Rocscience Downloads - Dips 5.0 Update History

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Version 5.107

1.	Files which used a very large number of traverses (e.g. > 1000) were extremely slow to load, plot, save etc. This has been greatly improved, so that large numbers of traverses can be processed without a significant slowdown of the program.
2.	If data was pasted into the Traverse dialog and new rows were automatically created, the new rows after the first would be partially blank. This has been fixed so that automatically created new rows have information in all cells.
3.	The width of the Traverse ID column in the Traverse dialog has been expanded. Previously, if numbers with 4 digits or more were entered, only 3 digits were displayed, although the correct values were saved. Now Traverse ID numbers with up to 7 digits will display correctly in the dialog.
4.	Updated technical support dialog.

Version 5.106

1.	Improved help system including new tutorials.
2.	Creating a traverse when a view other than the spreadsheet view is selected, might result in the traverse column not being created in the spreadsheet view. If the file is saved in this state, it can not be reloaded.
3.	The bias angle was not being restored properly when loaded through auto options.

Version 5.105

1.	Now supports multiple HASPHL locks on the same USB hub.
2.	Supports multiple files on the commandline and tiling options.

Version 5.104

1.	Added HASPHL hardlock support

Version 5.103

1.	Support for new Educational system. Also update dll's to latest microsoft versions.

Version 5.102

1.	Improved the set logic for deleting and editing sets. A number of issues with crashes when deleting sets where fixed.
2.	Custom variability and confidence values were sometimes not updated correctly.
3.	Sometimes sets were not saved correctly. Especially when added planes existed.

Version 5.101

1.	The apply button in the Edit Sets dialog did not properly apply changes to the custom confidence and variability value. Fixed.
2.	When pasting data in the Traverse dialog, if the number of rows in the pasted data exceeded the number of rows in the dialog the program could crash. This is fixed.
3.	When adding new rows in the Traverse dialog, the new row is a copy of the last existing row. This makes it much faster when adding a lot of similar traverses.

Version 5.1

1.	Tools such as Cones, Text and Arrows are now automatically saved.
2.	New options in the preferences dialog for automatically saving and restoring tools and sets, and for automatically opening stereonet views at startup, and automatically filtering out SET columns.
3.	The Help system has been updated.
4.	Stereonet overlays and line contours did not work correctly.
5.	Changing data in the grid view would destroy set information for all but the last set.
6.	Overlapping sets in planes files did not correctly compute set statistics when the planes file was read.
7.	Terzaghi weighting factor is now document based. All views are correctly updated when a change to this factor is done.
8.	Global weighted mean vector now uses the Bias angle.
9.	When the global orientation format is dip/dipdir, values of dip and dip direction were given as integer values in the Infoviewer. This has been changed so that the values are now floats.
10.	The pole vector/plane vector convention is now saved in the registry so that it remains the same between program uses.
11.	Toolbars have been updated and improved.
12.	A recently used folders option has been added. This makes it easy to move to different folders containing Dips files.
13.	You can now open multiple Dips files at the same time in the File...Open dialog.

Version 5.083

1.	In the edit planes dialog, and the edit sets dialog, Dips would crash if you were editing the label column, and your typed: "Ctrl+Shift+an arrow key". This is fixed.

Version 5.082

1.	The mean plane was not being calculated correctly, if multiple set windows were used for a single set. The mean plane would only be calculated for the first window, and was not re-calculated if subsequent windows with the same Set ID, were added. This bug was introduced in version 5.07 (earlier versions work correctly).
2.	DWP files were not always read correctly. This could result in plane colour or label information being read incorrectly and displayed incorrectly. For example, if multiple set windows were defined for a single set, the visibility and colour information in the file might get displayed as the plane label. Or in some cases, label information would not be read at all.

Version 5.081

1.	Line contours with a custom range did not work correctly.
2.	Text labels for sets now scale according to the view size.
3.	Declination text in the Infoviewer was wrong, it said W Positive. It has been changed to the correct E Positive.

Version 5.08

1.	Hardlock and Nodelock software update.

Version 5.079

1.	The orientation formatting of the Major Planes stereonet legend is now consistent with the rest of the program.
2.	A query with the not equal to operator would not work correctly for sets and traverses when blank rows existed.
3.	A new grid view (Window menu) would not display set information if it exists.
4.	If sets exist, a query renames the Set column as SET and treats it as an extra column. Sometimes this renaming did not work correctly.
5.	The Set column in processed files was being renamed as SET ID instead of SET. This has been fixed and the processed files now rename the Set column to SET.

Version 5.078

1.	Improved performance for beige hardlocks.
2.	Update to auto-update code and nodelock code.
3.	Bug fix for network version and path path dialog.

Version 5.077

1.	Sometimes Dips would crash after a Query.
2.	New PDF tutorial manual.

Version 5.076

1.	Empty traverse cells sometimes caused shifting of data in the spreadsheet when the file was saved then read in again.
2.	Updated hardlock code to current API.

Version 5.075

1.	Program no longer requires administrator privileges to properly update itself through the web.
2.	Program no longer registers itself through the Windows Shell in such a way as to allow new files and printing through the windows context menus.

