<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Well, I spoke too soon :-) Right after releasing b5 I found a bug that needed fixing. Here is a quick update:<div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.0b6</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug that caused timestamps in localized format to be incorrectly interpreted in chart mode when using timestamps as the values for the x-axis.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Tweaks and updates to built-in help</font></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 1, 2022, at 5:58 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 5 is now ready for testing. Here is what’s new:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.0b5</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added chart properties dialog to allow for the customization of the chart.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Moved option to select the data source for the X-axis from the chart context menu to the chart properties dialog.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to select any data column as the source for x values instead of just the first one.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to select scale (seconds, minutes, hours) when using timestamps as x-axis values.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to the trace properties to set the visibility of any trace. Traces whose visibility is disabled will not be plotted, and their data values won't be used to automatically scale the chart.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win] Fixed bug that would cause certain message dialogs to not be dark mode aware.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Mac] Added check to startup code to alert the user when CoolTerm is being run from the downloaded disk image.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Speed improvements in code to convert received text data into numerical data for chart plotting.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug that would incorrectly apply trace settings when the first data column is selected as the source for the x-axis values.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug in the way the popup menu in the status area would update when TCP or serial connections are selected.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Renamed "Terminal, Cont." settings header with "Data Handling".</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated built-in help to include controlling DTR and RTS handshake lines from transmit macros.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>This might be the last beta release before the official release. Please scrutinize this build to your hearts content and let me know if you find anything that needs fixing before the release.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 22, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">All,<div><br></div><div>Beta 4 is not ready for testing. Here is what’s new:</div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.0b4</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Made "Wait for Termination String" in the "Capture File Options" independent of time stamps. This option can now be used without adding timestamps to captured data.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated code to use thousands separators for byte counts in status display.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to connection settings to keep the terminal window always on top of other windows.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added menu item to the File menu to reveal the location of the current settings file.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- CoolTerm now saves crash log information to the user's application data directory.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 29, 2022, at 11:09 AM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 3 is ready for testing. Here is what’s new:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.0b3</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Stability improvements to the listbox in the trace properties dialog.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Cosmetic improvements to how certain line styles in the chart display are drawn.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win] Added code to automatically deselect any selected text when unpausing the display by scrolling to the bottom with smart display pausing turned on as otherwise the display may immediately gets scrolled to the selection and paused again. </font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 21, 2022, at 2:03 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hello Beta Testers,</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 2 is uploaded and ready for testing. Here is what’s new:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.0b2</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Re-organized quick-access menu with sub-menus</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added port selection to quick-access menu (only shown when terminal is disconnected).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Reduced minimum terminal window width and height restrictions to 250 by 150 pixels, respectively.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added context menu item to chart display to allow formatting and scaling of traces.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added code to check the availability of fonts specified in loaded settings before applying. If a font is not available on the user's system, the default font will be applied.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added code to check the existence of the capture path specified in loaded settings before applying. If a capture path does not exist, the default path will be applied.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy testing!</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 19, 2022, at 4:13 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">CoolTerm 2 is now ready for the beta stage. Beta 1 is the culmination of everything from the various alpha builds so far:<div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.0b1</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">NEW FEATURES</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">------------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- New chart display (similar to Arduino serial plotter)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Configurable toolbar</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- New application, document, toolbar, and LED icons (courtesy of Greg Willits)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- New UI for transmit macro management</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Support for delays, serial BREAK, and repetition to transmit macros</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Support for raw TCP connections</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Support for select transmit and receive ANSI Escape sequences</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Capability to include "Received" and "Sent" labels in capture files</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated Hex Viewer with capability to select and copy/paste hex data</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Completely overhauled built-in help (HTML stylization courtesy of Greg Willits)</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">IMRPOVEMENTS, CHANGED FEATURES</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Moved option to show/hide toolbar from preferences to connection settings</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated method used to store command line history. The command line history is not only updated if the current command is not equal to the previous one. Empty lines (enter key only) are not recorded.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added capability to manually toggle break signal by clicking the TX LED or via the Connection/Toggle Break menu item.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Replaced status label context menus with dedicated quick access menu located in the bottom left of the status bar.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Changed "Capture Local Echo" option to "Capture transmit data" and made capturing of outgoing data independent of whether local echo is turned on in the terminal options.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Improved responsiveness of RX and TX status indicator LEDs.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated status bar label with information on the currently running macro. When a macro is running the status label will change the text color to blue.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to automatically start a macro when the terminal opens.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added "Wait for remote echo" option for throttling data transmission.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated Hex viewer with the ability to vary the number of characters per row when the window width changes.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- The text selection is maintained across view modes (e.g. plain text and hex).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added an additional date/time format to the Preferences to provide an option to remove time zone information.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added "Help..." buttons to various dialogs.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added feature to avoid plain text flicker for Linux platforms (such as e.g. Raspberry Pi) where the way the text display is updated with the receive buffer contents causes the display to be redrawn multiple times when new data is added. The caveat is that enabling this feature will cause certain special character handling features to not work properly, though.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New">BUG FIXES</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">---------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed a bug that would prevent 'Combine Contiguous Carriage Returns' and 'Handle CR as real Carriage Return' from working properly when 'Format TAB separated text' is enabled.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy Testing!</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>