Changelog

An incomplete list of changes within the last versions, in decreasing order of their implementation date.

Please note: Probably the most up-to-date version of this changelog can be found in the “Help” window of the Main GUI, although this page tries to keep pace with the information provided there.

2017-05-21

• Compatibility
  • Fixes for new hg2 graphics system with Matlab > 8.4 (> R2014a)

2017-05-15

• Compatibility
  • Workaround for different colormap in Matlab >2014a

2017-05-10

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed typo in mapping table of metadata

2017-03-09

• Bug fixes
  • Directory for saving files got changed if no filename was provided using CMD utils.
• Compatibility
  • First checks for compatibility with Matlab 2016a (alias 9.0): explicitly set colour map.

2016-08-29

• New features
  • Mapping table for info file v.0.1.6 adds proper fields now
  • Import of Freiburg data reads timestamp
• Internals
  • New function datevec2posixtime calculating POSIX timestamp from Matlab® datevec
  • New function trEPRtimeTraceTimingAnalysis for statistics about how well-behaved the spectrometer is…
• Compatibility
  • trEPR dataset structure version 1.14.
    Added field “ID” to sample.

2016-08-27

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug with writing history of GUI
• New features
  • Added mapping table for info file v.0.1.6 (without any additional mapping yet)
  • CMD understands now multiple commands in one line (separated by “;”)
  • trEPRplot now handles “holes” in datasets as well.
• Internals
  • CMD history gets saved only at exit of GUI, not with every command.
  • General speed-up of GUI.
  • Changed handling of guiHandles (guidata → appdata).

2015-10-17

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug with POC (artifacts in first five data points are ignored now).
  • Fixed bug with GUI (update of visible spectra).
  • Fixed several bugs with importing different file formats.
• New features
  • Importing additional Freiburg file formats (speksim #11)
  • 2D display can handle incomplete datasets (filling the “holes”)
• Internals
  • Reworked trEPRload function.

2015-07-08

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug with smoothing.
• New features
  • Frequency correction available from processing panel.
  • Updated help for panels in main GUI window.

2015-07-07

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug with slider panel display: now displays again the correct values.
• New features
  • Added buttons to pick minimum and maximum of dataset to slider panel.

2015-07-01

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug with Speksim load if MW frequency is missing.

2015-06-12

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug clearing “origdata” when loading info files.
  • Fixed bug with 1D export.
• New features
  • Frequency correction via trEPRFC and via fc command in GUI CMD.

2015-05-31

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug with duplicating wrong dataset.
• New features
  • Undo via trEPRundo and via Undo button in GUI.
• Compatibility
  • trEPR dataset structure version 1.13.
    Reorganised axes structure and dependend structures in display.
  • Dataset storage format changed (fully backwards compatible): Reorganisation of ZIP archive according to developments for common toolbox (necessary to store origdata, otherwise problems with Java heap space for large datasets).

2015-05-12

• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug #159

2015-03-25

• New features
  • Support for trEPR Info files v0.1.5
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bugs #157, #158

2014-10-20

• New features
  • New display gimmicks:
    • Projection axes in 2D mode either showing sum projection or slice at current position.
    • Residuals projection in 1D mode (currently no display, needs further thinking).
  • 1D export can now export simulation trace.
• CMD
  • Command disp with new options residuals, projection, yaxis, yticks, title, and box.
  • New command pause (necessary for testing switching of panels).
• GUI layout and usability
  • Moved export from “analysis” to “datasets” panel (to a new second page).
  • Restructured display panel; new controls for axis display control.
  • Pimped splash window to show up centered with respect to Matlab main window. Useful with split screens.
• Compatibility
  • GUI appdata version 1.14.
    • Added fields yaxis, yticks, title, box to “control.axis”
    • Added structures projectionAxes, residualsAxes to “control.axis”
• Internals
  • Renamed private GUI functions (panel defining functions).
  • First code fixes to improve compatibility with new Matlab version R2014b (with completely new graphics system).
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bugs #1, #90, #142, #143, #146.
  • Fixed display bugs showing up when running under Linux.

