Origin 2023 Features

ORG-25449

Improvements on Export Graph (Advanced)

Hotkey Ctrl+Alt+G to export with last used theme and clickable link on messages log to view exported graph

• With Graph widow active, press hotkey Ctrl+Alt+G to export graph with last used theme, no need to open the dialog.

• After export graph, file path dumped to Messages Log is clickable to view the exported graph

ORG-25298

More skip data points options in plot

Smart skip point options based on data density and shape

For scatter plot or line+symbol plot, go to Drop Lines tab.

Two smart skip options are added. Smart Skip(Total Points Kept) keeps the number of points set and skips the other points based on data density and shape. Smart Skip(% of Points Skipped) keeps the percentage of points set and skips the other points based on data density and shape.

System variable @smm determines the method used for smart skip:

^{0: Largest Triangle}

^{1: Y-threshold}

^{2: Data Distance Threshold}

^{3: Douglas-Peucker-Hull}

^{4: Largest Triangle for Segments(default)}

LT controlled can be used to specify starting skip points. In the example below, 10 means start to perform skip from the 10th row in the workbook data.

layer.plot1.symbol.skipstart=10

ORG-25233

Toggle layer, plot & graphic object’s selectability

Mini toolbar button to set layer, plot or graphic objects selectable or not

• Set plot, graphic object or layer and to unselectable so user can not click to select it in graph and edit it with mini toolbar or regular toolbars, etc.

• Click the item in Object Manager is always supported. User can then use the mini toolbar button to turn selectabilty back on

• Corresponding Labtalk property for graphic objects object.mouse=0 not selectable or 1 selectable

• For layers in graphs, selectability can also be globally (it is an Origin setting) prohibited by setting @grls=0

ORG-25355

Avoid using Function plot as Axis title unless it’s the only plot

Data Plot Index for Auto Axis Titles should exclude function plot unless it's the only one

When there are multiple plots (no matter data plot or function plot), Origin uses the 1st plot’s long name, unit as axis title. See the Data Plot Index for Auto Axis Titles dropdown list on Legends/Titles tab of graph node of Plot Details dialog.

So if user moves function plot as the 1st plot in graph window, F1 will show as axis title. In Origin 2023, we will skip using function plot as axis title unless it’s the only plot in graph.

Use system variable @fpt=1 to roll back to the old behavior.

ORG-24990

Batch Plotting Short Name

Better handling of Batch Plotting Short Name numbers.

Short Name starting with G09 will increment to G10 instead of G010.

ORG-20137

Data highlight mode when switching to worksheet

System variable to quit data highlight mode when switch to worksheet

Set system variable @QDHT=1, data highlight some data points in graph and switch to worksheet, escape the data highlight mode and allow to plot directly with parial data selected

Default value is 0, data highlight mode keeps when swicth to worksheet

ORG-25354

Hide Legend for Function Plots

Option to hide function plot entries in legend

In previous version, function plot would always show in legend. In Origin 2023, a context menu is added to Hide Function Plots in legend.

ORG-25285

In-place edit for wrapped text object

For wrapped text, if not long, double click will enter in-place edit mode. For very long text, open Text Object dialog

• In the past, if text was wrapped, double click it would always open Text Object dialog. In Origin 2022b system variable @tlip (default 80) is added. If text length is less than it, double click will allow in-place edit.

• In the past, if text wasn’t wrapped, double click would always enter in-place edit mode. In Origin 2022b system variable @tlipn (default 60) is added for text not wrapped as well. If text length is longer than it, Text Object dialog will open.

ORG-25211

More Image Window ROI Tools

Recalculate ROI (Rectangle) to copy to matrix/graph with proper XY coordinates.

• Import an image and use Rectangle tools to select Region of Interest (ROI)

• Right-click ROI and choose Create Lined Matrix

• Drag the ROI and see the linked the image to show updated ROI

ORG-25350

Fit Layers to Page more accurate

Boundary is more accurate after fitting layers to page and LabTalk command is added

The margin for Fit Layer to Page is more accurate in graph.

Users can use Labtalk command to specify each margin separately.

