Origin 2018b Features

ORG-17878

Right click g1, g2, ... node in Object Manager to give a meaningful group name. 

Such group name will show in

• Layer Contents dialog as tooltip
• Data menu
• Context menu when right clicking on graph

ORG-17402

• Support Box Chart with Panel
• Enable By Point tab for box chart color and pattern
• Add Box Chart to Plot Type combo of plot_group

ORG-17707

Add the option -L to the page -FLS command

page -FLS -L; //fit layers to page so as to leave room on the right side for the legend. No gap between layer and legend.

page -FLS -L 0.03 -m 0.04 //fit layers to page, with space (3% of page) btween layer and legend, margin on edge of page is 0.04.

To use the -L option, the following must be true:

• Graph contains a single layer.
• There is one (and only one) legend object.
• Scale Elements (Format: Layer Properties > Display tab) must be Fixed Factor.
  
  

ORG-16780

ORG-17570

Easier notation for adding labels when merging multiple graphs, including support for Roman numerals

ORG-17052

Enlarged graph using scale-in tool supports multiple overlapped layers

When number of x cols <= number of layers, use x col as separator to plot into layers; When number of x cols > number of layers, pop up error message： When number of x cols > number of layers, pop up error message. Add X Column" to the "Group By" combo in Multiple Panels by Label tool dialog.

For example, if data is organized as XYYYXYY and user asks for a 2-panel plot, the first three Y columns will be plotted in layer 1, and the last two Y colums will be plotted in layer2.

Automatically scale all elements similar to the work with fix scale factor.

System variable @PSM controls the minimum change to trigger size update.  Set @psm=100, elements will not resize when changing page size.

ORG-16671

Support <end> as end of column/row for size, when creating virtual matrices

Add a context menu "Dynamic Ends" to the Plotvm dilaog's Input node. When it is selected, virtual matrix's range will be expanded to both row&column ends.

ORG-17476

ORG-17136

ORG-2964

Rescale to show all only rescaled the axis range of current layer in the past. In Origin 2018b, it will take care of linked overlapping layers. Usually Multy-Y plots have such linked overlapping layers. E.g. on one layer, data range is from 2000 to 2005. On the other layer, the data range is from 2001 to 2006. 

Registry based System variable @RML (Rescale Multiple Layers) 

1 – rescale multiple layers

0 - rescale active layer only (old behavior)

ORG-17385

Output the SE of derived parameter and in the Summary table.

ORG-17614

Calculate the P value more accurately for tcdf and fdcf significance levels in Nonlinear Fitting Tools.

Change code to calculate P value for tcdf and fcdf in fitting tools for significance

2D Frequency Count/Binning output sheet creates 4  type columns ahead with following LongName: Bins of A, Bin Beginnings of A, Bin Centers of A, Bin Ends of A and create 3 label row : Bin Beginnings of B, Bin Centers of B, Bin Ends of B.

Frequency Counts output sheet creates 4  type columns ahead with following LongName: Bins, Bin Begin, Bin Centers , Bin Ends.

Better hint indication when run Pro-only features in Regular version

1. In Regular Origin, if the project contains pro-only operation, the analysis clock will show in gray color.

2. In Regular Origin, if the project contains pro-only operation and users click the recalculate toolbar button, there is a warning message shown in Message Log window.

Support for custom formatting of User Parameter rows in Worksheet

Copy and paste entire worksheet across multiple Origin sessions.

Right-click on the sheet tab, two new context menu items are available.

• Copy Sheet
• Paste as New Sheet

Use Copy Sheet to copy current sheet with all information(including the header lines and structure) into the clipboard, and then use Paste as New Sheet to paste it as a new sheet from the clipboard into a new layer or new window.

LabTalk command is also provided,

ORG-17285

countif(a, "A>0") //Before Origin 2018b, must use countif(a, "col(A)>0")

Also, the performance of these functons is improved.

ORG-17755

New menu and improvements to quickly set up and apply Master Page elements such as logos and timestamps to all graphs.

ORG-17567

 1. Any object with name beginning with "NoExport" will be skipped as master items. Use @UPN=1 to disable it.

2. We can use labtalk command to apply active page's width and height to all other pages.

doc -pdad;

This command was made for the button on the master page.

3. Allow rotate from landscape to portrait. The following labtalk command is used.

page -o r

"Rotate" button is on the master page template.
4. "Save" button is on master template.

When choosing Edit: Export Margin Offset,

1. Show width and height of selected area with unit of page.
2. Enable the rectangle to be draggable and resizeable all of the time

Add a checkbox named as "Ignore Ending Empty Columns", to control ascii export, to ignore empty columns from the end, with the following options:

0 = no ignore (current way, default)

1 = ignore all empty columns after the last column with data, meta data not considered, and column with all missing values are considered empty.

This is used only if export selection is not chosen.