2014-09-24

• New features
  • GUI for displaying (and running) scripts for the CMD.
• CMD
  • CMD now understands multiple variables within one option.
    (Changed parsing of variables)
  • Command export with new option caption allowing to control whether the figure caption GUI window gets displayed during export of figures.
  • New (EXPERIMENTAL) command pdf2bitmap for converting PDF figures into bitmap (PNG) files.
    Relies on a working ImageMagick installation and is currently not available for the Windows platform.
  • New command save for saving datasets in toolbox format.
  • New command input for interactively ask user for values assigned to variables (mainly in context of scripting)
  • New command env displaying all currently defined variables.
  • New command clear for removing variables from the CMD workspace.
• GUI layout and usability
  • New keyboard shortcut: Ctrl/Cmd+s for saving the currently active dataset (in toolbox format).
  • Unknown commands typed at the GUI CMD now issue a warning (visible in the status window).
  • “Show/set directories window” now includes script directory.
  • GUI status (OK/WW/EE) is reset to “OK” when status window gets focus (on click).
• Compatibility
  • GUI appdata version 1.13.
    • Changed field “control.status” (cell → struct)
    • Added fields to “control.panel”
• Internals
  • New directory ~.trepr/scripts as default location for scripts.
  • inputWindow: Function analog to Matlab®'s inputdlg, but with easier control of display and larger fonts.
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed error with characteristics when loading info window.
  • Fixed problems with pk2pk normalisation mode.

2014-08-16

• New features
  • trEPRexport2D: 2D ASCII export of datasets
  • Z values for measurements now consistently visible.
  • Consistent use of x,y,z throughout the ui controls.
  • Characteristics can be viewed (and modified) using the info GUI.
• CMD
  • Command export with new option 2D
  • New command voi for saving the current 3D representation as “view of interest” (VOI).
  • New layout for help window
• GUI layout and usability
  • (Newly designed) GUI help window centered horizontally on top of the main GUI.
  • Welcome panel removed, displays help window with welcome message instead.
  • Load panel: Configurable different file types with different presets of checkboxes.
  • Analysis panel: Moved data export from display panel. New 2D export options.
  • Measure panel: New layout, now displaying z values of points
  • Help windows: New layout
  • Info window: controls for characteristics
• Compatibility
  • GUI appdata version 1.12.
    • Added panels structure to control.
    • Renamed control.spectra to control.data.
    • Added vis3d structure to control.axis.
  • trEPR dataset structure version 1.11.
  • Reorganised characteristics structure.
• Internals
  • helpWindow: General help window.
  • colorstr2rgb: Converting color string into RGB vector.
  • lineStyles, markerTypes: Return cell array with line styles/marker types in both descriptive manner and as symbols.
  • linestyleConvert, markertypeConvert: Convert between symbols and description of line styles/marker types.
  • popupmenuGetValue, popupmenuSetValue: Get/set values of popup menus
• Bug fixes
  • Fix in trEPRACC with line styles.
  • Fix in update checker (didn't compare dates correctly)
  • trEPRfileFormatConvert now updates version number.

2014-07-30

• New features
  • trEPRupdateCheck checks for new version of toolbox online.
  • Automatically performed on GUI start if configured this way.
  • trEPRalgebra operational (even from GUI).
• CMD
  • New command set for setting internals of the GUI appdata structure. (Handle with care!)
• GUI layout and usability
  • Adding/subtracting two datasets (processing panel) operational.
• Compatibility
  • GUI appdata version 1.11.
  • GUI configuration: trEPRgui.ini with new field “updatecheck” in “start” section.
• Internals
  • Added note on privacy to help texts in main GUI help window.
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed bugs #137, #138, #139.
  • Configuration of colormap settings didn't get applied to GUI.
  • Conversion of fields with wrong type in old toolbox datasets during load
  • Message window during load of datasets now closes in case of errors.
  • Fixes in trEPRalgebra and trEPRdatasetApplyNormalisation

