HicEst Revision History

Hopefully all revisions made it to the documentation..

• 3.99 (2019-01-09) Next Revision HicEst 4.0 will be .NET
  • New: SORT keyword DELDouble to delete double entries in file sort
  • New: Color markings for erroneous block-IF statements or incomplete DO-loops
  • New: OPEN, READ, WRITE with IOstat=ios and ERror=0 return without message, but with ios set
  • Fix: MatrixExplorer: READ(FIle=fname, Column=0, ...) and fname(row, 0) did not return full row for column = 0
• 3.90.1 (2018-05-30)
  • Fix: bug in "Rename Photos.hic" example
• 3.90 (2018-05-14)
  • New: STRUCT() defines structures of many data types not commonly used in HicEst
  • New: BITS() handling numeric or string bit and byte patterns
  • New: Hexadecimal constants input 0x...
  • New: Index option in OPEN() to generate index file for faster file access
  • New: WRITE(Messagebox, OnButton=x)... x is label or "subroutine_name"
  • New: Integer output with 1000s separator (apostrophe)
  • New: Allow unregistered installation, APPpath becomes EXEpath
  • Changed: ALIAS() has optional keywords now
  • Changed: DLL() options support standard call of WINDOWS APis
  • Fix: Limited number of COM ports was 8, is now 65535.
  • Fix: Character zero in string output now '.'
  • Fix: minor bugs
• 3.81 (2016-11-04)
  • New: ALIAS(XYZ, XYZbyte1, A,lenA, ..., C) without lenC to assign remaining memory to C (XYZ array or string)
  • New: ALIAS(XYZ, XYZbyte1, vectorA,lenA, matrixA,-rows, -columns, ...) allow numeric vector and matrix aliasing
  • New: Improved inlineLoop management
  • New: Allow standard Fortran formats in READ/ WRITE by prefixing "std" to the Format keyword
  • New: SORT( )-arrays zeroed at start
  • New: Break on change of variables (F1 or right click over whitespace)
  • Changed: smart-type tool tips for strings with trimmed and full length now
  • Changed: start-up error messages (if any) are bundled now
  • Fix: Occasional broken name/value tie on internal memory reallocation
  • Fix: Physical MatrixExplorer column sort extra spaces
  • Fix: Whole word search if word is at end of string
  • Fix: Undocumented assignments of the EDIT function
  • Fix: Missing error message for SORT(FIle=filename, Column=nr, ..) with filename not opened
  • Fix: enclosure conditions in EDIT(..., InvIdx=...)
  • Fix: Missing error message for predefined ALIAS-variable or EDIT/Parse-variable
  • Fix: Multiple optional keyword with_argument, without_argument, with_argument
  • Fix: InlineLoop op1( EDIT(Text=xy, ...) op2 ...) no-change- EDIT-operations to handle word-strings at current position
  • Fix: word count in EDIT(..., Word=n, ...)
• 3.80 (2016-03-10)
  • New: Runtime engine with enhanced array and string operations
  • New: InlineLoop: FromTo OP( from : to )
  • New: InlineLoop: OP(array_expression]). OP eg + * == MAX MINLOC IEOR etc
  • New: InlineLoop: OP(string_expression). OP eg // & && etc
  • New: String Join operators &, &&, &&&, etc to control spaces
  • New: SWAP operator >< for variables, strings, arrays, or parts of it
  • New: $R, $C, $1 system $variables in array and string addressing expressions
  • Changed: Indexed OPEN(file=..., Format=...) real fast now, needed for huge files
  • New: OPEN(file=..., CompTol=num,..) comparison tolerance for numeric FiLTer=...
  • New: FileName(rownr, 0) column=0 adresses the full row_nr in MatrixFileIO
  • New: DLG(CHanGed=var, ...) Optional keyword bit ID of changed variables
  • New: Option=+512 fast lexical search in MatrixFileIO ( INDEX, DLG, SORT,...)
  • New: EDIT(MatriX=..., APpendTo, Delete=row_nr, DO=repeats)
  • New: Script specific memory preallocation, font, window size
  • New: Editor TAB key to toggle matching ( )
  • Changed: initialization file
  • Changed: Font management
  • Changed: Error management
  • Fix: minor bugs
• 3.72 (2014-03-31)
  • New: SYSTEM(WINdowhandle=wh) returns main_window_handle if wh is 0 on input
  • New: EDIT(..., DO=n, ..., ENDDO, ..., DO=m, ..., ENDDO) possible
  • New: EDIT(..., EXTRA="().[]", InvertedIndex=invidx) to include special characters e.g. ().[] in InvIdx
  • New: EDIT(Text="word1, ... wordN", ID="CONST", InvertedIndexi=InvIdx) to create a constant lexicon word1 to wordN
  • New: DLG(RADiobutton=vector, ...) vector elements return 0/1, same for CHeckbox.
