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-------- v0.9.6
To help students at the university, I added a mode
to input data directly from noise bridge measurements.
Next version will focus on the remote input (really!)
-------- v0.9.5
While preparing for the remote control part, I detected a bug which I
considered important enough to merit a release. All changes:
-------- v0.9.4
While starting to look for the problems with the remote interface, I found a
few other issues with the 'loads' part, which merited attention:
- Chart also updates when loads are added ot
modified.
- Infrequent bug detected in load management. Could
be the problem while importing from remote?
- Redefined (improved) quite a few routines in
the load.c file. This caused a few bugs (which I
hope, are resolved). Please report on any problems.
-------- v0.9.3
The user interface has been somewhat improved (component entry). Zo change
now has immediate effect. Element selection buttons managed differently.
Next version (0.9.4) focus: Remote control debugging.
-------- v0.9.2
Version 0.9.1 had some problems with the connecting circles. These seem to
have been resolved.
A few new translations have been added. (sv.po is available separately and
will be updated in the next package)
Saving the results now actually works.
-------- 2005/10/17 v0.9.1
- Added filenames to the 'loads' and 'circuit' page, and an 'changed' flag
to indicate the list has been modified.
- Added 'Save results page' option in the 'Files' menu, to save the
numerical results
- Added a Swedish translation (Thanks to Peter Landgren
peter.talken[at]telia.com!)
-------- 0.9.0a3
Minor improvements and a bugfix for parallel LC components
-------- 0.9.0a2
A number of minor improvements, some bugfixes.
There will probably be one more Alpha before the
'official' 0.9.0 release.
- Value text for Z/Y component wasn't initialized.
- On Lawrence's request, I changed the frequency
resolution to 3 decimals
- Update and New buttons were not activated
reliably - solved
- Main screen component editor showed uH, should
be nH - corrected (again Lawrence...)
-------- 0.9.0a1
WARNING: This is an alpha version. This is to see how things work on your
end, and what new bugs have been introduced. Please report to the
forum.
Most important: The circuit file format is different! You will either have
to recreate, or use the script conv0809 (in the datafiles directory) to
conver old *.circ files into the new format. The load files remain
compatible.
The good news: Loads of new things. Please consult the Changelog to
get all the details, but the most important things are:
- possibility to add LC (parallel or series) as one component to
the circuit. This was difficult to do before
- the scrollbar behaviour is nicer.
- loads of bugs removed (and several new introduced, I'm sure)
-------- 0.8.4
Partly 'cause I was already thinking about it, and given the final impetus
by Lawrence Glaister (ve7it[at]shaw.ca), I will be implementing a sort of
'instrument interface' to linsmith. The idea is to automatically transfer
data from, eg. a network analyser to the program.
Though Lawrence's original idea was to add drivers for each specific
instrument, I think it would be more elegant to receive the data through a
more standardized input (unloading some of the work of my back ;-). Options
I'm considering are:
* pipes (somewhat awkward in use but simple to do),
* unix sockets
* tcp sockets (or udp?) - this would be
probably the most versatile method of all,
permitting even data acquisition over the 'net.
I'm thinking on implementing of implementing a simple set of commands to
remotely control the instrument. Say:
* reset (reply with instrument ID)
* measure f (f: frequency, reply: f, R, X)
I imagine there might exist some standard already, or other commands seem
necessary - I'm open to suggestions!
John
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