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Below is a list of the latest additions and changes to Wavewin Bitronics Comtrade Viewer.

Version	Release Date	Additions & Changes
Wavewin G.Q	08 / 04 / 2014	Data Plotting (Scale by Units): Added a new Auto Scale mode to Scale channels according to the channel units. Current channels are scaled with respect to each other and Voltage channels are scaled with respect to each other. Data Plotting (Super Impose): Added support to have multiple super imposes in the analog channel plot screen. To superimpose a group of analog channels first mark the channels the press F7. To turn superimpose off for a group of channels unmark the channels and press F7. Data Plotting (Plot Single Ended FL): Added support to plot the Single Ended Fault Location in the Data Plotting window. A new button was added to the Single Ended Radial and Reactance tabs to plot the FL for the whole record or between bars. Data Plotting (Plot Double Ended FL): Added support to plot the Double Ended Fault Location in the Data Plotting window. A new button was added to the Double Ended dialog to plot the FL for the whole record or between bars.
Wavewin G.P	07 / 20 / 2014	Data Plotting (Scale Table Column): Added support to increase or decrease the Scale column value when a channels Amplitude is increased or decreased.
Wavewin G.M	04 / 10 / 2014	Data Plotting (Fast SACs): Corected a problem with the + and - sequence equations being flipped.
Wavewin G.3	03 / 25 / 2013	Data Plotting (Y Scaling): Changed the PixDisp column to display the number of Volts or Amps per inch in the current view/print according to the number of pixels per inch of the screen or printer.
Wavewin F.Z	02 / 07 / 2013	Data Plotting (Comtrade 2013): Added support to read the new Comtrade 2013 format. Also added the save as Comtrade to support the Comtrade 2013 format.
Wavewin F.Y	01 / 14 / 2013	File Manager (Passed File Parameter): When a file is passed as a passed parameter to Wavewin it use to first open the file manager then open the passed file. It now just directly opens the file. Directories that have thousands of file takes allot of time to load. This version speeds up the display of passed files. Data Plotting (Drag and Drop Analog Channels): Added the ability to drag and drop mark analog channels to a new position in the analog trace section.
Wavewin F.X	12 / 17 / 2012	File Manager (Append Logs): Modified the append logs engine to sort the marked logs file according to the fault date and time. In previous version is was sorting them by save date and time.
Wavewin F.W	11 / 28 / 2012	Data Plotting (Bitronics RAW Files): Added a display driver to plot the Bitronics RAW Trend files.
Wavewin F.T	10 / 10 / 2012	File Manager (Networked Drives): Improved the reading of the drive letter from the network drive name. In previous versions the network drive was read from the information between the last ( ) symbols in the string. In some cases the information between last ( ) symbols is not the network drive. It now looks for the ':' between the ( ). If not found then go to the next () symbols. Data Plotting (Mark & Save): Corrected a problem with the mark and save not reading the selected format file correctly from the menu option.
Wavewin F.Q	08 / 20 / 2012	File Manager (User Shortcuts): Added user defined shortcuts to menu options in the File Manager and Data Plotting windows. To define shortcuts open the the File Manager's Display dialog (located under the Options menu). Click the Shortcuts button. Two tabs are displayed below the dialog definition "File Table" and "Data Plotting". To add shortcuts click the menu options under the "Actions" list and click the Move button (green arrow). Shortcuts can be deleted, moved up and moved down in the list. A drop down menu button is displayed in the button menu bar with the selected shortcuts.
Wavewin F.P	08 / 03 / 2012	Data Plotting (Fast SACs): Added support to add new SAC header and operators to the Fast SAC file by the users. The Fast SAC file (SacList.FMT) is not included with the downloaded zip file. When the system is ran Wavewin will look for the SacList.FMT file if it is found it will read and bin the contents into memory. If it is not found it will create it with the 16 default SAC header and operators. Data Plotting (Save As Comtrade): Added support to clean all illegal filename characters, carriage return and line feeds from the station and device names before saving to Comtrade using the IEEE long file naming format. Windows 7 (Dialogs): Adjusted the dialog sizes to accommodate the screen size. If a dialog is larger than the screen then scroll bars are displayed to scroll through the dialog. Also, automatically size the dialog according to the dialog fields and not as default values. Windows 7 (ASCII Editor): Adjusted the ASCII text marking to mark the text with reference to the font character width and not the default width. Some Windows 7 systems have character sizes that are different from the defined default width. Windows 7 (Date and Time Blinking): Minimized the date and time blinking in the systems main menu bar by turing off the Transparent field.
Wavewin F.N	06 / 24 / 2012	Data Plotting (Fast SACs): Added a drop down list to the SACs operator fields. The drop down list allows for selecting predefined Fast SACs. The position of the channel number is replaced with a pound sign #. If there are marked channels in the data plotting window then the pound sign is replaced with the marked channels number. If no channels are marked the user will have to replace the pound sign with the desired channel numbers. To have the Fast SAC header automatically copied to the SAC title fields click on the check box located at the bottom of the Fast SAC drop down list.
Wavewin F.F	06 / 04 / 2012	Data Plotting (Reference Angles Across Windows): Allow for referencing angles across open windows when not in Sync mode. In previous versions it was required to have sync mode on to see angles referenced across windows. To reference angles across windows open the Windows Properties dialog click on the "Display Settings" tab. The last field on this tab allows for activating referenced angles across windows.
Wavewin F.D	07 / 05 / 2011	File Manager (Default Path): Added support to define the default path the file manager will always open in. To define the file manager's default path, select the "Display" menu option under the "Options" menu. Enter or browse to select the desired path in the "Default Path" field. When the file manager is opened it will attempt to display the folders and files in the default path, if it cannot connect to the default path then the Wavewin path is displayed. Data Plotting (Sequence Calculator): Added the display of the phasor chart to the sequence calculator. Also, added support to display the sequence calculator for a single end or if two files are open display the sequence calculator for both end to end files. Also, added the selection drop down lists to define the channels for VA, VB, VC, IA, IB and IC. Data Plotting (Fault Calculator: Double Ended): Simplified the Double End Fault Calculator. The new Double Ended Calculator displays the input fields: Z1 (Mag and Angle) and the Line Length on the left side of the window and the Fault location Output fields (Zero Sequence - FL0, Positive Sequence - FL1, Negative Sequence - FL2) in the middle of the window. To display more details such as the data values, the channels for VA, VB, VC, IA, IB and IC and the sequence components magnitude and angles click on the "Show Details" button.
