All modules

• color selection dialog: fixed manually entering color coordinates on the "Mixed Color" page
• added logging CPU load
• added logging the active thread ID

Picture component

• added repainting the component during runtime when the file containing the picture that is currently displayed is deleted (if the picture is dynamic, i.e. picture filename is controlled by a tag)

Data Tree component

• fixed painting the foreground and background of Display cells in colors based on limits
• R4-6466 - fixed executing actions by double-clicking
• fixed the error that caused cells to lose links to tags when renaming the cells

Vector components

• added support for painting the border using various line styles with any line width (previously, only solid line style could have the width > 1)

Line component

• fixed painting a line having an even width

Bar component

• component editor: fixed the English localization of text strings

Reliance Design development environment

• Component Manager: fixed entering a link to another object for the Animation, Data Tree, Combo Box, and Picture components (previously, it was possible to enter the link only if it consisted only of characters from the basic ASCII set)
• R4-6830 - Component Manager: fixed bulk changing access rights
• Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property of an OPC device (previously "Local time", now "UTC" - according to the OPC DA 2.05a specification)
• Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Update interval" property of tags in most device types (previously 5000 ms, now 500 ms)
• Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Automatically generate OPC ItemID for nested tags" property of an OPC device (previously inactive, now active)
• Data Structure Manager: disabled the "Field address" property of data structures designed for device types whose tags don't have a numerical address (e.g. virtual device, OPC, DDE)
• Data Structure Manager: disabled the "Field order" control for a data structure if the field order is not considered
• R4-6919 - Script Manager: fixed the English localization of headers automatically generated in new scripts (previously, some text strings were in Czech)
• R4-4764 - Script Manager: added the RModem.GSMSendATCommand method which passes a specified command to the GSM modem
• Script Manager: added the RUser.LogOnUserWithNameAndPassword method which logs on a user with a specified name and password
• Script Manager: added the RUser.LogOnUserWithCode method which logs on a user with a specified code (matching the "Code" property of the user)
• Data Table Manager: changed units in which the "Logging interval" property is specified (previously seconds, now milliseconds)
• Picture Manager: fixed formatting picture thumbnail titles
• Picture Manager: fixed pre-setting the "Select Picture" dialog (invoked by the "Add Pictures" command) to open in the Picture Library (only applies to Windows XP)
• String Manager: fixed finding text (previously, text was sometimes looked up in a different column)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Database type" property for a computer (the "Alarms/events" page; replaces the same-named option from the "Project Options" dialog)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Table name" property for a computer (the "Alarms/events" page)
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed finding text strings when the connection to a database is incorrect
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed finding unused structured tags when using more complex window templates
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: added the detection of the RTag.MoveTagElementValues method
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking data types for structured tags
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking window properties
• Project Diagnostics: substantially speeded up displaying the results
• design window: fixed painting the background of a window template when the displayed area is shifted using scroll bars
• fixed the problem of running out of Windows graphical resources (GDI objects) when using a large number of pictures in PNG format (introduced a reference counting system)
• R4-5913 - added flushing file buffers (writing all buffered information to hard disk) when saving data to binary files and RDT format files

Runtime software

• R4-5913 - added flushing file buffers (writing all buffered information to hard disk) when saving data to binary files and RDT format files
• changed looking up a recipe by name when loading and deleting recipes is controlled by a tag - the specified string must match the recipe name (previously, the program looked for a recipe whose name began with the specified string)
• added futher information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by an alarm/event (e.g. device alias, compound tag alias, end date and time, acknowledgment date and time)
• added implementation of the RUser.LogOnUserWithNameAndPassword, RUser.LogOnUserWithCode, and RModem.GSMSendATCommand methods
• fixed logging a tag of type DateTime to a column of type Float in SQL Server 2000

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• added futher information to the data object returned by the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method in a script triggered by a component (component name, window name, window ID)
• trend viewer: fixed saving trend title font
• trend viewer: changed the default color of the Y axis and its labels (previously white, now black)
• report viewer: fixed displaying Unicode characters in the "Create Filter" dialog's column list
• report viewer: updated text strings in the Russian localization
• report viewer, historical alarms/events: improved exporting to CSV format - the delimiter pre-set to a semicolon, the file extension pre-set to .csv (previously .txt)
• exchanged the colors in the title bars of visualization windows for better readability of the title (the darker color on the left)
• added displaying and logging messages about errors that can occur during loading/saving recipes controlled by a tag
• fixed the problem of running out of Windows graphical resources (GDI objects) when using a large number of pictures in PNG format (introduced a reference counting system)
• fixed the Hungarian localization