  • New: INIT(string, txt1, txt2, ...) single or double quotes in string allowed
  • New: DLL(...) initial call to the user supplied DLL supplies length of Char1Vector in Real8Vector(1).
  • New: warning if excessive memory is allocated at start
  • Fix: blank string changes in MatrixExplorer CSV-files left spurious byte in some cases
  • Fix: num_result = EDIT(Text=..., $Marks=..., LeXicon=...) could lead to crash with $Marks set
  • Fix: a few minor bugs
• 3.71 (2013-03-14)
  • New: WRITE(TitleBar, ...) ... added, works with minimized window.
  • New: DLG( Edit=text, WRap=... ) 0 as argument turns line wrap off, 1 turns it on.
  • New: EDIT( ..., DO ) ! the loop index can be referred to as $
  • New: SYSTEM( DIR=..., FIle=fileList, SORt=...) fast fileList sort with selected properties.
  • New: SYSTEM( FIle=..., FileSize=num)
  • New: SYSTEM( SetDir=new_dir_name )
  • New: SYSTEM(WIN=handle, FullWidth=w, FullHeight=h, X0=x, Y0=y )
  • Changed: nFiles = SYSTEM( DIR=current_dir_name ) works with wildcards
  • New: SYSTEM( SetFileTime= new_file_time )
  • Changed: SYSTEM( FileTime= last_write_time )
  • Fix: SYSTEM( RUN=..., WAIT=1 ) wait for termination
  • Fix: inconsistencies in windows sizes and positions
  • Fix: BEEP(leftchannel, rightchannel) unreliable stereo effect
  • Fix: ALIAS(array1, ...., subarray... ) produced wrong equivalence in some cases
• 3.70 (2012-10-08) Whew, what an awful lot of work!
  • New: InvertedIndex added to EDIT
  • New: LeXicon with text, numerical and vectorial query added to EDIT
  • New: The EDIT UpperCase and LowerCase keywords allow Mark1/Mark2 limits
  • New: The new organization of the InvertedIndex, LeXicon, SortToIndex, SortFromIndex, SortedText, and SortDelDoubles EDIT-keywords makes $inLeXicon obsolete.
  • New: EDIT(Text=string, Option=2, Count) counts the words in string
  • New: Alphabetical search option in EDIT and INDEX
  • New: INDEX() options: count occurences, RegEx, and length_found after RegEx
  • New: TIME(CPU=1 or 0) or Menu Go/CPU or Alt+M to toggle CPU time on status bar. Works also with long running DOs in EDIT.
  • New: The MAX, MIN, MAXLOC, MINLOC, and SUM functions work now for strings as well
  • New: $ array operations work on strings now
  • New: MatrixExplorer Search/Filter work for column=0 as string Search/Filter over ALL columns
  • New: MatrixExplorer free-format files work with all non-alphanumerical record separators now instead with CRLF only
  • New: List/Combo boxes in DLG work with all non-alphanumerical record separators now
  • Fix: a few minor bugs
• 3.63.2 (2010-08-01)
  • New: HicEst is donationware as of now: any donation is rewarded by a key code, if asked for.
  • New: Block Copy_and_Paste, Delete, Undo, Redo are now possible in script and appendix.
  • New: OPEN(FIle=..., FiLTer='...', Option=n) to allow word, case, RegEx, etc.