Wavewin F.C	06 / 12 / 2011	Data Plotting (Merge Open Files): Corrected a scale factor conversion when merging open files that have been converted from the original values to primary or secondary quantities. Data Plotting (Save As): Corrected a typo in the Save As menu under the CSV menu.
Wavewin F.A	04 / 10 / 2011	Data Plotting (Digital Channel Original State): Added the default view to view all digital channels when there are no original state values defined in the Comtrade CFG file. Also, set the digital channel state at the cursor position to a red "D" in the digital channel table to define that the channels original states where defaulted to 0. Data Plotting (Analog Channel Zero Axis Dotted Line): Corrected a problem when plotting the zero x-axis dotted line. The previous version was plotting the zero x-axis as a solid line when in a compressed view. Data Plotting (Under and Over Triggers in SACs): Modified the way the under and over trigger checking is performed in the SACs.
Wavewin E.Y	12 / 07 / 2010	File Manager (Move Files): Added the ability to drag and drop files into the folder tree for moving files to a new folder. Mark the files to move in the file table then drag them to the desired folder displayed in the folder tree.
Wavewin E.V	08 / 23 / 2010	System (Passed Parameter): Added a new passed parameter to automatically convert a file to the IEEE C37.111 Comtrade ASCII 1999 format. The new passed parameter is /Comtrade. To retain the original file name of the source file use the /Comtrade passed parameter. To have the file automatically named using the IEEE C37.232 file naming format use the /Comtrade=1 passed parameter. The /Comtrade command line parameter can also be used in batch files. The converted Comtrade files are saved in the same directory as the source file. The new passed parameter will convert the source file to Comtrade then display the converted Comtrade file in the data plotting window. Below are some examples: Examples: --------- 1.) Passed Parameter: "c:\faultlib\shipdir\SEL-421.CEV" /Comtrade=1 Comtrade Filename: 011207,145119291000,-5,Station A,Relay 1,SOFTSTUF,TRIP,,SOTF B_PHASE C_PHASE GROUND 50,60.00.DAT 2.) Passed Parameter: "c:\faultlib\shipdir\DATA1068.RCD" /Comtrade Comtrade Filename: c:\faultlib\shipdir\DATA1068.DAT
Wavewin E.U	08 / 17 / 2010	Data Plotting (Save Sample Values): Added a new menu option to the "Save As CVS" option. The new option will Save the Vector values in RMS and Angle. The four Save As options are now: 1.) Save As CSV - RMS Values: Save the RMS Values in a comma delimited format. 2.) Save As CSV - Instantaneous Values: Save the Instantaneous Values in a comma delimited format. 3.) Save As CSV - Vector Values (Mag & Ang): Save the DFT Magnitude and Angle in a comma delimited format. 4.) Save As CSV - Vector Values (RMS & Ang): Save the RMS Value and Angle in a comma delimited format. Data Plotting (Harmonics): Increased the number of harmonics displayed from Samples/Cycle div 2 to the number of Samples/Cycle. Allows to see the mirror image of nyquist harmonics.
Wavewin E.T	08 / 05 / 2010	Data Plotting (Save Sample Values): Added a new menu option "Save As" to the "File" menu. There are two sub-menus under the "Save As" option: "Comtrade" and "CSV Format". The "Comtrade" option saves the displayed channels in either the ASCII or Binary format. The "CSV Format" will save the RMS, Instantaneous or Vector (Magnitude and Angle) values to comma delimited text file. The first line in the CSV file is the header information for each channel. All the analog channels that can be displayed in the active data plotting are saved. A dialog box is displayed to enter the destination path and the filename. The destination path is automatically defaulted to the active path in the file manager. The filename can be directly entered into the "File Name" field or the file can be automatically named using the IEEE long file naming format. To have the file automatically named click on the "ComNames" check box. If the "ComNames" check box is checked then the File Name field will be disabled. To enter a file name make sure the "ComNames" check box is unchecked.
Wavewin E.R	06 / 27 / 2010	Data Plotting (Sequence Calculator): Added a Sequence Components calculator. The sequence calculator works off the active (highlighted) data plotting record. The channels in the active record must be organized as follows: The first 3 visible channels are the Voltage channels, VA, VB and VC. The next 3 visible channels are the Current channels, IA, IB and IC. To reposition the analog channels first mark the channels then use the plus key to move the channels up one position and the minus key to move the channels down one position. The values populated in the dialog are read at the data bar position in the active record. The sequence calculator dialog is a stay on top window. This allows for repositioning the data bars without closing the dialog. To refresh the Voltage and Current values in the dialog use the Refresh button. Use the Calculate button to calculate the sequence components. To increment the voltage and current angles enter an increment value in the Angle Rotation fields and click on the Rotate button. To open the sequence calculator dialog select the "Sequence Calculator" menu option under the "Data" menu. Data Plotting (Primary/Secondary Ratios): Added the abilty to change the primary and secondary ratio values for the analog channels in the open record. To change the ratio values open the "Window's Properties" dialog by selecting the "Window's Properties" menu option under the "File" menu. Click on the "Driver Data Type" tab then click on the "Edit Ratio Values" button under the "Analog Values" section. In the Ratio Values dialog move the cursor to the specific Primary/Secondary values and change the displayed value. To apply the modified ratios click on the "OK" button. The modified ratio values are Not saved to the original file on disk. To save the ratios values to disk use the "Save As Comtrade" option listed under the "File" menu. Data Plotting (Peak/RMS Type): All analog channels displayed are viewed as Peak type. To change the type of values displayed, open the "Window's Properties" dialog by selecting the "Window's Properties" menu option under the "File" menu. Click on the "Driver Data Type" tab then select the Data Multiplier type from the drop down list under the Analog Data Type section. To always have the driver specific files displayed as RMS type (Root 2 Multiplier) open the "Driver Configuration" dialog from the File Manager's "Option" menu. The Driver Configuration dialog lists all display drivers supported, click on the driver in the "Drivers" list then change the Driver's Data Type to RMS calibrated. Data Plotting (Data Cursors): Corrected a problem with displaying the data bar in non-active data windows.