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed a memory error that might have occurred when a thin client disconnected from the server
• added the file robots.txt for controlling the access of indexing robots (e.g. GoogleBot) to data server Web pages
• server Web pages: fixed checking access rights for certain pages

Web Client

• alarm/event viewers: fixed painting the alarm/event icon
• Display component: fixed loading the units zone properties

Communication drivers

• R4-7013 - SMS: fixed sending text messages

Utilities

• Custom Report Designer: fixed showing the help system

Installation program

• fixed automatically pre-setting the program language based on the operating system language

All modules

• added support for the "UTF8String", "WideString (UCS-2)", "Array of UTF8String" and "Array of WideString (UCS-2)" data types
• unified the method of language localization => the same program files for different language versions (language settings are stored in configuration files)

Data Tree component

• R4-6465 - fixed the English localization of text strings

Edit Box component

• fixed the component's behavior based on the "Prohibit violating bounds" and "Alert to violating bounds" properties

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

• fixed setting the scale of axes after loading the window

Real-Time Trend component

• chart property editor: allowed editing series properties on the "General" and "Marks" pages
• fixed copying the scale of axes when duplicating the component

ActiveX Container component

• fixed the wrong interpretation of properties of type Bool

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: added possibility to define internal tags of type "UTF8String", "WideString (UCS-2)", "Array of UTF8String" and "Array of WideString (UCS-2)" in all device types
• R4-6565 - Device Manager: allowed pasting copied tags from the clipboard (previously, the "Paste" command was disabled)
• Device Manager: added automatically creating an OPC group when a new OPC device is defined
• R4-6541 - Device Manager: fixed importing tags from ST format if a comment contained the "%" character
• R4-6522, R4-6523 - Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: added detailed information to the listing of tags (or data structures and data structure fields) imported from ST and PUB formats
• R4-6522, R4-6523 - Device Manager, Data Structure Manager: fixed setting a change flag when importing tags (or data structures and data structure fields)
• R4-6524 - Data Structure Manager: fixed importing the order of data structure fields from ST format if the data structure already existed in the project
• R4-6520 - Data Structure Manager: added aligning on byte boundaries for the fields that follow bit arrays (Array of Bool) when importing data structures from ST format (Teco)
• Data Structure Manager: fixed importing data structures whose name contains the reserved word STRUCT
• R4-6601 - Data Structure Manager: fixed importing multidimensional arrays so that they are imported as multiple one-dimensional arrays
• R4-6542 - Data Structure Manager: fixed displaying an imported data structure field out of a data structure (on a different tree branch)
• Importing tags from an OPC server: added support for the "LargeInt (64 b)" and "Array of LargeInt (64 b)" data types
• Importing tags from an OPC server: fixed importing engineering units (previously, engineering units were not imported if the OPC server had a hierarchical name space)
• Recipe Manager: added possibility to specify a tag for editing the value of a recipe item (the "Use different tags for editing recipe" property of a recipe type and the "Editing tag" property of a recipe item)
• Recipe Manager: added properties for a recipe type to configure loading a recipe for editing controlled by a tag
• Recipe Manager: added properties for a recipe type to configure saving and deleting a recipe controlled by a tag
• Script Manager: added the RSys.RestartProject method which terminates the project and starts it again using the settings defined for a specified computer
• Script Manager: added the RTag.MoveTagValueToArrayTag method which copies the value of a simple-type tag to an array-type tag
• Script Manager: added the RTag.MoveTagElementValuesToSimpleTag method which copies the value of an array-type tag or its part to a simple-type tag
• Script Manager: added the TTable.UpdateTableStructure method which updates the structure of a database table by adding new columns to the table based on data table fields defined in the project
• Real-Time Trend Manager: added the "Automatic time axis" property for a trend
• Real-Time Trend Manager: added properties for a trend to configure deleting chart data by a tag
• Picture Manager: fixed displaying picture information (dimensions, file size) below thumbnails based on the settings configured in the Environment Options dialog
• Picture Manager: improved highlighting selected pictures
• Window Manager: added the "Perform Diagnostics for All Windows" command
• Component Manager: added/fixed the English localization of component properties (the Level Fill Picture, Check Box, Gauge and Track Bar components)
• Script Manager: added a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+F9) for checking all scripts
• Script Manager: fixed text indentation in the editor
• String Manager: improved editing strings - pressing Enter while editing a string ends editing and selects the next row
• Communication Driver Manager: extended the "Release communication port when idle" property by adding a configurable timeout
• Project Structure Manager: fixed saving the value of the "Communication protocol" property of a communication channel
• Layer Manager: fixed hiding/showing a layer when the corresponding item is double-clicked
• Restore Project from Backup Wizard: fixed the cause of the error that might have occurred while restoring large projects
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed the wrong detection of data structure usages
• Project Diagnostics, finding object usages: fixed the wrong detection of SQL Connection usages
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking the Button component's text strings (text strings are not checked if the "Graphical button" option is active)
• Environment Options: fixed saving the changes in the "Script Manager - Surround With" and "Script Manager - Web Search" option groups if the Environment Options dialog was invoked from the Script Manager
• design window: fixed painting window bounds when the displayed area is shifted using scroll bars
• design window: added repainting a component after renaming it so that the new name would be displayed
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed setting the DatabaseName property of an ADO Database object from a script
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the drag and drop function in the designer's Data pane for database fields whose name began with a digit (previously, those fields could not be dragged from the Data pane)
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed replacing the links to report items in the report template after duplicating a report
• fixed encrypting and decrypting a project - added releasing visualization windows and pictures from memory during the operation (previously, the "Out of resources" error might have occurred with large projects)
• added the "-" character (minus) to the list of characters that are allowed to be used in file names
• recipes: changed the terminology (Recipe -> Recipe Type, Connected Recipe -> Connected Recipe Type)