New App to distribute multiple files across multiple cores for faster Batch Processing

We tend to have no dialogue, no interaction, in batch process. So the rule of batch process now becomes to:

1. Before doing any batch process, user must make sure the input files format should be match with the last import settings in .ogw or filter in UFF.
2. Last import setting must be used when check on "Use Import Setting in Workbook". filter file will be used when uncheck "Use Import Setting in Workbook".
3. when filter is used, the proper filter should match: a. input file extension must be match with filters setting. b. filter file format must be match with last import settings in ogw.

Once user make analysis template with import ASCII, that means the template is only used for ASCII file. If user want to it for other type file, they must import another file from MENU and save analysis template again.

Support to add data from many sheets/books into a combined graph or an existing graph

Batch Plot dialog now combines options for Book, Sheet and Column into one dialog

If the embeded matrix exits in the analysis template, batch processing support importing data or image to the embeded matrix. Besides,  drag and drop to import data or image to opened analysis template is also supported.

• Each Origin project will have its own backup file.
• Set system variable @PBO=0 to go back to old behavior. Only one Backup.opj/opju under User Files folder for last saved project file.
• Access Project Backup Folder via Help: Open Folder: menu in Origin or from Windows Start menu.
• Change Backup folder location on System Paths tab of Tools: Options dialog.

In the past, you must have project saved once in Origin and then if it's dirty, every 12 minutes (by default), the project will be autosaved in case Origin crashes. But sometimes user started a new project and had never saved it. Then Origin didn't autosave it at all and if Origin crashed, there was no autosave. 

Note: If Origin is closed normally, no autosave will be kept since Origin always prompt user to save.

@OPJ=
0 Project to use new format and Copy Paste also new format
1 Project to use old format but Copy Page to use new format
2 Project to use new format, but Copy page to use Old format
3 Both will use old format

We are working on supporting moving windows in bottom panel to reorder them. If there are folders in subfolder, it's hard to reorder windows. So we hide folder in bottom panel.

• Folder structure will only show in top panel. 
• Set system variable @PEF=1 to show folder in bottom panel
• When mousing over folder in top panel, tooltip will show about folder comments, size, etc. 

ORG-16878

When a worksheet contains sparklines, prior to Origin 2018b, all sparklines had to be drawn on project loading even if they were not visible. This slowed down initial rendering of the worksheet significantly.

A new system variable in 2018b addresses this issue by specifying how Origin should save EMF images of the sparklines:

@SIC=
0 Save all sparkline images in the OPJU.
-1 Don't save any sparkline images in project.
7000 (Default) If individual sparkline is < 7000 bytes then save it in the project.

Note: This system variable is persistant- it will be remembered across Origin sessions. It should be set from the Script Window or Command Window and not in the System Variables dialog.

When many graphs are shown and/or overlapped, complete rendering (painting) of all of them may take a considerable amount of time if the graphs contain a lot of data. Up until Origin 2018b, each graph had its own setting specifying that if 70% of the graph is covered it would not repaint. Now in Origin 2018b there is a system variable to change this behavior on a global basis.

@NPP=
0 (Default) Use existing setting in graph- same as old behavior.
1-100 Percentage that must be uncovered before repainting is triggered.
>100 (e.g.101) Only repaint the currently active graph. Do not attempt to repaint other graphs.

Note: This system variable is persistent- it will be remembered across Origin sessions. It should be set from the Script Window or Command Window and not in the System Variables dialog.

ORG-17854

Some improvements are made:

• Suppose Upper Threshold to convert to scientific notation is 6. In the past, 1000000 displays as 1000000, while 2000000 displays as 2E6. In Origin 2018b, 2000000 will still display as 2000000. Only values equal or bigger than 1E7 will convert to scientific notation.
• There was some round off error in the past. To see the problem: Suppose Lower Threshold Power to convert to scientific notation is -3. In the past if the axis is from 0.001 on 10, it will display as 0.001 fine. If axis is from 10 to 0.001 (axis decreases), 0.001 showed as 1E-3. Fixed in Origin 2018b now. Shows 0.001.

ORG-17642

new LT command

doc -log1; //turns on for current project with empty password doc -log1 test;//turns on for current project with password = "test" doc -log0 test;//turns off for current project
doc.AuditLog=; //(ready-only )returns 1 or 0 AuditLog is on/off for the current project.

New system variable that is Registry based added

In Script Window, run
@ALOG=1;//turn on Audit log on New project (untitled)

You can also preset this in msi installer script to set registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\OriginLab\Origin 9.5b\International\SysV\ALOG

with a DWORD value of 1 

-pc option is added in Worksheet and Set commonds.

//to make plot woksheet -pc plottype template startIndex Increment;
//to modify, %C will need to automatically find group head set %C -pc startIndex Increment
If Increment is a negative number e.g. -N, it means span and plot N plots.

