New features/fixes for version 2.9.4

* [2006-132-192] - Support the AU data type for unsigned long sensor values

New features/fixes for version 2.9.3

* [2006-132-182] - Make compatible with Windows 7
* [2006-132-178] - Support displaying multiple PAR sensors in Ancillary View
* [2006-132-176] - Add Fit Type POW10 to support Log PAR sensor
* [2006-132-171] - Display data for PAR Sensor with OPTIC2 Fit Type 
* [2006-132-168] - Add SATNXC as a Profiler to the SatView .ini file

* [2006-132-175] - Package Ancillary View must not derive fields for T and COND sensor 
                   with NONE Fit Type  
* [2006-132-181] - Package Ancillary View pressure tare button disappears if package 
                   properties values are adjusted.
* [2006-132-187] - Water Temperature sensor with COUNT Fit Type prevents detection.

New features/fixes for version 2.9.2

* [2006-132-126] - Replace the Win32 Help file with an HTML Help file to support Vista  
* [2006-132-136] - Add new fields to cast card to support Prosoft
* [2006-132-150] - Add Wavelength Range settings for a Spectral View
* [2006-132-151] - Add Cruise Report Document field to cast card
* [2006-132-156] - Logging Inactive Warning Time to have minimum limit of 60 sec
* [2006-132-157] - Package Ancillary NO3 value not plotted in Package Time Series View

* [2006-132-108] - SatView can not display com ports higher then COM9
* [2006-132-125] - Directory browse buttons don't work when directory is "C:\"
* [2006-132-132] - Install script needs to be improved to support Windows Vista
* [2006-132-134] - Non "SAT" frame prevents synchronization of  "SAT" frames
* [2006-132-155] - Read-only CAL files in SIP file causes: "Access denied" error.
* [2006-132-158] - GPS and MET Instrument Icons in panel do not display Frame Sync box
* [2006-132-159] - Comm Port Wait Timeout default value is not long enough.
* [2006-132-164] - Communication Resource Buffer Size value 32768 not restored

New features/fixes for version 2.9.1

* [2006-132-119] - Add AFFILIATION and INVESTIGATOR Header Records 

New features/fixes for version 2.8.3

* [2006-132-87] - Delimiter length in TDF file can only be '1'
* [2006-132-90] - Add pressure plot to Time Series View
* [2006-132-91] - Lat/long format should be dd mm.mmm(m)
* [2006-132-98] - Option to have fixed limit on a Time Series X (time) axis

* [2006-132-101] - Spectral View needs to merge plots from telemetry frame sensor
* [2006-132-113] - Validation of CheckSum for a Variable Length ASCII Frame does not work.
* [2006-132-115] - Support Sensors with FitType THERM1 and Field Length of 0

New features/fixes for version 2.8.2

- A conductivity sensor that does not require calibration
  can now be detected for salinity calculation.
- The baud rate of 230400 is now supported.

- Fixed restoring the instrument Immersion flag from a saved session.

New features for version 2.8.1

- A STOR-X instrument is now automatically recognized as a Profiler
  instrument.

New features/fixes for version 2.8

- An Instrument Package now provides the Time Series View.
- Added support for the SATFLC instrument and updated the Instrument
  Package Ancillary View to display its CDOM sensor values. 
- Instrument Package Ancillary View now displays the Nitrate
  Concentration [NO3-] values for an ISUS Instrument.
- When Log Options are set to enable Automatic Logging the starting
  and stopping of logging also controls the plotting of the selected
  data/sensor fields in both the Depth Profile and Time Series Views.
- Optical View non-saturated sensor value text colour is now green
  instead of red. 

- Fixed bug that caused program to crash when an Instrument Frame
  contains either a sensor of type BD or BF.
- Fixed bug that prevented Instrument Package Ancillary View 
  Attenuation Coefficient values from being updated when multiple 
  Instrument Packages are in use.
- Fixed the Instrument Package View labels used for data fields
  derived from the BETA_RED sensor so that they contain the
  correct wavelength value.
- Fixed the calculation of PAR(Z) and PAR(0+) values.
- Fixed Instrument Frame type initialization to include a flag to
  indicate if an Instrument Frame is either "Dark" or "Light"
  so that PAR is not calculated for "Dark" frame types.
- Fixed the frames selected for the calculation of the attenuation 
  coefficient (K) to be the "Light" frame type.

New fixes for version 2.7.1

- Fixed bug that caused the GPS Latitude and Longitude to not be used
  in the header of a Telemetry Log when this option is enabled in the 
  Log Options dialog and when multiple Instrument Packages are in use. 

New features/fixes for version 2.7

- The Instrument Package Ancillary View can now display the attenuation
  coefficient(K) for Ed, Lu and Eu (approx. wavelength 490) when the 
  required optical sensor for each is present. K is calculated over
  approx. 2m using linear regression.
- Instrument Package Ancillary View dialog is now created even when 
  the use of a default salinity value is required to calculate
  backscattering coefficients and it is not enabled.
- The number of "Hardware framing error" and "Break error" session
  log messages output when the baud rate is incorrect is now limited 
  to five for each time that a communication resource is selected to 
  read from it. 
- The Start/Stop Logging button now also starts/finishes plotting
  for an Instrument Package Depth Profile View when one exists
  and it has been configured.
- The Cast string used for AutoCast now requires two letters
  (AA - AZ, ..., ZA - ZZ) to increase the number of possible
  autocast log files.
- A Spectral View display can now be resized.
- A Spectral View's Absolute graph can be used to plot raw counts.
- A Spectral View's graph background and axis colours can now be 
  specified using the Spectral View Options dialog.
- A Spectral View's Absolute and Logarithmic Y-Axis automatically
  expands its range to include values outside of the configured range.
- An Optical View's Scroll Bar position is now stored to and restored
  from a session so that Optical View wavelengths initialy displayed 
  when the session was saved are the same wavelengths that are visible
  when the session is opened.
- An Instrument Package is now prevented from reading from a
  communication resource that another Instrument Package is 
  already reading from.

