Phil Weinstein / Accomplishments -- August 2013 (original 9-8-2013; minor edit 9-9-2013)

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   Accounts Manager: Rename multiple selected accounts to the same name
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A "Rename Accounts" function has been added to the Accounts Manager dialog. Multiple selected accounts on different objects can be set to the same name. Clicking on the "Rename (Accounts)" operation (under the Account menu) shows a popup dialog with a list of the accounts which had been selected within the Accounts Manager. The user can enter a new name for all of the listed accounts. When that new name is invalid for the full set of accounts, a message describing the problem is shown. Otherwise, the user can click the "OK" button to rename the accounts to the entered name.

See document:

• RiverWare 6.4: Accounts Manager: Rename Multiple Accounts
  R:\doc\accounting\RenameAccts\2013\RenameAcctsVers1.pdf

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[I.A.1] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / New Development
   Various Usability Enhancements
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• Simpler slot names for slot copies pasted into data objects: a numeric suffix is appended only when necessary.
• Object Account Summary Dialog: initially include all of the object's accounts in the summation calculation -- not just the first ten accounts. However, the account list itself is now initially hidden, to allow most of the vertical space to show the series data and series sums.
• Open RPL Expression Slot Dialog: no longer resizes each time the expression is evaluated.

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[I.A.2] Sponsored Projects / RiverWare / Bug Fixes
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• Gnats 5317: Exported full model image is incomplete when the workspace is zoomed out.
  ... also: PNG image file size problem (unreasonably large).
• Gnats 5358: With and If-Else expression values not available in RPL debugger.
• Gnats 5359: RPL literal value inline editors not initialized correctly
• Gnats 5360: Hitting RPL debugger breakpoint resizes maximized editor
• Gnats 5361: RPL function printing was sometimes incomplete, depending on font.
• Gnats 5369: GUS Selector: initial list item order is arbitrary; should be sorted.
• Gnats 5371: Slow Input DMI execution when SCT is shown
• Gnats 5372: Diagnostics Output: 'Auto Scroll' doesn't work when message filtering is active
• Gnats 5373: Diagnostics Output: Adding user note while running may interfere with the run.

A significant effort was invested by several software developers in isolating and fixing a crash which occurred after long simulations. This was the cause of at least Gnats 5348 and 5370. The fix was applied to RiverWare 6.3.3 and 6.4.

In the Diagnostic Output Message window, the "Extra Width Fix" option caused a problem within Qt. In a common circumstance, an extra 12% was repeatedly added to the computed "Context" column width, exponentially growing that value, periodically overflowing the 32-bit integer limit (so wrapping back around to "reasonable" values, adding to the intermittent nature of the crash). Evidence of this bad computation included an unreasonably narrow "thumb" control in the Context list's horizontal scroll bar.

Related: we have developed a solution to the geometry problem for which the "Extra Width Fix" option was originally provided. There seems to be a bug in Qt's initial geometries on Windows 7 systems using the Aero desktop themes. This can be addressed by re-applying the current font to the QApplication object.

(I have no maintenance accomplishments to report for August 2013).

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