ORG-9847

Find Metadata in Project

Sample OPJ to try: Choose menu "File: Open Sample OPJs: Analysis"

Find in Projects Dialog

• Find folder, graph, book, sheet, column, data cell, text in graph and notes window in Project

• Double click to go to corresponding folder/window/sheet

• Click Select... button to specify what metadata to include in search

Menu and Context menu open Find in Project (F3)

• Edit: Find in Project... menu

• Right click in PE

• Right click blank workspace

Tooltip and Context menu for findings

• Mouse over the finding to read more info.

• Right click the finding to copy text, range or folder location

ORG-11432

ORG-11315 

Project Explorer Improvement: Graph Previews in Project Explorer

Graph Preview When Moussing Over

Extra Large Icons to Show Graph Previews

Note:

• To disable this feature, set system variable @PESS to -1: @PESS=-1

• To clean all the graph previews from an OPJ, run  doc -e p {win -ppc}  After doing this, when you mouse over graphs in PE, it will ask if you want to create preview for all graphs in opj.

ORG-10413

Project Explorer Improvement: Folder Comments

Project Explorer Folders now support comments just like books or graphs.

The ability to dump folder tree with descriptions has also been added to the pe_dir X-Function.

The following new variables were added to pd_dir:

1. "recursive" for searching subfolders.

2. "display", only useful when recursive=1. It has 3 options: tree, tree with description (for folder, it is Comments; for window, it is LongName), and flat (separate with CRLF)

3. "sensitive" for case sensitive.

ORG-11067 

Project Explorer Improvement: Comments tooltip when Moussing over Folder/Windows

Tooltips to Show Comments from Folders and Windows

Tooltips to Show Notes Window Contents

ORG-7727

Project Explorer Improvement: Show/Hide Column context menu

Details view in PE is now similar to Explorer and right-click will allow easy control of which column to display.

You can now also show Name column together with Long Name and Short Name.

ORG-11432

Project Explorer Improvement: In-Place Edit of Comments, Long Name, Short Name

Support in-place edit of Name, Long Name, Short Name and Comments columns in PE.

• Single click to enter in-place edit mode

• If single click not working, press Ctrl key and and single click

• Shortcut key Ctrl+Enter will start new line for multi-line comments

Edit both short name and long name in in-place edit mode of Name column.

• Mouse over the tiny button to see if you are editing long name or short name.

• Click the tiny button to switch between short or long name editing

ORG-11150

ORG-10819

ORG-7727

Other Improvements in Project Explorer

Bold Active Window Line

Easy to tell which window is active.

Follow Windows Text Sorting Criteria

In the past, sorting only takes care of numbers at the end of name.

Now even names like Graph10a, Graph1a, Graph2a will sort properly.

Duplicate Window in PE 

ORG-9889, ORG-10413, ORG-9889

Window/Folder Properties dialog Improvement

Meta data support for PE folder (Comment, User Tree)

Right click folder and choose Properties to add comments and user tree

Window Properties dialog with more common options like user variables

• Modeless dialog to easily add info. for multiple windows

• Switch between Window Properties and Folder Properties mode.

ORG-10962

Sheet Comments

When right click sheet name, we used to have a Comments... context menu to edit comments. We have changed it to Name and Comments... context menu. It opens a new dialog to edit Short Name, Long Name and Comments.

When hover over sheet tab, Short name, long name and comments all show as tooltip. It also indicates what the display name is in bold in tooltip.

ORG-10198,ORG-9668, ORG-10524, ORG-11534, ORG-11132, ORG-104, ORG-10180, ORG-10277, ORG-10312

Axis dialog Improvements

Better Layout of the Axis Dialog

• More friendly tab based dialog

• Image Icons on left for easy recognition.

• On Left panel, extra nodes e.g. bottom2, etc. only shows when Tick Labels tab is active

Second level Tabs on Tick Labels tab

• Separate Display, Format, Table and Minor TIck Labels into tabs

• Options in Miscellaneous branch are moved into Format tab

• Enter Formula for Tick Labels (used to be in Layer Mangerment db only)

• For Tick Label table, remove Independent checkboxes from 1st table row,  add Auto checkbox in other table rows.