Runtime software

• fixed logging data to tables in different SQL databases
• added reading controlled by a tag from devices of type Sauter EY2400
• altered loading recipes (it is no longer considered an error if the recipe data being loaded contains values of tags to which recipe items are not linked anymore)
• introduced numbering internal system messages whose text consists of multiple parts (for example, 1/2: First part of text, 2/2: Second part of text)
• added implementation of the RSys.RestartProject, RTag.MoveTagValueToArrayTag, RTag.MoveTagElementValuesToSimpleTag, and TTable.UpdateTableStructure methods

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• R4-6567 - fixed sporadic displaying date and time in the wrong format that occurred on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (date and time was displayed in the US format; the format configured in Windows Control Panel was ignored)
• trend viewer: fixed computing interpolated values displayed in the legend (values marked with the (*) symbol)
• report viewer: fixed generating the node representing tomorrow in the navigation tree view
• report viewer: added possibility to sort nodes in the navigation tree view
• report viewer: fixed selecting the last day in the navigation tree view
• report viewer: added generating time labels for nodes in the navigation tree view
• report viewer: added highlighting the node representing Saturday in red
• Recipe Editor: revised the user interface (recipe types and their folders displayed in a tree view on the left, a list of recipes of the selected recipe type in the middle, a list of recipe items of the selected recipe on the right)
• Recipe Editor: added possibility to edit recipe item values
• Project Manager: added displaying the quality and time stamp for structured tags
• Project Manager: added commands for turning on/off detailed logging for selected objects
• the "Server Web Page" command preferably opens a secure connection if it is enabled

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed sending tag values to thin clients
• server Web pages: altered and unified the look and feel of the pages
• server Web pages: added possibility to log off
• server Web pages: added support for opening a secure connection (SSL)
• server Web pages: added server usage statistics
• report viewer on server Web pages: speeded up generating the navigation tree view for longer history data
• report viewer on server Web pages: fixed considering the "Day start" option of a report

Reliance Server

• fixed activating a time-limited license stored in a software key

Web Client

• fixed updating the data of tags of type "Array of DoubleFloat"
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed displaying the wrong values in the legend
• Combo Box component: added a warning about insufficient access rights when the user attempts to change the value
• Data Tree component: fixed sorting the nodes
• Data Tree component: display even rows using another color based on the "Zebra view" property
• components that paint text: activated antialiasing
• trend viewer: started displaying series aliases in the legend rather than series names
• trend viewer: added possibility to specify the "From" time in the Custom TimeAxis Range dialog (previously, only date could be specified)
• trend viewer: fixed sporadic scrolling to January 1st, 00:00
• trend viewer: added the Auto-scroll option (if active, the trend viewer automatically scrolls to display the latest data)
• trend viewer: fixed saving the trend image to a file (previously, the time axis range was not correct)
• trend viewer: fixed sporadic failing to print a series or its part when printing the trend
• trend viewer: improved displaying the ruler (previously, the ruler was not well visible when it was located at the beginning or end of the time range)
• added a standalone window to display the alarm/event explanation

