OxMetrics Issues and Fixes
Fixed and improved in 5.0
- Support for reading Office 2007 xls files.
- Allow leads in lag function of calculator. Generated code uses new
Algebra lead function to emphasize this.
- Improved keyboard support.
- Improved support for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2
- Improved context switching when starting help link
- Improved icons.
- Created file association for .alg and .bn7.
Clicking on .bn7 now opens .in7.
Opening .eps.gwg (e.g.) now same as opening .eps.
- Added loadfile to batch.
- Rename .in7 file: also need to rename .bn7!
Rename data file: keep extension fixed (cannot change data format this way).
- Re-instate Correlogram as a running-moments version of ACF (option
in plot dialog)
- Graphics undo/redo did not take moved areas into account(undo
would move all areas to the default location).
- Improved exit sequence. Previously, closing OxMetrics stopped OxModel
without allowing it to call SaveSettings.
- Now showing batch commands of active module.
- Improve the delete dialog, e.g. if selection starts from beginning or end.
- Load previous session: failure to load (file doesn't exist anymore)
now prints message in the results window, instead of a pop-up message.
- Any key in algebra or calculator listbox would be treated
as deletion.
- Axis scaling could get in infinite loop.
- Running Algebra file, or batch file with algebra
wouldn't refresh data document properly (i.e., not all changes
would show, until e.g. calculator is started).
- Fixed crash from syntax error in module batch commands
- Seasonal subplot wrong if first observation not in first seasonal.
Also now computing mean only over valid observations.
- Batch: Break and Exit do not work.
- Find in Files: search for t (one letter as word) didn't work.
- Mixing PcGive and G@RCH in batch file causes crash. Now
automatically switching to a model class that has entries when selecting a module.
- Extended dated database backward got wrong dates for weekly and
5days/week data.
- Ctrl+F4 for File/Close.
- Reload maintains position in document.
Fixed and improved in 4.1
- Creating a new Ox file, and then running it from OxMetrics
before saving: if the file is saved under a different name, the old name
is used for running Ox, resulting in an error message that the file does
not exist.
- Added option to set graphics view size (default=100, which
creates the graph as large as possible).
- Solved tooltip flicker in toolbar/combobox with large cursor
- Print: did not pick up default page size or duplex mode.
- Print Preview: Esc key now closes window; View % is sticky;
fixed page back/jump to last page; Change in zoom %/no columns did not update
page count in preview.
- Fixed several problems with loading CSV files.
- Tooltip management in workspace/doctabs took CPU usage up high.
- Runing batch files from the command line when OxMetrics
was not yet running failed if they required a client module (PcGive etc.)
- reading xls file with embedded chart data (possibly without
actually containing a chart) could go wrong.
- Had lost increased time-out option for DDE (relevant when storing residuals
etc. in a database from a client module).
- Datastream uses #NA as missing: add this.
- On Windows XP x64 (the 64-bit version), deleting files in the File Open dialog and then
loading another file can cause a crash. This seems to be unrelated to
OxMetrics, but a work-around has been found.
- Data aggregation: shows wrong sample for dated database.
Conversion 4-weekly -> monthly switched off.
Conversion 4-weekly/monthly -> biannual didn't set frequently properly.
- Fixed Windows 2000 problem: all drop downs on comboboxes are only
one entry high.
Fixed in 4.04
- Seasonal subplots: not done separately if so requested.
- Edit/Change Sample/Delete observations at start leads to crash.
- Up/down and left/right arrows didn't change value/move caret
in many spin button controls.
- Graphics text: isolated $ now displayed.
- saveresults batch command leaves window entirely grayed: cannot manually
add text.
- Help/Support web links did not work with Internet Explorer.
- Running modified Batch/Algebra file: should save file first.
- Batch didn't change folder to that of running file.
- Loading Excel files:
Problem: if the first column looks like it defines a fixed frequency
sample and has no label, it is not loaded.
This has been fixed: the first column is maintained if it has a label
or if it has numeric data. (same as GiveWin and Ox 3,
OxMetrics 4.00/4.02 would drop it).
Enhancements:
- A dot or any text starting with #N/A is treated as a missing value
(previously it was only #N/A exactly).
- Now dropping columns which have no entries at all (as happened in Ox 3/GiveWin)
- Copy formatted didn't work.
Fixed in 4.02
- Options now works when the module hasn't started yet.
- Alt+B should open Batch editor
- Dialogs not properly centred on parent (particularly
inconvenient on widescreen display)
- Pressing Esc when an inline edit control is active should
cancel the edit action, not the whole dialog
- Ox code using SaveDrawWindow which involves a rename
(i.e. different name from SetDrawWindow) could cause a crash of OxMetrics.
- Did not accept Ox-4 licenses.
- Can now drop files on text windows.
Reinstated right-button drag and drop with choice of move/copy/cancel.
- Searching from toolbar, followed by selection of
Show Find when nothing found caused a focus `hang' (i.e. no
part of the program would get the focus).
- Right-click in the workspace when a tooltip is shown
brings up the layout context menu instead of the document context menu.
- Customizing a toolbar with find/replace combobox.
The next use of the combobox will result in a crash.
To prevent the crash in version 4.00: exit and restart OxEdit after customizing the toolbar.