Release Notes

ShockLog PC Software
Version 10.4.1.0
Installer:

 Enabled the installer to work correctly on PCs with the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office
installed
Bug Fixes:
 Program crashed when “Current File” (ShockLog 248) was selected in Setup
 When reading a ShockLog 248 setup from the downloaded file, it was shown as a 208 setup and
left features unavailable
 Imported RD317 files exported event data with wrong index due to out-of-sequence event
summaries
 RD317 communications errors dependent on number of alarms
 When applying GRMS and changing the default alarm settings, the settings remained at the
default values
 Error when Communications Window was undocked
 Program crashed when importing iButton data
 Pressure was shown as divided by 10 in HPT data download with iButton
 CSV file export failed to export all event data points
New Features:
 Home Tab:
A new tab has been added in the File Viewer that displays a “home” screen.
 Hardware Status Display (v27 firmware and newer):
The Communications Window now displays the hardware status if different items are built in
(black=available, green=active). If there are no added options, this panel is not shown.
 RTF Report Generator:
This tool allows the user to select various results/graphs from a record into a RTF (Rich Text
Format) file. The RTF files are easily read by a large number of word processing packages
including WordPad, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer and IBM Lotus. Once opened in
these packages, the document can be formatted to produce a detailed report.
 Summary Column Selection:
This tool allows the user to select which Summary columns are displayed on the Summary Tab.
This selection is carried forward to both the CSV exporter and the RTF Report generator.
 GPS Exporter:
Exports all GPS data to a *.GPX file which can be uploaded to a number of sites for display.
GPSVisualizer or Google Earth is recommended. The combined Summary and Event GPS
 positions are used to create the route information and “pins” are used for the events. Each pin
will show the event number when cursor hovers over it and when clicked, an event summary is
shown.
 Help and Quick Start Manual:
The Help Menu options now display the ShockLog Manual and Quick Start Manual as PDFs.
(They expect to find Adobe Acrobat Reader; if this is not installed on your system, a shortcut to
download it can be found in the “Documents” directory of the installation CD.)
 Security Log View (v27 firmware and newer):
New option added called “Security Log View” in the View Menu which displays the security log
from a downloaded file.
Improved Features:
 Internal Temperature in Summaries:
The internal temperature is always recorded in summaries, but was only displayed in the Slots
internal temperature was selected. It is now shown by default.
 Language Support:
The following languages are now supported:
 Simplified Chinese - zh-CN
 Dutch - nl-NL
 English - en-US
 French - fr-FR
 German - de-DE
 Italian- it-IT
 Japanese - ja-JP
 Korean - ko-KR
 Spanish - es-ES
Note: Upon installation, the language defaults to English.
To change it to the locale from the main menu, go to ->
Tools -> Graph and Unit Options. Depending on the
languages installed on your operating system, a selection
of languages will be displayed. The minimum number will
be 3 choices: English, detected language, and Invariant
Language. The Invariant Language will automatically select
the base system operating language if multiple languages are installed.

Version 10.2.4.1
Installer:

To enable the installer to work correctly on Windows 8 machines it is necessary on all supported
Windows to automatically uninstall the previous versions of Shocklog. This leaves all the user
data intact.
Bug fix:
Summaries values did not change with unit value selection

Summaries values did not change with unit value selection

Summaries GPS Valid Icon did not correctly re-draw on a column sort

Limit display values to 3 or 4 significant values. This was wrong when not using SI units.

Incorrect labelling of Min/Max data in event data grid view.

Min/Max values in view on Event graphs.

RMS slot alarms alarm enable did not disable.

Slot Alarms not correctly set if not in SI Units

Hyperlinking did not always hit correct slot.

Export from Event graph tab.

Importing RD298 & RD317 files with more than one slot break.

Display of none SI Units.

New Features:

Set focus to Communications Window/tab if loaded when USB arrival is detected.

New Zoom All feature added to Slot & event graphs, Tool strip menus re-arranged

Add end slot to slot breaks.

Borders added around chart areas on all graphs.

Allow user to rename base file name in Exports.

Improvement to Export data sliders interaction.

Highlight selected node in File Explorer Tree View

On initial install always show Communications window.

New checkbox to disable external slots.

Prevent incorrect selection of Event size, duration and recording method.

 In all case when a selection is made on the first tab of the setup screen the corresponding slots
will be selected/dis-selected.

Warning message of filter frequency if grms is enabled.

Set Maximum allowable wake/warn/alarm thresholds to 95%

For the 298 hide Serial Port & HPTSlotAlarms in Factory options.

Japanese translation corrected localisation strings.

Version 10.2.4.0 Beta

Bug fix:
RF:
Improvements when running a heavily loaded system improve overall communications
resilience.
The lease of a downloading unit is automatically renewed to prevent a timeout of the
lease during or after download.
All Data Grids:
Fix exception when asking to sort a none-sortable column.
Fix bug in establishing the date of a slot.
Selecting the external sensor line could cause error when trying to display the file.
More than 100 SlotBreaks could over run the length of the array.
When the Event Table is loaded after a file is opened it did not populate the event data.
Allow setting of greater than 90 degrees alarm limits for the internal Tilt & Roll.
Downloading large amounts of data from the RD298 could lead to a communication failure.
USB detected but no Heartbeat message

New Features:

User setup list, a repository for regularly used setups.

