******************************* GP-Pro EX V2.6 ******************************* November 2009 Digital Electronics Corp. Preface [Fixed defects] 1 Editor 2 Display Unit 3 Device/PLC 4 Project Converter 5 Movie Converter 6 Win GP 7 Memory Loader Contents ================================================================================ [Fixed defects] 1 Editor (Editor) - Canceling the Copy From Another Project feature with the Device/PLC setting view displayed causes an application error. - "Create" button cannot be pressed in the Shape Browser feature in some cases. - Changing the device/PLC may cause drawings or Parts to disappear. - In the Parts List screen, an application error may occur if addresses are kept being pasted. - Editor may start if the Thai language environment is setup on a Japanese OS. - Function keys cannot be pressed in some cases when an address with array elements is dragged and dropped from the Address setting window. - Tab order is wrong in the Paste Screen dialog. - Words used in Error Check's "Screen-Location" are not standardized. - When the locations to place duplicates are specified using the mouse, an incorrect number of rectangle boxes may be displayed on the screen. - Tab order is wrong in the Copy from Another Project dialog. - In V2.20 or later, the Screen Data List screen may not scroll automatically according to the cursor position. - Label spacings are not uniform in the Screen Information dialog. - Each time the Preferences screen is displayed, its display position changes. - Pressing Alt+Tab while the multiple line text input control is displayed in the Properties window may cause multiple Editor icons to be displayed. - The display navigator has been changed from a translucent window to a component on the status bar. - When the overwrite message displayed at the time of copying and pasting a screen in the Screen List window is closed by pressing the close button, the screen is overwritten. - English sub item names are not standardized in the context menu of Place/Align. - When Transfer Tool is started, invalid icons may be generated. - Copying a part shape using the "Copy Part Shape" feature may cause the shape of a part other than the target to change. - When the user account is changed, Editor cannot be started in some cases. - When Open Next Screen is executed by using the key board, the focus in the Screen List window may move to a wrong position. - When multiple switches are selected, Parts-Picture-related color attributes may appear blank even if the parts have the same attribute values. - When a screen is printed without a screen border, upper part of the font may not be printed. - Changing items in the Properties window may cause the window to scroll. - GP's Rev information and mode information may not be printed in some cases. - Performing Undo/Redo in the Preview step after creating data in the Common Settings work space may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - Dropping the PRX file may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated when the Copy from Another Project operation fails. - The project title may disappear when Monitor is run. - Dragging the title of the Search window when the comments limit is exceeded may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - Another Editor version can be run at the same time with V2.6 (trial version) in some cases. - After Undo is performed, the contents of the Common Settings work space may become invalid. - Transfer can be performed in some cases even when errors are found in the Error Check. - Moving from a Step to another when the Properties window is in the edit mode may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - Double-clicking Text on a base screen may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - Editor may be forcibly terminated during new project creation. - Editor may be forcibly terminated during the Copy Another Project process. - Comments of symbol variable array elements may not be printed in the index order. - The Functions dialog cannot be closed using the ESC key on the keyboard. - Editor may be forcibly terminated in the password settings. - The item names of some radio buttons in the system settings may not be fully displayed when displayed in Chinese. - Ethernet Multilink can be enabled when ST3000 is set. - An unnecessary vertical scroll bar may be displayed in the System Settings work space. - The SIO type becomes incorrect when COM2 is used with an AGP model. - An item in the System Settings - Script I/O Settings is not printed. - The scroll bar may not be operable in the list view of the Image Font settings. - Changing the series of the device/PLC may cause the Watchdog Write Address to become "Undefined". - The appropriate initial value is not set for the COM1 information unless the communication settings screen is opened. - Unnecessary lines are displayed in Parts in the Shape Browser. - Part IDs and addresses may not be fully displayed. - Multiple objects cannot be selected in the Screen Data List work space if