ORG-14520

ORG-15307

ORG-14265

Object Manager Improvements:

• Bold active dataset 
• Context menu to set as active

Help: Open Folders to easily navigate to the folder in Windows Explorer

Tabs are added on the top of Apps bar for easier navigating to apps. Users are able to create, remove or rename a tab.

Origin start to support Chinese GUI from 2017 SR1.

ORG-15774

ORG-15775

ORG-14889

ORG-14989

Help: Programming submenus are brought back (SR1)

• LabTalk
• Origin C
• X-Functions
• etc

We hide them in Origin 2017 SR0 but user felt it's hard to find only LabTalk Helps, etc.

So we bring the submenus back.

ORG-15711

ORG-15711

Help: Contact Support... menu is updated (SR1)

ORG-15970

More Import data types are added to File: Importcollapsible menu by default (SR1)

ORG-15516

ORG-15743

1. Version of current Origin Central dialog shows in bottom-left corner of Origin Central dialog.
2. If new graph and analysis samples are available, when openning Origin Central dialog, a prompt is given to user to get the updates. Choose Yes will download new samples and update the Origin Central dialog to a newer version.
3. Show big Origin Blog and User Forum icons in Learning Center tab.

ORG-15997

Before Origin 2017 SR1, the image preview for many XFs related to image processing is at the bottom of the dialog. This makes it awkward to use:

• The dialog opens with controls hidden by image
• When user starts stretching the dialog part, image gets smaller
• When both are adjusted, the dialog plus preview can be really tall, and may cause issues on some monitors

ORG-14280

ORG-14903,

ORG-14773

• Show Statistics Bar such as mean, max, sum, etc.

• Connect mean points, data points or other percentiles (after beta1)

The Line Series plot has been redone in Origin 2017 and is based on box plot. No hidden sheet is created. Changing raw data will update the graph. 

It has more customization options, such as

• Indexing line/symbol colors by data in another column from the raw datasheet. 
• Set symbol position by numeric values in column label row.
  
  
  
  

• From Plot menu, there is a new plot type Trellis Plot in 2D category to plot multi-panel grouped plot.
• In the dialog that opened, user can choose plot type and where the horizontal and vertical panel info. is from.
• No extra sheets are created for such plot. 
• New tick label type Panel Banner is added for trellis plot
• Panel tab is added on plot level of Plot Detail dialog. User can further customize, such as
  • Add, delete, modify horizontal and vertical panel columns
  • Overlap panels and wrap panels
  • Add Gap between panels
  • Use Alternate Side to show ticks and labels
    etc.
    
    

• Different bar shapes for 3D Bars
  
  
  
• Group plots in 3D XYZ scatter, XYZ bars and Matrix Bars
  
  
• Stacked 3D XYY and XYZ Bars.
  
  
  

%(1, @LA), means the Y column long name of 1st plot

%(1X, @LA), means the X column long name of 1st plot

When there is a connection between tick and plot(major tick type=By plot column label. The position setting of plot is set to auto or the same column label of major tick type. ), ? means the related plot. Otherwise, ? will use the setting of Data Plot Index for Auto Axis Titles in Page level.

For Box plot, if the connect line color of data points indexing by a column, Legend:Categorical values dialog should show Line Color checkbox, select it will show the categorical info of connect line.

ORG-14184

ORG-14423

• Annotation toolbar button is moved out of the Data Reader group to make it more obvious.
• Double click annotation will show a new dialog with more controls: Text, Frame, Leader line, Position and Programming.
• Press Alt key and drag annotation text to move it to new location with text updated.
  
  
  

ORG-15808

ORG-15724

Allows half-point font size such as 10.5, etc. (SR1)

ORG-11202

Default values of the following system variables are changed in Origin 2017 SR1

• @lcg to 2 – line object
• @lca to 2 – axis line

New system variable @lcr (default is 1) to set the cap of rectangle or legend or text frame
0 = Line cap round 
1 = Line cap square 
2 = Line cap flat

ORG-10621

ORG-14620

ORG-15071

We have used our default black, red, blue, green color scheme for many versions. Some users felt the default are not good.

A new system theme Candy Colors & Light Grids is created so when plotting common 2D graphs, e.g. line, scatter, line+symbol, column/bar, box chart, etc. the new color scheme will be used.