- Fixed bug that left a communication resource connected after an
  Insrument Package was selected to read from another communication
  resource.
- Fixed bug that prevented Resource Control Panels that were open when
  a session was saved from being re-opened when the session is opened.
- Fixed bug so that communication resource settings such as
  "Global Sync" and "Wait Timeout" can now be restored when a
  session is opened.
- Fixed bug that caused dialog warning the user about telemetry
  not being logged from one or more instruments after the log 
  inactivity timeout expired to be displayed when it should not
  have been.
- Fixed bug so that an Instrument Package's Spectral View now displays
  each instrument's wavelength spectrum as a seperate plot instead of 
  being merged into one wavelength spectrum.
- Fixed bug that caused poor performance when Spectral Views are 
  displayed for sensors that are defined as variable length fields.
- Fixed the calculation of PAR values for the Ancillary and Depth
  Profile Views so that the values are in uMol/m^2/s.

New features for version 2.6.1

- The BETA_BLUE and BETA_RED sensors can now be detected regardless
  of the wavelength speciefied for each in the TDF file.
- Fixed bug in Package Ancillary View so that all values derived 
  from the BETA_BLUE and BETA_RED sensors are now only updated 
  when a telemetry frame from the BB2F instrument is received. 
- Fixed bug that prevented saved session file from opening when
  the session is using a virtual instrument package.
- The Instrument Ancillary View Dialog when first opened now
  displays the Sensor page instead of the Data page. 

New features for version 2.6

- An Instrument Package that contains an instrument with a sensor
  for depth enables the creation of the Instrument Package Depth
  Profile View. 
- A TDF instrument file can now have sensors with the FIT-TYPE
  field set to NONE.

New fixes for version 2.5.1

- Instrument Optical and Spectral Views displayed when a session
  is saved are now redisplayed when the session is opened.
- A serial port that occurs in a non-consecutive list of serial
  ports after a non existant serial port can now have its
  parameters configured before an instrument is attached to it.
- The Instrument Properties dialog for the Weather Station and
  GPS Data instruments can now be displayed without causing the
  program to crash.

New features for version 2.5:

- Instrument Packages can now be added using the Add New Instrument
  Package or Instrument dialog that is displayed when either the 
  Add Instrument tool bar button or Setup menu item is selected.

New features for version 2.4:

- Instrument Packages now supported. An Instrument Package file (.sip)
  can be dropped onto the Instrument Package Control panel to load all
  the Instruments that it contains.
- The automatic event: "Auto Read From" is now located in an Instrument 
  Package's Properties Dialog.
- An Instrument Package includes a file "Properties.txt" that is used
  to specify properties such as the Instrument Package's name and baud
  rate. If the baud rate is not specified the default value is 19200.
  The baud rate is to configure the serial port that an Instrument
  Package is attached to.
- An Instrument Package provides a pop-up menu from which its "View List",
  "Read From" and "Properties" Dialogs can be displayed.  
- Instrument Packages have an Ancillary View that displays "Data" values 
  obtained from all its Instruments. Instrument Ancillary View "Data" 
  values removed except for Tilt, PAR(Z) and PAR(0+).
- The Pressure Tare value is now obtained from an Instrument Package's
  Ancillary View.
- An Instrument Package's Ancillary PAR(Z) and PAR(0+) values are based 
  on a merger of all the relevant optical sensors from all of its 
  Instruments.
- Instrument Packages have Spectral Views when its Instruments contain
  optical sensors. Each Spectral View is a merged view of all the optical
  sensors of the same type for all its Instruments.
- A "View List" Dialog now remains visible when a selected View is opened. 
- Instrument Telemetry Error Checking is now always enabled for both the
  Frame Counter and Check Sum sensors. The warning messages for reporting
  that either of these sensors was not found now output to session log. 
- Instrument can be added either to a new Instrument Package or to an
  existing Instrument Package in the Instrument Package Panel.

New features for version 2.3:

- Improved instrument file handling.
- Automated data collection can now be performed with
  task scheduling software.
- Support for some non-Satlantic instruments
- Time tag option removed from Logging Options dialog box.
  Time tag information is now always appended to each logged
  telemetry frame (required for ProSoft 7.x processing).
- Warning message displayed if one or more communication resources have
  not read any telemetry frames 10 seconds after logging was started.
- HyperSpectral Profiler Ancilliary Dialog velocity values
  now calculated based on actual frame rate.
- Single Optical and Spectral view for each type of optical 
  sensor from multiple heads defined in the same calibration file.
- Log Options Dialog now has an Inactive Warning Time option to allow 
  setting the amount of time to wait until the logging inactive warning 
  message is possibly displayed.
- Default Frame Rate for telemetry is now 6.0 Hz.
- An Instrument's Type set automatically to its default value.
- An Instrument's Immersed flag set automatically to its default value.
- Logging Mode option removed from Log Options dialog.
- A communications resource automatically sets its baud rate when it
  is attached to an instrument if that instrument has a defined baud rate.
- All existing communication resources are automatically detected and
  added to the communications resource list when a new session is started.
- PAR(Z) and PAR(0+) values are displayed in the Ancillary View Dialog 
  for instruments with the required sensors.
- Light Saturation value is displayed in the Ancillary View Dialog of a
  Profiler instrument if the instrument containing the PAR(0+) sensors
  is defined to be a Reference instrument.
- Fixed bug in the display of values of the data type binary signed.



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