Version 5.074

1.	EMF/WMF image files now export correctly.
2.	Improved license management for network versions.
3.	Improved look under WinXP.

Version 5.073

1.	The legend in the major planes plot now lists only the visible planes.
2.	Program would crash if you opened a new file, created a pole plot, and tried to Select...Query Data. Fixed.
3.	A new preferences dialog has been added to the file menu. Using the preferences dialog you can choose the new XP menu style and tabbed views. Tabbed views allow you to quickly change the view through tabs at the bottom of the screen.

Version 5.072

1.	A bug with Clipboard Copy and Paste of a stereonet view is fixed. In some instances the image would not be transferred to the clipboard correctly resulting in junk when the receiving application tried to paste.
2.	Context sensitive help has been added to all the dialogs.
3.	Accelerators now work correctly in right-click context menus.

Version 5.071

1.	If a processed file was saved, and multiple sets existed, and the "Negative Set ID for wrapped data" checkbox was selected, and extra columns existed, then the SET ID column which got saved in the processed file, would get duplicated N times, where N=number of sets. This displaced other extra column data to the right,, and the rightmost columns would be lost. This has been fixed.
2.	Display and visibility options for sets and planes are now saved with the DWP file. You now have an option of reading them when you import a DWP file.
3.	Saving and deleting sets and planes could crash the program.

Version 5.07

1.	Automatic update technology added. Customers with a web connection will automatically be notified and allowed to update when a new minor version is released.
2.	A bug with adding and deleting sets in conjunction with adding and deleting user specified planes is now fixed.
3.	A new splash screen.
4.	Nodelocking now possible.

Version 5.06

1.	The export of Autocad DXF files has been added to the Export Images dialog. Dips can now export DXF files!
2.	The pasting of data now properly expands the number of columns and formats the Dips spreadsheet correctly.
3.	The user can now remove, or insert zero's into rows containing invalid orientation data when pasting data from the clipboard.
4.	A warning dialog is now displayed if data exists beyond the last valid row in a Dips spreadsheet.
5.	A section in the on-line help on importing data from Microsoft Excel was added. Items 2 and 3 above greatly improve this process.
6.	A bug with the job title and line feeds was fixed.
7.	A bug in the drawing of line contours which could cause a crash was fixed.
8.	Resource modifications to improve overall stability.

Version 5.051

1.	A bug in the Query Data option was fixed. Column data with a mix of numeric and alphabetic characters would not work correctly if the first letter is a number.
2.	Charts no longer quote mean and standard deviation for orientation data. The user will have to refer to the Infoviewer for this information. The mean was incorrectly calculated for orientation data in the chart.
3.	A bug in the Planes file (dwp) caused problems if the set was wrapped and there were no poles in the wrapped portion. This is fixed.
4.	Pressing tab at the end of a row now wraps around the the start of a new row.

Version 5.05

1.	Column widths were not updated correctly when saving a file.
2.	The 18 character column width limit was not being applied correctly. This resulted in bad files if a user put more than 18 characters in a column.
3.	A bug with adding planes was fixed. If you used a global orientation of Dip/Dip Direction, pole snap, and used Dip/Dip Direction coordinates then the added plane would be incorrect.
4.	More precision was added to the set and global means in the infoviewer.
5.	The drawing order of the equatorial/polar grids has been changed. By default they now draw before the poles, planes, text etc. The grids tended to obscure these items. If you want to go back to the old method, there is a new display option Draw Overlays First.

Version 5.041

1.	An infrequent crash when a set was defined with no poles in it has been fixed.
2.	Labels for sets are now saved in the DWP file.
3.	Line contours were not being properly grayscaled. This is fixed.
4.	Tech Support Dialog for sending Rocscience system information when you have a problem. Just copy the info in the dialog and email it to us with your problem.

Version 5.04

1.	Many memory leaks were plugged. Under win98, the program would crash after prolonged use.
2.	The query dialog no longer aborts on a bad query.
3.	An added plane or set label could not be changed, this has been fixed.

Version 5.03

1.	Exporting JPG and BMP image files would eat up system resources since memory was not being released properly. This is fixed.
2.	Settings for image size and/or enlargement factor in the image file save dialog were not being saved properly. This is fixed.
3.	A small left margin was placed in the infoviewer to improve readability.

Version 5.02

1.	New Feature - View->Planes option. Can now toggle planes on in a pole plot. All great circles associated with the poles are drawn on the stereonet.
2.	Grayscale option has been added to the toolbar.
3.	Both the Grayscale and title options have been added to the Setup menu.

Version 5.01

1.	New Feature - Symbol locking (View menu) allows users to associate a symbol with a qualitative data type in the symbolic pole plot.
2.	New Feature - Can now define the resolution of the exported image files (JPEG/BMP).
3.	New Feature - New utility JTDIST which allows users to create synthetic datasets. Very useful for educators wishing to generate data for problem sets etc.
4.	New Feature - A title option in the right-click menu for all stereonet plots. The user defined title in the Job Control is displayed on the plot.
5.	Improved network hardlock support.

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Last Updated June 27, 2008