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ChangeLog – Bugfixes and minor/major changes/improvements

2013.09.20

• In this minor release was solved the appearance issue of the vertical line marker from the Raman spectrum which correspond to chosen vibration (mouse click) of the vibration table. The problem was that the specific vibration marker on the Raman spectrum do not remains active (disappear after few milliseconds).

2013.09.10

• Was added a new column with corresponding mineral class for every entry. Also, from the dropbox of the corresponding column green header, user can select a pre-choice Mineral Class for a fast sorting;
• Was fixed the issue for chemical formula format on the crystal structure window.

2013.09.01

• was integrated a 3D crystal structure viewer of every mineral. Using Jmol library (http://jmol.sourceforge.net), with the new release, users can see and play around with the crystal structure of selected mineral entry. Also, for the pro-jmol users, a console tab was implemented;
• format chemical formula for all entries (empirical formula);
• was added a samples folder which contain several Raman spectra in different formats;
• was fixed the issue of the external links of every entry. This was an Java update issue. With this update, now this functionality it works also for other OS’s;
• was added a new button (Clear search), which clear all fields from the main panel. The buttons below Raman spectrum was redesigned;
• added a menu item (Reverse X-axis) for the main Raman spectra Chart Panel;
• was fixed the issue of “remove multiple peaks” function from the New Spectrum panel > Analyze tab. When this bug occur (when multiple selection of the peaks, not all!), the “remove” button delete peaks one by one, and not all selected Raman peaks;
• new Help file;
• other minor fixes, in terms of Dialogs and Messages when specific actions occur.

2013.06.01

• New feature called RIA (Relative Intensity Assignment) which is a tool for the assignment of the Raman bands in terms of intensity (e.g. very strong, strong, medium, weak and very weak). This tool is divided in two categories: (i) which works very well with baseline-removed Raman spectra, and (ii) is better for high fluorescence Raman spectra;
• The Quick Start Guide contains video tutorials for various features that you will find at Raman Data Search and Storage application;
• Was added a manu bar to the New Raman Spectrum window which contains an option panel for the Raman spectrum;
• The panel “DataSheet Peak(s) Assignment” was set to always on top to facilitate the search for the Raman peaks in the main panel;
• New menu items was added: “Forum support” and “Donation”.

2013.04.01

• The connection timeout after a short time of inactivity was fixed;
• The color of tables was changed for a good readability;
• The image photo for every entry of the database was fixed in terms of search filter. The photo does not match to the selected mineral;
• Was integrated the feature called: mouse coordinates for every Raman spectrum. Was added a real time coordinates of the Raman Spectrum when the mouse is moved over the spectrum;
• Was added reverse X/Y-axis function;
• Was added a line width function. Decrease/Increase the line width by one. Possible range is from 1 to 5;
• Was integrated a slider which moves an cursor line along wavenumber axis. This slider can be moved also by the mouse wheel;
• Was fixed the import issue of .rruff files;
• Was added a file filter to see only files with the following extensions: *.txt, *.rruff, *.csv, *.asc, *.dat;
• Was integrated a new feature which get peaks from a raw Raman spectrum;
• Was added a new feature called Peak DataSheet Assignment for the imported raw Raman spectrum;
• Was fixed the peak annotation from the chart plot to maintain proportion (Y-axis / intensity axis) when the spectrum is zoomed out/in;
• Was added a new feature called Peak Assignment for every entry of the database. In other words, every entry have now a tentative assignment of they peaks (main and other – in terms of intensity);
• An updater function was integrated. So, from now user will know when a new version of RDSS is available;
• An algorithm for automatic peak finder was integrated. The algorithm use two variables: threshold and gap. Works very good with adjusted-baseline Raman spectra.

2012.12.01

• The major update consist in the new features which permit to see a fully scalable Raman spectrum (zoom in/out, translate, get mouse click position (cm^-1), automatically get the highest Raman peak, save as .png / .jpg file);
• Also, the user can open an ASCII file (.txt format, by pressing the button ‘New Spectrum’) with XY values accepted with different delimiters: tab, space, comma, semicolon, ignore rows with ##comments and any combination of this. For that spectrum added in the viewer, user can change the color, show/hide gridlines, modify tick spacing, range and much more features;
• Photos for each mineral was added;
• System tray icon was added;
• The current time is now updated every second, also in the Menu bar a label message from the server was added which display the current version of the application / latest version;
• Splash screen was redesigned; added fresh information which is updated directly from database.

2012.10.15

• Full screen layout was fixed for different screen resolutions;
• The Help item menu was fixed with an action performed which open the Help.pdf file.

2012.09.30

• First version!