Up to now the traverse analysis program bright_eye_traverse.exe required for all products the number of analyzed spectra (i.e. the number of probeheads) to be the same. This restriction has been removed.
If an incoming scan file (which holds all measured data) has more spectra than the selected product, the excess data are simply ignored.
Under some circumstances the inline analysis program bright_eye_inline.exe would suddenly stop to process new files. The only way to go on with data analysis was a manual re-start of the program. This bug has been removed.
Reflectance spectra of the TohoSpec3100 system can now be imported both in SCOUT and CODE.
Some customers reported annoying flickering of some BREIN graphics. It turned out that this problem is related to the Aero theme introduced with Windows 7 – it does not occur if you switch off Aero.
We could reproduce the problem and solve it. You can now enjoy flicker-free graphics with Aero and without.
You can now check-out a managed license for offline use. The typical scenario is that you plan to travel with your laptop and expect to have no internet connection for a while. In this situation you can use the menu command “?/Check out managed license for offline use” while you still have a connection to the internet. You have to specify the number of hours for which you will be offline. During this time you can work without connection to the license server.
The license server blocks your license for the indicated offline time for other users. If your license is one license of a pool shared by several users act responsibly and declare reasonable offline periods only.
If your offline time is over earlier than expected you can use the menu command “?/Un-do managed license check-out” to tell the server that you are online again. Your license will then be available for other users if you do not use if for some minutes.
If you would like to check what color difference a thickness change of a layer in a stack may cause you can do that quite easily with a new feature of ‘color fluctuation’ objects. These integral quantities compute, for thickness fluctuations defined in the layer stack, the size of the ‘color cloud’ that you can expect when producing the stack many times.
Selecting an object of this type in the list of integral quantities, you can now use the menu command ‘Export data’ to generate a *.csv file with a table of color values that you get when the layer thickness values are individually modified. The files can be immediately opened by Excel, for example. Here is an example:
In order to realize some new user interface options in views, we have introduced some new script commands. The available commands are described here.
A new version of live.exe is available here. The new version makes it very easy to migrate your software from one computer to another.
Copy live.exe to your program directory (like c:\my_software\code\) and start it. Click on the button ‘Generate backup folder’ – the program lets you select a destination in your network and then backups the complete program folder and your application data, including your passport file. You should execute this backup function from time to time to save your software package. The destination folder should not be on the same drive as your original installation.
In order to install the software on a new computer you must make the backup folder accessible for the new machine. Then start live.exe in the backup folder and click on ‘Install software on this computer’. This action will do the installation for you and your software should now run on the new PC.
Note the following exceptions:
The scanner program for VAAT exsitu and insitu spectra has been updated. If insitu spectra are processed which contain more than one spectrum the new version will take the last spectrum. This is in contrast to the previous version which would always take the first spectrum.
The new scanner program is available on the BREIN download page.
Object generation 3.98
An import routine for tec5 textfiles has been implemented.