Analytica 5.1 beta Release Notes/Changes in 5.1.1

<< Analytica 5.1 beta Release Notes

This page list changes in the 5.1.1 beta build since the previous 5.1.0 beta build.

User Interface

• When you have dereference result windows (from double clicking on a «ref» cell), and close a window, the other result window(s) for that variable would resize. That was a bug, now they don't.
• Arrow drawing between nodes on a diagram is a bit more graceful, and more importantly, it works correctly on ultra-high-resolution displays under Windows 10.
• The toolbar button changes to when pressing it opens an edit table rather than a textual definition.
• Hover icons now fade in rather than exploding outward.
• When using the hover icon to promote a description to be a title, when alias of that node was visible, it didn't synch up with the change correctly.

Expressions

• A warning no longer occurs when dereferencing Null, e.g., #Null.
• A bug was fixed in which the A.I operator didn't find the index when A had another zero-length index.

Domain acts as a self-index

This legacy setting is still on in many old legacy models dating back to Analytica 4.2, despite our recommendations that you turn it off. Several features introduced since then require it to be off, and we don't really want to continue supporting it indefinitely. Some models have logic that does rely on the setting, which has required some effort to change, and hence, may be part of the reason people haven't turned it off. So a few things have been done to encourage turning it off in your older models.

• When you uncheck Domain acts as a self-index in the Preferences dialog, it now offers to scan your model and rewrite Definitions that rely on the preference. Although not 100% perfect, possibly missing some really contorted cases, it has been applied successfully to at least one large model with relied extensively on the feature, and was able to do a full conversion on its own, with the converted model producing the same computed results as the original.
• When you turn on the Domain acts as a self-index preference, it tells you that turning it on is not recommended. Again, to help discourage using it.

ADE

• Fixed a crash (exception) in CATable::IndexName that had been introduced into the 5.1.0 beta build, but was not present prior.
• CAGraphPivot::NumSlicers returned the wrong count when comparison variables were present.
• CAFiller::Title now prefaces the name of a local index with a dot, like ".J".
• Fixed a bug in which a comparison expression didn't work right, so that the bar origin in a tornado plot didn't display correctly.

Other

• Fixed a crash during graph generation in an obscure case where the main result was used for the X-axis no other eligible graphing dimension existed for the Y-axis.