Wrap Tick Labels

Customize Multiple Axes Together

E.g. highlight both Horizontal and Vertical icons on the left,

Set both Scale Type to Log10 together.

Control Line and Ticks Display separately

• Show checkbox in Line tab to turn off line but keep major and minor ticks.

• Customizing Color and Thickness for Major ticks and Minor ticks separately.

Customize individual special ticks

• Table in Special Ticks tab to add special ticks easily

• Click Details button for further customization of ticks and labels

Custom scale formula for 3D OpenGL axis 

ORG-10999, ORG-11246, ORG-10701, ORG-9126, ORG-11670

Other GUI Changes in Origin 2015

Graphing and Plotting

1. Split Multi-Curve menu under Plot into 3 menus: Multi-Y, Y-offset/Waterfall, and Multi-Panel   
   

   
   
   
   

2. Right-click in Layer in Plot Details to rename layer name   
   

   
   
   
   

3. Add Filepath Stamp button to easily stamp windows with project filename  
   

   
   
   
   
   

4. Exchange XY Axis button under Rescale to show All button on Graphing toolbar. 
   

   
   
   
   

5. Speed mode toggle on Graphing toolbar 
   

   

ORG-10749

Colored Paires of Parentheses in Function Formula

Origin colors the parentheses in a formula, that both closing and opening are the same color. This helps you see which ")" goes with which "(":

This is supported in dialogs that accept a formula such as:

• Set Column/Matrix Values dialog

• Function Plot dialog (2D, 2D Parametric, 3D, 3D Parametric)

  • Function Formula (expression)

  • Before Formula Script

• Plot Details dialog of Function Plot (2D, 2D Parametric, 3D, 3D Parametric)

  • Function Formula (expression)

  • Before Formula Script

• Programming Control dialog of graphic objects

  • Script, Run After

• Worksheet Script dialog

• Worksheet Query dialog

  • the Condition text box (expression)

  • the Edit Scripts dialog opened from Worksheet Query dialog

• Import Wizard dialog: Script After Import

• NLFit dialog: Script Before Fitting and Script After Fitting

• Batch Process dialog: Script after process and Script at the End

• Custom Menu Organizer dialog: LabTalk Script for menu item

• LabTalk Support Settings dialog opened from SQL Editor

• Custom Data Filter dialog

  • Condition (expression)

  • Before Condition Script

ORG-11522

Grouped Plot dialog

Hint tab added in Grouped Column Plot, Grouped Box Chart dialogs.

Labels are improved in the dialogs.

ORG-11596

Collapsible Menu and Context Menus

Now most of the menu/context menu will be collapsible so user do not need to go through all options every time.

Note: To turn off the collapsible menus and show full menus, please look at the page below

http://www.originlab.com/doc/Quick-Help/collapsible-menu

Note: Once the hidden menu is selected, it will be shown as the commonly used ones in the collapsible menu in the next time. 

ORG-11612

Data Info. Improvements

With Graph window active, choosing Go to Worksheet context menu in Data Info. and Data Display window will highlight corresponding row in worksheet.

With worksheet active, choosing Go to Graph context menu in Data Info. window will go back to Graph window.

ORG-11637

PE: View Extra Large Icons context menu is added  (SR1)

In Details view of bottom panel in Project Explorer, if there are many windows and they fill up the space, right click will not show View context menu to switch view mode.
show View context menu to change

ORG-12155

Combine entries in File Types dropdown list of File: Open dialog.  (SR1)

Customer complained there are too many entries in File Types dropdown list which isn't convenient to use.

Some entries are combined so user doesn't need to switch File Types that often.

