08/01/2010 - all parameters can bes saved in or re-loaded from a setup file (*.ees) - Number of Lines (used in Color Scan) and windows (used in I(t) and I(E) experiments) is increased (up to 99). - Dummy Grabber has now it's own parameter dialog box. - All intensity values are shown in percent (%). For 8 bit images 100% is equal to value 255 = 2^8 - 1. For 12 bit images 100% is equal to value 4095 = 2^12 - 1) - Color palettes are changed to increase the brightness. - LUT dialog box shows now the current palette. - *.vid files now supports RGB color images with up to 16 bit per color value. - Preview for image printing shows now the current colors (bug fixed). - Dialog windows for the Color Scan, I(t)/I(E) experiment, and Image Recorder are changed: they do not use the "Cancel" and "Accept" command buttons. All controls, which needs a re-start of an experiment are disabled during the running experiment or a stopped experiment. With the "New" command button a new experiment can be defined and all controls are enabled again. - The Color-Scan and I(t)/I(E) experiment windows have now a list of available Lines resp. windows. 16/11/2009 - New Color Scan functionality. - Support of EE2000 without hardlock by using registered USB digital cameras (camera works as a hardlock). 10/11/2008 - .VID files larger than 2 GB are now supported. 03/12/2007 - USB cameras zype UK11xx are supported. 16/10/2006 - Color mode implemented. 08/05/2004 - Bug fixed: the hardlock was not recognized on operating systems using an korean character set. Asiatic character sets are now supported. 10/09/2002 - Bug fixed: Closing the Auger experiment dialog box during a running experiment with the "X" button in the upper right corner of the window could crash the program. - Changes: when pressing the "Enter" key in the Edit mode of the Auger dialog box has started the experiment. This behaviour was not expected and has been changed´. Now, pressing "Enter" will accept the last edited entries. Also, pressing "Escape" will exit the edit mode without changing the ramp values. - Bug fixed: the menu entry "Histogram" was not disabled in Auger mode. 23/08/2002 - Bug fix: menu Graph -> Legend 19/08/2002 - Some Bug fixes: ISODAC-D/A converter; R-Factor calculation 30/05/2002 - Reverse X- and/or Y-scaling is now available in any plot window. - The Auger dialog box can be minimized. 09/05/2002 - A/D-Converter "BMC PCI-Base300/50 + MADx": Range selection was wrong. Bug fixed. 01/05/2002 - Bug fixed: Module "Measure of Length". Length value was not written to the data sheet. 07/03/2002 - Bug fixed: Calibration of the Auger D/A channel has used the LEED D/A channel. 16/02/2002 - Auger Modul as an option available for SMARTOOL and AIDA2000. A seperate AUGER program as stand alone is also available. 27/10/2001 - Beta version of Auger module. (AIDA2000 only) 27/04/2001 - Some modifications reffering to interfaces from ComputerBoards, Inc. 23/04/2001 - Bug fix in Print Image subroutine. 15/04/2001 - Better performance for the PixelFly camera. - Error Log removed. 09/04/2001 - Bug fix: Debugging bug removed (Only the 1st A/D channel was shown in A/D Setup dialog box). 08/04/2001 - PixelFly camera (PCO): the original driver does not have a dialog box for setting camera parameters like exposure time and binning. A EE2000 dialog box is implemented to set these parameters. (Tested with a SVGA (1280x1024) b/w camera without double shutter) 29/03/2001 - Bug fix: Using a SensiCam and having no ~BckGrn.tif file in the program directory results in a black image when grabbing the first time. (Without the bug fix you should click on "Define Background" in the "Grab" menu to create that file.) 13/03/2001 - Bug fix: "User Optimize" command did not work correct with 16 bit images. 03/03/2001 - New Feature: Whithin the Look Up Table dialog box you can now switch between real intensity units (depending on the bits per sample value of the current image) or percentage values (as before). - New feature: Whithin the Look Up Table dialog box you can optimze the LUT with the "User Optimze" command button. The LUT is calculated, so that darkest MIN% of the pixels are black and the brightest MAX% of the pixels are white. MIN% is fixed to 5%, MAX% is fixed to 95% (These values will be modified by the user in the future.). - Bug fix: In Image Recorder mode the "Step" command has not correctly filled the worksheet when pressed the first time. Small modofications to the "New" command sub routine. 01/03/2001 - New Feature for EE2000 Analysis license: Merge Video implemented. 26/02/2001 - New Feature for RISS license: Merge Video implemented. 21/02/2001 - New Feature: The Y-scale of the profile plot in Line Setup mode ("Scan" -> "Line (Setup)...") depends now from the settings of the LUT. (Thanks to Mr. Franz at Elmitec) - New feature: Export of images from a video file is now possible in all supported file formats. Videos with a Bits/Pixel value greater 8 can be saved in 16 Bits/Pixel file formats. - New Feature: Full Screen play back of a movie or camera image in preview mode is possible. If in VTR mode: [F5] start play back (from current frame) [Shift]+[F5] start play back (from 1st frame) [Space] stop/pause [F8] next frame [Shift]+[F8] previous frame [c] display comment on/off [Esc] returns from Full Screen mode. - New Feature: In preview mode: During image recording the camera image is updated when using large (> 0.2s) values for Dwell time and Step time. If the preview mode is off, the camera image is not updated. Tip: switch to preview mode before starting image recording if your video capture device does not support Overlay mode (SensiCam). 