Release 1.3.0 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on January 15, 2016. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 1.3.0.247

New Features

• This release adds support for Windows 10. See the Install Guide for additional instructions when upgrading a PC from a previous version of Windows to Windows 10.

Changed Features

There are no changed features at this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with ODA Data Group Type: in some situations the displayed group type did not match the group type sent in the ODA AID message.
• Fixed an issue on the summary page: enabling a channel using the navigator context menu did not always update the enable state of the channel on the summary page.
• Fixed an issue with the RDS Group 04A page: the custom time was being reset if the user navigated away from the Group 04A page.
• Fixed an issue with the RDS Group 04A page: if the user selected the Use Custom Time option, the display didn’t update straight away to reflect the custom time (though the custom time was broadcast).
• Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 1.3.0.171

New Features

• This release adds support for Windows 10. See the Install Guide for additional instructions when upgrading a PC from a previous version of Windows to Windows 10.

Changed Features

• Editor: Lua Basic Library functions have been added to syntax highlighting, and are shown with colour light blue.
• Sample scripts: the deprecated table.getn method has been replaced with the table length operator ‘#’.

Bug Fixes

• Script Explorer: Fixed an error that caused a “File type not supported” message to appear when opening all files in a directory, that also included a sub-directory.
• Script Explorer: Fixed an issue that prevented new scripts to be created in an empty directory.
• Fixed crash when exiting the application when the user account does not have administrator privileges.
• Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

• Lua is now Version 5.1.5

Firmware

The following firmware is required:

DeskLab RDS

• Latest firmware version: 3.10.1035.5797 (Recomended).
• For 64 bit timestamp support, firmware version 3.10.962.5394 or greater is required.
• Minimum supported firmware version: 3.7.701.3889.
• FPGA version: 2.2.0.

Release 1.2.0 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on April 14, 2015. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 1.2.0.228

New Features

There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• Added support for time zone offset and daylight saving time to Group Type 04A.
• The default audio frequency for each channel has been changed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the XSP device would disconnect if the system time of the host PC changed.
• Fixed an issue where the PSN control on the Group type 00A page only updated if enter was pressed.
• Fixed an issue where some of the signal generator frequency controls had the wrong default settings.
• Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 1.2.0.156

New Features

There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• Changed keyboard shortcuts:
  F5 now runs a script in debug a mode
  F6 runs a script without debugging
  Shift + F5 stops the script (both run and debug modes).
• Two new functions have been added to the SigGen library: RDSSetClockTimeDate and RDSGetClockTimeDate. These allow timezone offset and daylight saving to be set for the RDS clock (group type 04A).
• The default audio frequency for each channel has been changed.
• Editor: selecting a word in the editor will highlight all matching occurrences of the word.

Bug Fixes

• The editor no longer goes to the first line in a script if the user clicks cancel on the Go To Line dialog.
• Fixed an issue where the XSP device would disconnect if the system time of the host PC changed.
• Fixed an issue where the editor page tab tooltip did not update the path to the script after “save as”.
• Fixed issues with the editor where some actions (such as commenting out text) paused, and syntax highlighting did not complete.
• Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

Firmware

The following firmware is required:

DeskLab RDS

• Latest firmware version: 3.10.1035.5797 (Recomended).
• For 64 bit timestamp support, firmware version 3.10.962.5394 or greater is required.
• Minimum supported firmware version: 3.7.701.3889.
• FPGA version: 2.2.0.

Release 1.1.1 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on January 29, 2015. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

Note: firmware version 3.7.701.3889 or later is required in order to use this release with the DeskLab RDS.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 1.1.1.208

New Features

• There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• There are no changed features in this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash parsing the AF list of an EON.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 1.1.0.136

Changes

There are no changes to DeskLab Script in this release. Please continue to use Revision 1.1.0.136.

Release 1.1.0 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on December 16, 2014. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

Note: firmware version 3.7.701.3889 or later is required in order to use this release with the DeskLab RDS.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 1.1.0.207

New Features

• Added support for 64 bit timestamps. This resolves an issue where the timestamp would roll over after approximately 4.9 days.

Changed Features

• The minimum required operating system has changed from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows XP with service pack 3 installed.
• Updated replaying logged data to stream directly from file, rather than delay replay start while files are loaded into memory.
• Allow replay of individual RDS channel’s data that has been logged to a CSV file.
• It is now possible to limit the number of text lines displayed in the Connection Status Window via the application preferences.
• Added a context menu to the RDS Navigator Summary node to allow all channels to be enabled or disabled.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Audio setting page, where the modified flag was being set without any changes being made to the audio settings.
• Fixed an issue with the Summary Page not updating after settings were copied from one channel to another.
• Fixed an issue where the message count data was not being saved correctly in the Message View
• Fixed crash when exiting the application on some Windows XP configurations.
• Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 1.1.0.136

New Features

• Added support for 64 bit timestamps. This resolves an issue where the timestamp would roll over after approximately 4.9 days.
• Added a new library xyTimestamp. This allows 32 bit and/or 64 bit timestamp information that is returned by some XSP devices, to be manipulated within Lua scripts.

