Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Release Notes
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1. hee Agilent Technologies Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 40 Released Date 18 February 2011 Application Generator Supported Operating Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Systems Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01400001 exe Highlights You can now e Create dynamic pass limits using internal variables e Create information only tests that have no pass limits e Set internal and config variables during a Debug Run e Launch an add in from within the generator e Get full screen scope images e Use a helper to insert var clauses Details below Additions Application Generator Tools Menu e Add Ins Options gt Miscellaneous tab New setting for choosing the default minimum Add In interface for new projects Various screens now provide an Insert Variable helper to construct var clauses Tests Subroutines Events Tabs e Manage Steps screens have a new Extract button that will move the selected steps into a new subroutine e You can now set internal and config variable values from the Debug Runner screen Tests Subroutine Tabs e You can now select a full screen image for an Intermediate Value step Add Ins New Compatibility Tab e Enables you to trade off new features in your add in f2. Shown Fires as soon as the generated app is launched Modifications Generator Tool File Menu New Project now removes group specific events Make Project Editable now works when the project has no user files Tools Menu Moved Predefined Variables button to Tools gt Manage gt Reserved Variables You can now find references to reserved variables Some keyboard shortcuts in the Manage menu and in the Choose Step Type dialog were changed to make the two lists consistent External Instruments Fixed error message when you edit an existing definition Debug Run Dialog At the start of each Debug Run session now sets all internal variable values to value NaN Nota Number Now displays the current values of all internal and config variables directly referenced by the steps in the list Breakpoints now indicated as a B in the first column No longer executes commented out steps inside subroutines When running the generator tool on a scope no longer asks you for the SICL address now automatically uses lan localhost inst0 Added protection against recursive subroutine calls You may now copy and paste steps between step containers The lt ctri gt x keyboard shortcut has been removed Now when you add steps they get inserted above the selected line When you edit a step whose value source is a Config the Specify Value Source dialog now defaults to the correct config DisplayMessage Step Now
3. diagrams and external application scripts Modifications External Application Dialog e Redesigned to clarify difference between executing a program and a script e Scripts are now always installed e Scripts are now installed in the generated application s installation location e You may use VAR variables in the Script Full Path filename If you abort an open project action after selecting the project a new project is now always started You can now modify a connection definition to use a different image or custom HTML file even when the new file has the same name as the old one as long as the old file is not currently used by any other connection definition External app step scripts are now always saved with the project In the Manage CommandFiles ConnectionXxx ScopeSetupFiles dialogs the Browse button in the Change References action now starts in the last directory used for that file type Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 00 Released Date 1 July 2009 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01000000 exe Initial Release
4. verifies Microsoft NET 3 5 or newer is installed on scope before proceeding Verify Condition Step now responds correctly to frequency measurement query when no waveform is present App Legacy projects will be loaded as read only can t append due to changes in the data model Mention this in your generated app s Release Notes so users will not be surprised by this when they upgrade App Fixed Set Up tab test group filters App Exceptions thrown in Create Edit User Defined Limit Set screen no longer terminate the application App Fixed bug in Create Edit User Defined Limit Set screen You can now set a nominal value for case value lt 0 App New user preference to autoscroll the HTML Report to the selected test result View Preferences Report App HTML Report e Overall Pass Fail status now displayed at top e Application name now appears in the HTML Report title instead of in the Test Configuration table e Now reports if any test was run while in Debug mode see Configure tab e Added navigation buttons in between result detail sections App When you open a project made by a different application the error message now correctly reports the version the app that saved the project App Fixed loading of projects made by different applications when the application s name is listed as a compatible app Add In Fixed installation of custom other files when the destina
