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This page contains changes in [[Analytica 5.0]] beta build 5.0.9.81 since the previous beta build (5.0.8.80):

* in bar charts with '''Enable bar outlines''' turned off, a slight one-pixel overlap between adjacent bars has been eliminated, and the outline around the items in the key has also been turned off.
* Fixed a crash that occurred in some cases when closing the Analytica application while a computation was is progress.
* Fixed a problem in which an error message didn't show up to the user in an error dialog (the reported case was within a [[WhatIf]]).
* Added a new built-in function, [[WriteImageFile]].
* [[CanvasContext]] was not correctly building on existing context (when the first parameter is the result of a previous call to [[CanvasContext]]).
* Added system library '''Canvas drawing functions''' to the '''Definition''' menu. See [[Drawing images]].
* Added [[CanvasDrawPolygon]].

== ADE ==
* Added a new class, [[CAPicture]], which allows a program to access an image that appears in a computed result, with methods to write that image [[CAPicture::ToFile|to a file]] or [[CAPicture::ToStream|to an IStream]]. Also a new property, [[CARenderingStyle::PictureAsText]] that you can set if you don't want pictures returned in this fashion, but just as text (<code>"«Picture»"</code>).
* Date-time numbers are now returned as a variant DATE numbers (a COM-standard for dates, relative to the 1-Jan-1900 date origin), whereas previously they were returned as doubles, relative to Analytica's date origin preference. Also added a property [[CARenderingStyle::DateTimeAsReal]] that you can set if you want it the old way.
* Enhanced AdeTest to actually display an image that appears in a result, such as from [[CATable::GetDataByElements]], [[CATable::GetDataByLabels]], [[CATable::AtomicValue]], and [[CAObject::Result]] (when [[CARenderingStyle::PictureAsText]] is off). 
* Enhanced AdeTest's [[CARenderingStyle]] pane to include the two new properties, [[CARenderingStyle::PictureAsText]] and [[CARenderingStyle::DateTimeAsReal]].