Analytica 5.0 beta Release Notes/Changes in 5.0.8.80

The following page lists changes in beta build 5.0.8.80 since the previous 5.0.7.79 build.

• When a table cell contains an image, and you manually reduce the column width, the image shrinks to fit in the cell, preserving its aspect ratio (existing behavior). This causes a reduction in the image's height. Previously, this change in column width did not cause the row height to automatically adjust, and auto-row-height would previously base its height on the unscaled image. This has been improved so that the row height it automatically and immediately re-computed (assuming it is set to auto, and you haven't manually set the row height). The same occurs if you manually set the row height, causing the image to shrink -- the column width is now automatically adjusted.

• When you change the Entry Type of a table cell to Text-only, expressions in existing cells weren't getting flagged in red, and then if you try to re-enter the same expression text, it didn't get reparsed as text.

• An false error message occurred when setting the number format of a table in some cases where cell-level formats had been previously set for subsets of cells, but the new setting overrode all of those.

• When you change your license from one edition to a different edition (i.e., if you have more than one license on your computer), the AnalyticaEdition system variable didn't update immediately. (It does warn you that you need to restart Analytica after selecting the new license, which corrects the problem, but until you restart, the system variable was wrong).

• In Regression(Y,B,I,K), when a Null value appears in B, the corresponding term along K is removed from the basis (this is pre-existing, correct behavior). But if all cells in a row of B are null, it now ignores that point rather than removing all terms from the basis. Also, eliminated a cryptic error when all basis terms were eliminated because of Nulls.

• Fixed a case where the rendering of a graph caused Analytica to hang, which occurred when some of the numbers being graphed were very close to the largest non-INF double (like around 1e+307).

• Added a new built-in function ImageInfo.

• Added some new drawing functions, Canvas, CanvasImage, CanvasDrawLine, etc. (All starting with Canvas). See Drawing images. In this build, these are hidden and experimental. In the next beta build, we'll expose them. They can be used and tested from this build, but are subject to change.