Release 4 & 5 Updates

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Release 5

Modified StampPlot for best use with the Calculation and Plotting Control

This release add some very significant features to StampPlot.
(There was no real Release 3. One was developed, but had limited distribution).

StampPlot now has the ability to use specially created controls to increase the flexibility, and with the right skills, you can develop your own! Read more!

Time and Date portions are directly accessible as macro values:
(HH) = Hour
(MM) = Minute
(SS) = Seconds

(MO) = Month
(DD) = Day
(YY) = Year

Images can now be used as backgrounds which can have object controls placed directly on it!
!POBJ oBack=misc/background.jpg
or Drag and drop the image name from the Object Editor Media Tab to the oBack text box.

When using the Macro--> Run menu, the macro is automatically loaded into the Macro Editor

StampPlot Tables
StampPlot Tables are text files (*.spt) which can be used as look-up tables and/or a population table. By using a separate file it allows easy updating by an end user without having to modify macros.

The file MUST reside in the same directory as the macro.

The file MIST have the same root name as the macro (i.e. miner.spm has a table miner.spt)

The best way to create a table is to:

	Develop an initial interface.
	Use the Macro Editor (Developer's license) to build and save the macro.
	Ensure that !DEFS (ME) is part of the Init section.
	Run the macro.
	Use the main form's Macro --> Edit Lookup File to allow it to create the file.
	Edit by adding your tables.
	The file may be opened by using !ESPT (Edit spt).

Sample File:

In the example, there are 2 tables: JOB and CONN.
Each table has 2 columns separated by TABS
Each table ends with ENDLIST

An example use for list cross referencing is:
!STAT (JOB::20)
Would put 'Cover' in the status bar.
Conversely:
!STAT (JOB::Widget)
Would put 10 in the status bar.
A more real use would be from controller code where perhaps you have a ID number for part or job to show in a text box to give a descriptive name:
DEBUG "!O txtID=(JOB::", DEC ID,")",CR 'BASIC Stamp Code

A second use would be to populate a list box or dropdown list.
Given a list box named lstConnections:
!POBJ lstConnections.Add=(CONN:Table)
This will place all values on the left side of the CONN table in the list box. Using code you can then cross reference to a value:
!STAT (CONN:lstConnects)

Note, the 1st example uses 2 colons, the 2nd example only 1.

Release 4.5

	Added the Calculations and Plotting Control.
	Various StampPlot tweaks to make the control as useful as possible.