5. 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01220001 exe Modifications Generator Tool File Menu e Now you can open projects when your PC has language localization enabled Configs e Now removes leading and trailing spaces from config definition entries preventing phantom config issues Generated App Launch e No longer reports malformed run options when an event contains a SetVariableStep whose source is a SCPI command Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 21 Released Date 14 May 2010 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01210001 exe Modifications Generator Tool File Menu e Build Fixed a recursive subroutine error that would sometimes be reported when there was no recursion Steps e You are now prevented from creating a Math Expression in which you pass a multi term expression as an argument to a function call e g Math Abs x y The UDA step execution engine does not handle these types of arguments yet e You are now prevented from including library functions or properties in IF and WHILE step predicates e g if x lt Math Abs y The UDA step execution engine does not handle these types of predicate
6. dialog now enables you to combine that test s steps with associated events to exercise a more complete run The Debug Run button in the Events tab now enables you to combine events to exercise a more complete run The Events combo box entries are now listed in order of runtime execution Build now catches conditions leading to image file paths that would exceed the file system max of 259 characters Find Config References now finds usages in Intermediate Value and Final Result steps Set Variable step exceptions are now handled by the standard runtime abort handler no dialog will interrupt the run now When you change a config s label all steps referring to that config by label are now updated When Intermediate or Final Result step reports either a config variable or a math expression you can now include an image VAR clauses in External App step Args field now work correctly When you edit a test whose pass limit is a single ended non range value of 0 you no longer get false limit changing warning if you do not change the limit When you edit a Set Variable step the variable box now defaults to the current variable name The requirement to make Intermediate and Final Result step labels unique is now a case sensitive comparison The Connection Changing event now only fires if the user actually changes the connection clicks Next not Ignore When developing on an oscilloscope you can now execute a Load S
7. etup step within a Debug Run Fixed various text boxes that would jump the cursor to the end when you typed in them While a generated app is running the main dialog status bar now indicates this and you can no longer perform a build Added validation to pass limits Nominal field Console App Step Use Timeout now unchecked when disabled Now you can only add Test Groups when either the Tests or Config tab is active Generated App Now uses remote interface version 1 40 Improved stability on runs gt 48 hours in duration When you save a project now warns if the path length you choose would cause one or more of the project s files to exceed operating system max path length File gt Export Results gt CSV output is now sorted the same way as results are displayed in the Results tab Configure tab combo box caption now says Select a value or Select or type in a value to indicate whether or not it accepts user defined text Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 01 Released Date 28 August 2009 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01010000 exe Additions Added new entries in the Tools gt Manage menu to support connection
8. iles list box no longer shows duplicates Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 10 Released Date 04 December 2009 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01100000 exe Additions Generator Tool You can now define subroutines of steps that can be called by Tests Events and other subroutines e See Subroutine tab in main dialog Math expressions may now include properties and function calls for external math libraries e Acore math library is included with the generator tool e You may also plug in custom libraries that you create as well e See Tools gt Manage gt Math Functions New step type Load Scope Mask which enables mask testing and loads the specified mask file e As with scope setup files in order to run this step from a PC you will need to provide a scope centric path on the Debug Run tab You may now install User Defined Function files into Infiniium s UDF directory e See Tools gt manage gt Miscellaneous Files You may now set breakpoints in the Debug Run dialog You can now disable an individual Test step or Event step to temporarily exclude it from the build You can now add comments to Test step lists and Event step lists Fi
9. l instruments via a SICL socket address such as the N4903A J BERT high performance serial BERT Build Results Pane Fixed build error line number when error step is preceded by one or more comments When you enable or disable a step it now moves to the center of the visible window now matches the edit step behavior In While blocks containing a ContinueWhile followed by BreakWhile the Break is now skipped Generated App Added splash screen to installer Now supports Remote Interface version 1 70 Fixed a crash that could occur when the generated app contained a long running while loop Application installer is now fully automated Scope When a scope is missing the UDA option license installed UDA apps now appear under Analyze gt Unlicensed Apps submenu When an abort step fires in a Run Event you can now see the message you specified in the step No longer throws exception when you use a config value that looks like a numeric too big to fit inside a double precision float var e g 1E9841345714544 An IntermediateValue step followed by an AbortStep will no longer terminate the application Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 22 Released Date 13 July 2010 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2
