IGOR Pro is an extraordinarily powerful and extensible graphing, programming for scientists and engineers, and data analysis tool.

Here are some key features of "Igor Pro":

· IGOR Pro produces journal-quality scientificgraphs and exports high-resolution graphics formats such as Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).
· IGOR Pro handles large data sets very quickly.
· IGOR Pro includes a wide range of capabilities for scientific and engineering analysis and graphing.
· IGOR Pro has special support for time-series or other evenly-spaced data.
· IGOR Pro includes a powerful suite of image processing operations for image filtering, manipulation, and quantification.
· IGOR Pro imports data in many formats, and can acquire data from hardware devices.
· IGOR Pro is completely programmable via a built-in programming environment, and can be extended by external code (XOPs) written in C.
· IGOR Pro doesn't require any programming; most functionality is available using standard menus, dialogs, and the mouse.
· IGOR Pro runs on Macintosh and Windows computers, and IGOR's data files are cross-platform compatible.
· IGOR Pro technical support is highly appreciated by users and comes with a no-questions-asked 90 day money-back guarantee.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period.
· Saving is disabled.
· The clipboard contents cannot be transferred to other programs.
· The printing output is lightly over-printed with Igor-related words.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

NEW FEATURES:
· Macintosh: Sound input and output now uses core audio and supports hardware with more than two channels, high sampling rates and 32 bit floating point data. See SoundInStatus, SoundInStartChart and PlaySound.
· Now support WAVE w= ModuleName#waveRefFunc() syntax.
· Now support external subwindows when the host is a panel window and the host is resized.
· Added to ImageAnalyzeParticles a new flag (/CIRC) which allows you to control the range of circularity of the detected particles.
· Added to ImageAnalyzeParticles a new flag (/EBPC) which allows you to exclude particles that have one or more pixels on any of the image boundaries.
· Added a new function Variance(inWave) that returns the variance of real input waves.
· The DrawText dialog has 1-degree text rotation combo box.
· Added /FREE flag to the Extract operation.

CHANGED BEHAVIOR:
· Clicking Stop in the Debugger stops at currently executing macro line instead of the first line of the macro.
· Limited length of automatically-generated table titles to 40 characters as it was prior to Igor Pro 6.1. Otherwise long table titles mess up the Windows->Table submenu on Windows. Explicitly set titles can still be up to 255 characters.

BUGS FIXED:
· Macintosh: Put in a workaround for a bug in a pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.6 which caused the Igor custom controls in the Print Graph dialog to fail to work.
· Macintosh: Fixed a problem that caused file reads and writes to fail for files greater than 2 GB.
· Windows: fixed ValDisplay appearance with frame=5 missing right side of the frame.
· Prevented crash when KillWaves is used on a free wave.
· Fixed bug in color as f(z) when the wave has NaN at point 197 and when it has very long stretches of the same color.
· Fixed doubling up on last point of wave[0,inf] += xx when executed from the command line.
· sscanf now returns 0 rather than -1 if passed an empty string.
· Added better error messages for attempts to use function-only flow control statements in macros.
· FunctionPath now works correctly from an independent module even if SetIgorOption IndependentModuleDev=0 (the default setting).
· Fixed a crash in ImageRegistration and MatrixSVD/B.
· Fixed a problem in DSPPeriodogram that returned an error in default mode (no intervals).
· SetVariable valueBackColor now works on Windows. Now valueBackColor is used even if frame is off, but only if valueBackColor isn't =0. On native Macintosh removed white border and color splash outside the frame.
· Fixed independent module bug that resulted in changing SetWindow hook=$"" to be imName# when executed in an independent module #pragma independentModule=imName.
· Macintosh: the appearance of a control placed inside a filled drawing rectangle is no longer marred by little white lines.
· Fixed SetVariable dialog not accepting row dimension label change for a wave value.
· Fixed a bug that caused various file-related errors if the name of the boot volume contained accented characters. One manifestation of this is that it prevented Igor from recognizing that it was correctly licensed.
· Fixed a bug introduced in Igor Pro 6.10B01 that caused errors when loading Igor text files.
· Fixed a crash if you tried to search help files while in the debugger.
· Fixed crash in Save operation if a non-existent wave was specified. This crash was introduced in 6.10B05.
· Fixed error when the Save Waves dialog generated a command that was exactly 400 characters before counting the CR at the end of the command.

XOPs:
· Updated the MLLoadWave XOP so that it will work with Matlab 2009a.
· Updated Macintosh Data Browser to support horizontal scrolling with two finger trackpad gesture.

Procedures:
· Corrected WMMenus.ipf so that the Window Browser displays its window when you select either Misc->Packages->Window Browser or Windows->Control->Packages->Window Browser.
· The Split Axis package now does the right thing with axes that participate in Swap XY (either through traces with the /VERT flag or via ModifyGraph swapXY). It also now restores the reversed-ness of reversed axes when un-splitting.
· Updated Image Particle Panel.ipf.
· Added optional reporting of background level and ratio of peak height to background in Multipeak Fit 2.
· Fixed AppendContourToGizmo.ipf so that the contour and surface popup menus work.
· KBColorizeTraces.ipf revised to improve panel's appearance on Windows (control placements).

Examples:
· Most of the sound input examples were modernized to support the new core audio support on Mac.
· Added a Visual Studio 2008 version of the IgorClient example Windows Automation client program. This is in "Igor Pro FolderMiscellaneousWindows AutomationAutomation Server Examples.zip".
· Windows: updated demo experiment for Direct Show XOP (DSXOP).