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A beta release of DPlot is available. You must already be running DPlot 1.9.9 to use this release. To check the version number of DPlot you are currently running, select "About DPlot" on the Help menu. If you are not using version 1.9.9, you can get the trial version from the Downloads page. Licensed users should instead use the link provided to the mailing list.

To use this release, right-click on this link [Edit: changed link to normal download, which includes all of the changes mentioned here.] and select "Save Target As". Save this file to the folder where you installed DPlot (default=c:\Program Files\DPlot), overwriting the previous version.

Changes:

• Added right-click menues for setting the number formats used on the coordinate axes. Click on any number to bring up a list of available formats.
  
  
• Changed the behavior of right-click menu when you click within the graph area of an XY plot. Previous versions showed the Edit menu, which was not especially useful. This version shows scale types (Linear X Linear Y, etc.) and any options specific to that scale type.
  
  
• Bug fix: One more glitch with printing surface plots with shaded bands has been fixed. In the previous 3 releases if you did not have Specify size and WYWISYG on the Extents/Tick Marks/Size> dialog checked, the fonts used in the plot were a very large scale and resulted in overlapping text and not much else. In this version if Specify size is not checked, the plot will be scaled to an 8 inch x 8 inch box, and scaled down if necessary to fit the page margins. To ensure that the printout resembles the plot you see on the display, though, it has always been and will always be best to check the Specify size and WYSIWYG boxes.
  
  
• Bug fix (affecting programmers only): Scaling information returned by DPlot_GetBitmapEx was incorrect for 3D views of 3D data on a rectangular grid (DATA_3D) if the legend was shown on a plot. This made it impossible to correctly project and add your own graphic objects to DPlot-produced bitmaps at the correct location. Next release of DPLOTLIB will include examples showing the addition of graphic objects by another program. For 2D projections this is trivial and can be figured out from the mouse movement code in the examples. For 3D projections it is a bit more complicated. If you have a pressing need for this sort of functionality in your own program let me know and I'll send an example before the next release.
  
  
• Bug fix: $STDEV text shortcut displayed the result using standard C runtime function, while most other shortcuts used DPlot's internal number formatting routine. This is primarily of importance to users who use a comma for a decimal point.
  

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