VEE 1.4 (A.00.04) Introduction Notes (apr 92)

last update 28 aug 98 / greg goebel / public domain / vwv_1_4

* This document provides introduction notes for the VEE 1.4 release in the spring of 1992.

* We have a new revision of the Series 300/400 executable available on hpislsup (15.11.29.69). The revision is A.00.04 and addresses the following changes -- mainly bug fixes -- since the A.00.01 release:

• Fix bug in State drivers that use subaddresses when two or more different drivers are in a model using the same instrument (generally a card cage).

• Fix Collector object when using two waveforms; caused error claiming that mappings were wrong when in fact they were correct.

• Fix memory leak when dealing with real arrays coming into a formula box with certain formulas where the input is constrained to be an Int32.

• Fix in the Formula device; the function "max(Coord_data)" could return incorrect results.

• Fix in State and Component Drivers erroring at runtime when an IARRAY (Integer Array) output existed.

• Fix in State and Component Drivers with TRACETYPE SPECTRUM; formerly the Complex data was not entered and copied correctly.

• Fix for VEE running on a HP 9000 Series 300/400/700 and displaying on a Sun machine; had ignored all keyboard and mouse inputs on some configurations.

• Fix for State and Component Drivers giving wrong data in a corner case of an array enter. The oscilloscope drivers in "Envelope" mode could return incorrect data.

• Speedup in State and Component Drivers when entering a large array from the instrument with format REAL64.

• Fix for "To File: devices giving improper Error 314 ("Invalid combination of parameters", "CLEAR", "Clear at PreRun") when "File Name" input pins are used in combination with other "To File" devices to different file names.

• Fix for Instrument Drivers causing internal error when requesting more than 64K colors.