Releases for Project Updater

fixes strconstant syntax errors

Includes workaround for a grep bug in Igor 8

Checking status of local files works more reliably

Forgot to include the install script with previous release.

list filtering now works over multiple columns of listwave

Changed behaviour: for projects that are uploaded as a single, uncompressed file, if the filename changes keep the new filename. Use system prefs instead of configurable date format. Store time of last update in log. Hover over local version in updates tab to see this info where it is available.

checks for ihf in PrepareProjectRelease()

checks install location before offering to #include an installed file

allows installation of a project that has no system selected in the IgorExchange release

Further improvements to tools for developers, new backup method for repairing updater if updating via IgorExchange fails

All web text is now treated as UTF-8.

Includes improved tools for developers to help preparing project releases.

Bug Fix: Code was choking on certain UTF-8 characters found in project webpages.

Version 4.21: New preferences setting to select whether installation and update activity is recorded to experiment history. Default is off. Actions that involve moving or saving files are always recorded in a text file. Preferences panel has a button that opens the install/update history file as a notebook.

Version 4.1

fixes bug that caused right-click menu to fail on Windows

Option to save backups of files replaced during both updates and installs

Bug fix: sometimes updater would falsely claim that a new project release was available.

This was caused by a floating point error (a version number variable was checked against against a version number in a single precision wave).

EDIT: this bug persists in this version in a form that prevents it from seeing updates!

Bug Fix: updating a project that wasn't installed but had updater headers in a procedure file didn't add the update to the install log.

Bug fix: adding very long lines to the log file is now possible (for projects with many files)

Background checking for new releases now includes releases for updater-compatible procedure files that are not in the install log. This can be turned off in settings (cog icon in control panel).

Mainly UI fixes: Sorting of listbox columns now works as expected.

Bug fix: under some circumstances the version numbers for current releases were incorrectly determined.

Bug Fix: duplicating a 2D wave doesn't preserve dimension labels for columns in the case that wave has zero rows.

Added a button in the settings panel to clear the cache file

correct file this time

Fixed parsing of web pages that was sometimes failing owing to case-sensitive string searching.

Major changes to much of the code

New control panel interface for installing and checking update status of installed projects

Adds new menu item for checking release versions without downloading new releases

code clean-up

Bug fixes:

On Windows current Igor version was rounded owing to format of output from IgorInfo(3)

Installer now works for releases with missing patch version field

Includes contributions from Jim Prouty:

Jim's LaTex Pictures project is now compatible with Updater.

fixed problems with project installer arising when download of a page times out

switches from FetchURL to URLRequest, adds timeout for downloads

Minor improvements to Installer GUI

Can update procedure files uploaded to wavemetrics.com as zip archives. Installer now has a GUI.

Looks for new releases here on the IgorExchange section of wavemetrics.com instead of the retired IgorExchange site.