Analytica 5.0 beta Release Notes/Changes in 5.0.9.81

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 to a file or 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 ("«Picture»").
• 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.