group objects are included. - Changing the data type of Alarm trigger conditions to DEC without sign causes an invalid value to be set. - Alarms exceeding the import limit can be imported. - In "Display/Save As CSV" in the Sampling settings, item names may return to their default values. - Sampling frequency unit may become 100mSec. on an English OS. - Characters of an address name cannot be deleted one by one using the Delete key in the Sampling settings. - Previously selected group may not be selected when user returns to the Sampling List. - Pressing the Enter key in the Sampling Group List may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - Editor may be forcibly terminated in the Sampling List. - The display of the Preview area may become invalid in the Sampling settings. - In "Display/Save As CSV" in the Sampling settings, the columns in the table may be swapped over with each other. - Pressing the Delete key in the Display/Save in CSV tab of the Sampling settings may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - A message saying that a CF card cannot be used is displayed on a LT model even when the Save-in location is set to USB Storage in the Recipe Settings (Transfer CSV Data). - In the security feature, "Enable Security Levels" in the Properties window may not be hidden even when it should be. - The Use Level 15 Password to Go Offline option may be disabled when data created with GP-Pro EX V2.00 or earlier is read. - Conversion may not be performed properly in the Convert Text Table feature. - In the Text Table feature, the import fails if strings of the import target file include "\". - In the Text Table conversion, characters registered for Alarm messages are changed to numeric values if the registration limit is reached. - Linefeed codes may be recognized differently when text tables are converted to GP-Pro EX. - Copying and pasting data in a text table may cause the screen to scroll to the right side. - A warning message may be displayed saying that the font is not available when the language is changed in a text table. - Saving global D-scripts may cause the GP-Pro EX to terminate. - "Break" just after a debug function may cause a script error to occur in the Extended Script. - Invalid data is generated when a Return statement is used with the Bit Length set to 32 Bit in the Extended Script. - Device addresses in the Extended Script may become "Undefined". - When a project including Extended Script is converted, part of the file cannot be opened in some cases. - When a text table file is created with the European language patch installed, the generated file name will be different depending on the countries. - The display contents may become partly incorrect when exported text is imported back. - Registering a new list to the Play List in the Movie settings may cause the Editor to be forcibly terminated. - Coordinate processing has an error in reading data of Image Unit Window. - The Image Unit Window display area (blue-framed) cannot be enlarged to the maximum size at the time of DVI input. - Symbol comments disappear when an AST model is selected. - Overwriting data with Symbol Import may cause Parts on base screens to become "Undefined". - When the Display orientation is changed from Landscape to Portrait, Parts on the called screen may not fit into the screen area. - Coloration of images may be different. - Project size may become very large due to change operations of image compression attributes. - When an image is copied and pasted, the image may be rotated although the size remains the same. - "Transparent" may not be set up for the pattern color of Switches. - When the Data Type of a Word Switch is changed from Hex to Dec, data larger than Hex8000 returns to Dec1. - When the Switch "SW_3D203" is rotated, the upper left corner is shifted. - The shapes of switches are deleted and the Editor is forcibly terminated when user opens a V2.51 project with V2.60 in some cases. - When a menu list is displayed, part of the drawing may not be displayed. - When a Selector List is copied from another project, the text in the list that was aligned left may be changed to be aligned right. - When image fonts are used in Selector List parts, the font may become invalid. - An error log may be output when Data Display's attributes dialog is opened. - The Number of Decimal Places Address may become empty in Data Displays (Numeric Display). - In the Processing area of Data Display (Numeric Display) setting dialog, the display may not change depending on the address type. - In the setting of Data Display (Numeric Display)'s Operation Process tab, processing is not performed properly according to the Time-Base ON/OFF. - The display settings of "*" may not be correctly reflected in the display preview of Data Display. - Changing the Decimal Places specification of Data Display (Numeric Display) from the Properties window may cause the display position of the data to be shifted. - Data Display (Numeric Display)'s Plate Color cannot be changed in 　　　　　　 some cases. - When