[CoolTerm-Betas] CoolTerm v2.0.1 Beta 2 is ready for testing

[Roger Meier]

All, 

Beta 2 is now ready for testing.

v2.0.1b2
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- CoolTerm no longer tries to open an send progress window when sending macros with a lot of text, to prevent a ThreadAccessingUI exception.
- [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).
- Fixed bug that caused the serial port info button to not be populated with information when the Connection Options window first opened.
- Previous sessions are now restored even after an improper termination of the app.
- [Python Scripting] Improved text encodings for sending and receiving text data in CoolTerm.py module.

Regards,

Roger

> On Oct 11, 2022, at 6:00 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Beta 1 is now ready for testing. More bug squashing:
> 
> v2.0.1b1
> --------
> - 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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