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.