Note: All 3D graphs and some 2d graphs don't allow system theme to override so when plotting those, it will still use the old color scheme and color palette.

ORG-14136

Subgroup control in Unbalanced Grouped Column Plot

• Show major gridlines in unbalanced group column plot
• Set Gaps between subsets by Column instead of fixed size

ORG-14637

New system variable added to define filtering with categorical data

ORG-13413

ORG-15033

ORG-15714

ORG-16035

Better Increment List control of different plot types when plotting multiple data together.(SR1)

ORG-15987

See more http://originlab.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26067

User has X, Y and Label Data and wants to plot line+symbol graph but show each symbol as a horizontal bar and the lines should connect edges of the bars. It's hard to implement for Line+symbol graph since the line always connect to center of the points, plus even if implemented, horizontal bar width isn't adjustable.

We made the following improvements in Origin 2017 Sr1 so that user can achieve this by floating column graph.

Add Bar Graph show Zero Values checkbox on Graph tab of Tools: Options dialog to show an horizontal line if floating bar from and to values are the same.

page.BarShowZero=-1 (follow Tools: Options settings) , 0 (do not show), 1 (show)

Support connect lines between floating column/bars. Open Plot Details dialog. Select Layer on left panel. Go to Stack tab. Check Show Connect Line on Stacked/Floating Column/Bar checkbox. This checkbox was only working for stacked column/bars and was called Show Connect Line on Stacked Column/Bar in the past.

User can go to Spacing tab to and set Gap Between Bars to adjust bar width.

Easier way to push change layer drawing orders.

Enable Merge Graphs toolbar button when active window is workbook since user can merge embedded graphs in workbook.

When Merge Type is Specified, enable ... button for for embedded graphs.

ORG-15925

ORG-14874

ORG-14316

More options in Rescale dropdown list on Scale tab

ORG-1393

ORG-15039

Easy way to add multiple reference lines and share in between.

ORG-14807

ORG-13704

ORG-13862

ORG-15176

New Axis dialog for Radar, 2D Waterfall, Smith Chart, Polar, Ternary and 3D Ternary.

To use old Axis dialog, turn off bit 0x00000010 of @ADL.

ORG-15685

White Out checkbox is added on Format subtab of Tick Labels tab in Axis dialog

ORG-3127

ORG-7365

@LC3P=-1, Default. Old behavior. Semi-Circle

@LC3P= 0, compatible with OLineCap. Round

@LC3P= 1, Square

@LC3P= 2, Flat

With this feature, users are able to use thick dropline in projection plane as 3D bars on projection.

ORG-13301

The following plot types are supported

• 3D XYZ Scatter
• 3D XYZ Bars
• 3D Matrix Bars

So user can easily set group increments of plot attributes

ORG-14245

Support all 2D objects in 3D OpenGL graph, such as

ORG-15690

Click anywhere inside layer frame to select the layer. Then

1. "tab" to switch among the operation buttons (the last fix position button is not operation type) .
2. "x" to fix in x direction (rotate, resize, skew)
3. "y" to fix in y direction (rotate, resize, skew)
4. "z" to fix in z direction (rotate, resize)
5. "q" to fix in screen rotate.
6. "w" to fix in all 3 directions resize or rotate.
7. "shift+z" to fix in xy resize; "shift+y" to fix in xz resize; "shift+x" to fix in yz resize.

ORG-15646

ORG-14497

Save Analysis template will not save masking info. in input data since mask should really be associated with the data.

To save mask in template, set @atcm=0

ORG-16024

Output quantity names in results log are consistent with names in dialog

E.g. Integrate tool. names used in results log are very simply, e.g. y0, x0, dx and user doesn't know what quantities they are. They are actually "Maximum Height", "X Value in Maximum Height" and "Peak Width at Half Height". So now in SR1, the Results Log output names contains both e,g. y0 (Maximum Height) = 15.6239....

ORG-13349

In the past, if we hide a column and then make a plot or do analysis, the graph or analysis result still contain the data which belongs to the hidden column(e.g. may not show in graph, but just unchecked).

In Origin 2016, we could directly ignore the data in hidden column when making a plot. And now, if we do analysis using tools with input as XY Range or XYZ Range, such as Average Multiple Curves, Nonlinear Curve Fit, Nonlinear Surface Fit tool, the data in hidden column will not show in the result.