Mobile Client

• fixed the error that occurred at project startup
• fixed painting components contained in a window template
• improved the behavior of the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog with numeric tags
• fixed updating the data of tags of type "Array of DoubleFloat"

Reliance OPC Server

• fixed activating a license stored in a software key on Windows Vista or later operating systems
• fixed displaying the "Reliance 4 Servers" window on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
• minor changes in text strings in the program's user interface

Communication drivers

• fixed computing the value of the "Array length" and "Character" count properties of tags in certain situations (=> fixed reading the data of Johnson Controls time programs and matrices in AMiT devices)
• fixed computing the length of multidimensional arrays of null-terminated strings
• Sauter: fixed writing to a tag with "Data word" set to D and data type set to "DoubleWord" (DE)
• Sauter: fixed deleting a previous response to a user-defined message when sending the next message
• Sauter: added reading controlled by a tag
• Sauter: added setting the system time
• Generic: fixed the cause of the error that might have occurred while receiving the data
• QMD: handled the situation when a device returns an error code

Utilities

• RDT File Editor: fixed previewing and printing the data in columns that have a blank name

Installation program

• added possibility to select the language version of Reliance before the installation => only one installation program common to different language versions

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed generating reports for remote users (increased HTTP client session timeout)

Communication drivers

• Modbus: fixed reading the tags that are not updated through a communication zone

All modules

• introduced a new memory manager
• introduced new environment variables to be used in relative paths: $(UserDocuments) that represents the directory containing the current user's documents and $(PublicDocuments) representing the directory containing documents that should be accessible from different user accounts
• Environment options: changed the default paths for projects, project backups, library and log files
• changed the directory for storing program settings
• added logging system information at program startup
• improved logging memory status (added logging changes in the amount of used memory)
• improved license detection after Windows startup
• Managers: added a toolbar into the Search Results window
• license detection: added logging debug information
• license registration: fixed registering multiple licenses
• license registration: allowed license re-registration
• Activate License Wizard: fixed the subtitle when the activation was unsuccessful

Button component

• R4-5840 - changed painting the component in a design window: if the button not visible (graphical button with no picture selected), it's border is indicated by a violet rectangle

Notepad component

• fixed updating localizable strings in the user interface after switching the program language

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve, Data Tree, Data Grid components

• fixed loading settings from user profiles
• fixed updating localizable strings in the user interface after switching the program language

Real-Time Trend component

• R4-5941 - fixed the order of series after project startup

Equithermal Curve component

• fixed disabling editing the curve points
• fixed replacing the component properties through the Replace Object Properties Wizard

Data Tree component

• fixed painting the foreground and background of Display cells in colors based on limits
• fixed indicating tag quality in cells

Track Bar component

• R4-5958 - fixed painting the component under Windows 7

Container component

• current alarms/events: added the "Share column settings with other containers" property

Line component

• fixed the sporadic "Invalid floating point operation" error that might occur while painting the arrow