a Data Display is placed using a function button, the location where the Data Display is placed is slightly shifted from the center of the screen. - Editor may be forcibly terminated if Data Displays are set using fonts that do not exist in Windows. - Values in Data Displays (Numeric Display) may not be displayed properly in the Preview. - The Text Attribute may not be enabled in Date/Time Displays. - The Text Attribute may not be enabled in Data Displays (Show Limit Value). - The setting value of the Time of Time Displays may become blank. - Only the location of the anchor is changed (not label size) when the width and height of a Data Display (Input Display) in which No Shape is selected is changed from the Properties window. - No space is displayed between the time and the date in Date/Time Displays in some cases. - Even when the display range of a Data Display is specified by Address, "Alarm Range Inside Display Range Settings" is settable. - The value displayed in a Data Display is not aligned right in the preview when decimal places are set. - If 7-segment Display and Auto-size Font are grayed out when they are on, they do not turn off. - Input Displays can only display 32 or less digits. - Regarding the Alarm Range of Graph parts, merging of values of attributes may not be properly performed. - In a Graph part, Border Color may be displayed even though No Shape is selected. - When Tank Graph is selected in the Graph setting dialog, lines of another Parts may remain displayed. - In a Graph part, changing the Display Color (Address) may cause the addresses that are enabled after that to be inconsecutive. - The Parts Picture of the Tank Graph (GR_PL010ML) may not be drawn properly. - Item names that should be hidden may remain displayed in the Properties window of Graph parts. - Rotating a Meter Graph and then copying the Part Shape may cause the meter needle direction to become strange. - Copying the part shape of a Meter Graph may cause the meter needle not to work in the Simulation. - After the Hole Size of Circle Graphs/Semicircle Graphs is initialized, Undo operation may not work. - Copying and moving a Bar/Tank Graph may cause its associated parts that indicate the upper/lower limits to disappear. - The Parts Picture set up for a rotated Meter Graph may not rotate. - When Bar Graph is selected in the Graph setting dialog, a Circle Graph may be displayed in the Color settings tab. - The Alarm Settings may not be displayed correctly in the Graph setting dialog. - The Tab order may be partly incorrect in the Graph setting dialog. - Item names may differ between in the Graph setting dialog and in the Properties window. - When a flask-shaped Tank Graph is enlarged, Fill is not performed properly with some undrawn area left in the drawing. - When a Semicircle Graph is rotated by 90 or 180 degrees, the display of the graph is shifted in the Preview. - Meter Graph's Parts Picture may be set for a Normal Graph in some cases. - When a Circle/Semicircle Graph is rotated and then previewed, the graph may not be displayed properly. - When a Semicircle Graph is rotated, the line part of the graph may be shifted. - If a value is input when a Semicircle Graph is previewed, Fill is not performed properly. - Semicircle Graphs may be displayed partly outside the anchor. - Borders of sample graphs may not be displayed in the Graph setting dialog. - Merging of coordinates of Historical Trend Graphs may not be performed properly. - Changing the Parts Picture of a Historical Trend Graph/Data Block Display Graph may cause the graph to be displayed partly outside the anchor. - Changing the Part ID of a Historical Trend Graph may cause its associated parts (Data Displays) not to work on a display unit. - Error messages displayed in the Historical Trend Graph and Data Block Display Graph setting dialogs may have no title. - Data Block Display Graph's Scale Divisions may be changed after the project is saved and reopened. - Settings for each channel cannot be set in the Data Block Display Graph setting dialog in some cases. - The Dot Type checkbox may not be grayed out when it should be in the Data Block Display Graph setting dialog - The Pattern Color 2 for filling below the line may be displayed inappropriately in Data Block Display Graphs. - XY Historical Scatter Graphs and XY Block Display Scatter Graphs may not be displayed properly with a Portrait orientation GP set. - The Line Type/Width address displayed in the XY Block Display Scatter Graph setting dialog may be incorrect. - The Word Log Alarms range setting is displayed incorrectly. - The font size of Alarm parts may be changed after the project is saved and reopened. - No error may be displayed even when a title is set as blank (no character is set) in an Alarm part. - Rotating an Alarm part may cause its horizontal lines to be drawn incorrectly. - Even when Alarm item names are registered to a text table through the text table conversion, they are displayed in the Unused String List. - Alarm item names may not be displayed when