Version 6.7.0 09/02/2024

Bug fixes

• Automation Interface: Calling either the Controls.Remove or the Controls.ClearAll methods caused a subsequent Access Violation error if one of the removed panel controls had a signal assigned

Version 6.6.1 22/12/2022

Bug fixes

• No icons were displayed on the buttons in the different dialog windows

Changes

• Width and height of BitmapList bitmaps limited to the range 1..256, because the underlying ImageList Windows control cannot have larger images

Version 6.6.0 14/06/2022

Improvements

• New possibility to automatically revert the value of a Slider or Dial when the slider/knob is released

Version 6.5.0 22/09/2021

Bug fixes

• An error message 'Out of system resources' occurred if a VerticalBar element in the panel was made too small

Version 6.4.0 30/10/2020

Bug fixes

• Automation interface: An Access Violation error occurred when the Controls.Add method was called and an invalid control type parameter value was specified

Version 6.3.4 02/12/2019

Improvements

• New property 'Automatic Text Color' in the 'Bar Settings' category of Bar graphs to give the user more control over the text color of the embedded value indicator

Bug fixes

• The blinking of LEDs did not work

Version 6.3.3 01/08/2019

Changes

• If a panel window is in Floating or Dockable mode, the Full Screen command is now disabled because selecting the command has no effect. Floating and Dockable windows in PCAN-Explorer cannot be set to Full Screen mode

Version 6.3.1 07/06/2019

Bug fixes

• If a signal name contained an ampersand character, the name was not correctly displayed in most of the controls

Version 6.3.0 26/03/2019

Improvements

• New property "Enable Mouse Jump" for horizontal and vertical sliders
• Selecting and clearing signals for controls is now possible if more than one control is selected

Bug fixes

• Undoing a delete or property change operation for controls that were configured to be invisible at runtime made the controls invisible in the designer
• If several panels were open at the same time, after a few minutes all receiving and sending of PCAN-Explorer could freeze

Version 6.2.2 13/12/2018

Bug fixes

• The Transparent Bitmaps feature of the BitmapList element did not work correctly if the individual bitmaps added to the BitmapList had different background colors
• Memory leak in ValueEdit control fixed

Version 6.1.1 12/01/2018

Bug fixes

• Copy/paste of a Button, LED, or Label whose caption was cleared recreated a new caption for the new control

Version 6.1.0 15/09/2017

Improvements

• New "Enabled" property that controls the enabled state of controls

Version 6.0.12 09/06/2017

Improvements

• New "Visible" property that controls the visiblity of controls in Run Mode

Bug fixes

• A repeating error message "Out of system resources" was displayed when either the height or the width of a control was reduced to 0
• Assigning a signal to a selection of multiple controls with drag-and-drop failed, only the control under the mouse cursor got the signal
• Object Model: After calling Scenes.Remove for the active scene, the Instruments Panel window was empty and no further operation was possible
• Object Model: Calling Scenes.ClearAll triggered an Access Violation error
• Object Model: Iterating through the Scene.Controls collection with for..each was not possible

Version 6.0.11 07/04/2017

Improvements

• New possibility to hide the Set button of a ValueEdit control
• When the ValueEdit caption is cleared, the other ValueEdit parts are realigned to use the free space

Bug fixes

• There was no way to change the font of the ValueEdit caption
• Changing the different ValueEdit fonts did not always have the expected effect
• The Value property of a ValueEdit control was not shown in the Properties window

Version 6.0.10 16/01/2017

Improvements

• Default On Value of Toggle Switch and Rocker Switch controls changed to 1
• New possibility to set the Minimium and Maximum values of controls in the Properties window according to the value range of assigned signals

Version 6.0.7 04/11/2016

Improvements

• The window content of a panel is updated immediately while scrolling with the scroll bar
• The mouse wheel can be used to scroll a panel vertically

Bug fixes

• Changing the value of the Slider, Dial, or any other active control did not automatically transmit the updated signal value on the CAN bus if the signal was defined in a format version 6.0 symbols file
• After opening an Instruments Panel file, the values in ValueEdit controls were displayed with highlighted text if the assigned signal used an Enum
• The AnalogMeter 360 instrument was not updated when the value of the assigned signal changed
• Some command states were not updated correctly and some keyboard shortcuts were missing in the context menus

Version 6.0.3 02/09/2016

Bug fixes

• If the caption of a Trend control was customized, e.g. set as empty, the original caption was restored when some other controls were inserted into the panel with a copy-paste operation
• Selecting a scene via the panel's context menu did not work
• Sometimes cyclic transmit messages of active controls were not correctly started when the Run mode was enabled

Version 6.0.1 09/06/2016

Changes

• New instruments like an analog 360° gauge and a shape element for displaying squares, rectangles, circles, and ellipses
• First Release