What is new in Tol 3.1

Note that version style has been simplified to just two numbers: x.y

One version has a set of goals and a deadline to meet during their development phase, but should be adjusted by the requirements specified by users on the tickets. Each breakthrough will mean the release of a beta version to be specified with the letter 'b' followed by a sequential numeric code of three digits with zeros from the left: 'x.y bzzz'

Once published can arise, especially at first, small problems will be resolved with patches whose numbering is similar to that of the beta but with the letter 'p': 'x.y pzzz'

​Here you can view a detailed report of all solved tickets.

Following is a summary of the must relevant changes.

Kernel

• Solved some problems with macro #Embed
• Enhanced behaviour of class related documentation functionalities: _.autodoc.member, PutDescription, Description
• Solved some problems using global access operator ::global_variable
• Solved some problems with ObjectExist
• New function to add members to an existant NameBlock Real AddMember(NameBlock nb, Anything member)
• TextMatch calls to TextMatch_Tcl to solve old known problems.
• Avoiding copy of objects by means of new referential operator $ to be used with new structures @Real, @Text, ...
• Fixed bug in PutName working over local function arguments

TolConfigManager

• Enhancement of maintenance of user options.
• Merging new default options with older configuration files.

Time Algebra

• Solved some problems handling with empty TimeSet W
• Enhancement of storement of TimeSet objects in OIS
• Solved some problems with SerDat
• Enhancement of efficiency in Polyn:Serie and other operations

Math

• Matrix and Real mixed arguments extended to logical and comparisson functions. First argument must be matrix. Now you can write
  

    Matrix M = ...; 
    Matrix LT(M, 1); 
  

• Enhanced MatQuery methods to handle with matrix operations like sorting, selecting or classifying
• Solved som problems with some VMatrix methods as MergeRows or SubDiag
• Faster AIA algorithm using VMatrix.
• TolIpopt: Fast and robust algorithms to solve constrained bi-linear optimization problems.
• Enhanced behaviour of TruncStdGaussian in extreme cases
• Solved problems of IsStationary and StationaryValue over non full polynomials, that caused false non stationarity messages on some ARIMA estimations, both Estimate and BSR
• Solved some problems with ARMA initial values in Estimate
• Package BysMcmc (BSR)
  • Solving problems with border points in BysMcmc
  • BysMcmc can be used to generate multiple chains from over-dispersed initial points
  • Prior information over unknown output in Probit models with BysMcmc
  • Adding information over linear restrictions in BysMcmc
  • More efficient import and parser methods of regression matrices in package BysMcmc
• Including ROC related methods to package QltvRespModel

First releases of uncomplete packages

• LinAproxNonLinReg: Linearized aproximation to non linear regression
• BysDecision: Solving typical Bayes Decision problems
• MWG: Metropolis Within Gibbs generic models
• MatAlg: Matrix algebra related methods

TolExcel

• Excel API is now part of a packages which make easier its evolution
• Created a wrapper class
• Not only excel files can be read but also created
• Improved tab navigation
• Solved some bugs with date cells.

GuiTools

• Order of options within the menu can be enforced
• ImageManager implemented which makes possible to associate icons for classes and menu options.

CurlApi

• New functions to do file transfer based on curl.

TclCore

• New package to access Tcl_Eval from a plain tol (tol.exe, tolcon, toljava)

TolPackage

• Solved some problems about comparing package names and version numbers.
• Including local information to be used in local repositories without loading the package.
• Enhanced behaviour in machines with no internet connection.

TolBase

• Interface to manage packages.
  • Viewing status of local and remote packages.
  • Updating/upgrading.
  • removing.
  • install from zip file: needed where no internet conection is available.
• New visual tool for scape strings in editor and eval window
• Improved syntax check to work with #Embed
• project.ini can be specified at command line, in this way all project configuration file can be stored relative to the project directory structure.
• Patched a bug with blt::busy which was generating a random bug
• Implemented the command toltcl::eval which make easier the access to the results of tol expression from Tcl.
• implemented the command tol::foreach to iterate Set elements with a similar syntax as foreach in Tcl.

TolServer/RMTPS

• projects can be configured in rmpts server:
  • variables can be defined at server configuration file
  • startup file can be configured at server
  • cvs operations can be executed remotely on the server
  • bdr and bmr is defined at server side
  • log can be redirected local to the project

General

• improved compilation process on Linux, best known distribution:
  • CentOS 5.4
  • SuSe 14.x
  • Ubuntu