Wavewin E.L	04 / 26 / 2010	System Tables (Mark Files): Removed the new single click marking. This feature is now an option in the "Display" dialog. The default is the Window's marking convention. To set the marking/unmarking using a single mouse click open the "Display" dialog under the table's option menu and select "Single Mark Click" in the "File Marking" drop down list.
Wavewin E.J	04 / 21 / 2010	System Tables (Mark Files): Changed the way files are marked in the system tables. A single click on a row will mark the row. To unmark the row click on the row again. The single click now works as a toggle between marked and unmarked.
Wavewin E.H	04 / 14 / 2010	Data Plotting (Print Profile): Added the ability to save a print profile file when saving a view file. The print profile fields where added to the "Save View" dialog. The "Save View" dialog is a menu option under the "View" menu. The "Save View" dialog now has the ability to manipulate the channels in the view and to specify the print orientation and the type of ASCII Summary information to print Short=General Information, Advanced=General Information plus Channel Information.
Wavewin E.F	01 / 14 / 2010	System (System): Allow strings with 10 characters to be converted to an integer value. In previous version the conversion to integer allowed only 9 character strings.
Wavewin E.E	12 / 22 / 2009	Data Plotting (International Date Time): Added support to handle international date and time settings in the Window's Regional and Language settings. Previous versions where using the US date and time settings which was causing problems converting the date and time stored in some files.
Wavewin E.D	12 / 10 / 2009	System (Data Plotting Print): Added support to print a file using a specific user defined view via the command line parameters. To print a view use the /PROFILE= "File path and name" along with the /PRINT command line parameter. Example: "c:\faultlib\comtrade\em files\DR1_0006.DAT" /Print /Profile= "c:\faultlib\comtrade\em files\Average Channels-D.VIWD"
Wavewin E.C	11 / 30 / 2009	Data Plotting (Phasors): Added support to display the phasors using a common convention for showing polarity.
Wavewin E.7	10 / 12 / 2009	Data Plotting (SACs): Added 2 new SAC operators: "s" (Sin) & "c" (Cos). The "s" operator is used to compute the sin "c" is cos. These two new operators allow for calculating Power factor, Actve and Reactive Power. Refer to the SAC help window for application examples. Data Plotting (Harmonics): Added a white background behind the harmonic values in the histogram display. This make the numbers more readable.
Wavewin E.6	09 / 28 / 2009	Data Plotting (Change Frequency): Added support for Changing the Frequency for Comtrade files that have a zero defined as the Sampling Rate. The change frequency engine calculates the fractional difference between the old frequency and new frequency once before performing the change frequency for each sample. Added the fractional difference for each sample. Data Plotting (Primary/Secondary): Added resizing to the analog table column's width when changing the type of data displayed, primary and secondary. Data Plotting (Save As Comtrade): Corrected a problem Saving a File As Comtrade from the data window when the File Manager table is closed. The Save As Comtrade engine was trying to access the File Manager's translate strings. Data Plotting (Phase Angles): Added an option to toggle between showing the Cos Convention (0 Deg at Positive Peak) and the Sin Convention (0 Deg at Zero Crossing) for the phase angles. The new option is in the Window Properties dialog under the Display Settings tab.
Wavewin D.Z	06 / 12 / 2009	Data Plotting (Syncrophasor Support): Modified the phasor displays to follow the syncrophasor convention (+Peak=0 Degrees). Data Plotting (SACS): Added a set of fast recursive engines for calculating RMS, Phase, Magnitude, Real, Imaginary and frequency components for each channel. Data Plotting (SACS): Added 8 new SAC operators using the values calculated from the recursive engines. The new SACS operators are: "x": real component "y": imaginary component "m": magnitude "d": angle "r": true rms "f": cyclic frequency "q": instantaneous frequency "t": delta time frequency Data Plotting (SACS): Added a number of examples in the SAC help window describing how to use the new and existing operators. Data Plotting (Time Discontinuity): Added a new engine to detect discontinuities in time. If a time discontinuity is encountered then a green dotted line is displayed at the sample where the discontinuity occured. A mouse over the small gray triangle displayed at the bottom of the green line will show the duration. To turn off this feature set the "Show Event Separator Bars" field to "No" (in the properties dialog). Data Plotting (Harmonics): Changed the displayed Total Harmonic Distortion value from RMS to Instantaneous (for compliance with IEEE notation). Data Plotting (Summary): Revised the Summary Window to show: Max, Min & Max Min Difference for both Instantaneous and RMS values. Data Plotting (Navigate Peaks): Revised navigate peaks to navigate the DFT peaks instead of the instantaneous peaks. Data Plotting (Print): Added the time line and ruler to the print engines. Data Plotting (Append): Corrected a problem appending log files. The time difference between the selected append files was being calculated to the microsecond. It is now calculating the difference according to seconds.
Wavewin D.N	06 / 24 / 2008	File Manager (Show/Hide Channel Titles): Added a new dialog to give the ability to show/hide analog and digital channels via the channel title. To open the dialog select the "Show/Hide Channel Titles" option under the "Options" menu. All titles listed that have a check in the checkbox are automatically hidden when the file is displayed. To show the title uncheck the checkbox next to the title. To remove a title from the list use the "Remove" button. To add a new title type the new title in the edit box and click the "Add" button. The new title is automatically added to the end of the list and the checkbox is defaulted to checked.
Wavewin D.M	06 / 12 / 2008	Data Plotting (Print Window): Added a new print option to print the contents of the window. The new option is called "Window" and is located under the "Print" submenu. Data Plotting (Print All & Page): Corrected a problem printing the analog table. The columns where being resized improperly.