2014-07-28

• New features
  • New function trEPRfilter_binomial implementing a binomially weighted filter.
  • New function trEPRfilter_SavitzkyGolay implementing a Savitzky-Golay filter.
  • New function trEPRplot for plotting datasets from the command line.
  • trEPRdatasetShowBGpositions can now handle (manual) shift of BG positions.
  • Automatic unit conversion on load.
• CMD
  • New command reset for resetting the view (displacement and scaling).
  • New command get for displaying internals of the GUI appdata structure.
  • show has new options next and prev|previous for displaying next or previous dataset in list of visible datasets.
• GUI layout and usability
  • New colour scheme (slightly lighter).
  • New CMD help button right of the CMD.
  • New splash window at startup.
  • Display modi: renamed for better usability.
  • Load panel: unit conversion checkbox now operational.
  • Zoom is kept when refreshing axes.
  • Info GUI: New field “duration”.
• Compatibility
  • trEPR dataset structure version 1.10.
  • Now all display information for a dataset is part of the dataset structure and gets recovered on load.
  • GUI appdata version 1.10.
  • GUI configuration: trEPRgui.ini with new field “defaultBackground” in “general” section.
  • GUI configuration: trEPRgui.ini with new field “convert” in “load” section.
• Internals
  • New functions dialogueWindow, msgWindow, and questionDialogue for nice, HTML-formatted message windows replacing default Matlab® dialogues.
  • Code cleaning (using trEPRoptionUnknown and trEPRexceptionHandling)
  • New function trEPRoptionUnknown for handling unknown options mainly in switch-case statements, making code (especially of GUI callback functions) much easier to read.
  • New function trEPRexceptionHandling for exception handling, making code (especially of GUI callback functions) much easier to read.
  • New function getCascadedField for handling hierarchical structures more conveniently.
  • Main GUI now loads config file at the beginning.
• Bug fixes
  • trEPRspikeRemoval: Changed 2D interpolation
  • cmdLoad: Fix with converting units
  • Some fields of the dataset had wrong type after loading an info file.
  • trEPRdatasetShowBGpositions: Fix with field recording mode “inward”.

2014-07-16

• New features
  • New function trEPRdatasetShowBGpositions for displaying the background correction events in certain recording modes.
• CMD
  • New command history for opening the history window of the CMD.
  • New command run for executing scripts on the CMD.
  • New command panel for switching between panels of the GUI.
  • disp has new option BG|BGpositions for displaying the background correction events in certain recording modes.
• GUI layout and usability
  • Load panel slightly rearranged.
  • Load option: visible upon load.
• Compatibility
  • GUI appdata version 1.9.
  • GUI configuration: trEPRgui.ini with new field “visible” in load section.
• Bug fixes
  • CMD: Can now handle commands with leading whitespace.
  • load makes loaded spectrum the active one if visible on load.

2014-07-13

• New features
  • New function trEPRspikeRemoval for removing spikes in datasets.
  • Colormap settings for 2D display: individual/global and symmetric/asymmetric.
  • Colorbar as option when exporting 2D display.
• CMD
  • New command spikreremove for removing spikes in datasets.
  • load without option now opens file selection dialogue.
  • disp has new option colormap for controlling colormap settings of 2D display.
  • convert now understands “all”, “invisible”, and “visible” as specifiers for datasets.
  • pick now displays values for x,y,z in status window.
• GUI layout and usability
  • New keyboard shortcut: Ctrl/Cmd+o for loading (“opening”) data.
  • One-letter labeling of sliders in main GUI for easier recognition.
• Compatibility
  • GUI appdata version 1.8.
  • GUI configuration: trEPRgui.ini with new section “colormap”.
• Bug fixes
  • AVG: Solved issue with slider position values.
  • Info window: Updated description for panels.

2014-07-10

• Bug reporter: Potential fix of Matlab issue with opening browser running under Linux.
• CMD: New alias doc for help.

