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SigmaPlot 8.02 Update

• Product: SigmaPlot
• Version: SigmaPlot 8.0.2
• Date: October 15, 2002
• Title: SigmaPlot8_02_Update.exe

Get the update: SigmaPlot8_02_Update.exe (22,200 KB)

Installation Considerations for Single-user Licenses

After installing this patch, if you run the version 8.0 installer via the Control panel (add/remove dialog) using the Modify/Repair option, the installer will replace version 8.0.2 components (spw.exe and some dll's) with version 8.0 components. If you do have to reinstall version 8.0 using Modify/Repair, you will have to re-install this patch.

Installation Considerations for Multi-user Licenses To install the patch on the client, first connect to the server, then from the SigmaPlot\SPW8\Setup folder (on the server), run setup.exe, and on the Installer screen, select the Repair/Update option.

Do not use the Add/Remove icon in the control panel to install this patch on the client. This will cause a "Cab file is corrupted" error message. After installing the 8.0.2 patch on the client, you can run the version 8.0 installer in Modify, Repair/Update modes without any limitations from Add/Remove dialog.

What's in the update?

Using SigmaPlot with SPSS Client Server

Instructions for the Administrator

The SPSS/SigmaPlot integration supports clients logging onto only the default SPSS server. If the user would like to create SigmaPlot graphs from another server, the user must set that server to default from the client side.

The SPSS/SigmaPlot integration requires a folder on the server for temporary files. On the SPSS Server machine do the following:

• create a folder C:\SpssServerData
• share the folder as SpssServerData
• provide write access to users who are creating SigmaPlot graphs within SPSS

For more information on referencing SPSS Server data files, see "Referencing Data" in the SPSS Analytic Server Technology Administrator's guide.

Backing Up Older SigmaPlot Files

In case you have modified SigmaPlot files from version 8.0, the SigmaPlot 8.0.2 installer will back up the following files in the subfolder \SPW802BackupFiles:

• "SigmaPlot Macro Library.jnb" - the macro library
• "SigmaPlot Macro Library EK.jnb" - the macro library containing the pharmaceutical macros
• "Standard.jfl" - the equation library

You can open these file and copy any modified sections into the version 8.0.2 files.

Issues Resolved in This Version

The following corrections appear in SigmaPlot 8.0.2

SPSS and SigmaPlot interaction

When completing editing of a graph in SigmaPlot and returning to the the Output Viewer, sometimes graph edits did not appear. The timing interaction with SPSS 11.5 and SigmaPlot 8.0 was correct to resolve this issue.

Importing Microsoft Access

When importing a Microsoft Access file with dates, SigmaPlot was incorrectly computing the day zero value for European computers. The dates imported as negative numbers. This was corrected to allow for non-US settings.

The following has been fixed for the SigmaPlot 8.01 update, also included in the 8.0.2 update:

Excel Integration

• Symptom: When creating a SigmaPlot graph from within Excel, an error message "Out of Memory" appeared. This issue existed only with Excel 2000 and service pack 2.
• Solution: Updated the code to handle Windows' different behavior with this service pack.
• Symptom: Offset issue - If data did not start in the first column, it graphed the wrong columns of data and had wrong axis labels
• Solution: Fixed

• Symptom: When exporting a graph to a vector EPS file, the Creator field in the EPS header was not being filled in.
• Solution: The creator field is now being filled in with "SigmaPlot"

• Symptoms:
  1. While editing text with a very large font, the cursor would disappear.
  2. After editing text with a very large font, the text was partially cut off.
  3. When editing text then you scrolled or zoomed, the text was put in the wrong place on the page.
  4. When the graph page was in "fit to window" mode, text being edited was unreadable.
• Solutions: The first 3 issues were fixed. For the "fit to window" issue, we changed how editing works when the zoom level is less than 100%. It now automatically zooms to 100% when editing (so you can see the text that is being edited), then returns to the previous zoom level.