For operation that output result to a whole worksheet and locked, following operations are disallowed on the result sheet.

• Insert column
• Create new column
• Set Column Value

ORG-15124

Fitting: Easier Initial Formula for parameters in Fitting Function

ORG-12781

ORG-14128

Fitting: 

New, Add and Search function buttons on Settings → Function Selection tab.

Show Recalculation Mode dropdown list above all tabs

ORG-13909

Fitting: < and > two buttons in Parameters tab to switch between sets of parameters to compare fitting result

E.g. if you click 1 Iteration multiple times, you can click < and > buttons multiple times to see parameter value changes.

Add more Exponential association fitting functions with time offset parameter: ExpAssoc1, ExpAssoc2, ExpAssocDelay1,ExpAssocDelay2 under Exponential category.

Add three fitting functions for Photosynthesis Irradiance (PI) curve : PIPlatt, PIPlatt2, PIWebb under Exponential category

Add 3d Curve Functions: Helix and Line3 under in Multiple Variables category.

ORG-13215

ORG-15275

ORG-15072

ORG-15040

ORG-9939

ORG-15402 S1

Lower case i and j refer to row number and column number respectively, while upper case I and J refer to column I and J respectively. Lower case letter, except for i and j, will be converted to its upper case automatically matching the existing column. New system variable @AUN = Auto UpperCase Name is added and default is 1 = ON.

XLColName is not only available to LabTalk script but also available in OriginC now.

In Custom Data Filter dialog → Filter → Load Samples list, add the following statistics filters

• Discard Min and Max (for "Modified Mean")
• Within Interquartile (Q1-Q3)
• Within Interdecile (10%-90%)

In previous version, hidden row is treated as missing value. Now we improved it to treated as skipped by default.

System variable @GMH has been changed to have 3 options: -1 (default), 0, 1. -1 means to follow the hidden rows option on Worksheet Properties dialog.

Almost all analysis tools are well support hidden rows now. Please note that, when creating output, the output data will be placed in visible rows on destination sheet only.

For LabTalk access, hidden row is not considered in previous version. Now we changed it to follow the @GMH value, which meanshidden rows will be skipped by default.

ORG-16061

User may not know they can they can  right click on column label row header to add user parameters. 

In Origin 2017 SR1,

1. Double click on Long Name, Units or Comments (row header) will open Move to User Parameter dialog. User can specify User Defined Parameter name and contents will be moved there.
2. Double click on User-defined parameter rows will open Rename dialog so user can rename it.
3. Right click a row header and choose Add User Parameters will open a dialog for user to specify name. In the past, it will create a UserDefined row and user needs to right click to rename.

ORG-4592

Support splitting partial range in worksheet. When splitting worksheet, user may only want to show some columns in the result sheets. In the past, all columns will be kept in result sheets which will not really needed and will cause slowness.

Allow presetting result sheet names. In the past, the result sheets were named as Sheet1, Sheet2, etc. Now a new option is added so user can preset the result sheet name. For example, use reference column's values, or dataset name, etc. as sheet name.

ORG-16082

When turn on Spreadsheet Cell Notation in workbook, user can use This keyword in Set Column Values dialog to indicate current column itself. E.g. Total(This) will calculate the sum of current column. Also, This can have numeric suffix for cell reference, so This1 is the 1st cell, similar to A1.

In Set Column Values dialog, This keyword is also added under the Variables menu for easy access.

ORG-12995

ORG-12978

Excel Import has been redone and no longer relies on the COM for import of *.xls and .xlsx/.xlsm files.

In practical terms, this means that you no longer have to have MS Excel installed to import your Excel files into Origin.

It only supports "Excel 97-2003" and "Excel 2007 and later"

ORG-12995

ORG-12978

Excel Import has been redone and no longer relies on the COM for import of *.xls and .xlsx/.xlsm files.

In practical terms, this means that you no longer have to have MS Excel installed to import your Excel files into Origin.

It only supports "Excel 97-2003" and "Excel 2007 and later"

Data in multi-channel wav file can be imported in Origin 

Note: Partial Import and meta data(long name ect) have not been supported yet

ORG-14704

ORG-12887

ORG-15418

ORG-15962

Rescale Axes and Colormap Controls during Batch Plotting (SR1)

ORG-15213

ORG-8537

ORG-15491

We have added support for dialogs using HTML and Java Script.
Several examples are provided in  this zip file. Extract the zip file to a folder on your computer.