Text Table is selected in the Alarm Item Name Settings. - Item names for Show History may be displayed in the Screen Data List when Summary is selected for the Alarm part. - The 4-pixel limitation is not applied to the Alarm's Sub Display window in some cases. - The tab order is incorrect in the Alarm part setting dialog. - The display location of the Alarm part's sub display window may not be stored correctly. - Even when the Alarm item names are deleted, they may not be displayed in the Text Table's Unused String List. - Words of Alarm parts (Switch settings) are not partly standardized. - When an Alarm part is saved, the location of the sub display window part is not output properly. - A font is added in some cases when Image Font is set in an Alarm part. - The data of Alarm settings may be get damaged and becomes unreadable. - Increasing the number of states of a Message Display may cause the label to be displayed partly outside the Part area. - The display content may not fit into the anchor of the Window part. - The Window display and its anchor may be displayed in shifted positions when multiple Window parts are grouped and resized. - When the Shape Browser is displayed from Remote PC Access Window Display, New Palette and Register Parts cannot be performed. - In the Remote PC Access Window Display setting dialog, pressing the Tab key while selecting the Type may cause the display content to become something that cannot be normally set. - When a package including Text is selected in a Picture Display, the Text may be displayed partly outside the anchor area. - In the base screen selection dialog of a Picture Display, screens cannot be selected using the right and left arrow keys. - The focus moves improperly when changes are made in the Screens of Type setting combo box in the Picture Display setting dialog. - When Move Display and Mark are specified, the Rail numbers may not be the same. - Controls may be displayed overlapped in the Picture Display setting dialog. - The dotted line of a Picture Display's border may not be drawn at the time of placing the Picture Display. - In the Picture Display setting dialog, the display in the Blink combo box is not standardized when the background color is set to Transparent. - An exception occurs internally when a Picture Display (Move Display) is loaded. - When the Picture Display's states are switched in the Simulation, the previous state may not be cleared in some cases. - In a Picture Display (Move Display), the maximum value of the Y-Axis Move may be changed when the project is saved and opened. - Invalid data may be output in Picture Displays (ON/OFF Display). - The size of a Picture Display may become invalid when it is copied and pasted. - The Block Number Specification Address of Sampling Data Display may not disappear from the Cross Reference. - In the Switch setting tab of the Sampling Data Display setting dialog, the description words and controls may be overlapped. - Sampling Data Display may not be loaded properly after it is rotated 180 degrees and saved. - The size of Sampling Data Display can be changed from the Properties window in some cases. - Text sizes in Data Transfer Displays and Filing Display may be different from the data. - When a project in which a large font is set up for a Special Data Display is saved and then opened, the font size may change. - The 4-pixel limitation is not applied to the File Manager in some cases when a Portrait-orientation model is set. - Warning is displayed at Error Check after a screen containing D-Scripts with no warning is copied and pasted. - When a script with an external device specified is copied from another project, it is regarded as invalid data. - In a D-Script expression, inputting a constant after Exclusive OR (^) may lead to an error. - Script with an error may not be copied properly when a software PLC is used. - Duplicating a user defined function that is locked with a password may lead to an forcible termination. - When the words "[#MEMLINK]" are pasted in D-Script, tab characters may be inserted. - In the Animation setting dialog, there may be no response when a combo box is clicked. - When a model with no blink is used, "Blink" is displayed in the Animation setting dialog (at the time of Word Address). - When Logic Monitor is used at the same time with the device monitor of Pro-Server EX, switching ON/OFF may cause the communication with the display unit to be disconnected. - Selecting a logic instruction and dragging an operand with the Shift key held down may lead to an abnormal termination. - In the Logic view, the D1 value displayed in a MOV instruction may be changed to a different value if there is a SHL instruction in the next rung. - Runtime is always transferred even at the time of automatic transfer in some cases. - Screen data that exceeds the transfer size can be transferred to a display units in some cases. - GP may get an error when OK is pressed in the transfer destination folder selection window. - Transfer may fail when there are txt and sdx