-ml value // for left margin
-mt value // for top margin
-mr value // for right margin
-mb value // for bottom margin

All the margin values can be negative if necessary. So, for example, users graph the following will make it look tighter to also accommodate for text object rectangles of the axis titles being too large.

page -FLS -u -c 3 -ml -0.005 -mt 0.001 -mb -0.005 -mr 0.001

ORG-25023

Keep Graph and Worksheet size in layout window when copy and paste

Hold Alt key and then paste graph or worksheet in layout to another layout window to keep the size

We added the hot key Alt when copying and pasting images among layout or graph windows.

It’s extended to graph and worksheet object in layout window.

So copy the graph or worksheet object in one layout.

Then in another layout window with different page, size, press Alt key and then right click to Paste.

The graph/worksheet object size will be kept in new layout window.

ORG-25233

MT button for Selectable

Support mini toolbar selectable button for Graph objects in Layer, like plot, text object

Click it, Graph objects in Layer will not be selectable, can press Ctrl+Z to undo or click it in Object Manager

ORG-23765

More bracket shapes

Two more bracket shapes added

• Use Mini toolbar to change bracket shape.

• Drag the red anchors for curvation and brace.

ORG-25214

3D plot improvements

Extend the minimum Z axis length to 10%

In previous versions, Z axis length can only be shrunk to 25% of full length. In Origin 2023, it can the minimum value can be 10%

ORG-25213

More 3d layer mini toolbar buttons

Auto Rescale control added.

For 3D, it’s a dropdown list,

For 2D, it’s a checkbox

ORG-22648

Build Color more improvement

We can interpolate according to selection, by group and merge color lists/ palettes.

We add Base Color radio option, with All and Selection as options. All means all color in build color dialog. Selection means current selection in left panel of build color.

• if there is only one selection, no need to show this option.

• If user's selection is not continuous, new colors should be from 1st selection.

Support Interpolate by group option. So user could specified number of group members, and interpolate within group.

Select more than 2 color lists/palettes in left or right panel of Color Manager, right click could show a option Merge Colors.

ORG-25363

Plot Data by Sorted X

Added a LabTalk command to toggle line plots by worksheet order or sorted x

Added the LabTalk command layer.plot1.line.sortx=

• =0, by worksheet order

• =1, by sorted x
  

  

ORG-25300

GUI to manage Symbol Map Unicode Symbols

Add Gear icon on top-right corner of simple symbol map.

• Add…: popup a small dialog to fill Unicode code in editbox, could be one or multiple, separated by space. Append symbols to active tab.

• Delete…: same as add dialog, but it will delete. We can also provide a button to select symbols in main dialog to return the code to editbox.

• Reorder: select it will disable all other options, user could drag and drop cells in grid to reorder.

• Reset to Factory Default: this will simply backup the UFF version and copy EXE over, for the current tab.

• Append from Factory Default: this will fill in those deleted from EXE but keep user’s, for the current tab.

ORG-22637

Banded Rows in Worksheet

Alternate row column fill color

Click on upper-left corner of worksheet to turn on/off banded rows and set Banded Rows Color and show color on even or odd rows.

Labtalk property for worksheet:

wks.band=0 - off, or 1 - on

System variables to control banding color and if it shows on odd or even rows:

@WBC - RGB color

@WBE=0 -odd rows, or 1 - even rows

ORG-22868

Freeze Panes

Freeze rows and columns in worksheet

Freeze row or column makes navigating worksheet much easier.

• View: Unfreeze/Freeze Panes menu or Ctrl+Shift+F hotkey

• Click a single cell, column or row and use mini toolbar to freeze panes

• Click upper-left corner of worksheet to unfreeze panes

  

ORG-23417

Protect Worksheet

Disable Editing of worksheet by adding a lock on sheet

• Mini toolbar bar button is added to disable/enable editing of sheet.

Lock icon shows in front of sheet name

• Select multiple sheet tabs and right click to protect

• Choose Preferences: Protect Sheet Options menu to customize protection exceptions.

