Origin 2016 SR1 Features/Improvements

ORG-13960

Before SR1 – Tiny, not obvious

In SR1 – More standard, easier to click on to expand

Before SR1, user must change color list on Color List tab of Plot Details if the plot color is set to incrementing or using other column values.

In SR1, user can directly change Color List on By Points tab of Color Chooser.

In SR1, user can click Ctrl+click Color List on By Points tab or Increment List on By Plots tab of Color Chooser to change the order of colors and save as future color increment list.

Context menus on Axis to easily bring axis to front or push to back.

• Data on top of Axis
• Grid on Top of Data

By default data is drawn on top of axis.

If user wants axis, ticks or grids to be on top of data, right click axis and choose the corresponding context menus.

Before SR1, user had to go to Plot Details dialog; select the layer on the left and then go to Display tab to customize.

ORG-12862

1. Plot a graph and choose Gadget: Integrate...
2. In the dialog, on Integration tab, check Keep the Shading color after closing gadget.
3. Click X to close the dialog
4. Click on the shade to select it.
5. Use Style toolbar to customize color, pattern, etc.
   

In SR1, when filling between two plots with different X ranges, user can choose Fill to Common X Area or Area Enclosed by End Points on Line tab of Plot Details dialog.

Before SR1, default is fill to common X area. User had to use system variable @FAB=1 to fill to area enclosed by end points.

Before SR1, user must use Plot Details dialog to change group plot Edit mode to independent to edit each plot independently.

In SR1, user can right click group e.g. g1 in Object Manager to change edit mode.

ORG-13936

Before SR1, user needs to use Remove context menu, Object Manager or some dialogs to remove data plot.

In SR1, user can click on a plot and press Delete key to remove it. For group plot, whole group will be removed. Undo is supported.

Copy and Paste Plot in Graph window.

• System variable @DPPT is used to control the pasted plot type. 200: line, 201: scatter, 202: plot+symbol; 0: follow plot type in active window
• The plot is based on clipboard, disconnected with source data. User can right click the plot and choose Create Worksheet Clipb2 to create XY data.

This is a nice way to do quick comparison of two plots.

Example 1: Copy a plot from one graph to another graph.

1. Click on a plot in one graph. Ctrl+C to copy it. 
2. Go to another graph. Ctrl+V. 
   --> A new line plot called Clipb2 will show. 
   
   

Example 2: Copy fitted curves and paste on same graph. Then change parameters or input data to do quick visual comparison of fitted cuves.

1. Do a linear fit in graph -> a red fitted line is created.
2. Click on the fitted curve. Ctrl+C to copy it.
3. Ctrl+V to paste it in the same graph. –-> a black line is pasted. It's called Clipb2
4. Now click the green lock to set Intercept fixed at 0.
5. User can easily see difference of two fitted curves. 

Copy two columns of numeric values from notepad or webpage and paste as plot in Graph window

It must be two columns of numeric data. 1st column will be treated as X and 2nd column will be treated as Y.

• Sytem variable @DPPR controls the minimum number of rows to enable this feature. Default is 2. E.g. if @DPPR,=5, it means there must be 5 or more rows of data to support paste as plot. If there are only 4 rows of data, it will not be pasted as plot. @DPPR=0 will disable this feature.
• @DPPT to control what plot type to paste as. 200 (default)= Line; 201=Scatter; 202=Line+ Symbols
• Right click the plot to create data worksheet.

In SR1, after copying page, user can right click in another graph window, layout window, worksheet gray area and choose Paste Link context menu or Edit: Paste Link menu.

Double click it will go to corresponding graph window to customize further.

Changes in source graph will be updated in paste linked one.

User can right click a plot and choose Copy as Line Object.

Then Ctrl+V to paste it in same graph or new graph. It will be pasted as a line object.

This is another way to quickly compare two curves.

User can also go to worksheet to paste the data behind the line object.

1. Use Line/Polyline/Freehand tool on Tools toolbar to add a line object in graph window.
2. Right click it and choose Copy.
3. Click a cell in worksheet and paste.
   

Before SR1, after using File: New: Function Plot: 2D Function Plot menu or 2D Function Plot toolbar button to create a function plot, it took several steps to create the data copy of the plot.

In SR1, just right click the function plot and choose Make dataset copy of Fn to create the dataset. User can also click Workbook button in Plot Details dialog to create the dataset.

More information in Output workbook.

