Issue:

WorkBench is not properly showing a config conflict around the selected feedback for electronic gearing.

Solution:

Parse the firmware correctly and display the config conflict as expected.

Issue:

There was an issue in the Capture View where descriptions for CAP#.TRIGGER and CAP#.PRESELECT were not being displayed.

Solution:

Added the missing description enums for CAP#.TRIGGER and CAP#.PRESELECT. Also updated diagram input nodes to fallback to descriptions from the drive to protect against this issue in the future.

Issue:

On AKD2G, the link text for controlled stop action configuration was incorrect, showing "Configure Inputs" but linked to the Actions View.

Solution:

The link text now shows "Configure Actions" and still links to the Actions View.

Issue:

There were three issues around editors and navigation, particularly in the Lookup Table View. 1.) Lookup table allowed user to select a new row when an error existed and metadata popup was open. 2.) Lookup table editors were validating after leaving the view. 3.) Navigation buttons were not blocked during keyword editing, and when used, would clear the value instead of validating.

Solution:

All three defects have been fixed.

Issue:

A crash was occurring in the Scope when importing sequential files which increase in number of traces. During investigation, another bug was found which caused filter states to be lost during imports.

Solution:

The Scope no longer crashes during sequential imports, and the filter states are now saved and imported properly.

Issue:

The user traces in the scope do not work with imported scope traces.

Solution:

Updated WorkBench to support user traces with imported scope traces.

Issue:

When using a localized version of the UI, hovering the Electronic Gearing selection in the Axis Feedback View will cause a crash.

Solution:

Improper localization fixed, it will now work properly for all languages.

Issue:

MW Lookup Tables loaded into the project that contained underscores in the names of the keywords would not load.

Solution:

Tables should now load even with underscores in their names. Keywords must still contain a dot ('.') somewhere in the name to load successfully.

Issue:

For some device values, the device parameter help will give a description attached to each value. If the value is negative, the description would not be displayed properly, and infer with matching positive values.

Solution:

Problem is fixed, negative values are now fully supported with attached descriptions (enum).

Issue:

When a minimum range value entered is greater than the maximum range value a crash will occur.

Solution:

Prevent crash by sorting the data series. Firmware update in the future will prevent a bad input completely.

Issue:

The cogging compensation view lookup table was not reloading when a teach move occurred while outside of the view (ie, if triggered in the terminal).

Solution:

Now the cogging compensation view lookup table is reloaded anytime the data is changed, inside or outside of the view.

Issue:

WorkBench would not connect to a drive that has an activated MechaWare model that contains a bad keyword block with invalid keyword content.

Solution:

Updated code that creates the keyword content to properly handle the bad keyword block and set the content to invalid safely.

Issue:

When adding a watch item while connecting to a physical device or during the launch of a simulated device, the application will crash. It could be recovered by clicking Continue.

Solution:

The crash is fixed, the application will prevent the user to select a keyword until the application is fully ready, meaning the initialization is complete.

Issue:

Help links being created in WorkBench were incorrect for various Fault Actions keywords.

Solution:

Help link creation in WorkBench was updated to fix all Fault Action issues. Along the way, other issues were discovered with help links for safe parameters, some current loop keywords, X1/X2 modes, and more, which have also all been fixed.

Issue:

Missing Horizontal Scrollbar in Faults View's History tab.

Solution:

Adjusted column definitions to fix overlapping vertical scrollbar and horizontal scrollbar.

Issue:

When using a German user interface, the view layout is broken. Some of the fields are cut and their content is invisible.

Solution:

The layout is fixed to self adapt better to the different languages and text lengths.

Issue:

WorkBench would get stuck while updating the Firmware of an AKD2G and the user would have to manually close WorkBench and reopen it.

Solution:

Fixed code so that it no longer will get stuck there.

Issue:

When X1 and X2 are not configured for feedback usage, we do get configuration conflicts in the list accessible through the status bar. However, on the FB1 and FB2 feedback selection editor, we do get the configuration conflict indicator but not the explanation.

Solution:

Fixed a logic error not recognizing the correct keyword, issue fixed.

Issue:

When using a firmware file size bigger than 23MB and doing a factory download (all images), the update procedure will crash with an exception.

Solution:

Fixed the code to support larger file sizes.

Issue:

When for some reason the provided hardware information from the device (HW.INFO) is incoherent with other keywords, the view will crash.

Solution:

If we cannot get proper hardware information from the device, we will default to a more generic link and description that still allows the hardware configuration view to work properly.

Issue:

When the parameter editor is disabled by the application, the 'reset to default' is enabled allowing the value to be changed.