Wavewin D.K	05 / 29 / 2008	Data Plotting (Summary): Compressed the Fault Summary information into 4 lines for the SEL compressed format. Previous versions were using 12 lines for each event saved in the file. There is a limitation of 40 lines for the fault information section. Up to 10 event's fault information is now displayed. Data Plotting (Print): Included the Waveform Summary as part of the data plotting print. Data Plotting (Analog Table): Added automatic column sizing according to the largest max & min values. Previous versions were using a fixed size which was causing values to overlap into neighboring columns.
Wavewin D.G	02 / 25 / 2008	File Manager (Network Drives): Corrected an error when navigating network drives. In previous versions if there are 2 sets of () in the network name Wavewin was extracting the drive letter from the first set of (). This is not the case, Windows puts the drive letter in the last set of (). In this version Wavewin extracts the drive letter from the last set of (). This corrects any access violation errors encountered when navigating to network drives. File Manager (Network Drives): Greatly improved the speed when reading the directories under a network drive. Wavewin is now a 100% compatible with Windows explorer when navigating to network drives.
Wavewin D.D	01 / 21 / 2008	Data Plotting (User Views): Improved the user views by including the following information in the view: sampling frequency, time scale, sliding window size, phasor window size, table window size, red fault bar, auto scale and phasor or circular chart displayed.
Wavewin D.C	01 / 03 / 2008	Data Plotting (Digital Channels): Inrcreased the number of digital channel title characters displayed from 40 to 80.
Wavewin D.B	12 / 13 / 2007	Data Plotting: Added the trigger information from the 1st line in the Comtrade HDR file to the data plotting window in the Phasor display section. The TRIGGER= is no longer needed to be defined. If TRIGGER= exists then TRIGGER= will be deleted.
Wavewin D.A	12 / 03 / 2007	Data Plotting: Added the trigger information from the 1st line in the Comtrade HDR file to the data plotting window in the Phasor display section. The trigger information is displayed if there is TRIGGER= on the first line in the HDR file.
Wavewin D.9	11 / 05 / 2007	Data Plotting (Save Views): Added a new option to save analog and digital channel views to an ASCII text file. To save a view mark the desired analog and digital channels and press enter. Select the "Save View" menu option under the "View" menu. Enter the views filename and path and press enter. The saved view will be added to the views drop down list on the menu button bar. The views drop down menu list displays the last 15 saved or selected views. Data Plotting (Select Views): Added a new option to select saved views. To display a saved view select the view file from the "Views" drop down list displayed in the menu button bar. If the desired view is not displayed in the drop down menu list select more views to navigate to the saved view. Views can also be selected using the "Select Views" menu option under the "View" menu. The "Select Views" dialog list all the view files in the active view path. To change the view path select a path from the "View Path:" drop down list or use the browse button to select a new path. The analog and digital table displays the properties of the selected view.
Wavewin D.4	09 / 09 / 2007	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with the Primary and Secondary values not being added to the Comtrade files created during a command line merge operation. The primary and secondary values are now added to the Comtrade .CFG files. File Manager: Fixed a problem in the file tree when directory names are 1 character only. Previous version were causing a access violation error when a directory was 1 character in length. Data Plotting: Corrected a problem when using the command line to merge trend files. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with updating the file's date and time in the window's header when the automatic Adjust Files Time is implemented. The files time was adjusted after the window's header was updated. Data Plotting: Upgraded all of the time calculations from the old 32 bit, integer infrastructure to a new 64 bit, floating point structure. This upgrade has eliminated the errors that were caused by accumulated truncations.
Wavewin C.V	03 / 29 / 2007	System: Added support to always save the merged Comtrade file in the 1999 format when merging files via the command line parameters.
Wavewin C.T	03 / 23 / 2007	System: Added support to merge files via the command line parameters. System: Added support for more then 4 languages. Increased the number of languages to 20.
Wavewin C.S	03 / 12 / 2007	Data Plotting: Finialized the fault location dialog.
Wavewin C.R	02 / 27 / 2007	System: Did more work on resizing more of the dialogs and windows to handle the Microsoft Monitor 120 DPI setting. System: Added the advanced captions, hint and strings to the translation files.
Wavewin C.Q	02 / 05 / 2007	Fault Location: Rearranged the fault location dialog according to Pete Vivers email dated 01/24/2007. Added an Advanced button to allow users to change the Phase Selection mode and for editing the Z1 and Z2 % of line, R0 and Rg division factors and the threshold fields. Fault location: Added the automatic display of the change frequency dialog box when the file's current sampling frequency is not set to 24 samples/cycle. Data Plotting: Fixed an error in the change frequency engine when changing from a high frequency to a low frequency. The previous algorithm was not taken the fraction portion of the difference between the old and new frequencies. This has been corrected and is now working. Data Plotting: Added support to handle the comma as a decimal separator in the fault location dialog and in the change frequency dialog. System: Added resizing to a number of dialogs and windows to handle the Microsoft Monitor 120 DPI setting.
Wavewin C.P	01 / 22 / 2007	System: Added resizing to a number of dialogs and windows to handle the Microsoft Monitor 120 DPI setting.
Wavewin C.O	01 / 07 / 2007	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with calculating the total number of samples sent to the SingleEndFaultLocation.dll. The previous version was using the fault trigger position defined in the Comtrade CFG file to calculate the total number of samples to send to the DLL. This problem has been corrected, it now uses the reference bar position to calculate the total samples. Data Plotting: Included all Fault location message strings to the SIL & SIB files. Data Plotting: Added a call to Get Last Error for all function calls in the fault location dialog. Also increased the length of the output fields to fit the Fault time information. Data Plotting: Changed the fault reference position to the Reference bar (blue dotted line). This allows the user to change the fault position by right clicking in the trace window. Data Plotting: Added a print button to screen dump the contents of the fault location dialog.