20/02/2001 - Bug fix: Grabbing a picture with long exposure time was aborted after 10s. The User can manualy abort long exposures with the [Esc] key. 15/02/2001 - EE2000 creates now a log file for GRABBER calls. The log file can be viewed with Info->About->View Log File (Only the first 8KB are logged.) 08/02/2001 - Calling Setup|Grabber has reset the grabber interface to none. Bug fixed. The program must now be restarted when changing a grabber interface. 23/11/2000 - SensiCam: The image buffer on the controller board is now cleared before taking a single picture (Grab) and bevore a sequence of pictures (Preview, Image Recorder) - T16 images are now stored with 16 bits per pixel in the header (regardless of the real number of bits per pixel). This makes the files compatible with other programs. 13/11/2000 - New Service Pack (SP4) - English Setup/Uninstall software 19/10/2000 - New compiler version. The setup files are also changed. 16/10/2000 - Drivers (I/O, A/D, D/A) are now loaded only once at the start of EE2000. Changing a hardware interface within EE2000 needs a Restart of EE2000. This change was necessary, because of some OCX devie drivers (BMC cards). 30/07/2000 - small optimization. 23/07/2000 - Bug fixed: the program has eaten a lot of system ressources when running under Windows9x operating system (not under Windows NT4, Windows 2000). 22/07/2000 - New behaviour: changing the bits per pixel will not affect the LUT settings. For example: Grab a single image and set the LUT for best contrast and brightness. Than take an image using the Average Grab function. The averaged image (with a higher bits per pixel value) will use the contrast/brightness setting. - EE2000.INI file is replaced by registry settings. Hardware INI files are moved from the application path to the windows path: EE2000 can now run from a write protected path (CD). 20/07/2000 - Bug fixed: If recording an video file with the Image Recorder a crash coulkd occur, if Preview mode was active a n d the averaging value was greater than 1. 08/07/2000 - Bug fixed: Calling the R-Factor function in the worksheet (Menu Math). 08/04/2000 - New support for Multi I/O card PCI-Base50 + MAD16 + MDA16 (8 x 16 Bit A/D, 2 x 16 Bit D/A, 8 x I/O In, 8 x I/O Out) 05/04/2000 - New support for Multi I/O card PC20 (8 x 12 Bit A/D, 2 x 8 Bit D/A, 8 x I/O In, 8 x I/O Out) 03/04/2000 - New feature: Find function in menu Edit. Use this function to find a cel in a worksheet containing the search string. - Bug fix: During a running Preview, changing the grabber resolution with the Video Format function could crash the program. The Preview function is now stopped during an open Video Format or Video Source dialog window. 31/03/2000 - Bug fix: Offline I(E) Analyse konnte unter bestimmten Bedingungen mit Energie- abhängigen Fenstergrößen zum Absturtz führen. 20/03/2000 - New A/D Converter card BMC PC16 (12 Bit). Driver model must be changed. 14/03/2000 - New Feature: Read and Write JPEG (*.JPG) files supported. Quality value (possible Range from 0 (very small, poor quality) to 99 (low compression, high quality) is set to 75 (good quality, good compression). - New feature: A WebCam function is bulid implemented. With the command WebCam in menu Grabber you can define a path to the WebCam file server. Other parameters are: Update interval and image quality (= compression rate) - Worksheet: Edit|Copy und Edit|Paste modified. Column name is now copied to the clipboard. (This behaviour is different from the Origin clipboard routines.) 04/03/2000 - Cancel during image recording with a SensiCam sometimes doesn't work: bug fixed. 02/03/2000 - Bug fix: Saving of *.vid file with more than 8 bit dynamic to an *.avi file 29/02/2000 - Bug fix from 27/02/2000 was not complete. Window positions during an I(E) experiment is now correct (Online and Offline experiments). - Loading TIF images with unknown Tags are now supported. - New Feature: User can call the Window Setup dialog box directly from the experiment control dialog box. - Changed behaviour: if a window will move outside of the image during an experiment, the window is repositioned into the iamge without changing the size of the window. 28/02/2000 - Special import module for the RISS version of EE2000 (not available to all customers.) 27/02/2000 - New Feature: Background Image Subtraction 1. Give the window showing the new background image the focus 2. Click on Grabber->Define Background the current image will be saved as ~bckgrnd.tif in the application path 3. Click on Grabber->Subtract Background to enable/disable background subtraction. If enabled, from all new captured images the background image is subtracted. If size and/or dynamic of the new captured image and the background image is different, you have the choice: a) Reload the original background image and convert this image to the size and dynamic of the new captured image b) Convert the current background image in memory to the size and and dynamic of the new captured image c) Disable background subtraction 4. Click on View->Show Background to show/hide the background image - Bug fix in Error trapping: Image Save and Image Load subroutine. - Bug fix: Window positions during an I(E) experiment were not updated. 18/02/2000 - Revision of I(E) Experiments with video files. - New Feature: Setup -> Pathes... for defining the default pathes of the different types of EE2000 files. After Installation, a default directory structure is created (dependent on the user who has looged in) 15/02/2000 - Bug fixed: Calibration of A/D-Converter was destroyed when Cancel Button in the diakog box of D/A-Converter was pressed. The D/A-Converter calibration was not restored. 10/02/2000 - Image Recorder: Staus of free disk space during record is now correct for hdd partitions greater than 2 GB (Win NT4.0, Win98, Win95 with OSR2).