<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>All, </div><div><br></div><div>Beta 2 is now ready for testing.</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.1b2</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- CoolTerm no longer tries to open an send progress window when sending macros with a lot of text, to prevent a ThreadAccessingUI exception.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win] Fixed bug that would freeze the terminal window in plain text mode when moving it between screens with different display scaling factors (e.g. moving from a HiDPI screen to a non-HiDPI screen).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug that caused the serial port info button to not be populated with information when the Connection Options window first opened.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Previous sessions are now restored even after an improper termination of the app.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Python Scripting] Improved text encodings for sending and receiving text data in CoolTerm.py module.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 11, 2022, at 6:00 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">All,<div><br></div><div>Beta 1 is now ready for testing. More bug squashing:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.1b1</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- fixed bug that would overwrite some chart properties when the dialog opens.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added handling of iotcl errors on macOS and Linux when attempting connect to virtual serial ports creates with socat, ble-serial, etc. This allows connecting to such ports but the selected options such as baudrate, etc., may not be valid (which might not matter).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Improved drawing code when plotting against "Time of day" on the x-axis to skip horizontal lines when time stamps change from the end of the day to the beginning of the day.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug that would cause traces to be drawn incorrectly when plotting against "Time of day" on the x-axis when timestamps include milliseconds.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated code to automatically creates the application data folder if it doesn't exist when saving recent files and last session information.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Improved transmit macro code to honor aborting the current macro during a long <delay> statement.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win][Linux] fixed bug that would tell the user that the scripting sockets are already in use when a 2nd instance of CoolTerm is launched and scripting sockets are enabled.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 25, 2022, at 1:47 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>The first beta (b0) for v2.0.1 is now available for testing. 2.0.1 will be mainly a bugfix and improvement release.</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.0.1b0</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Replaced ESC[;H with ESC[2J as the escape sequence used to clear screen.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to use either ASCII 3 (ETX) or ESC[;H to home the display (i.e. scroll it to the very top).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win][Linux] fixed bug that would make the built-in help view not accessible when opened from the Chart and Trace Properties windows.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated Python scripting example 1 to demonstrate the use of additional useful commands.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated menu short cuts to toggle status line to also require pressing the Alt (or Option on macOS) key to allow CMD-SHIFT-R to be used to stop a file capture again.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Changed the default for "Wait for Termination String" under the file capture options from true to false.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Pressing the OK button in Chart Properties and Trace Properties windows now immediately redraws the chart rather than waiting for a refresh triggered by new received data.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [macOS] added code to prevent being able to close Connection Options or Trace Properties windows while a color picker window is still open as that could otherwise crash the app.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added context menu item to plain text and hex displays to more easily access font settings.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- The x-axis scaling method is now automatically set to "Auto" whenever the source for the x-axis values is changed.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Whenever the source for the x-axis value is change to one of the data columns, CoolTerm will update the X-axis label to the name of the trace associated with the selected data column.</font></div><div><br></div><div>The download URL is as follows:</div><div>http://freeware.the-meiers.org/betas</div><div>username: beta</div><div>password: tester</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>