Solution:

The 'reset to default' button is now disabled when the parameter editor is disabled.

Issue:

When using the Scope, a crash would occur if the user did a recording, disconnected, reconnected, and refreshed. Also, there was another bug around refreshing recorder channels for array keywords and registered variables, which could become duplicated.

Solution:

The crash no longer occurs after disconnecting, reconnecting, and refreshing. Also, the recorder channels now behave correctly when refreshing array keywords or registered variables.

Issue:

In the Current Loop View, for only AKD1G, there was a permanently broken link to the Cogging Compensation View.

Solution:

The link has been fixed and now properly navigates to the AKD1G Cogging Compensation View.

Issue:

When the UI is integrated in our EtherCAT controller, the command source multi choice widget is dispalying a fixed string instead of the actual value of the command source.

Solution:

Fixed, the actual value of the command source is displayed in all the cases.

Issue:

If the Setup Wizard is run and some parameter values are changed, changing those same values in the main window after dismissing the Wizard will crash WorkBench.

Solution:

Properly disposed resources in the Setup Wizard to eliminate the crash scenario.

Issue:

Upon adding a Item to the new Watch Panel on Windows 7, the application will crash. This issue is rooted in the keyword picker control and causes problems loading the Scope view and using the Actions view with Recordable Parameters. A visual library used by that control is not supported on Windows 7.

Solution:

The keyword picker (used by Watch Panel and other features) is updated to use a visual library that is supported on Windows 7 and greater operating systems.

Issue:

The ND models are not recognized properly for firmware update.

Solution:

Problem fixed, ND models will be fully recognized and firmware update possible.

Issue:

When copying text from the text editor, the editor would be put into an "edited" state even though no change on the actual value had been done.

Solution:

Copying text from the text editor no longer puts it into an "edited" state.

Issue:

In the Scope, there was an crash when importing a CSV which had a greater number of points than the existing dataset while a filter was active.

Solution:

Importing a CSV with a greater number of points than the currently existing dataset no longer causes a crash.

Issue:

In the Scope, there was an issue when importing a CSV which included signals that were not unknown by the current device. These signals would not be loaded into the channels, and the user would need to manually enter a signal in order to use the channel controls.

Solution:

Now, unknown signals are loaded into the channels and shown in error so the user is aware that these signals are not recognized. The filter controls remain enabled so the user does not need to take any further action to manipulate these unknown signals.

Issue:

When the UI is integrated in our EtherCAT controller, the setup wizard is not enabled properly when it should (online configuration mode).

Solution:

Problem fixed, the setup wizard will be enabled when it should.

Issue:

After using the application for a long time, visiting many views and reconnecting many times, the application could crash, typically when a firmware download is initiated.

Solution:

Many memory leaks were fixed in the application.

Issue:

When changing the trigger source in the scope, the trigger type in the more section was not updating to reflect the source.

Solution:

Fixed the combo editor to update properly and display the proper trigger type.

Issue:

The first underscore was not being displayed in the watch panel signal picker.

Solution:

Updated WorkBench to now properly display the underscore.

Issue:

Workbench was crashing when adding certain invalid strings (register keywords) to the watch panel text editor.

Solution:

Workbench no longer crashes when register keywords are displayed in text editors, and the unsupported register keywords have been removed from the watch panel.

Issue:

WB would crash on launch trying to identify a default paper-size if no printer was defined or if the Windows printer spooler service was disabled.

Solution:

Now WB does not crash when no print service is identified. Instead, a default paper size is chosen.

Issue:

Erasing the text in the keyword picker does not reset and clear the selection.

Solution:

Now, erasing the keyword picker text removes the selection and allows the picker to be set to empty.

Issue:

In some rare occasions, the button will remain disabled even that it should be enabled allowing the user to clear the faults. It would force the user to disconnect/reconnect or use the terminal.

Solution:

The refresh of the button state has been fixed, it should be updated properly in all cases.

Issue:

When exporting data from the Scope to a CSV file, the parameter column names were very long and contained duplicate information, showing the parameter name and parameter description two times each.

Solution:

Now, exported data from the Scope does not contain redundant information, and shows the parameter name and parameter description only once each.

Issue:

When a scope file with over 1000 records was imported and then re-exported, the data was cutoff and everything after the first 1000 records was lost.

Solution:

WorkBench now updates the number of export records when importing a scope file, so re-exporting that data will preserve the entire data set.

Issue:

Setting the brake usage in the brake view while the axis is enabled disables navigation with no way to get it back.

Solution:

Check the error state of the combo editor to provide a way to get out of the blocked navigation state.

