The following release notes describe the program changes up to the current version.
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Version 3.9 released March 2024:
- Fix bug colour selection shown on Font dialog, removed, colours are set separate to fonts.
- Updated all code libraries to latest versions.
Version 3.8 released January 2023:
- Individual carriers may now be shown with different colours, instead of all being drawn in same colour.
- Add and Edit Carrier dialogs now include option to set an individual colour for each Carrier.
- Carriers may now be shown as a filled polygon, instead of just default outline drawing.
- Add the option of a Vertical Cursor controlled by the mouse, allows user to select and display carrier details at the selected frequency.
- New Edit menu option to set all carriers within a specified frequency range to the same user chosen colour.
- Add carrier colour data option to standard Carrier file formats.
- Minor formatting updates to HTML and PDF format reports.
- Fix Intermod Report output options to properly allow saving intermods as Carriers in either ".carriers" or ".carrierjson" formats.
- Fix possible bug error message about missing config file when closing newly installed program.
- Updated all code libraries to latest versions.
Version 3.7 released September 2022:
- In Edit Menu, added option to import one or more carriers from an existing carrier file.
- Minor formatting updates to improve readability on some dialogs.
- Fix bugs related to Debug Alert at program start on some non-English machines.
- Fix bug sometimes doesn't remember last folder when doing File Open.
- Improved button labelling when asking user whether to Overwrite existing file.
- Improved messages on status bar.
- Updated all code libraries to latest versions.
Version 3.6 released June 2021:
- TxPlan no longer supports Windows XP.
- Now able to load/save carrier data in BatchBud JSON format carrier files (*.carrierjson).
- If carrier was loaded from a MODCOD file, the Modify Carrier dialogs now show details of the MODCOD filename,
and allow the user to modify the carrier by browsing alternate MODCODs from the same file.
- If carrier was loaded from a MODCOD file, detail carrier MODCOD settings are locked, and can only be changed by browsing alternate MODCODs from the same file.
- If carrier was loaded from a MODCOD file, user can unlock detail carrier MODCOD settings by selecting "Manual MODCOD" button.
- If carrier was loaded from a MODCOD file, dialogs now display the modem minimum and maximum symbol rate (if applicable),
and alert the user if his entered symbol rate is not within the allowed range.
- Minor update of code libraries
- Fix bug where check updates fails on secure https connection.
- Fix bug on minimum window size.
- Fix bug on save preferences if new install.
- Fix bug in PDF & HTML Intermod reports if carrier labels contain '<' or '&' characters.
- Fix bug when turning levels on, and carriers already loaded, default levels now displayed properly.
- Alert user if file selected from Recent Files list no longer exists, and remove from Recent list.
- Alert user if invalid View Start Frequency or View End Frequency set in View Options.
- Add F1 help on View Options dialog, in addition to Help button.
Version 3.5 released February 2020:
- Delete Carrier command now allows selection of multiple carriers to be deleted simultaneously.
- Save Intermod Report command in the File menu, now allows selection of Carrier Data File (*.carriers.txt) output type.
- Various minor improvements to coding and layout.
- A pop-up windows notification message is now given at the completion of intermodulation calculations.
- Fixed bug where table borders could be missing in HTML and PDF Intermod reports if a carrier name is left blank.
Version 3.4 released June 2019:
- Bug fix intermittent issue with image refresh when resizing window.
- Bug fix so program will properly default to recognize windows font encoding if the input file is not UTF8 encoded.
- Minor improvements to error checking and reporting.
- Various minor improvements to coding and layout.
- Double-clicking on a carrier in the Select Carrier dialog is now the same as first selecting the carrier and then clicking MODIFY.
Version 3.3 released April 2018:
- Added "Check for Updates" option in Help menu.
- PDF file format option now available for Intermod Report.
- Frequencies on HTML and PDF version of Intermod report are now clearly labelled "MHz" and use comma formatting to
improve readability.
- Fixed bug where fonts are too small first time program installed.
- Improved progress display when calculating intermodulation products.
- Improvements to the installer, especially when installing in multi-user environments.
- User preferences are now stored in the user's AppData\Roaming\TxPlan folder rather than windows registry.
- All CSV output files use UTF-8 encoding, and include the UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) so they will be loaded
correctly in Excel.
- Minor changes in layout and text box size to improve the appearance of some windows, depending upon the user's
currently selected Windows theme.
- Improved file checking and error reporting.
Version 3.2 released September 2016:
- New option in Edit menu to 'Delete All Out of Band', a quick way to delete all carriers outside of the current view bandwidth.
- New option in Edit menu to 'Delete All Below Level', a quick way to delete all carriers with spectral density below a user specified level.
- When Levels are ON, any carriers with unspecified power levels will now be drawn at the same spectral density as the highest carrier with a specified power level.
- Fixed bug where program and Uninstaller was missing from Control Panel "Uninstall or change a program".
This was especially an issue in Windows 8 or later where an Uninstall link is not allowed in the Start menu.
- Improvements to the installer, especially when installing in multi-user environments.
- Improved animated wait cursor for Windows 7 and later.
- Minor improvements to program efficiency.
- Modified font settings to better manage resizing of fonts when window resizes.
Users with saved Font Preferences from a previous version may need to adjust their font settings and save again.
- Improved Default Scale settings for cases with a wide dynamic range between carrier levels.
Version 3.1 released May 2016:
- Improved font resizing when window size changes.
- Improvements to file save routines.
- If a user says YES to save changes, and then clicks cancel in the Save Dialog, the program will now return to the main window instead of discarding all changes.
- After initial installation, document folder is now correctly initialised to My Documents. From then on, the last used folder will be remembered whenever TxPlan is restarted.
- Fixed program crash in 64-bit build on Windows 8 when user selects Help - Licence, or any context related help.
- Added capability, via Preferences Colours tab, to choose a background image or a colour gradient background for the plot screen.
- Added progress dialog for Save Intermod Report when calculating large numbers of intermodulation products.
Version 3.0 released April 2016:
- TxPlan version 3.0 was rewritten using a new GUI library, which resulted in some minor changes in layout and function.
- A whole bunch of new features were also added in version 3.0
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Version 1.0 original released January 2007.
For full details of all prior versions, see the program help file.
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