Wavewin C.N	12 / 20 / 2006	Data Plotting: Added a Fault Location dialog to interface to Areva's fault location DLL (SingleEndFaultLocation.dll). To open the new dialog select the Fault Location menu option under the Data menu. Before opening change the sampling frequency to insure 24 samples per cycle. Enter all of the Input fields in secondary quantities. An error message will be displayed if there is a problem with the input settings. Select the proper channels in the Analog Channel section then press the Start button. The results will be displayed in Output section. Any errors or warnings will be displayed in the Errors & Warning text box. The fault location dialog sends all samples values in secondary quantities. The number of samples sent depends on the values defined in the pre and post reference bar fields in the Analog Channels section. The start sample and the number of samples sent is displayed in the status bar. Data Plotting: Added support to read Comtrade ASCII *.DAT files that include blanks between the data values and the comma separator. The complier method used for converting the string to interger values was returning an error because of the included blanks. Added support to delete all blanks before converting the string to an integer. Data Plotting (Properties Dialog): Added a new button in the "Windows Properties" dialog under the "Driver Data Type" tab. The "Analog Values" section allows for viewing each channels Primary & Secondary ratio values. Click on the "View Ratio Values" button to display all of the analog channels Primary & Seconday values.
Wavewin C.J	08 / 04 / 2006	Data Plotting: Added a new selection option to switch between Primary and Secondary values. To change the analog values open the Windows Properties dialog by clicking on the "P" menu button, or select the "Window Properties" menu option from the "File" menu. Click on the "Driver Data Type" tab and select Primary or Secondary from the "Analog Values" section then click OK. The type of analog values displayed is defined in the Data Plotting's Window header after the Fault Date & Time. Data Plotting (Printing): Fixed a problem with the print engine. When an ASCII Comtrade text file uses a Line feed (OA) only for the line seperator the Comtrade ASCII read engine was not reading the last sample in the file. The number of samples plotted did not equal the total number of samples defined in the Comtrade CFG file. This was causing the print engine to issue an endless number of blank pages because it was never getting to the total number of samples defined in the CFG file.
Wavewin C.I	07 / 10 / 2006	System: Added support to process Batch files through the passed parameters. The Batch passed paramter must be passed for the batch processing to successfully be implemented. The Batch file can contain files to print and files to view. Wavewin can display a maximum of 10 data plotting windows and a maximum of 10 ASCII text files at one time. When using the Batch command for viewing files have no more than 10 data plotting files and 10 ASCII text files specified in the batch file. Data Plotting (SACs): Added more protection to avoid Access Violation Errors when improper information is entered in the operator fields. File Manager: Fixed a problem when trying to access directories using networked computer names: \\other machine\fault files.
Wavewin C.H	06 / 15 / 2006	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with the F9 function key for files with digital channels only. Data Plotting (SAC Window): Added 4 new buttons in the SAC window to save / open SAC files. The new "Save" and "Save As" buttons allow for saving the current SAC information into an ASCII text file. The new "Open" button allows for reloading previously saved SAC files. The "New" button allows for creating new SAC files.
Wavewin C.G	05 / 16 / 2006	System: Fixed a problem with the /print passed parameter. In previous versions it was required that the contents of the window be fully painted on screen before the print occurred. When too many prints were issued close together a range check error was generated because the screen information was not fully painted. We modified the print to work with a virtual graphics handle instead of using the window's graphics handle. File Manager: Corrected a problem with the unzip components used to unzip the .ZAT files. Frederic reported that a message box was displayed from the ZipTV components stating that the components were not registered. We corresponded with ZipTV and have corrected the problem. The components on Softstuf's development stations were not properly registered. Data Plotting: Harmonics, added a check to avoid the bar width going under 1.
Wavewin C.F	04 / 14 / 2006	System: Fixed a number of problems and made some changes to the passed parameters: Changed the /X1 and /Y1 passed parameters to /X and /Y. There was no need for the 1 indicator since we changed /X2 and /Y2 to /W and /H Fixed a problem with the /Print passed parameters on slower machines. The print function was being called before the the paint method for the window. Corrected a problem with viewing files. Corrected a problem with the /TopMost passed parameter. Data Plotting: Added an option in the Harmonics window to change the bar size to show as many harmonics as possible in one screen. Data Plotting: Changed the units for the time bar and Delta X status bar to show time in a readable format. We also added a unit and color indicator according to the time displayed.
Wavewin C.E	03 / 23 / 2006	System: Added more resizing for the dialogs to support the Spanish and German languages. System: Added Frederics suggestions for passed parameters and also fixed a few problems with the new passed parameters. Data Plotting: Added a fixed dotted light red fault bar, also added an option in the properties dialog to show or hide the fault bar. Data Plotting: Added resizing to the harmonics window to view as much information as needed.
Wavewin C.D	02 / 21 / 2006	System: Added support to view Wavewin Areva in different languages. First language added was French. All remaining languages can be added to the SIL and SIB files without further coding in the software. Also all menu items have been added to the SIL and SIB files. To change the active language in the Wavewin Areva software select the "Display" option under the "Options" menu in the File Manager. Select the desired language from the "Languages" drop down list. File Manager: Moved the last active directory to the Wavewin.ini File. In previous versions the last active directory was saved to the Template database that has a limit of 80 characters. The Wavewin.ini eliminates the 80 character limit. Data Display: For files that have digital channels only made sure that all digital channels are displayed if there are no triggered channels in the file.
Wavewin C.A	11 / 28 / 2005	File Manager: Added sorting to the table folder tree. File Manager: Always open Wavewin's folder tree to the last active directory. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with the boundary check for Comtrade ASCII digital channels. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with calculating the sampling frequency for Comtrade files that define a zero for the sampling frequency. Data Plotting: Increased the maximum number of harmonics displayed in the harmonics table from 100 to 200.
Wavewin C.7	09 / 12 / 2005	Data Plotting: Added a histogram view in the harmonics window. Click the change view button in the upper right corner of the window to toggle between the table and the histogram. The histogram view allows for selecting the column of data to show. Click on the "Select Bar Values" drop down menu to change the values displayed. The "% of Fundamental" is the default view.
Wavewin C.6	08 / 15 / 2005	Data Plotting: Improved the Harmonics window to display as many harmonics as possible based on the sampling frequency. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with the Comtrade read engine. The last analog channel's data was not being read. The last channel's values were defaulted to zero. The Comtrade engine was recently modified so that a maximum of 255 analog channels is displayed if there are more than 255 channels defined in the file. The maximum analog channel boundary was not being checked properly therefore the last analog channel was not being read.
