RKWard 0.4.5 is released

Sunday, 21 January 2007 Tfry

Once again, it's time to announce a new release of rkward. Version 0.4.5 is available for download.

Note that a few aspects of the user interface have changed for this release. We hope these changes will make RKWard's user interface easier to learn and use, but existing users will have to adapt to the following UI changes:

  • changed shortcuts for Open/Save Workspace to Ctrl+Shift+O/S to avoid clash with Open/Save Script File
  • removed "Configure Packages" option from Workspace menu, as it is also in Settings menu
  • removed the "output" menu; entries were moved to "Edit" and "View"
  • added refresh output and flush output as toolbar actions
  • always show all top level menus

Further changes in RKWard 0.4.5:

  • Bugfixes / corrections:
    • fixed: non-local workspaces would not be loaded
    • fixed: specifying a workspace to load on the command line would only work for full urls
    • fix: the output window would not refresh changed plot images (unless closed and reopened)
    • fixed: integer spinboxes with starting values greater than 1 would get unreasonable change steps
    • fix several minor issues as identified by the "krazy" source code checker
    • small improvements to syntax highlighting definition
    • fix compilation with some versions of KDE / GCC
    • assorted cleanups
  • Plugins:
    • added plugin for skewness and kurtosis
    • added several plugins for distribution analysis
    • added plugins for stripchart & density plot
    • enhancements to existing plot plugins
    • code generated for most plugins cleaned and simplified
    • new function rk.results () for use in plugins
  • Other new features / improvements:
    • new Console RMB actions: "copy selection cleaned" and "run selection"
    • added a basic help system, and some introductory help pages
    • allow varslots to request objects of specified dimensionality and length
    • in console, make cursor go to empty next line after pressing enter, before there is output (more like in the real console)
    • add "run selection" option to command log
    • script editor commands are piped through the console (by default; this is configurable)

Got feedback about the new release or RKWard in general? Please contact us on the mailing list.