10. nd References results are now available in the main dialog Results pane Find tab Added support for installing miscellaneous files those not already handled by another mechanism e See Tools gt Manage gt Miscellaneous Files Added predefined variables to enable you to discover certain runtime paths e See Tools gt Predefined Variables Verify Condition step now has Abort Test option which respects the generated app s Preference setting Run Test Abort Action Added F1 help support for build errors Generated App Screen shots now include waveform memory scales if a waveform is displayed Modifications Generator Tool Buttons for managing external instruments have been moved to a separate dialog accessible from e Menu Tools gt Manage gt External Instruments e Set Up tab Manage buttons You may now set user editable Config variables in Set Variable steps You may now use Config variables as the source for Final Result value Tool now warns you if you try to load a scope setup or mask from within a Command or Command File step suggests you use the specialized step for these In Tests and Event step lists copied steps are now inserted immediately after the selection Tool now warns you upon renaming a config or internal variable that references in command files will not be updated Test and Event step lists are now editable via a separate dialog The Debug Run button in the Test Definition
11. or increased legacy application compatibility Tests Tab e You can now select a full screen image for a Final Result step Miscellaneous Tab e You can now specify a txt Release Notes file Modifications Application Generator Increased enforcement of internal variable case sensitivity File Menu e New Project now resets all internal and config variable values e Open Project now restores the Debug Run values for internal and config variables to what they were when the project was saved Ensure Tools gt Options Debug Maintain is checked before you start the Debug Run to avoid resetting these e Open Project now restores the build number 3rd segment of version field e You can no longer use an older version of the N5467A application generator to import a fragment created by a newer version You may find that some fragments created by 1 40 will fail to import into 1 30 projects Please upgrade to N5467A version 1 40 Build Menu e You can now Launch an add in to test it without having to install it in a real compliance application Tools Menu e Manage gt Internal Variables You can now add multiple internal variables more easily e Options Debug Persist user preference option setting now called Maintain is now saved restored between application generator sessions Tests Connections Subroutines Events Tabs e Now filters entries in a VariableName combo box as you type Tests S
12. s yet Generated App Installer e Now opens up port exceptions in the oscilloscope s firewall to enable control of the generated app via its remote interface in case no previous app had ever opened these ports Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 20 Released Date 15 March 2010 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01200000 exe Additions Generator Tool File Menu e You may now export and import individual tests and subroutines Tools Menu e Debug Run You may now reset each config s Debug Run value to its default value Steps e If Else and Endlf Steps now enable you to create conditional blocks of steps e While Break Continue and EndWhile Steps now enable you to repeat blocks of steps e Abort Step now enables you to stop the test or run in progress e Return Step now enables you to exit a subroutine or event before its last step Modify Steps dialog e lt ctrl gt A now selects all steps e Improved cursor behavior when adding and deleting test steps Events e Any Test Group Starts Fires every time test flow enters a new group at any level including the RootGroup e App
13. ted App Remote interface upgraded to version 1 60 Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 11 Released Date 27 January 2010 Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Microsoft Windows Vista Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01110000 exe Additions Generator Tool Non Agilent Technologies external instruments SCPI compliant are now supported Modifications Generator Tool Fixed intermittent N5467A installer upgrade failures An event may no longer include Intermediate Value steps or subroutines that call them causes error at generated app runtime When you abort an Open Project action a new project is now started Now finds references to config variables used inside connection definitions Now respects user provided timeouts for queries when value source is scope or external instrument Debug Run now works with steps involving configs that have parentheses in their labels Now handles bad external instrument addresses more gracefully Display dialogs containing tree views starting at the top of the tree The project is now marked dirty when you add remove additional files in the Manage External Scripts dialog When you load a project that contains Console Application definitions the Supporting F