ORG-14088

Worksheet Cell Rich Text and Wrapping

Allow rich text wrap in worksheet cell

Origin 2023 allow wrapping rich text in worksheet cell.

Use Wrap text context menu or Wrap Text checkbox on Format tab of Worksheet Properties dialog.

Note: Text will not be wrapped in in-place edit mode.

ORG-25184

Drag and drop multiple sheets

Move multiple sheets to another book or new book by drag and drop

Shift+select or Ctrl+click sheet tabs to select multiple sheets. Then

• Drag them to another book to move it.

• Drag to workspace to move them to a new book.

There is also Move to New Book or Selected Book in Navigate Worksheets dialog.

Set system variable @sdms=0 to roll back to old behavior of disabling it.

ORG-25369

Reduce/Combine Duplicated Rows Improvement

Select multiple reference columns added

Select multiple reference columns for row sum.

X-Function: wdeldup

ORG-25249

Better default setting when export GeoTIFF files

We have a default geo information setting in the exporting matrix as image dialog when it is tif type.

default settings of exporting GeoTIFF, from both matrix and image window, are updated as following:

1. GT Model = Geodetic

2. EPSG = 4326

3. Angular Units = Degree

4. Linear Units = Meter

5. Vertical Units = Meter

ORG-25395

Autofill for Column Formula Improvements

Enumerate column part with Ctrl+drag

E.g. In Book3, set column B’s F(x) as [book1]1!B+[book2]1!B, then Ctrl+drag the tiny bottom-right corner of the F(x) cell to the right, it will column C, D, … 's formula as [book1]1!C+[book2]1!C, [book1]1!D+[book2]1!D, ….

ORG-25325

Control Gadget Button and Label Size

Support way to control default Gadget Button Size and label size

In User File Folder, open Origin.ini, find [Font], add below script to change default button size and label size.

GadgetButtonSize=**

GadgetLabelSize=**

both default value is 16

ORG-25174

Intensity Profile with small ROI issue

Added Weighted ROI option to mroiprofile dialog for tiny coordinates ROI.

If this options is checked, each pixel is weighted by the area of the intersection of the pixel rectangle and the ROI polygon.

ORG-25114

Relative Position Improvement for Linked Objects

To connect a text object to other object with relative position method, support LT way to specify which anchor, and LT way to control anchor on text frame

When connect a Text object to a Line Object, in old builds, we used Line.connect(Text,0,17,nTargetRefPt,35), nTargetRefPt=0, now support value = 26~34 to specify the 9 anchor for text object

LT way to control anchor on text frame, text.anchorontextframe=0/1, when 0, Text Object dialog: Position tab: Anchor on Text Frame is clear, when 1, Text Object dialog: Position tab: Anchor on Text Frame is checked

ORG-25024

provide a labtalk local function to generate Range variable

predefine mkrng function in ORGSYS.CNF file

Some functions doesn’t support using range string. e.g. Can’t use total(A$ + “!” + B$). In such case user can first call mkrng() to generate range variable and then use it as argument in function

mkrange() is defined as follows in ORGSYS.CNF

function range mkrng(string str)
{
    range rr = str$;
    return rr;
}

ORG-24891

Some Apps fails to work due to python package version interfere with each other

Some App need same Python Package, one need the latest version and another one need old version, in old version, both of them in same folder C:\ProgramData\OriginLab\PyPackage, it will cause compatibility issue.

Now, Origin Support multiple PyPackage folder by specify @PYP

Example to install two Apps need same Python Package, need to do the following:

1. Make sure @PYP=0, install one app like SVM Classification app.

2. Set @PYP=1, restart Origin, install another app like Empirical Mode Decomposition app. Restart Origin.

3. Empirical Mode Decomposition app should be usable under C:\ProgramData\OriginLab\PyPackage1, while SVM Classification app is available under C:\ProgramData\OriginLab\PyPackage

If you want to use the SVM Classification app, need to set @PYP=0, and restart Origin

ORG-25069

Support importing shapefile in geodetic format

Added checkbox “Convert to WGS84” to dialog.

If check “Convert to WGS84” checkbox to import, then convert the XY values from meter to longitude and latitude.