  • New: OPEN(FIle=..., FiLTer='0:xyz') applies filter to all columns
  • New: MatrixExplorer/More/Filter Default column == 0: apply filter to all columns
  • New: HTML-Help got context-sensitive link to RosettaCode
  • Fix: a few minor bugs
• 3.63.1 (2010-04-21)
  • New: EDIT(...., DO) DO without argument terminated on error
  • New: EDIT(Text=..., Option=4+..., SortedText=...) descending sort
  • Fix: EDIT(...., SePaRators=num, SorTedtext=...) bug for num=1
  • Fix: RegEx line-end expressions
  • Fix: Export multiple matrices of unequal length from DLG
• 3.63.0 (2010-01-07)
  • New: RegEx (Regular Expressions) search in EDIT, script, and MatrixExplorer
  • New: INDEX() options: count occurences, RegEx, and length_found after RegEx
  • New: OPEN(FIle=..., SEQuential, UNFormatted) stream I/O, faster than BINary option
  • New: BEEP() generates/plays/stores WAV files instead obsolete system speaker
  • New: unsigned integer binary formats ibu1, ibu2, ibu4
  • New: string(i) returns string character i, same as string(i:i)
  • New: string(from:to) with to < from returns empty string
  • Changed: Demo music.hic with circle of fifths: new synthesizer control
  • Fix: Minor bugs
• 3.62.3 (2009-02-10)
  • New: MatrixExplorer file save algorithm faster by a factor of about 1000
  • Fix: A few minor bugs
• 3.62.2 (2009-01-18)
  • New: LEN_TRIM(array)
  • Fix: File menu selections unreliable for changed directories
  • Fix: READ(ClipBoard) extra_long_string : string was truncated depending on history
  • Fix: PictureFormat bug for time/date i/o
• 3.62.1 (2008-11-20)
  • New: context sensitive help in HTML is complete now. All files are also contained in the download file and are available offline as well.
  • New: MatrixExplorer with trackbar column headers for cluster sorting
  • New: A number of minor improvements
  • Fix: A few minor bugs
• 3.62.0 (2008-02-10)
  • New: context sensitive help in HTML (part I). All files are also contained in the download file and are available offline as well.
  • New: Installation directories are standard conforming now
  • New: system variables $CR,$LF,$CRLF,$TAB
  • New: Concatenation operator "//" for mixed strings and numericals
  • New: MatrixExplorer got many improvements
  • New: progress bar and track bar in DLG now also vertical
  • New: EDIT options Word and WordEnd
  • New: EDIT arbitrary lexical marks
  • New: EDIT option SortDelDoubles
  • New: EDIT option AppendTo
  • Changed: all dialogs have sysmenu
  • Changed: arbitrary separators in picture format, radio button titles, menu, listbox, combobox
  • Fix: length limit for e-mail body from SYSTEM
  • Fix: AXIS and Panel grid
  • Fix: parse null strings in EDIT
  • Fix: EDIT insert trimmed string
• 3.61.3 (2006-12-10)
  • New: Demo music.dem with circle of fifths: window design, pixel graphics, mouse i/o, synthesizer control
  • New: Strings with more than 255 characters can now be edited in context-sensitive help
  • New: SYSTEM(RUN [=0]) as 1st statement starts autorun script
  • New: SORT(..., Option=...) to allow case sensitive sort of text columns
  • New: MatrixExplorer/More/Sort has case checkbox now
  • Changed: non-printable characters in DLG(Edit=...) show except CHAR(0)
  • Changed: slightly changed syntax for BEEP(...)
  • Fix: step out of function after dialog escape
  • Fix: tool tips for dummy arguments
  • Fix: prevent overwriting imported constants in help dialogs
  • Fix: A few minor bugs
• 3.61.2 (2006-09-30)
  • New: 1280 byte/item limit removed from MatrixExplorer and WRITE(Message,..) ...
  • New: WRITE(.., DeCoRation='LI=...') got penup character (multiple polylines in 1 statement)
  • New: Improved user guidance thru Tutorial
  • Changed: MatrixExplorer column headers are 2 lines now
  • Fix: Lost temporary values after multiple XEQ(...) commands in a row could lead to crash
  • Fix: Invalid authentication for Tutorial.dem
  • Fix: Missing error message for failed file delete
  • Fix: File MatrixExplorer.txt missing in setup
  • Fix: A few minor bugs
• 3.61.1 (2006-08-29)
  • Fix: Printing could lead to a frozen main window in certain cases
• 3.61.0 (2006-08-27)
  • New: MatrixExplorer is a real editor now for almost all files with recurring record structure. Records need not have constant lengths, mixed binary and formatted elements are possible.
  • New: MatrixExplorer with full undo/redo
  • New: Improved ( MatrixExplorer) printing
  • New: Find/Filter in MatrixExplorer or OPEN now with multi-column equal, and, or, not, <, >
  • New: default separator in OPEN(Matrixfile, Format='...') is ","
  • New: Zero width format F0.d selects smallest possible field width with d decimals
  • New: WINDOW(..., ForeGround=handle, ...) to set dialogs or windows to foreground
  • New: MatrixExplorer background colors vary intensity between rows
  • New: POP(..., Poptype=-1, ...) deactivates a mouse initiated popup menu
  • New: context sensitive help for all DLG() optional keywords
  • New: DLG(...; Button="somefilename.bmp", ...)