2014-06-27

• CMD: disp with new option characteristics to display characteristic slices (SOI), distances (DOI) or points (POI).
• trEPRgui appdata structure v1.6.
• CMD: New command soi to add current 1D representation of current dataset to characteristical slices of this dataset.
• trEPR data structure v1.9.

2014-06-24

• CMD: remove now understands “force” as first option if followed by a second option.
• CMD: Bug fix in remove.

2014-06-12

• CMD: New commands stack and unstack.
• CMD: proc now understands dataset ids as first argument.
• CMD: New variable numberofdatasets or ndatasets.
• CMD: Fix in export: No spaces in file names.
• CMD: Bug fix in avg.

2014-06-09

• Bug fix with hiding and removing datasets.
• AVG: Fixing problems when trying to average 1D datasets.
• CMD: Handle some special variables (label, current, pwd).

2014-06-07

• CMD: define now handles spaces in assignments.
• CMD: show - new option “all visible”.
• CMD: show, hide, label now handle dataset indices as first option.
• Display of dataset indices in listboxes.
• CMD: Fix with avg command and dataset indices.

2014-06-03

• Pimping of status window.
• Updated appdata to version 1.5.
• CMD: New command define for defining variables.
• CMD line now understands variables.
• CMD: Fixes with help window.

2014-06-02

• Bug fixes in executing scripts for the CMD line.

2014-05-30

• Bug fixes in cmdExport - the CMD line command to export the current display.

2014-05-02

• Scripts for the builtin CMD line can now be executed by pressing a button directly next to the CMD edit.

2014-05-01

• History of CMD can now be accessed via button directly next to the CMD edit.
• New status display for normalisation mode (Bug #132).

2014-04-13

• Changed modality of busyWindow after process has finished.
• Fixed bug with busyWindow (complains of timer object).

• Added functions plotStacked and plot2d

• Bug fix with importing gnuplot data (#125).

• Bug fix with mode setting from edit boxes (#124).

• Bug fixes

• Line properties settings work for calculated data.
• Version 1.4 of GUI appdata.
• Bug fixes

• GUI can now simultaneously display measured and calculated data.
  (Warning: Preliminary feature, quick and dirty.)
• Version 1.3 of GUI appdata.
• Bug fixes

• Restructured figure export: Allows now more fine control over y axis and box surrounding the figure.
• Restructured normalisation - works now for 1D and 2D accordingly.
• Version 1.2 of GUI appdata.
• 1D data export can now handle multiple traces (although currently only saving one trace per file, not all traces in one file).
• Bug fixes (#103).

• Behaviour of suggesting filenames for saving data and figures now configurable: use filename of dataset (default) or use label.
• First code changes to allow for datasets containing only calculated data.
• Changed trEPRPOC and trEPRBGC to operate on toolbox datasets (structs) directly.
• Switch allowing to choose whether to export figure title.
• Bug fixes (#100, #101, #102).

• “avg” command.
• Label of currently active dataset is displayed as title.
• Bug fixes.

• Automatic reading of info files during load.
• New: Figure caption GUI for saving information together with figures.
• New config switch for displacement sliders.
• Fixed bug #81 (problems with saving accumulated large datasets).
• Speed up removing of multiple datasets.
• Fixes in AVG GUI: Now understands “end” in parameter edits.
• Bug fixes.

• Several bug fixes in ACC GUI.
• trEPRspeksimLoad checks gaussmeter axis for consistency.
• trEPRload ignores files beginning with “.” or ending with “~”.
• Bug fixes.

• CMD
  • History display.
  • Running scripts (EXPERIMENTAL).
• New panel: GUI internals
  • CMD history display.
  • Setting message/log levels.
  • GUI window for displaying/editing directories used internally in the GUI.
  • Save/load current GUI state (“snapshot”, EXPERIMENTAL).
• GUI appdata now have a version number.
• Read Gaussmeter values from Freiburg Speksim files.
• trEPR data structure v1.7.
• Code cleaning.
• Bug fixes.