Examples:

Highlight all columns and run
1. worksheet -pc 200 line 2 3 //start from col B, every 3rd col is plotted so i got B, E, H, K, .... in graph.
2. worksheet -pc 200 line 2 -10 //start from column B, span the whole data and pick 10 columns to plot. I got B, O, AB, AO, BB, BO, CB, CO, DB, DO columns plotted.

First plot all data. With graph window active, run
1. set %c -pc 2 3; //start from column B, every 3rd col is plotted.
2. set %c -pc 2 -10; //start from column B, span the whole data and pick 10 columns to plot. I got B, O, AB, AO, BB, BO, CB, CO, DB, DO columns plotted.

Add the nlsf_install_fdf and nlsf_uninstall_fdf OC functions to install and uninstall fitting functions.

LabTalk Access is supported:

run.section(dofile.ogs, OnInstallFDF, "%Yfitfunc\MyGauss.fdf")
run.section(dofile.ogs, OnUnInstallFDF, "%Yfitfunc\MyGauss.fdf")

Add the template_install and template_uninstall OC functions to install and uninstall graph templates.

LabTalk Access is supported:

run.section(dofile.ogs, OnInstallTemplate, "%YMyGraph.otpu")
run.section(dofile.ogs, OnUnInstallTemplate, "%YMyGraph.otpu")

• Improve hex2dec(), hex() functions to support 48 bits integer
• Support "0x" prefix. E.g, hex2dec("0x10A") returns 266
• Dec2hex() function support places argument. E.g, Dec2hex(10,3)$ returns "00A"

Syntax:

NumberValue(str$[, decimal$, group$])

ORG-17369

ORG-16946

S2: Support accessing page properties by OC functions:Pagebase::SetProp() and Pagebase::GetProp(), for example:

void test_Graph_Set_and_Get_Properties()
{
	GraphPage gp;
	gp.Create("origin");
	gp.AddLayer("Test");
	double vv;
	gp.SetProp("active", 2);
	gp.GetProp("active", &vv);
	
	return;
}

ORG-14663

S2: Programming way to view Master Items on Screen LT

page.master = 0, not export the Master item.
page.master = 1, export the Master item, but not view it on screen.
page.master = 2, for screen, but ignore if bit 1 not set

However, if page.master = 1,  can use LT script "Menu -e 33096" to toggle viewing Master items on screen, but cannot control it.

 Labtalk command to remove divider:

page -ADX -<opt> dividerindex;

Labtalk command to restore dividers:

page -ADGR;

Python: API for calling Origin from outside Python

Added a new parameter "lpcszInitTitle" to the OC function okoc_folder_browser, and the new parameter is used to specify the title of dialog box, now the function is:

int okoc_folder_browser(LPCSTR lpcszInitDir, StringArray* saFolders, LPCSTR lpcszInitTitle)

The new parameter "lpcszInitTitle" is used to specify the title of dialog box, and its default value is NULL.

Example:

#include <Origin.h>
#include <okocUtils.h>
void folder_browser_ex1()
{
	vector<string> vsFolders;
	int nRet = okoc_folder_browser("C:\\test", &vsFolders,"Folder browser");
	printf("%d folders selected!\n", nRet);
	for ( int ii = 0; ii < nRet; ii++ )
			printf("Folder%d: %s\n", ii + 1, vsFolders[ii]);        
	return;
}

1. int GraphPage::CanDuplicate(int nWith = CAN_DUP_WITH_ANY);
Suppose a graph is active, use this OC function to tell if this graph is possible to duplicate with new columns, sheets, books.

2. int GetDuplicateWithCols(StringArray &saItems, DataPlot &dataPlot = NULL, int nModifier = PMMT_IGNORE);
Assume a graph is active, use this OC function to get the list of columns which can be used to batch plot the graph.

3. int GetDuplicateWithBooks(StringArray &saItems, int nModifier = PMMT_OFFSET, int nMatchCol = MATCHCOLUMN_INDEX, int nMatchSheet = MATCHSHEET_INDEX);
Assume a graph is active, use this OC function to get the list of sheets or books which can be used to batch plot the graph. If nMatchSheet == MATCHSHEET_IGNORE then Range is Sheet, else Range is Book.

Added a new OC function:

BOOL CBFileOpen(LPCSTR lpcszFileName, LPCSTR lpcszSectionName=NULL, int nCntrl = CBF_OPEN);

lpcszFileName: File path and name.

lpcszSectionName: Specify a section you want to go.

nCntrl:

• CBF_OPEN: Open the file in Code Builder.
• CBF_TEST_IS_OPEN: Check if the file is opened in Code Builder.

Added a new OC function:

int Worksheet::IsHolderSheet(PageBase& pg = NULL);

Check if the Worksheet is embedded page.

Imporve cell() function to return cell link imformation

• cell(col,row,1): return cell link type
• cell(col,row,1)$: return the raw reference string

ORG-17435

Unique(vs, [sort, occurence])

E.g.

Unique(A) – get unique value/strings in column A with ascending order

Unique(A, 2) — get unique values/strings in column A with descending order