Issue:

When attempting to set the default settings for the scope for AKD2G, a warning would be shown and the settings would not be properly set back to default.

Solution:

Updated WorkBench to properly handle information coming from the drive so that the default settings can be set correctly.

Issue:

When typing fast in the signal picker (Scope channel selection, Watch Panel parameter selection, etc.) and pressing Enter the incorrect keyword is selected.

Solution:

In that scenario the correct keyword is now selected.

Issue:

When there is no motor attached to the drive, slider tuning view is crashing when changing the bandwidth.

Solution:

Protected against a divide by zero exception.

Issue:

When for some reason a CSV fails to load, the user interface just reports a generic failure, not helping sufficiently the user to fix the offending file.

Solution:

The user interface will now report the first error encountered in the file with the offending text including its respective line and column within the loaded file.

Issue:

Using the Parameter Compare tool with a parameter file as source or target is crashing.

Solution:

Problem fixed.

Issue:

Running the Setup Wizard connected to a first generation device will crash the user interface.

Solution:

Crash is fixed.

Issue:

In some cases, the user interface will fail to connect to the device, in some other occurences, it will just fail to display some values.

Solution:

Fixed the parsing in the user interface to support better hexadecimal format.

Issue:

The scenario to create the crash is about having an AKD2G connected and opening a view (e.g. Modbus), selecting the project node and then moving over to safety. Working in the safety tree, disconnect and reconnect the device, if you then move back to the Motion tree and select the device you were using, WB will crash.

Solution:

The issue is fixed.

Issue:

In previous versions, when selecting the terminal node, the user could start typing immediately in the terminal as the view was getting the focus. It has stopped working in release 2.5.0.5367.

Solution:

The issue is fixed, the focus is properly working again.

Issue:

When a view is in error for some reason, the navigation is disabled because we want the user to fix the error before navigating away. The toolbar is also disabled, it is incorrect as the user may need to disable its drive to fix the error (or possibly some other toolbar actions).

Solution:

The toolbar is now only disabled when switching views, it remains fully enabled when a view is in error.

Issue:

Searching for a parameter that is part of the Misc group (not in any other group) is crashing WB.

Solution:

Search is not crashing anymore.

Issue:

When using WB > 2.3.1.5012, if a device is removed from a safety group, WB encouters a crash. We also have problems around atcivation/deactivation of links to add devices/groups.

Solution:

Problems have been fixed.

Issue:

If the All Parameters View is open, all subsequent opened views will be slowed down as a lot of unnecessary communication is still running.

Solution:

All Parameters View is fixed - communication is properly stopped when exiting.

Issue:

New WB (version ≥ 2.0) is using a new file format for parameters, old WB (version < 2.0) cannot read it. It is annoying for AKD1G users as a lot of them are still using 1.x WB versions.

Solution:

WB will use the old parameter file format for old drives (AKD1G, MKD), so that it can be read by any version of WB.

Issue:

WB crashing randomly when dicconnecting, annoyance for the user.

Solution:

Fixed in WB.

Issue:

After a FW failing update or when starting a simulation, the refresh of the toolbar and status bars is not done properly, showing old values.

Solution:

Refresh problem fixed, the bars will reflect the current staus of the drive.

Issue:

For some operations, we need to display a dialog box for user interaction (eg. informing about a serial number change). The user has to make a choice before going further, it will chnage the way the process will continue (eg. connecting or canceling because of a serial number change). While this dialog is displayed, any other action should be blocked in WB as they wre not valid until the decision of the user. In the current implementation, it was possible, the dialog box were not modal.

Solution:

Fixed, the dialog box are now modal, blocking any other action before a choice is made.

Issue:

During AKD2G FW update, the toolbar allows to enable/disable and change other motion parameters, this is dangerous as the drive is not in an operational state and will reboot at anytime. All actions should blocked.

Solution:

Toolbar and status bars are completetly hidden whil updating the FW.

Issue:

The user can enter too long unit custom labels causing a FW error (no crash, just reported later in the process of editing).

Solution:

Fixed, the length is limited to 16 chars as in the FW.

Issue:

If we measure the time to clear faults for the device (DRV.CLRFAULTS) using the terminal, we can notice that using the button from the UI will take twice the time to perform the operation.

Solution:

Fixed, it takes the same time using the terminal or the UI widgets.

Issue:

If a view is immediately selected (Axis Overview or other) after launching AKD integration, it randomly crashes.

Solution:

Fixed, it may freeze for some seconds but then move forward.

Issue:

When the AKD integration is launched being offline within KAS, the disconnected view does not show up - the view host appears empty.

Solution:

Fixed, the view appers now properly.