Wavewin C.5	08 / 08 / 2005	Data Plotting: Added two new columns to the Analog table. DFTMag = Displays the DFT Magnitude calculated between the RMS bar (black dotted line) and the data bar (solid data bar). Crest = Displays the DFTMag column divided by the RMS column. Data Plotting: Added a new field in the harmonics dialog called "Total Harmonic Distortion" (THD). The "Total Harmonic Distortion" field displays the ((sqaure root of the summation of the squares of DFT Magnitudes from harmonic 2 to the maximum harmonic) divided by square root of 2) and that quantity divided by the DFT Magnitude of the Fundamental. File Manager: Fixed a problem with the status bar fields not updating when navigating via the tree. File Manager: Modified the table sort engine to always sort the columns in upper case. The previous sort engine was sorting the column data as is. This was causing a problem when files are named with upper case and lower case. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with reading multiple binary Comtrade files. The Comtrade binary read multiple files was not reading the files in proper sequence. Data Plotting (SACS): Fixed a problem with the SACS returning an error when calculating an Envelope using the "A" and "E" script commands. Data Plotting: A number of requests have been made to change the way the expand and condense time displays the waveform signals. In versions previous to C.3 the expand and condense would display the first sample out of the group of samples to condense or expand. To better show the peaks we changed that functionality in version C.3 to pick the hightest value in the group of samples to condense/expand. This still did not show all the information. In this version Wavewin now displays all of the samples in the file. When the signals are condensed the samples are plotted over each other. Data Plotting: Added a feature to hop the data bar by one cycle for waveform files and one day for load files. This feature is keyboard activated, use the Shift+Ctrl+Right/Left Arrows to move the data bar one cycle/day from the previous position. File Manager: Added Cut, Copy and Paste to easily move files from one directory to another. The new Cut, Copy and Paste features work in the same fashion as Window's Explorer. Use the following menu items or short-cut keys to activate the added file features: Cut:(Edit Menu: Cut Option, Ctrl+X, Shift+Del), Copy:(Edit Menu: Copy Option, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Ins), Paste:(Edit Menu: Paste Option, Ctrl+V, Shift+Ins). File Manager: Added shortcuts in the file table right click pop-up menu for Cut, Copy and Paste files and for the Zip, Email and Refresh features. File Manager (Save As Comtrade): Fixed a problem with Save As Comtrade for the 1991 and 1999 formats. The 1991 format was defining 3 fields (substation,device ID,version #) for the first line in the CFG file. The proper format is substation,version #. Wavewin now puts the substation - Device ID,version#. For the 1999 format the last line in the CFG file is the time multiplier for the sample times in the .DAT file. Wavewin was only adding the time multiplier field to the CFG if it was greater than 1. Now it always adds the time multiplier field. File Manager: Fixed a problem with reading the line frequency from the Comtrade ".CFG" file. The line frequency was always defaulting to 60. File Manager: Fixed a problem with the list of child windows being displayed under the wrong menu item. Data Display: Added a medium display to the Auto Scale (F6, Atl-D, A) toggle feature. Auto Scale toggles between (Off, On and ++). ++ plots the signal using the number of maximum pixels allowed for the channel. The highest value is plotted at the maximum position allowed and the smallest value is plotted at the lowest position allowed. This feature was added to clearly show the profile of frequency, Vdc and load data channels. Data Display: Added a new option in the properties dialog under the Comtrade tab called: "Show Date in (US/European/Japan) Format. This new option allows for selecting a fixed date format for the Comtrade files. Data Display: Fixed a problem with the fault time line when calculating if the time is greater then a k. File Manager: Added a Directory Tree for easy navigation. File Manager (Delete Files): Changed the way the delete files engine works. It will now send files that reside on the computer to the Recycle Bin all others are permanently deleted. File Manager (Rename Files/Folders): To rename a folder in the tree click on the folder name twice to display the edit box. To rename files select the rename option from the Files menu. File Manager: Added the ability to email marked files directly from the file table. Click on the email menu button to activate. All support files are automatically attached to the email message. File Manager: Added the ability to zip marked files directly from the file table. To activate, open the "File" menu and select "Zip Marked Files" option. All support files are automatically added to the zip file upon confirmation. Data Plotting: Added the ability to email the active event file. All support files are automatically attached to the email message. To activate, click on the Email menu button. Data Display: Added "Analog Input" & "External Input" as a non used channel. Wavewin does not show analog and digital channels that contain the following strings: UNUSE UNDEF NOT D NOT D NOT U NOT I NOT A UNDEF { N/A ANALOG INPUT ANALOG CHANNEL EXTERNAL INPUT EVENT CHANNEL CHANNEL: DIGITAL TRACE # SPARE Data Display: Fixed the data display in the Windows XP display mode. The last digital channel was being overwritten by the window's border. Also fixed the sizing of the Wavewin main application window to size around the desk top toolbars.
Wavewin B.R	09 / 25 / 2004	Data Plotting: Improved the SAC harmonic calculations to include the magnitude and angle. Previous calculations were storing the magnitude value only.
Wavewin B.Q	08 / 16 / 2004	Data Plotting: Upgraded the "Save As Comtrade" engine to handle the older 1991 version and the newer 1999 version. Data Plotting: Added a new field in the "Properties" dialog to select the Comtrade version for the "Save As Comtrade" engine. The new field is in the "Comtrade" tab and is called "Save Using Comtrade Version:". Select 1991 for the older version and 1999 for the newer version. The default version is the newer 1999 version.