Mission comment and start date options are requested at send setup

The Setup form layout has changed to allow the selection of a simplified or more complex view.

A new button on the load setup window allows the selection of the current file; if selected then
the setup that was used to record the data displayed will be loaded into the setup form.

One Page Report printing has changed to show report and settings on one sheet.

On One Page Report and the Report Tab view, if no events are viewable in that time a label to
that effect is displayed.
 All slot graph show time up to the next logic grid line; this is to overcome the comment that
some customers are not sure if there is some data is missing.

The time/frequency measurement on the event graphs is now has allows the selection of the
axis.

In the Slot graph tab view; only the graphs scroll, the tool bar now stays at the top.

In the Graph and Unit Options window there are two new tick boxes:

 Unicode CSV: If ticked then exported data will be in Unicode text (two bytes per
character) more suited for none Latin based languages. If not ticked(default) the data
will be in ASCII character set (one byte per character).
 Limit Software Filtering: If ticked (default) then in the event graph the available software
filters will be limited to the set hardware filter. If un-ticked filters up to 250Hz will be
allowed.
When a file is downloaded the explorer view will now show that file.

Make the selected file in the explorer view more obvious.

From the Tools menu you can now select Read Last GPS Data. This returns the last positional
information measured by the GPS. This is mainly a useful tool to show that the antenna is in
view of the satellites.

On the Radio window the signal strength colours have had their values changed to:

 Green signal strength is > -86dBs

 Orange signal strength is > -92dBs
 Red signal strength is < -92dBs

Version 10.2.3.0
Bug fix:
Fix bug interpreting 208 setups in downloaded data.
New Features:

On reading setup, select Local Environment / RD317 Humidity factory option when relevant Slot
parameter is selected.

Corrections for Spanish and Italian localisation strings.

Version 10.2.2.0
Allow ETrak and HPT to be selected concurrently.
Improve Software Update operation with Proxy Servers.

Version 10.2.1.0
Bug fix:
Fix Database import fails with iButton data.

Version 10.2.0.0
Bug fix:

Fix database import where Summary information could be lost.

Software Update forces culture strings to lower case.
RF traps invalid date time in Heartbeat and displays invalid message.
RF: Prevent an exception being thrown on receipt of invalid short message - e.g. not from
ShockLog.

Improvements:

An option to select UNICODE 16 bit CSV data has been added. This will improve export
readability in languages not based on the Roman charter set.
Remove *.* from database open dialogs.
Default setup for 298 changed to more common values.

New Features:

Event filtering – to allow digital filters to be selected on events to show how a lower selected
hardware filter would have affected the recorded result.
Post processing of data files to remove known anomalies. All post processed screens and
printouts will be label as ‘Processed Data’.

Version 10.1.1.0
Fix invalid date time throws exception in Radio Heartbeat.

Fix Database Summary import.

Only allow *.accdb or *.mdb database files to be opened; and only allow selection of *.accdb files for
other database operations.

Fix Software Update bug on PC with Japanese locale set.

Version 10.1.0.0
Fix bug; when you then un-tick the report view boxes and revert back to the full journey period, the
Report start and end dates do not update in the text fields at the top of the report, but remain at the
reduced period.
Fix loading RD317 data with slot alarms, can cause an exception.

Fix RD317 Humidity data import.

Disable RD298 Summary fast peaks.

Fix turning off range bars corrupts min/max in graph view values.

Fix after setting Report start end points to remove all events, clicking on moduli graph area displays an
event graph on the Report page.

Fix bug; in setup form, the Tilt & Roll Internal/External options buttons do not clear the check boxes
lead to error when leaving the tab.

Fix bug; after exporting databases records, columns are not linked back to the main table.

Fix Temperature / Humidity / Pressure alarms not shown in red on Summary table.

Setup dialog, “DC Accelerometer” changed to “Internal Accelerometer”.

Fix problem running downloaded Microsoft Office Interoperability Assembly install on German
Windows7 machines.

Version 10.0.1.0
Fix iButton import bug.

Version 10.0.0.0 Beta

Move to Access 12 database.

Add Radio communications.

Add GPS capability.

Add internal Tilt and Roll capability.

Add multiple language support – alpha release.

Add multiple record database import/export.

Add Frequency calculation capability to Event graphs.

Improve screen resizing/scrolling - for smaller screens.

Add online update capability.

Initially sort acceleration values high to low, not low to high.

Add Slot Alarms summary tab.

Add Slot graph auto-sizing capability.

Improve Report start/end adjustment response.

Version 9.2.10.0
Fix difxapi.dll installation issue on XP x64 systems.

Fix localisation issue with driver installation on non-Roman character systems.

Version 9.2.9.0
Fix bug, where the first 248 event could be picked up as the sacrificial event and thus discarded.

Installer Version 9.2.8.0 - SW Version stays at 9.2.7.0

Fix difxapi.dll installation issue on Vista x64 systems.

Version 9.2.7.0
Trap corrupt iButton data with single event and offer to delete from database.