• Configuration: New options for dirs/messages in main GUI; config file for status window
• Better handling of GUI directories (including GUI window for showing/setting directories for load/save/export)
• Compatibility fix of BugReporter with Matlab 8
• Net polarisation analysis GUI.
• Basic algebraic functions in processing panel.
• Command line in main GUI (with some basic functionality and own help window).
• Status display in style of traffic lights (green/yellow/red).
• GUI modes and key bindings for these modes.
• Bug fixes.

• Bug fixes.

• Restructured Info GUI and toolbox datastructure (v.1.6).
• Bug fixes.

• Bug fixes.

• Advanced status reports, now with log levels (info, warning, error).
• New modules overview window, accessible from the Help:About window.
• Bug fixes.

• Info GUI can read and write Info files.
• Added converter for old toolbox files.
• Introduced trEPR Info Files.
• Restructured Info GUI and toolbox datastructure (v.1.5).
• Position of subwindows relative to main GUI.
• New: MW Frequency Drift Analysis GUI
• Tweaked FR data import routines to cope with MW frequency values for each time trace.
• Bug fixes.

• Reorganised files prior private to the GUI to GUI/internal as prerequisite for introducing modules.
• Bug fixes.

• Harmonised window tags (consistent)
• Several bug fixes.

• Info GUI: Bug fix with older datasets.
• Info GUI: Field unit now changes consistently axis units as well.
• New configuration setting for relative position of the main GUI on screen.
• Bug fix with loading trEPR toolbox files.

• Bug fix in trEPRfsc2MetaLoad.
  (Can now handle aborted scans.)
• trEPRfsc2Load now fills aborted scans with zeros by default.

• Bug fixes in trEPRbrukerBES3Tload.
  (Can now handle “Oxford” files.)

• Added installation/updating routine trEPRinstall.
• Added stdev for AVG and 1D export.
• Converted Info GUI help from TXT to HTML.

• Advanced line properties and legend settings
• Switch to only display currently active dataset (in 1D modi)
• New key bindings: <key>PageUp</key> and <key>PageDown</key> scroll through datasets.
• Added tips and splash at startup.

• trEPR toolbox data format changed
  • New file extension: .tez
  • Data get stored as binary in the zip container.
  • Fully backward compatible to old zip files.

• Extended data structure (v.1.4)
  • Changed field “date”
• trEPRgui_infowindow works now stand-alone

• Extended data structure (v.1.3)
  • New field “shotRepetitionRate”
  • New structure “spectrometer”
  • New field “powersupply” in block “field”
  • Changed and renamed field “opoDye” in block “laser”
  • New fields “model”, “cryostat” and “cryogen” in block “temperature”
• trEPRfsc2MetaLoad can handle additional parameters properly

• Extended data structure (v.1.2)
  • New block “probehead”
  • New field “detection” in block “bridge”
• trEPRfsc2MetaLoad can handle additional parameters properly

• Fixes in trEPRfsc2MetaLoad
  • Doesn't crash any more if unknown required parameters appear in meta file comment block
  • Assignment of parameters in meta file to data structure now in ini file

• Changed version numbering scheme, see version numbers

• Figure export now supports different (configurable) formats (i.e. paper sizes)
• Help in MATLAB® Help Browser
• Combine GUI (for combining datasets consisting of multiple files)
• AVG GUI
• Info GUI
• BLC GUI (not yet with nonlinear fit functions)
• New keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-x/y/z for toggling the display modes
• Import of fsc2 metafiles (with calibration values)
• Minor changes in data structure
• ASCII-Export of 1D cross sections of 2D datasets
• Display and export of 3D representations of 2D datasets
• Help window
• Permanently visible help button in main GUI, opening context-sensitive help for the currently active panel.
• Display type and prev/next buttons for spectra permanently visible
• Export current display to independent Matlab® figure
• Export current display to file (Matlab® FIG, EPS, PDF, or PNG)
• Line settings for currently active dataset (colour, line width, style, marker)