Wavewin B.P	06 / 16 / 2004	File Manager: Added a new feature to open multiple waveform files from the file table. Mark the files desired and select the "Open Marked Files" menu option under the Options/Waveform File(s) menu. The files will be tiled horizontally and the file manage will be minimized. File Manager: Append Waveform Files: The two features available under the Options/Waveform File(s)/Append menu will append all the marked waveform files in time either by deleting the common times between files (Discard Common Times) or appending all marked files back to back (Back to Back), sorted oldest to latest. The files must be of the same type. File Manager: Merge Waveform Files: The two features avaliable under the Options/Waveform File(s)/Merge menu will merge different types of files into one display. By Time: Merge channel samples if they have a common time segment. The reference time is from the file with latest start date and time. The file with the least amount of samples determined the length of the new merged file. By Sample: Merge regardless of time stamps. The reference time is from the first marked file. And the file with the least amount of samples determines the length of the file. When files with different sampling frequencies are merged a dialog will be displayed. The dialog contains a list of all the sampling frequencies in the marked files. Select the frequency for the merged file or enter a new frequency. To identify the merged channels the station name for each file is added to the beginning of the analog and digital channel names. To turn off this feature open the Properties dialog in the data-plotting window. Click on the Append/Merge tab and uncheck the �Add the File�s Station Name to Beginning of the Analog/Digital Channels� field. Data Plotting: Added a new feature Append Open Files. There are two options available under the Append Open Files Menu (same feature as the file manager�s Append): Discard Common Times: Any common times found in the open files will be deleted from the oldest file. Back to Back: The files are appended back to back. No samples are deleted. Data Plotting: Added a new feature Merge Open Waveform Files. There are three options available under the Merge Open Files Menu: By Time: Merge channel samples if they have a common time segment. The reference time is from the file with latest start date and time. The file with the least amount of samples determined the length of the new merged file. Manually: Use the data bars to highlight where the common sample time is in each window. Merge manually will then line up the data bars and adjust the time stamps accordingly. This option is used when the file times are not synchronized. The active window determines the time stamp of the new merged file and the open window with smallest number of samples determines the length of the new merged file. By Sample: Merge regardless of time stamps and/or data bar positions. The reference time is from the active window. And the file with the least amount of samples determines the length of the file. When files with different sampling frequencies are merged a dialog will be displayed. The dialog contains a list of all the sampling frequencies in the opened files. Select the frequency for the merged file or enter a new frequency. Merging Open Files allows for flexibility of what channels are merged. Merge Open Files will merge either the marked channels only or if there are no marked channels then it will merge the visible channels. To identify the merged channels the station name for each file is added to the beginning of the analog and digital channel names. To turn off this feature open the Properties dialog in the data-plotting window. Click on the Append/Merge tab and uncheck the �Add the File�s Station Name to Beginning of the Analog/Digital Channels� field. Data Plotting: Added a menu button to gain easy access to the driver�s data type setting. The data type setting specifies if the samples for the active driver are saved in RMS values or in instantaneous values. Data Plotting: Modified setting the sample time stamps in the Comtrade reader. If the sampling frequency is set in the .CFG file then the time stamp is calculated from the sampling frequency. If the sampling frequency is 0 then the time stamp is set from the time stamp in the .DAT file.
Wavewin B.L	04 / 01 / 2004	Data Plotting: Added support to read Comtrade files that are distributed into multiple data files. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with displaying SAC values when operating with RMS calibrated data. File Manager: Added a new feature to Append like waveform files in time. A new sub menu has been added to the "Options" menu called "Waveform File(s)". Use the "Open Selected Waveform File" option to display the traces in the selected file. Use the "Append Marked Waveform Files" option to append like waveform files in time. The marked file's analog and digital channels must match. File Manager: Added a new feature to set up certain parameters for the append feature. Select the "Waveform Properties" option under the "Waveform File(s)" menu option. To throw out samples with common times check the "Discard Common Times" option. Next, select what file will have the times discarded from: the new file being created or the files being appended. Data Plotting: Added a new setting to set the Opening frequency for each supported driver. To setup this parameter open the desired waveform file, next select the "Change Frequency" option from the "Data" menu and check the "Always Open" box. The frequency entered into the New Frequency" field will be the frequency displayed for all the files for the active driver. Data Plotting: Added a new feature to Show/Hide the event separator bars for multiple event files. The new field is in the "Properties" dialog under the "Display Settings" tab.
Wavewin B.J	02 / 29 / 2004	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with displaying leading zeros for the fault time in the Waveform Summary window. Data Plotting: Added a new feature to the data plotting's "Data" menu to Truncate cycles. Truncate can be applied to remove cycles from the beginning of the data, the end of the data and from the middle of the data. Data Plotting: Added a new feature to the data plotting's "Data" menu to Duplicate the cycle of data between the RMS bar and the data bar. A dialog box allows for specifing the number of cycles to add.
Wavewin B.H	02 / 12 / 2004	Data Plotting: Added two new features to the data plotting's "Data" menu to change and restore the sampling frequency. "Change sampling frequency": This feature allows for changing the sampling frequency of the displayed record. If Sync mode is active then Change Sampling Frequency will change all open windows to the entered frequency. "Restore Original Data": This feature is active only after the sampling frequency is changed. It allows for restoring the original raw data of the displayed record. If Sync mode is active then Restore Original will restore all the open windows to their original raw data. Data Plotting: Added 3 new options to the "Values" menu. Mark Raw Samples - Draws a small circle on all the original raw samples. Mark Peak Values - Draws a small square on all the peak values. Mark Change in Sign Values - Draw a small triangle at all values where a change in sign occurs. Data Plotting: Modified the Channel Information, Summary and Raw Data menu buttons to indicate an ASCII display with the corresponding character signifying the type of data. Data Plotting: Added a new menu button to open new files or to open one of the last 14 files opened. Data Plotting: Data Plotting: The data plotting window's menu has been arranged to be more windows compliant. A large number of requests from Wavewin users asked to improve the menu. Below are the additions: - Added a new "File" menu. The "File" menu handles all commands directly related to the waveform file. - Added a new "Open" command under the "File" menu to open new waveform files. - The "Data" menu handles all commands relating to the data such as: Expand & Contract Time, Increase & Decrease amplitude, auto scale... - Added a new "Channel" menu. The "Channel" menu handles all commands directly related to the Analog and Digital channels. Data Plotting: The "Display" dialog used for setting up the properties of the window has been moved to the new "File" menu and is now called "Properties". Data Plotting: The "Displayed Device's Data Type" field in the "Properties" dialog (formally the "Display" dialog) has been moved from the "General" tab to the "Display Settings" tab. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem reading the sampling frequency in the Comtrade driver. The driver was defaulting the sampling frequency to 0 if it was >32768 or <-32768. Took out the limit and open ended the sampling frequency value. Data Plotting: Added a new feature to save RMS Calibrated data as Peak data for the Save As Comtarde option. This feature is optional. Change the "Convert RMS Calibrated Data" field in the "General" tab of the "Properties" dialog to "Yes" to activate. File Manager: Improved the speed of the File Manager's read engine. Enhanced the way the memory is allocated when reading the file allocation table. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with the "Software Analog Channel" menu disappearing when the data window is maximized. Data Plotting: Took out the gray background from the digital channels in the print outs.