files in the destination folder in the CF card. - At the time of transfer, no error may be displayed even when necessary files do not exist. - No error may be displayed when an attempt to open two instances of the Transfer Tool is made. - Even when no Site Transfer is performed, the display may say that it is completed. - When a project in which image fonts or picture fonts are used is automatically transferred, the following problems may occur: - The project cannot be opened in the editor after it is received through the [Receive Project] operaion of the transfer tool. - The [Memory Loader]-[Create Project] operation fails. - After Simulation is performed by a user, another user with limited rights may not be able to run Simulation. - Closing the Simulation may cause the screen area of a Display part in the window to run over the window. - After selecting I/O Screen in the Object window, clicking the down arrow key may not allow you to switch to other items. - Accessing an invalid device address may lead to a forcible termination of Simulation. - Attempts to run two Simulations may cause the Simulation screen not to close. - Uninstalling the transfer tool causes the USB driver to disappear. - Starting Editor without Administrator rights may cause the installer to start restoration operation, which may prevent the screen editing software from starting. - The Windows Vista key code cannot be inputted at installation in some cases. - GP-Pro EX V2.2 cannot be installed in some cases. - Some features do not work properly when GP-Pro EX V2.2 is used with User rights. - The project converter may become inoperable when uninstallation of GP-Pro EX is performed. - The word "W" is not fully displayed in the Installer. - Periods are missing in some locations in the Installer on an English OS. 2 Display Unit (Runtime) - In the area where backup data of internal devices is stored, data is partly changed to invalid values in very rare cases. - Display unit may be reset if image font characters are set stretching out beyond the screen size. - Using "Data Write" with multiple devices/PLCs set may cause the display unit to hang in very rare timing cases. - When the display data type is BCD, Alarm Action is performed even in response to an invalid BCD value. - When the data type of the data is other than Float and the data type of the Calculation Settings is Float, decimal place values are rounded off regardless of the settings. - When the write data setting is enabled with Set Time selected, the read error bit does not turn on even if the permit bit remains off after the specified time. - Sampling does not operate properly when the End Time becomes some time in the next day in the Time setting. - Screen update may stop for about 1 minute if the Time of the display unit is changed to some time in the next day after sampling starts. - The printed data in the Calculation rows becomes invalid when the data type is Dec in the Print settings, and the data type in the Calculation Settings is Float and the Calculated Data is set to Average. - When the data type in the Print settings is Float with Round Off enabled and the data type in the Calculation Settings is Float, the round off operation in a Calculation row is performed taking the number of decimal digits set up for a Data row as the the number of display digits. - Average values are printed in the Calculation row when the Calculated Data is Sum in the Calculation Settings in the Print Settings. - Display unit may hang if invalid characters are included in condition names. - In the CSV data transfer, values after the decimal point become 0 after Float data is transferred to a device/PLC. - Invalid behavior may be encountered when a special switch for security password setting is pressed. - Security setting lowers the scan performance for display. - In the case where security is set for going offline with no initial screen registered, the input password screen is displayed but user cannot perform any operation at the time of going offline. - After the time has elapsed for automatic clearing of the security level, if Ladder Monitor, Logic Monitor, or Address Monitor is started and then the monitor screen display is terminated, a password input screen is displayed. If Cancel is selected in the screen, the monitor screen appears again and the screen cannot be terminated. - When a switch is kept pressed for a while, the following behavior may occur even though the switch is being pressed: - The security level is cleared - Transition to the standby mode is performed. - The SubInfo is not output properly when Special Switch (File Item Switch) is used. - In the case where an error occurs after an attempt is made to save data when there is no external storage, no operation log is output to an external storage that has no OPLOG folder. - Operation log of the Switch part may not be left in the case where Include in Operation Log is enabled in the Switch settings but the corresponding item is not selected in Operations To Log in the Operation Log Settings.