  • New: extended picture format
  • Changed: CHAR(0) in dialog boxes prints as "." now
  • Fix: cntl + tab to move thru windows and dialogs
  • Fix: incorrect time read for direct read with U-format
  • Fix: Warning if file opened as sequential for MatrixExplorer does not end with CR and/or LF
  • Fix: Magnify MatrixExplorer numeric cell showed binary representation
  • Fix: numeric near search in MatrixExplorer column
  • Fix: INDEX( matrixfile, num_or_txt ) for matrixfile opened and sorted in MatrixExplorer
  • Fix: Matrixfile with repeat specifier > 1 and space separator
  • Fix: String edit with illegal numeric format caused MatrixExplorer to crash
  • Fix: Free Format ='Fw' did not allow exponential constants
  • Fix: Matrixfile rows with mixed fixed and variable length cells
  • Fix: Changing Character strings in Help dialog blanked other strings in some cases
  • Fix: a number of minor bugs
• 3.60.0 (2005-08-16)
  • New: DLG(... the new MatrixExplorer ...) got most of our time. We think it was worth the effort. Previous DLG keywords MatrixFormat, MatrixColumns, asC1, asC2, asC3, File, MatrixListbox, MatrixInDeX are now contained in the standard keywords Edit, Button, Checkbox, etc. New keywords with MatrixExplorer are Format, ColTitle, RowTitle, ColSel, RowSel, ZeroBlank
  • New: 8-byte integers are supported now with the ib8 format.
  • New: OPEN() with Format keyword indexes a file now if record lengths are variable
  • New: SORT() works with indexed files and with MatrixExplorer
  • New: numerous minor improvements
  • Fix: more than 50 minor bugs
• 3.50.1 (2004-09-01)
  • New: INDEX(...) and EDIT(...) both have the "verify" option now
  • New: EDIT(..., SPR=seps, Parse=subtext, ...) without Mark assigns next seps-separated word to subtext
  • New: LINE(..., Symbol=string, ...) will use 1st character of string as plotting symbol
  • New: APPENDIX( chaptername [, line1, [line2]] ) options line1 and line2
  • New: ALARM(1) waits for any keyboard or mouse action now
  • Fix: SYSTEM(RUN=string) works now like expected for a command line string
  • Fix: DLG(...) will finally have correct width also with proportional fonts
  • Fix: A few minor bugs
• 3.50.01 (2004-08-14)
  • Fix: Lookahead typing in APPENDIX section could cause part of the script to become non-executable
• 3.50.0 (2004-08-12)
  • New: Adjustable "on-the-go" help (tooltip or/and status bar)
  • New: Context sensitive look ahead typing for symbolic names, keywords, functions, options
  • New: Help window "demo" buttons start directly the appropriate tutorial procedure
  • New: Improved data management for shorter and faster code
  • New: $CMD_LINE globally available system variable holds command line string (if any)
  • New: "hicest.exe myfile.hic RUN=my parameters" starts myfile in run mode
  • New: WRITE(..., COLumnS=num) ... for automatic multi-column display and print
  • New: EDIT(..., SortColumn1=num) sort starts at column num (default is 1)
  • New: Tutorial Demos/Graphics/Contours demo
  • New: Tutorial Demos/InOut/ Colors and multi-columns demo
  • Fix: LINE(..., BackColor=...) contour plot now without Symbol= setting possible
  • Fix: LINE(...Y=yvalue, NoZero=1) error when first yvalue was 0
  • Fix: AXIS(mouse sensitive) and AXIS(mouse ignoring) alternating between mouse clicks
  • Fix: FUNCTION body without explicit assignment to FUNCTION name
  • Fix: INDEX(string_without_blanks, ' ') without the trailing blanks option
  • Fix: EDIT(Text=original, ..., SortedText=sorted) works now for 0 or 1 items in original as well
  • Fix: Allocation error on menu File/New/Escape
• 3.41.0 (2004-06-01)
  • New: REAL [[, PARAMETER] ::] variable=value
  • array(dim1[,dim2]) [, variable=value
  • array(dim1[,dim2])]
  • New: DIMENSION array(n) with n defined in preceding REAL or DATA statement
  • New: CHARACTER _
  • with n defined in preceding REAL or DATA statement
  • New: WRITE(..., Format='UWWW CCYY-MM-DD', ...) ... ! converts e.g. to "Sat 2004-04-24"
  • New: TIME(..., WeekDay=string, WeekDay=number, ...)
