[CoolTerm-Betas] CoolTerm v2.0.1 Beta 0 is ready for testing

[Roger Meier]

All,

Beta 1 is now ready for testing. More bug squashing:

v2.0.1b1
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- fixed bug that would overwrite some chart properties when the dialog opens.
- 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).
- 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.
- Fixed bug that would cause traces to be drawn incorrectly when plotting against "Time of day" on the x-axis when timestamps include milliseconds.
- Updated code to automatically creates the application data folder if it doesn't exist when saving recent files and last session information.
- Improved transmit macro code to honor aborting the current macro during a long <delay> statement.
- [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.

Cheers,

Roger



> On Sep 25, 2022, at 1:47 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> The first beta (b0) for v2.0.1 is now available for testing. 2.0.1 will be mainly a bugfix and improvement release.
> 
> v2.0.1b0
> --------
> - Replaced ESC[;H with ESC[2J as the escape sequence used to clear screen.
> - Added option to use either ASCII 3 (ETX) or ESC[;H to home the display (i.e. scroll it to the very top).
> - [Win][Linux] fixed bug that would make the built-in help view not accessible when opened from the Chart and Trace Properties windows.
> - Updated Python scripting example 1 to demonstrate the use of additional useful commands.
> - 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.
> - Changed the default for "Wait for Termination String" under the file capture options from true to false.
> - 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.
> - [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.
> - Added context menu item to plain text and hex displays to more easily access font settings.
> - The x-axis scaling method is now automatically set to "Auto" whenever the source for the x-axis values is changed.
> - 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.
> 
> The download URL is as follows:
> http://freeware.the-meiers.org/betas
> username: beta
> password: tester
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Roger

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