Release Notes > Build 3.1.214

Release date: Apr 26th, 2021

Fixes and improvements:

General:

•	The CONFIG.TZI file, which is used to record timezone changes was being rewritten each time SpecView was started during during the Daylight Savings time of the year.

GDW:

•	Grouping buttons & moving them could cause settings such as color and multi-line text to be lost.

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Color Dynamics on buttons: 'Hide' of a button has been changed to 'Disable', and the color dynamic color is now used. When the Color Dynamic test succeeds, the button is disabled (so it can't be clicked), and its color is changed to that specified, unless: SETTINGS.INI [Settings] HideButtonToBackground=Y is used to set it to the color of the screen background. N is the default.

•	When a project was imported the Color Dynamics did not get imported properly. (Button Run External does not get copied across)

Variables List:

•	Variables assigned to a 'Group' could occasionally pop out of their Group.

Trend Charts:

•	Back-fill of data sometimes didn't work when a Project was started

•	If printing a Trend Chart causes the pen lines to be upside down then this can be fixed by setting the appropriate PrintInvertTracesTo_<your printer name>=1 in SV3.INI, however for some printers this could have caused SpecView to crash.

Data Logging:

•	If the Log Report filename from a text variable contained a '<' or '>', (which are illegal characters for filenames) then this could cause a crash, illegal characters are now replaced with underscores.

Historical Reply:

•	Historical Replay is now more forgiving of data corruption in log files.

•	If SpecView was running during a 'Daylight Saving Time' change, then Historical Replay would have been out by an hour until SpecView was restarted.

Recipes:

•	Using File->SaveAs to make a copy of a GDW it did not always copy the Recipe files from the old screen name to the new name.

•	Using File->SaveAs to make a copy of a GDW the copies of the Recipe files could contain duplicate entries, causing an error message about duplicate references and causing the copied recipe files to be corrupted.

Strategy Controller:

•	The Strategy Action: Display Simple Message Box now allows simple formatting: \r for return and \t for tab.

German Language:

•	Couldn't create a Bar Chart in German, an 'Unsupported Operation' error was displayed.

Watlow Drivers:

•	Watlow PM Plus: This can now be auto-detected.

•	Watlow F4T: Improved names in the Program Engine

Eurotherm Drivers:

•	Eurotherm 3504: Fixed Program names issue.

•	Eurotherm Mini8: Added all parameters to IO Module instruments.

•	Eurotherm Modbus: Added 3216P.