Changed Features

• The minimum required operating system has changed from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows XP with service pack 3 installed.
• Added a new Preference that allows the destination of the script ‘print’ command to be changed.
• Added a new script command ‘MessageBox’ to display text in a message box.
• Split the run command into two parts.
• RDSMsg library: Added GetTimeStamp32 method to return a 32 bit xyTimestamp object.
• RDSMsg library: Added GetTimeStamp64 method to return a 64 bit xyTimestamp object.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where a new script could be saved to disk without requesting a file name or location from the user.
• Other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

Release 0.11.1 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on June 11, 2014. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

Note: firmware version 3.2.210.1147 or later is required in order to use this release with the DeskLab RDS.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 0.11.1.167 (alpha)

New Features

• There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• Added the A/B flag parameter to Group Type 10A (PTYN).

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes and stability improvements.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 0.11.1.101 (alpha)

New Features

• There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• Allows different message view configurations to be displayed from a script.
• The directory structure for the sample scripts has changed.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue in the Signal Generator library, when the user aborts a script
  attempting to close the application resulted in a script still running message.
• Fixed an occasional crash when running scripts that display a message view.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

A new experimental version of the eCos ConfigTool incorporating various features not currently available in the project repository is now available. New features include:

• A menu option allowing the build duration to be optionally displayed
• Accelerator key support in the output window
• Checks to ensure that a build tree exists, regenerating it if needed
• A menu option to remove the entire build tree
• Accelerator key support in the output window
• Support for multiple repositories

This version has been compiled as a native Windows 32-bit application, but uses Cygwin to provide the build enviroment.

Release 0.11.0 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on June 12, 2013. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

Note: firmware version 3.2.210.1147 or later is required in order to use this release with the DeskLab RDS.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 0.11.0.153 (alpha)

New Features

• There are no new features at this release.
• This release adds support for the RDS Scanner device.
• This release adds support for replaying RDS Scannner logs using the RDS-1 device.

Changed Features

• There are no changed features at this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed erroneous error message given in the status log when parsing RDS configuration files created by DeskLab Explorer versions prior to 0.10.1.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 0.11.0.91 (alpha)

New Features

• Added library “MessageView”. This allows access to the Message View control functionality from a script. Using this library, the Message View control can be opened, closed, messages added, and the Message View contents saved. See the help documentation for further details.

Changed Features

• There are no changed features at this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed memory leak in the Signal Generator library.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

Release 0.10.1 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on December 14, 2012. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

Note: firmware version 3.2.210.1147 or later is required in order to use this release with the DeskLab RDS.

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DeskLab Explorer

Revision 0.10.1.128 (alpha)

New Features

• There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• There are no changed features at this release.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented some Table E.1 characters from displaying.
• Fixed an issue with input controls that use Table E.1 encoding that prevented input of numbers using the number pad.
• Fixed an issue with input controls that use Table E.1. encoding that always added new input at the end of the existing text, and moved the insertion point to be after the new input.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 0.10.1.70 (alpha)

New Features

• There are no new features at this release.

Changed Features

• There are no changed features at this release.

Bug Fixes

• There are no bug fixes at this release.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

Release 0.10.0 of the DeskLab Software Suite was released on November 9, 2012. See below for details of changes to the individual components.

Note: firmware version 3.2.210.1147 or later is required in order to use this release with the DeskLab RDS.

To obtain this release, please email @xylanta.com

DeskLab Explorer

Revision 0.10.0.122 (alpha)

New Features

• This release adds support for Type 01 Groups.
• This release adds support for Type 15B Groups.
• A new home page is displayed at DeskLab Explorer start-up. Previous behaviour can be restored in the application preferences.

Changed Features

• The Analogue audio feature has been renamed Line-in.
• Line-in components have been added to the Audio settings page.
• Mute has been added to the Audio settings page.
• Changed the default Audio Deviation from 40,000Hz to 65,500 Hz.
• Changed the default Pilot Deviation from 6,750 Hz to 7,500 Hz.
• Changed the default RDS Deviation from 500 Hz to 2000 Hz.
• Text based parameters (PSN, RadioText, etc.) now have a custom font to display the RDS character set. See help on how to enter characters not available on the keyboard.
• enhanced Radio Text (eRT) now has a custom font to display all characters available to eRT. See help on how to enter characters not available on the keyboard.
• Group 04 user date and time are now saved in ISO 8601 format.

Bug Fixes

• Group 04 user time is now saved to the configuration file.
• Group 04 user date, loading data from a configuration file no longer transposes day and month values.
• Fixed issue where the select port control disappeared.
• Fixed issue sending enhanced Radio Text with fewer than 32 characters.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.

DeskLab Script

Revision 0.10.0.64 (alpha)

New Features

• This release adds support for Type 01 Groups.
• This release adds support for Type 15B Groups.

Changed Features

• There are no changed features at this release.

Bug Fixes

• There are no bug fixes at this release.

Other Components

There are no other components supplied with this release.