Designer 5.08 To install Designer Service Packs, unzip the archive to the Designer installation directory overwriting the old files. Subdirectory structure has to be respected. ============WARNING============ When system files like Designer.ini and Displays.ini are overwritten, information regarding fonts installation, Report Designer, UniLOAD and firmware files location are lost. =============================== Service pack 05 20.06.2001 - Designer reported "SSFDC size exceeded memory size" using small project files during the download phase. Visible only under Win2K and WinNT. - Fixed problem visible with garbage background characters on special pages after using Panel Setup tool. - Designer erases now "nice font" files from the SSFDC card when the project does not use them. Service Pack 04 30.05.2001 - Change language did not work on Selector Switch touch cell legends. - PrjFix switch enhancements. - Removed a wrong error message displayed when changing display size in panel setup on Generic Model. - Panel setup: Generic Model is automatically selected without warning if the project or the panel does not contain model identification code. - Fixed problem visible with a wrong selection of colors for the "Selector Switch" touch cells. The problem was visible opening projects developed with older Designer versions. - Fixed problem visible starting the upload of a specific project. Designer did not handle properly the use of several different font types in the touch cells. - Nice fonts were not correctly downloaded when the zoom factor in Designer was different than 100% - UniSSFDC: temporary files created during memory write sessions are now removed from Windows temp directory. Service Pack 03.a 02.05.2001 - Panel Setup: Panel Setup crashed enabling UniNET. - Report Designer: few minor bugs fix. Service Pack 03 27.04.2001 - Fixed refresh problem in Designer visible when moving touch cells over attribute fields. - Fixed problem visible sometimes with Designer crash during a panel change from panel Data base. The problem is related with the Extended Data Entry Support. - Touch cells can now be overlayed with attribute fields. - Fixed problem visible with Designer crash when uploading a project made for a firmware version not described in the panel data base. - Modified support for graphic objects overlay when preparing projects for firmware 58 panels. - Extended Data Entry feature can now be disabled by removing the check in the "Extended Data Entry" check-box in the Panel Setup. - Fixed problem visible with Designer crash when downloading projects prepared for Simatic S5 Old driver. - Extended support for static bitmaps. The maximum number of static bitmaps is now extended to 2048. Requires firmware V4.40H or greater. - Fixed problem in EL displays handling. Indicator lights cells had reversed colors. - Fixed problem visible with a change in the field reference after the insertion in the page of a field with dynamic references for MIN/MAX and scaling factors. - Fixed a problem visible with Designer crash performing Ctrl+M command on a specific customer project. Designer could crash performing the Ctrl+M command using Internal Controller driver, when a Data Format, of a certain field, is changed from Numeric to ASCII and then back to Numeric. - Dynamic References for scaling factors were grayed out using some drivers. Needs updated driver. - Dynamic References did not work properly using Float Data Format. Requires firmware V4.40H or greater. - UniKEY: added support for double size characters. Requires firmware V4.40H or greater. - ReportDesigner: the application did not start when the project was stored in a path too deep. - ReportDesigner: fixed problem visible in wrong cell position in the printout result. - UniSSFDC: memory card bad blocks handling. Service Pack 02 27.03.2001 - "Multipage recipe" flag status was not restored when closing and opening again a certain project. - "Indexed" button was shown when the "Reference" check box was un-checked while defying a dynamic scaling factor. The extended PLC Reference dialog box was working only ones. The full "bug fix" requires a re-compiled version of the UPLCxxx.DLL file. As workaround the define field dialog box can be opened two times. - Improved Multilanguage support for touch cells. Touch cells containing the same string for all languages are optimized. - Fixed problem visible using a specific driver (Baldor Flex). Some macro commands were not visible. - Added support for special I/O module buffer size and special RDA handling for LEDs. Requires special firmware and special protocol. - Old "Windows" style touch cells were bad downloaded to the panel using Win2K OS. - Added new macro command: "Acknowledge all alarms". Requires special firmware. - Fixed problem visible in Designer crash when changing RDA area setup. - Fixed problem visible in Designer crash when configuring the buffer trend on PLC. - Panel touch code recognition mechanism changed to support XSVGA displays. - Fixed problem visible in panel reset when using a specific customer project with a customized Data Entry Page. - Modified tag support to correctly handle new Ethernet based protocols using tags. - Modified support for XVGA displays. Requires updated "DISPALYS.INI" file and ".dat" file Service Pack 01.a 16.02.2001 - ReportDesigner: fixed printing problems visible using specific printer drivers. Service Pack 01 31.01.2001 - Touch cells of Windows+Custom type doesn't shrink bitmap to create the border. The border overlays now the bitmap. - Alarm strings can be programmed now of the same length of the page. SVGA and XVGA panels size were not supported. - Fixed problem visible in missing controls in dialog boxes. The problem was only visible using WinNT and Win2K OS under specific circumstances. - Fixed visualization problem in "Change Controller Driver" dialog box. The "Network Client was sometimes visible in the list. - RELEASED macro commands programmed inside 3D touch cells were not copied when at least one macro was defined inside the PRESSED or in the AUTOREPEAT mode. - Fixed a problem visible sometimes with Designer crash when changing the model in Panel Setup. - Floating toolbar modified. The Indicator Light is disabled if the panel does not support touch screen. - Fixed a problem visible under certain conditions with a Designer crash when changing touch cells style. - Modified support for 256 colors. Images are now properly converted under all operating systems (9x,ME,NT,2K). - Fixed problem visible with a power cycle after a download. Using a specific project the panel started correctly after the download, but it didn't go in Operation Mode after a power cycle. - Illuminated pushbutton with "windows" look on black&white panels did not manage correctly the "light status". - Added combo boxes for "Internal control variables" in Gauge and Trend Buffer properties dialogs. - Modified support for Min/Max/Old fields in customized Data Entry page to get compatibility with old projects. - Added PrjFix switch to automatic fix bad defined customized Data Entry Page. The problem was visible with panel reset when attempting to enter the customized page. - Fixed problem with copy/paste of trend macro commands on a page without trend windows defined. (Previous modification did not fix completely the problem in all the cases where more than one macro was programmed for the same touch cell). - It is not any more possible to overlay two touch cells. Various changes on objects overlay support. - Fixed problem visible in Designer crash uploading project created with nice fonts. - Fixed problem visible with Designer crash when following the sequence: in alarm dialog box, click on the box "On alarm go to page" and press ESC.