Brief explanation on the examples and how to execute them:

1. Dialog with a Graph
   1. Load and compile the file  HTMLGraphDlg.cpp into Code Builder, right click the User Folder and choose Add Files..
   2. Set up a worksheet with XY columns with data, and select the two columns
   3. From script window, call the function: HTMLSample
2. Google Map
   1. Load and compile OGoogleMap.cpp to Code Builder User folder
   2. From script window, call the function OpenGoogleMapDlg
      NOTE: This example uses IE, and may have issues with specific versions of IE. We are looking into it.
3. Simple Calculator
   1. Load and compile Calculator.cpp to Code Builder User folder
   2. From script window, call the function OriginCalculator_Main
4. Stock Chart
   1. Open the Origin Project: Apple.opj
   2. Press the Dialog button

Origin C GETN supports opening specific page of CHM file.

X-Function supports opening specific page of CHM file by ID.

Add Origin C command to save the active project

BOOL Save( LPCSTR lpcszFilename = NULL, BOOL bRename = true)

ORG-16120

All dataset variables in LabTalk used to be numeric. "dataset -a name" is used to create a StringArray dataset for users getting dataset names back from X-Functions.

Support more options for set -pfv command in LabTalk. For example, Fill to next data plot - one color is now can be generated using "set %C -pfv 8; set %C -pf 1;". Note: set fill mode first then turn the fill area option on.

To control fill to next mode, use "set %C -pfn nn;" where nn = 1 for Common X Area and nn = 2 for Area Enclosed by End Points.

ORG-15135

Labtalk: LabTalk command added to set fill pattern by name

double HaversineDistance(double lon1, double lat1, double lon2, double lat2, double r, bool bDegree)

This function takes the longitudes and latitudes of two points on a sphere with radius r, returns the great-circle distances between them. Option degree determines whether to use degree or radian as the unit of longitudes and latitudes.

add_sys_vars function is added which needs to be used after run -oc, like run -oc add_sys_vars XCA|RCN 0|0

macro clrx is now defined as doc -e WW {page.xlcolname=0;};run -oc add_sys_vars RCN 0;

page.activedataIndicator=0;  //hide image thumbnails

ORG-16014

Introduce page level variable page.v1$ ~ page.v4$ (both numeric and string are supported), User can use it to associate a variable with a page.

One example: User has multiple workbook and user want to define a workbook level variable to use in set column value calculation.

E.g. in Set Column Values dialog

Write page.v1=1.1; in Before Formula Script

In Formula box, enter e.g. page.v1*A to get the product of column A times this v1 variable.

New switches are introduced to access the Show at Specified Indices Only option for plot label in set/get command.

Syntax:

• set name -qmie value: Turn the Show at Specified Indices Only checkbox on or off
• set name -qmi dataset: Set specified indices

ORG-15049

ORG-14348

ORG-13850

Download and Install 2017 LaTex App

Support Latex in Axis title, legend, worksheet column label area

• Double click Axis Title to go into in-place edit mode. Click LaTex app to add LaTex
• Use \q() escape sequence to add LaTex.
  • Adding LaTex with \q() in column long name, units, comments, etc and see LaTex in legend and axis titles in graph. See column long name and legend below.
  • Check Rich Text for column label row style to see rendered LaTex in worksheet. See Comments below.
  • Use \q() to add laTex in any text object.

In LaTex Equation Editor, click f(x) to load Latex equation of fitting function

System Variable:The read-only system variable @OLCID is added

New system variable @OLCID is added to return the locale of the resource which Origin is currently running. In English mode @OLCID = 1033; in German mode @OLCID = 1031; in Japanese mode @OLCID = 1041.

A new system variable @MRU is added to disable the most recent used menu item. Default is @MRU = 7, means all enabled.

• 1 = Enable plot menu MRU
• 2 = Enable analysis menu MRU
• 4 = Enable loading theme into menu

A new system variable @EC is added to control the closing procedure. Default is @EC = 0, means exiting Origin normally.

• 0 = Normal
• 1 = Do not close current project
• 2 = Do not exit current instance
• 4 = Do not dump closing message about @EC to Message Log

Note: @EC can be a combination of these controlling bits to produces cumulative effects.