Release Notes Solo Predictor Version 2 8 2

Changes and Bug Fixes in Version 2.8.2

Version 2.8.2 of Solo_Predictor was released in December 2012.

High-level Changes

• Updated to be compatible with PLS_Toolbox / Solo 7.0 including support for new EVRIModel objects.

Main Program Configuration Changes

• Add "plaindelimiter" configuration option to allow specification of delimiter to use in plain text output (makes parsing easer in some languages). Default is comma-separated.
• Add log_backups field and add help for all backup settings
• Add "header" option to include a specific header with each log file
• Add json parsing and output support
• Change order of "old" log files (oldest log is highest #ed log, most recent is 1)
• Show which default.xml file is being used when status dialog first opens
• Show statusbox message when the user attempts to close the controls using the standard window close control
• Do not store debug messages in buffer if not in debug mode (avoids potential memory leak on very high-load applications)
• Force message buffer dump if a large number of messages have been queued and not written
• Improve status dialog performance (do not redraw menus on each display)
• Better handle when 32-bit version is started without appropriate permissions for automatic configuration to operate.

Script Parsing

• Allow creation of evriscript objects directly without @evriscript(____) wrapper. Just call with: @____ and if not recogonized as a standard object but it does match an evrscript method, it will be created as an evriscript object.
• Fix .mat file saving: allow -append and multiple vars
• Fix for reading scripts which have a line consisting of just '%' (or '#' or '//') and a line-feed (caused following line to be skipped)
• Fix for indexing into array with numerical values between 65 and 90 or 97 and 122 (would return empty or possibly throw error)
• Fix to ignore leading or trailing spaces in parsed variable names or strings
• Improved support for LF as end-of-command character
• Add new @predictor object (limited support)
• Remove support for doing 'testing' mode with | (where y-block is passed within x). New approach is to use model object directly: pred = model.apply(x,y);