pixel wide thin lines.

5/25/11

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.1.0.2 on 5/25/11.


1) Fixed a floating point issue with non-sequential xdata.
2) Fixed zoom issue with Pego/Graph control with two points, AllowZooming = Vertical.
3) Added double precision support for Pe3do 2d top/bottom contours.
4) Added double precision support for stacked bar, floating stacked bar, and area stacked charts.
5) Fixed an issue zooming stacked type charts.
6) Fixed an issue related to Pego/Graph PointLabels were corrupted when PointsToGraphVersion set to selected.
7) Fixed an issue related to Pego/Graph PointsToGraph programmatic data zooming was not initially draggable via new MouseDragging feature.

2/21/11

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.1.0.0 on 2/21/11.

1) We added Traditional Chinese as well as updated Simplified Chinese and Spanish resources on our resource download page. Anytime a resource file is used, you will want to hide the following features from user interface by setting these false: AllowSplineArea, AllowSplineRibbon and set these to hide: GridBandsMenu, GridBoldMenu, PieGradientStyleMenu.
2) Related to DateTimeMode and bottom left date/time prompt: DayLabelType now supports hiding day from this area. We added a new property YearMonthDayStyle (member of PeGrid.Option) which defaults to look for system date format and shows dates as m/d/y or y/m/d. This property also allows forcing m/d/y or y/m/d. Plus general improvments in quality of DateTimeMode x axis construction.
3) We improved the Web example project PE7WebDemo and this get placed into a new dir. WebForms were improved to a) better support VS2010, b) allow our Pro version to dynamically link to our 32 or 64 bit native DLL during runtime; c) the same dynamic linking feature also allows the Pro, Std, Lite versions to search the physical bin path for the necessary native DLL. v7 Pro: Gigasoft.ProEssentialsWeb.DLL now expects to find PEGRPE.DLL. This is a new filename for ProEssentials. This file is a renamed version of either PEGRP32E.DLL or PEGRP64E.DLL. Our setup now creates two sub-directories IISx86 and IISx64 within the ProEssentials WebDevelopment dir [default c:\ProEssentials7\WebDevelopment]. The setup also copies the 32 bit variation of PEGRPE.DLL into the Windows 32 bit system folder as the Visual Studio design time will expect to find the 32 bit version in design mode and running a web site through Visual Studio. (Note 64 bit systems use syswow64 for 32 bit files, and system32 for 64 bit files.) When deploying web site, place correct variation of PEGRPE.DLL within the Bin dir. Copy from either our IISx64 or IISx86 dir depending if your server is 64 or 32 bit.
4) Added pesgo support for appendzdata to aid in real-time 2D contour charts.
5) Related to Pe3do waterfall charts, SurfacePolygonBorders now enables first subset to control border color. This improves the look of the chart.
6) Fixed a potential stability issue with drawing x axis when AutoScaleData = False and numbers are very large.
7) Improved filtering logic to better support NullDataGaps. If filtering and working with much data and many nulls, you may need to inject 20 or more nulls and set Filter2D to a slower setting to get consistent output in forcing gaps. Complex null gap effects with large quantities of data can be hard for the filtering logic to handle correctly.
8) Exporting Text/Data with charts with inverted axes was exporting text as negative values.
9) Improved grid numbers for x and y axes from showing -0 in some cases where grid line value was zero.
10) Fixed issue with stacked bar charts with negative data not plotting.
11) Fixed issue with certain styled EMF exports being corrupted with area plotting method.
12) Fixed issue with ZoomWindow not always working correctly with double precision data.
13) Fixed issue with exporting text data and large double precision numbers causing garbage characters at end of line.
14) Fixed issue with PointsToGraphVersion causing x axis labels to hide in some scenarios.
15) Fixed issue with vector/arrow graph annotations causing spurious lines when vector was too small to draw.
16) Fixed issue with PointColors and bar charts and SubsetByPoint setting of False.
17) Fixed an issue with export dialog related to destination path containing a period caused extension to disappear in our attempt to prevent two extensions.
18) Added feature to allow new justification codes for HorzLineAnnotationText. 'M' is identical to 'L' except background of text is
opaque and defined by color via new property PEP_dwLINEANNOTBACKCOLOR (PeAnnotation.Line.LineAnnotBackColor.) Similar for right side
of chart is 'S'. Mostly used to annotate the axis with the last tick of a stock chart or another method of cursor prompt tracking via
line annotation.
19) We updated the help system with most new features and hyper-linked the New Features section.

9/17/10

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.0.0.16 on 9/17/10.

1) Fixed a rare issue with x axis with non-default setting AutoScaleData = False combined with extreme xdata values.

8/8/10

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.0.0.14 on 8/8/10.

1) Updated the .NET interfaces to be compatible with .NET40.

4/8/10

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.0.0.12 on 4/8/10.

1) Fixed an issue with Polar/Smith chart grid lines.
2) Improved internal data logic to look for blocks of nulls at end of data.

2/20/10

Gigasoft has uploaded version 7.0.0.10 on 2/20/10.

The initial download on our web site. Though ProEssentials v7 has been being used in production for more than a year.

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