Wavewin B.A	10 / 17 / 2003	Data Plotting: Allowed for Comtrade Files to be displayed if the digital channels have no original states set. Data Plotting (SACs): Added a new operator to the instruction set, absolute value. The "\|" symbol is used to define the abs() function. Example: +1/+2/+3/\|/ Data Plotting: Added two new buttons in the phasor/circular chart window title: "P" to display the phasors at the data bar and "C" to display the circular chart. Data Plotting: Fixed a problem reading Comtrade CFG files that use a line feed only as an end-of-line marker. Data Plotting: Added support to display Comtrade files that have digital channels only. Data Plotting: Modified the equation for the fault time bar to have more resolution.
Wavewin B.7	07 / 28 / 2003	Data Plotting (Save Displayed Values): Added a new extension "*.mac" for the Save Displayed Values Feature. Data Plotting (Save Displayed Values): Allowed for the Display Save Values File and Format File Window to be independent of the data plotting window. Does not close the Save Values File and Format File Window when closing the data plotting window. Data Plotting: Enhanced the Fault time bar locator to look for the closes match defined by the selected format. Prior versions looked for an exact match. Data Plotting: Enhanced the Sync Time feature to look for the closes match. Previous versions looked for an exact match. Data Plotting: Corrected the Sampling Frequency for Comtrade Files that specify a time scale multiplier. Data Plotting: Enhanced the Sync Manual Mouse Click to displace the mouse according to time difference. Previous versions displaced according to click position. Data Plotting: Corrected the Fault Time displayed in the Waveform Summary Window. Data Plotting: Added a Prompt to ask to overwrite existing Comtrade files for the Save As Comtrade feature. Data Plotting: Corrected the Save As Comtrade feature to save only the digital channels that are visible. Previous versions were saving the digital channels when the digital section was hidden using the drag mouse.
Wavewin B.6	07 / 08 / 2003	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with the scale factors for the print engine.
Wavewin B.5	06 / 29 / 2003	Data Plotting: Advanced the Save Display Values option. Added user defined Templates. Refer to the Data Plotting help window "Save Displayed Values" section for more information. Data Plotting: Added and new menu option "Values". Allows for saving Values displayed in the Analog Table to a text file (Mark & Save) in the default format or in the format defined in the selected Template file. Provides "Open", "New" and "Clear" features for the active Values file and provides "New" and "Open" features for the Template Files. Refer to the Data Plotting help window "Save Displayed Values" section for more information. Data Plotting: Added the Horizontal Bars to the print engine. Data Plotting: Fixed a time scale problem with Comtrade files that specify a time scale multiplier.
Wavewin B.4	05 / 27 / 2003	Data Plotting: New time based display. New field "Trace Display Type" added to the "Display" dialog under the "General" tab. Allows for toggling between a sample base display and a time based display. Data Plotting: New Fault reference time bar. Shows the time difference from the fault time. The units are defined in the Delta X status field. Data Plotting: New Close button for the Phasor/Circular Chart window. Data Plotting: New Close button for the Analog Channel Information Table. Data Plotting: Changed the Reference Bar position to be at the fault time defined in the Selected file.
Wavewin B.3	05 / 11 / 2003	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem with Scaling the Harmonic values in the Harmonic window. File Manager: Fixed a problem displaying the SOE table with files that have SAC channels defined.
Wavewin B.2	04 / 23 / 2003	Data Plotting: Allowed for the Constants in the SACs to be real values. Previous versions worked with integer values only. Data Plotting: Changed the way the digital bits are displayed: a value of 1 = thick green line, a values of 0 = thin black line. The A and N status next to the digital titles stay the same. They are set by comparing to the original state, A = diffenent then original state, N = same as original state. Data Plotting: SAC window (F5): new division, multiplication, phase shift, set prefix, set units and constant operators: division = ":" multiplication = "*" constants = "^" phase shift = "@ prefix = "p=" units = "u=" examples: +1/+2@120/+3@240/:^3/p=k/u=volts/ to get (+)Seq +1/+2@240/+3@120/:^3/p=k/u=volts/ to get (-)Seq +1/+2/+3/:^3/p=k/u=volts/ to get (0)Seq +1/:2/u=ohms/ to divide channel 1 by channel 2
Wavewin B.1	03 / 27 / 2003	Data Plotting: Fixed a problem in A.Y and A.Z with freeing memory. Data Plotting: New scaling procedures for the analog channels display that scale according to real values. The previous scaling procedures scaled according to raw values.
Wavewin A.Y	03 / 11 / 2003	Data Plotting: New feature: Added two horizontial bars to the data plotting window to measure fault magnitude. To activate check the "Show Horizontal Bars" menu option in the "View" menu. The Delta Y between the two bars is displayed in the status bar.
Wavewin A.X	03 / 03 / 2003	Data Plotting: Two new fields in the properties dialog for the save displayed values feature: First field is "Save To". This field specifies where to save the data: to a file, the windows clipboard or both. The second field is "Save Type". This field specifies how to maintian the file; append or rewrite.
Wavewin A.W	03 / 02 / 2003	Data Plotting: New feature: Added a new feature to save the displayed analog values to a file. To activate right click on the analog table. Options: Save displayed values, open value files and set saving format.