• Symptom: The SigmaPlot/SPSS integration did not work with SPSS network installations. When SPSS is installed as a network version, the server folder is read-only. Therefore, the SPSS/SigmaPlot Integration module (SPSSINT) could not create the TEMP.SAV file.
• Solution: SPSSINT now creates the TEMP.SAV file in the local SigmaPlot folder.
• Symptom: When SPSS is installed as a client/server version and the server is not the default server, the SPSS/SigmaPlot Integration module (SPSSINT) cannot logon onto the server.
• Workaround: There is no solution for using a non-default server. The integration only works with the default SPSS server. If the user wants to use a non-default server, they must reset the server on the client side. The installation instructions were updated to document this limitation.

• Symptom: Any edits of a SigmaPlot graph were not appearing in the SPSS Output Viewer. When SigmaPlot was activated in the Output Viewer for editing, the Output Viewer was disconnecting from SigmaPlot prematurely compared to most other applications.
• Solution: SigmaPlot now handles this non-standard situation so edits done in SigmaPlot are reflected in the Output Viewer.

• Symptom: In the unusual situation were legends were created with no text items, subsequent attempts the change the text items caused a crash.
• Solution: The code now handles the situation were there are no text items.

• Symptom: A modified plot was placed in a new graph instead of the existing plot.
• Solution: fixed.

• Symptom: Plot extents are wrong for the probability axis scale. The line does not extend to the graph extents. It should.
• Solution: Fixed.

• Symptom: Files that contain a lot of non-ASCII characters (Mu characters for example) caused a counter to overflow. Also it was assuming this situation was a binary file, not an ASCII file.
• Solution: It can now handle a lot more non-ASCII characters - no overflow. Also the algorithm that determined if a file was binary was changed.

• Symptom: For line plots, if you immediately right-click to get the Object Properties dialog and change properties, then click Apply, the new properties are not applied to the line plot.
• Solution: Fixed.

• Symptom: Converting from numerical format to date/time bogs down with large data sets.
• Solution: The code now has a more efficient way of handling memory usage and Undo operations when changing large amounts of data. A test case that did take 2 hours now take one minute.

• Symptom: There was incorrect default weighting conditions for ploynomial/linear equations causing an incorrect computation for linear fits.
• Solution: Fixed the weighting condition and reset parameter values on a few Sigmoid equations.

• Symptom: Category axis and 3D was not handles properly
• Solution: Fixed

• Symptom: Undo undid last two edits instead of only one
• Solution: Fixed

• Symptom: Undo did not work while editing text
• Solution: It was not implemented. It is now.

• Symptom: There was a 1 to 3 second pause when minimizing SigmaPlot.
• Solution: Fixed

• Symptom: When you "Open" a SigmaPlot embedded object in another application like MS Word, the menus were incorrect.
• Solution: Fixed

• Symptom: If many graph pages were open and not the last page was in focus (selected), Add Plot would add the plot to the last page in the section that was open - not the page in focus.
• Solution: Fixed.

• Symptom: When creating a graph using the Graph Wizard and then changing the worksheet, the wizard didn't track the worksheet change.
• Solution: The wizard now tracks worksheet changes.

• Symptom: Undo after inserting columns didn't always handle column titles properly
• Solution: Fixed.

• Symptom: The Insert and Delete Cells dialog didn't initialize it's radio buttons intelligently
• Solution: It now checks the selected region to detect if an entire row or entire column is selected and initalizes buttons accordingly.

• Symptom: After activating a SigmaPlot graph in Excel, doing a Format/Arrange Graph, deactivating, then doing an Undo, Excel crashed.
• Solution: Fixed.

• Symptom: The Help file shipped with SigmaPlot 8.0 did not have anything on Transforms and Regressions. This information was only in the manual.
• Solution: Transforms and Regressions have been added to Help, and a few broken links were fixed. Also, the "What's This" help was added. Click on the "?" on the toolbar, then click on any other object in SigmaPlot to get help on that object.