What's new in friedEgg Touch 1.7.2
Mar 13, 2015
- Minor improvements and bug fixes, including:
- Improving drag and drop when selecting chart dimensions and filters within charts
- Fixed bug on loading CSV data with data that is not a number, date or text
- Adjusted image scaling for hi-resolution external displays
- Adjusted transparency of panels when using Yosemite
- Other minor changes
New in friedEgg Touch 1.7.1 (Oct 14, 2014)
- A few tweaks to play nice with Yosemite, plus some minor bug fixes.
New in friedEgg Touch 1.7 (Sep 1, 2014)
- Usability improvements:
- Charts can now be created with just three data dimensions (X, Y and Z) at any level, as the label dimension L is now optional. The data view, key panel, printed report and exported data are automatically configured to include the label if present, but ignore it when not available
- Changes in chart objects selected at one step are automatically reflected in subsequent steps
- QuickLook automatically displays a summary of the greatest valid step
- Open and Save panels default to previous directory used
- Reset All option to clear and return to start up view
- Updated many of the chart objects and images to high resolution, to look better on a Retina display
- Increased reliability of the analysis process:
- An analysis is now always saved as a package
- The file containing the data table can be linked using a bookmark, which maintains the link even if the file is moved, or it can be copied into the package
- Analysis files created in earlier versions are migrated to be saved as a package, when first used
- Performance improvements:
- Support for multiple threads, to avoid seeing the beach ball
- Background data loading and saving
- Background printing and data extracts
- Technical enhancements:
- SQLite replaces binary file formats
- 64 Bit support
- ARC memory management
- Minimum system requirement is now 10.8, to support the use of bookmarks
- Updated all Automator actions and the Applescript dictionary to work with the Sandbox. The most significant change is the use of the file’s URL instead of its path.
- Other changes:
- All input data tables must be CSV format (easily exported from Numbers or Excel), XML is no longer supported
- Improved gesture support with pinch to zoom, left/right to navigate the analysis steps, etc
- Improved creation of screenshots for steps, printing and export
- Simplified spotlight plugin, for searching for an analysis
- Updated help book to describe changed and enhanced features
- Various other minor enhancements
New in friedEgg Touch 1.6.2 (Mar 24, 2011)
- Minor fixes for errors when opening data files
- Improved handling of remote help book
New in friedEgg Touch 1.6.1 (Feb 1, 2011)
- Fixed links to key help topics from the Start Up panel.
- Corrected link to obtain remote help book updates.
- Charts panel allows chart type to be changed with a single click.
New in friedEgg Touch 1.4 (Sep 10, 2009)
- Introduced support for Quick Look previews and Spotlight searching, plus compatibility with Snow Leopard.
- Further performance improvements on the loading of data tables plus several bug fixes and usability refinements.
- These include checks that the table has enough data to produce a chart, and improvements in the selection of fonts and colors.
New in friedEgg Touch 1.3.6 (May 4, 2009)
- Improved performance when loading data tables from CSV files.
- Expanded help documentation.
- Various minor bug fixes.
New in friedEgg Touch 1.3.5 (Apr 15, 2009)
- Chart dimensions are now defined by simply dragging data columns to the chart templates. Dimensions can be changed by just dragging the dimension to another column.
- Improvements to the validation and display of the charts, plus the saving and loading of analysis data.
- Comprehensive upgrade of the user help, plus many performance improvements and bug fixes.
New in friedEgg Touch 1.2 (Jun 20, 2008)
- Added Automator actions and scriptability to integrate friedEgg Touch within your workflow. Actions can load data and existing analysis files, and print and export selected data and chart images.
- Selected data can be exported as a comma separated (csv) text file for use within Numbers spreadsheets
- Charts can be exported as either TIFF, JPEG2 or PNG images types for use within Keynote presentations
- Snapshot images for each step aid navigation within the analysis
- Various other enhancements and bug fixes