ORG-12196

In Project Explorer, when click on the worksheet to rename we add a bigger toggle button and a hot-key to control to either rename Short Name or Long Name  (SR1)

1. The hot-key Ctrl+N when at editing mode can switch to renaming by Long Name or Short Name

2. A new system variable @PERB=0 to hide toggle button, and by default to rename Long Name.
   
   
   

ORG-12366

Control font in Script Window  (SR1)

E.g. in [Font] section of Origin.ini in your Origin's User Files Folder, add

ScriptWindowFontHeight=24
ScriptWindowCharset=0
ScriptWindowFaceName=Verdana

ORG-12576

Options to control the tooltip for windows in PE (SR2)

Set @PESH=0 to disable book comment tooltip.

Set @PESS=-1 to show preview as Comments-style tooltip.

ORG-3691

Project Explorer: When it's unpinned, click X button on top of PE will hide instead of close PE by default. (SR2)

In the past, X will close PE and sometimes user doesn't know how to turn it on. So we changed the default behavior to be Hide PE if it's unpinned.

System Variable @FDPC to control this:

0 : old way, close
1 : most logical way, Hide if unpinned (default)
2 : stronger way, Hide always

ORG-12644

Menu File: Import: Customize... is renamed to File: Import: Add/Remove File Types... (SR2)

Make it clearer that our File: Import: menus is customizable.

ORG-10164

Heatmap Plot

Menu to plot heatmap is Plot: Contour/Heat Map: Heat Map. Toolbar button can be found in the Contour group of 3D and Contour Graphs toolbar. (XYZ data is not supported yet)

The plotvm dialog to plot heatmap and contour plot with virtual matrix is improved.

• Support date, time data format.for X,Y values.

• Support to select a existed virtual matrix from virtual matrix manager to plot a graph. For example, when the following graph is plotted, there will be a virtual matrix named VM1. 
  Select the worksheet and open the plotvm dialog, click the triangle button after Input, click Select Virtual Matrix... from the fly-out menu, select VM1 from the Virtual Matrix Manager, then click OK to get the same plot.

Open	Open

ORG-11099

2D Kernel Density Plot

Plot: Statistics: 2D Kernel Density...

ORG-10026

Bubble Plot Legend Support

Note we will show a nested bubble scale legend by default when there is column selected for Total Dissolved Solids in plotpiper dialog. 

ORG-1585

ORG-10674

ORG-11511

Color Scale Improvements in Origin 2015

1. Support ticks(major&minor) on both side and border around the ticks. 

2. Support custom levels (user defined from/to, major/minor tick)

3. Support wrapped text label.

4. Support hide head and tail level.

5. Support other label format like Date, Time, Text...

6. Support label rotation, show label on the opposite side.

7. Support title(including position, rotate, style definition).

8. When there is multiple colormaps in the same layer, color bar will be added according to what data plot is selected.

ORG-10823

Hide legend of hidden plots 

Click Reconstruct Legend button will hide legends of hidden plots.

Right click Legend and choose Show Legend for Visible Plots Only, or open Update Legend dialog, specify show/hide legend of hidden plots

ORG-11601

Reverse Legend Order

Right click Legend and choose Reverse Order.

ORG-11650

Hide Legend for Fitted Curves

Right click Legend and choose Hide Legend for Fitted Curves, or open Update Legend dialog, specify show/hide legend of Fitted Curves

ORG-11611

Drag and Drop to  to arrange legend entries in multiple columns

Select the legend, drag and drop the legend border while pressing Ctrl button, when the horizontal space is enough for more column, the arrangement will change.

ORG-11808

Allow users outside US to see graph page dimension in mm

In graph (Plot Details) Print/Dimensions Tab, the default value of the Units is Window(unit), which will be altered according to Windows: Customize Format: Measurement system:U.S./Metric.(To set this value, click Control Panel\Clock, Language, and Region,\Formats tab\Additional Settings.) Specifically, for United State and Great Britain, the default value would be Window(inch); for the rest of the world, the default value is Window(mm)

ORG-4432,

ORG-7738, 

ORG-7738, 

ORG-11225,

ORG-10256

Box Chart Improvement

Custom percentile range of the box and Whisker