• Sparkline
• Area
• More descriptive output workbook long name

Before SR1, if user pressed Filter down to exclude cloneable templates that don't match the active workbook, when restarting Origin, the filter button is still pressed and no template may show in Template Library since default Origin workbook only has two columns A(X) and B(Y).

In SR1, a system variable @TLF is added in SR1 to allow this filter state to be
0. never remember, always reset to no filter
1. remember between open in same session (default)
2. remember between sessions

When plotting graph with a user-defined graph template,

system theme will be applied if this Allow System Theme to Override checkbox is checked when saving graph template

User can click edit button in Template Library to uncheck it now in SR1.

Fill Pattern checkbox is added in Categorial legend dialog

ORG-13697

To save analysis dialog setting after an analysis is done,

Left click on green lock and choose Save Theme as... context menu.

In the past, user must choose Change Parameters to open the dialog and then save theme as.

ORG-13665

When choosing Analysis: Mathematics: Integrate..., Integration Result checkbox is added in the dialog to put areas to worksheet.

We used to output area in Results Log only.

Choose Input Data Form as XYZ Data and pick 3D functions to rank 3D functions in Rank Models tool

LabTalk function DatePart (datepart$, d [, n])

to return a single part of a date/time, such as year, month, day, hour, minute, etc.

n=0,1, 2, 3, which is meaningful only for weekday and week. (see WeekDay() for reference)

Examples:

1. In Script window, run 
   dd = date(10/30/2007 12:15:32.123449);

v=datepart("yyyy", dd);

2. If column A is date column, in Col(B), use Set Column Values dialog

datepart("do", col(A)) //Get date part only

datepart("to", col(A)) //Get time part only

ORG-13782

Add more separate options for Label Box in Quick Fit Gadget

Edit: Copy Graph Picture menu is added.

This allows user to copy an graph page and page it as image in Word/PPT.

ORG-13843

There was switches to suppress message of Error or Info types, but not for Warning and Results types.

cd newpath:="D:\Temp"; // suppose there is a folder "Temp" is disk D, a message will be dumped to Script Window.

We may add switch -sw to suppress warning message and -sr to suppress result message.

cd -sr newpath:="D:\Temp"; //no message will be dumped.

1. Added an extra member function for matrixbase.

BOOL GetSubMatrix( matrixbase & mbTarget, const vector<uint>& vnIndices, BOOL bRow = TRUE  )

Can get some rows/cols from the matrix by indices that not need to be continuous. e.g. row 1,3,4,6.

2. Added an OC function.

BOOL MeshGrid( const vector &vX, const vector &vY, matrix &mX, matrix &mY )

Repeat vectors vX, vY to form two matrices.

Added an option for When Non-numeric is Found in Numeric Field node(For impWiz, on the Data Selection page. For impASC, under Miscellaneous branch.).

When data are generated from the instrument, there are text between data, if Skip Data is selected, will skip the text and only import data.

Released HDF5 Browser APP.

This app shows the structure in a modeless window from where users can decide which elements to bring into Origin, and it supports .mat(v7x3) and .hdf files.

Upgrade tdm/tdms dll to 13.0(NI Diadem 2015), even though the file version seems to be still 2.0.

1. Added header info for evenly spaced x data.

2. Output x data in xml if exists, and added a notice "Wavelength exists in XML" under Calibration branch.

ORG-13614

After import Shapefile maps into Graph, the shapemap would be showed as a branch in Object Manager, each part could be a sub-object in this branch. So once the selection is turned on(right-click an object and select Selectable to turn on or turn off), users can select and modify the map, the selection of whole and partial could be similar to group and plot.

Default behavior is not changed, need two steps to apply it.

1. Before create graph object, run following OC code to enable it.

BOOL OC_EnableRescaleIncludeGraphObjs(BOOL bEnable)
{
	GrObjCommonProp prop;
	okutil_access_graphobject_default(GROBJ_TN_UNKNOWN, &prop, AGRD_DEFAULT_GET | AGRD_PROPERTY_COMMON);
	BOOL bOldVal = prop.bRescaleInc;
	prop.bRescaleInc = bEnable;
	okutil_access_graphobject_default(GROBJ_TN_UNKNOWN, &prop, AGRD_DEFAULT_SET | AGRD_PROPERTY_COMMON);
	return bOldVal;
}

2. After create graph object, run Labtalk to enable it on layer.

layer.rescalego = 1;

ORG-13004

Concatenate multiple image files as a single one, and save it to a specific path.