  • New: AXIS(..., TIME='MM/DD', ...) labels month/day or any other out of "CCYYMMDDHHmmSSsss"
  • New: LINE(Y=yVect) ! (no X=..), yVect is plotted vs its index
  • New: string(startposition : ) same as string(startposition : LEN(string)). This is the Fortran substring standard.
  • Changed: LINE() properties now automatically reset by relevant AXIS() call
  • Fix: regular AXIS() scaling problem after preceding AXIS(..., Time=..., )
  • Fix: extra carriage return / line feed characters with tool "new template"
• 3.40.7 (2004-04-20)
  • Fix: Occasional memory leak when expanding existing array
  • Fix: SYSTEM(RUN=FileNameWithSpaces)
• 3.40.6 (2004-04-03)
  • New: INIT(...) deletes now "&"//CarriagereturnLinefeed//blanks to allow continuation lines
  • New: INIT(...) allows arrays for initialization now
  • New: WRITE(..., FMT=" 123 rightAligned 1.234E+00", ...) i, txt, a ! write picture format supported now
  • Fix: A few minor bugs
  • New example: curve and contour digitizer "Click data from image"
  • Changed example: Water and carbon dioxide (CO2 H2O) thermodynamic equilibra (Peng Robinson)
• 3.40.5 (2004-03-17)
  • New: vector = data_file(column_nr) to read a full column of the direct access matrix file "data_file"
  • New: EDIT(T=text,..., Mark1, ..., Parse=subtext, ...) assigns text(Mark1:current_position) the substring subtext
  • New: LINE(..., X=xvec, Y=yvec, BackColor=..., ...) paints the area spanned by vectors xvec and yvec
  • New: LINE(...Text=xyz, ...) xyz may be string or numeric now
  • New: LINE(...X=x, Y=y, Text=xyz, Draw=type, ...) type: x, y in scale units or as character column, row
  • New: AXIS(...) improved automatic scale numbering
  • New: AXIS(..., MouSeAxis=axNr, ...) returns xy-graph index to handle more than 1 mouse sensitive graph
  • New: DLG(..., MatrixColumn=..., ...) recognizes the vertical bar | as new row placeholder
  • Changed: WINDOW(...) without WINdowhandle=... option refers to main window now (instead new window)
  • Fix: SORT(...,Column=...,Groups=N, ..., CLUSter=cvec) subgroup digits now always same as digits of N
  • Fix: Only popup OR menubar dropdown possible in child window
  • Fix: POP(..., Owner=window_handle, ...) depended upon currently active window
  • Fix: Array element as actual parameter could lead to crash
  • Fix: Find/Mark/Index "word only" at end of search string
  • Fix: Saving a script.tmp script if more than 2 script_
  • files exist in current directory
  • Fix: INTPOL(..., XVector=x, ...) decreasing x
  • Fix: Missing error message for value = file_matrix(row, col) with col <= 0
  • Fix: Error return label for optional keyword functions with assigned function result
• 3.40.4 (2004-01-08)
  • Fix: USE keyword as only token in a line produced crash
  • Fix: More efficient flush write buffer
  • Fix: Newly appended file matrix elements could only be re-read after flush buffer
  • Fix: Time format U msec rounding error
  • Fix: Crash on Time format U applied to strings shorter than required in U
  • Fix: File in script directory other than start directory could not be reopened after system crash
  • Fix: Trailing comments not color coded
• 3.40.3 (2003-12-14)
  • New: SYSTEM(cmd=string) calls command interpreter
  • New: Shorter scripts will no longer display reminders to register in run mode
  • New: Current directory is now the script directory (was the start directory)
  • Fix: New symbolic names in procedures needed recompile on return
• 3.40.2 (2003-11-11)
  • Fix: Print was deactivated while running image _
  • hcc
  • Fix: Temporary argument to calls may have lost address.
• 3.40.1 (2003-11-04)
  • Fix: The focus cell of a disk file spreadsheet moved incorrectly in some cases.
  • Fix: The disk file spreadsheet height= option allocated 1 line too much in cache.
  • Fix: Asynchronous alarm subroutines F2...F9 could not be restarted when in a previous call the error handler was activated and the subroutine was not terminated properly.
  • Fix: Stack reallocation during initial compilation now automatic instead of error message.
  • Fix: Initial allocations reset now the same as default allocations after setup.
• Predecessor versions of HicEst that were never available to the public:
  • 1.x (VISCO, nuclear chemistry process simulation, DOS)
  • 2.x (VISCO-II, chemical engineering Fortran interpreter, DOS)
  • 3.0 - 3.34 ( HicEst, General purpose Fortran interpreter, Windows)