14. tion directory does not already exist Add In Add In tests now identify themselves as User Defined in the host application s HTML Report Add In Interface 1 10 or later Add In Add In now reports its beta release status in the host application s Help gt About screen and HTML Report Add In Interface 1 10 or later Agilent N5467A User Defined Application Version 01 30 Released Date 2 November 2010 Microsoft Windows Vista Generator tool Supported Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Generated App Minimum Infiniium Oscilloscope 5 70 80000 series Baseline Version 1 41 90000 series 2 00 9000 series File Name SetupInfUserDefApp01300004 exe Additions Generator Tool You can now create Add Ins that can be installed into existing compliance applications New Automation tab enables you to automate generated app behavior Tools Menu e Manage o New Reserved Variable Reserved_ProjectAppPath e Options o New Build tab o New Debug tab Steps e New Apply Transfer Function Step e New Write File Step Events e New Any Trial Ends Event Miscellaneous e You can now include a test procedure PDF file in a generated app e Manage gt Other Files You may now have a period in your custom install directory e g c temp mydir something Modifications Generator Tool Custom Math Libraries compiled against previous
15. ubroutines Events Tabs e You can now use internal variables in a Verify Condition Step s limits e Debug Run o Added protection to prevent errors that occur during Debug Runs from terminating the application generator o Add Ins Now lets you include the User Defined Group Ended event Tests Configs Connection Tabs e You can now rename tests configs and connections using names that differ only by capitalization Tests Tab e You can now use internal variables in a test s Final Result pass limits e You can now define tests that have no pass limits e You can now create test groups for your add in s tests e Now when you edit a test that has steps the Step Editor automatically opens Configs Tab e You can no longer set the value to use for a Debug Run from the Config editor screen now use Debug Runner screen Connections Tab e You can now associate connection instructions with whole test groups instead of with individual tests enabling a diagram to display before the group s event steps execute Events Tab e You can now add steps to an add in s sub group events e Fixed use of WriteFileStep in Events no longer get malformed run option error during generated app startup Build Tab e Add In installer filename now includes guidance to help you identify compatible compliance applications Automation Tab e Now available for use with add in projects Generated App Add In Installer now
16. versions of N5467A must be rebuilt to work with this version See the Managing Math Libraries topic in the user manual Removed Basic Mode Build Generator tool no longer hangs when you build an event step that calls a recursive subroutine Now generates build error if a non CommandFile step refers to a non existent external instrument Set Up tab Displayed build number now dynamically updates each build When you rename an external instrument the change is now propagated to the steps Tests tab Now warns when you are about to delete a test group that has run events associated with it Debug Run You can now persist internal variable values across debug runs via the Tools gt Options dialog Debug Run Echo Console now displays Console App launch command args Fixed on scope debug run involving external instruments Step Editor Console App step no longer complains about missing success text when verification is turned off Miscellaneous Parsing Wherever you can specify how text is parsed you can now specify more than one character the text will be split every time any of those characters is found This includes special characters enabling parsing of multi line files Yvar syntax now returns a non engineering formatted string if the value is a whole number The External Instrument Definition dialog now warns about reference changes only when you change the nickname case sensitive You can now control externa
17. you can display messages with response choices such as OK Cancel Yes No etc and access the user s response in a variable Configs LoadMask Step Build now works when running on PC even if you have not entered the Mask File Path on the Debug Run tab yet SetVariable Step You can now set a user editable config to arbitrary text SleepStep You may now use a math expression to define the duration Fixed Rename action when the label is a superset of the variable name Subroutines Events Build Now you can delete steps causing recursive loops Now prevents you from adding a call to a subroutine directly or indirectly containing an Intermediate Value step When you rename a test group the associated group specific Event is now renamed instead of replaced Now you no longer get an error when launching the generated app from within the tool when the scope does not have an App Remote license Managers Internal Variables You may now change references from one internal variable to another Internal Variable Names may now also contain underscores _ ManageConsoleApps Removed Substitute option now use Change Refs You may now export search results to a file Math Libraries IDs may now also contain numbers and underscores _ You may no longer load the same library twice Other Files you can now edit an entry to point to the same named file in a different directory Genera
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