ORG-25314

CSV and Excel Connector to allow LT script post import

Added Post Import LabTalk Script option to Other Options dialog in Import Options dialog for CSV Connector and Excel Connector.

If want to run LT script to process the imported data after import. then enter the LabTalk scripts into Post Import LabTalk Script editbox in Other Options dialog, which only is available for CSV Connector and Excel Connector.

ORG-25113

Import Excel with merged cell improvements

Different treatment of merged cell in column label row and data area

If merged cell is in data comments area, the cells will be merged vertically but duplicate horizontally.

Merged cells in data area will duplicate in each cells.

System variable is @XMD (default 1 to duplicate in data area)

ORG-25322

GUI to edit user defined type Import Filter

Improve iwfilter XF to support edit Python or LT code from user defined import filter.

Open iwfilter dialog and then load user defined type Import Filter, it will show User Defined branch, underneath will be 3 branches with checkbox to enable, Python Code, Python File, Origin C.

ORG-25385

Folder and Window Navigation

Make it easier for user to navigate, seesaw (toggle folders) and add shortcuts, etc.

Folder & Windows toolbar added

• Folder Back: – go to previous folder

• Folder Forward – go to next folder

• Seesaw (Ctrl+Alt+X) – yoggle between recent two folders

• Add shortcut to previous folder (Ctrl+Shift+F7) – add active window as shortcut to previous folder

• Add shortcuts from previous folder – bring up a dialog to add windows from previous folder as shortcuts in active folder

• Arrange Windows - arrange windows in current folder using <last used> theme

• Pin Window - Pin a window so it will be excluded when arrange windows

Menu and context menu added

• Window: Seesaw (Ctrl+Alt+X) menu

• Context menu when right click window title to add shortcut to previous folder (Ctrl+Shift+F7)

• Right click a window title to pin the window.

ORG-25253

Arrange window Improvements

More improvements are added such as include minimized window or exclude pinned window in window arrangement

• Checkbox to include Minimized window option in Arrange Windows dialog

  

• Pin a window so it will be excluded when arranging windows : Right click a window to pin it or click Pin Windows button on Folder and Windows toolbar.

  

ORG-24746

Improve Shortcuts to Show Pages from two folders

Add shortcuts of windows in another folder to active folder for comparison

Only windows in active folder shows in workspace.

To compare windows in active folder with some windows in other folder,

1. Go to Project Explorer.

2. Right click the non-active folder and choose Add Shortcuts…

3. It will open a dialog for user to pick window types there to bring to active folder as shortcuts.

4. Click OK.

5. → Such windows in other folder show as shortcuts (see Home button on title bar)

6. Afterwards, user can delete such shortcut windows. Or right click the folder in Project Explorer and choose Remove Shortcuts.

ORG-25343

Restore window size

Window: Restore Window Size to restore non-maximized window size and position

After arranging window layout in a folder, user may resize or move a window.

User can choose Window: Restore window size (Ctrl+Shift+Z) to restore the window to original size and positon.

ORG-24937

Easier hot key ways to zoom and scale in

Press Z key, right-click and drag to change the scale.

Press Z key, right-click and drag to change the scale.

• right-click and drag up/down to rescale y-axis out/in.

• right-click and drag right/left to rescale x axis out/in.

ORG-25453

Easier way to save window to project folder

Provide <Project Folder> in built-in File Path list of Save Window As… dialog

In Save Window As dialog, click File Path list.

Two extra path are added related to Project Path so user can easily save window to same folder as project file or subfolder based in Project Explorer structure.

ORG-25047

Matrix Export to Image to better support GeoTIFF

There is an option in the dropdown list and default to it if we detect matrix has that info.

Besides geo info, we will check file extension as well:

i.e. import *.jpg into image window, export dialog will default to jpg too. while matrix window does not now.

ORG-25269

Raster Export Misinterprets Middle Colors of Colormap Temperature Palette

higher default color depth on export

BMP, PSD, TGA: from 256 colors to be 24-bit color.

PDF (Basic Object - Resolution): from 72 to be 96.