Reliance Design development environment

• "Welcome" window: added a command for restoring a project from a backup
• design window: fixed painting the grid in the whole window on multi-monitor systems
• design window: added possibility to display the grid on top of the components
• updated the list of SMS service center numbers
• Component Manager: fixed the error consisting in not allowing the user to edit multiple collection items at a time (e.g. Active Text component states)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: added the "Publish configurations" option that conditions generating the Web page containing the list of configurations; moreover, if this option is inactive, the links to configurations will be encrypted
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: optimized exporting objects that cannot be connected to computers via the Project Structure Manager (pictures, actions, real-time trends and their series): only objects really used in the configuration are now exported
• Project Diagnostics: added checking if SQL connections are used in the project
• Project Diagnostics: added checking SQL connections for invalid links in custom reports of type Fast Report
• Project Diagnostics: eliminated displaying error message while checking custom reports of type Fast Report
• Managers: added importing properties with a value of empty string when importing objects from CSV format
• Device Manager: enabled the controls of nested tag properties whose values are not adopted from the respective data structure fields (the "Eng. name" and "Eng. units" properties)
• String Manager: extended the set of string states by the "Untranslatable" state
• String Manager: added keyboard shortcuts for setting the state of a string
• String Manager: added the "Translate by Google" command for translating strings by Google's free online translation service
• R4-5388 - String Manager: added possibility to edit text through a multi-line editor
• String Manager: canceled the "Not verified" filter
• String Manager: added the "Languages" command to the popup menu which brings up the "Project Options" dialog (Project Options | Languages)
• String Manager: added the "Options" command to the popup menu which brings up the "Environment Options" dialog (Environment Options | String Manager)
• Data Structure Manager: the "Offset" property of a data structure field renamed to "Address"
• Data Structure Manager: added the "Address" (for writing), "Type identifier" (for reading and write) and "Qualifier" properties for a data structure field for IEC104 devices
• R4-6118 - Data Structure Manager: fixed importing the PTR_TO data type from ST (IEC EN 61131-3) format
• Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: added possibility to import multidimensional arrays
• Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: added possibility to import array elements as separate tags
• Device Manager: added the "OPC" property for a tag (the "Sharing" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Require note before acknowledgment" property for an alarm/event (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Alarm/event groups" for an alarm/event (the "Advanced" page)
• Device Manager: added the "Null-terminated String tags" property for a device
• Device Manager: added controlled reading properties for communication zones in Modbus and Wago devices
• Device Manager: fixed saving certain properties of a tag in Johnson Controls devices
• Device Manager: added the "InteliDrive DCU" model for a Modbus device (bytes are not swapped in String-type tags in this device model)
• User Manager: added the "Send via E-mail", "Send via SMS" and "Alarm/event groups" properties for a user (the "Alarms/events" page)
• Communication Driver Manager: fixed the default values of the properties of Sauter Driver
• Report Manager: added the "Day start" property for a report
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Send via E-mail", "Send via SMS", "On start", "On end" and "On acknowledgment" properties for a computer (the "Alarms/events" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Outgoing message encoding" and "Send multipart messages" properties for a computer (the "SMS" page)
• Project Structure Manager: fixed the default values of the properties of a Sauter device's communication channel
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed saving user-defined variables
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed decimal separator when exporting reports to MS Excel format
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the error that caused pasting the clipboard contents into script source code when using the "Duplicate" command
• custom reports of type FastReport: added automatically synchronizing ADODatabase object's "DatabaseName" property with the "ConnectionString" property
• custom reports of type FastReport: stopped updating report items' occurrence count in the template after closing the designer
• custom reports of type FastReport: stopped automatically adding text strings to the "Variables" folder in the designer
• Environment Options: added possibility to configure the path for log files
• Environment Options: added possibility to configure text and background colors to be used in the String Manager for individual string states
• Project Options: added possibility to define alarm/event groups (Alarms/events | Groups)

Runtime software

• added creating the directory for temporary data of a data table if it didn't exist
• fixed logging an empty string (the value of a String-type tag) to a data table in SQL Server 2000
• fixed the error that consisted in loading disabled tags (tags that have the "Allow use at runtime" option inactive; the problem occurred only when using structured tags)
• added sending alarms/events via E-mail and SMS based on alarm/event groups defined in the project
• added reading and writing time programs from/to Sauter devices
• added further program languages (Greek, Slovak)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• RSys.SaveCustomReport method: added reporting an error message if the method fails
• trend viewer, report viewer: fixed showing dialogs behind the viewer window (e.g. the "Customize Trend" dialog) if the viewer is invoked from a modal window
• trend viewer: fixed formatting numeric values in the legend (considered decimal place count configured for the tag and Windows numeric format settings)
• Recipe Editor: added sorting folders by name and expanding the tree view in the left-hand column
• Project Manager: added updating the value, quality and time stamp of the selected tag on the "Diagnostics" page
• Project Manager: added handling keyboard shortcuts
• added setting the components' program and project language after loading a visualization window

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• RWS.GetThinClientList method: extended the objects (returned in the list) by adding new properties containing information about the computer (configuration) selected when exporting the project for remote users
• added possibility to run a selected script when a request is received from a thin client (e.g. request to connect, disconnect, log on a user)
• report viewer on server Web pages: revised the user interface (avoided using frames)
• report viewer on server Web pages: added possibility to display a limited number of records in order to prevent the data server from overloading
• report viewer on server Web pages: fixed the month name displayed in the hint of a tree view node
• report viewer on server Web pages: the "from" and "till" parameters in the address can now include time information
• report viewer on server Web pages: the viewer now respects the "Day start" property of a report
• fixed generating WSDL (previously, the "service" and "port" sections were invalid)

Web Client

• fixed detecting Java Plugin in Google Chrome
• all components: fixed painting text containing the "&" character
• all components: fixed the error consisting in painting the yellow borders (indicating bad quality of the respective tags) even for hidden components
• IP camera components: added displaying the camera's image right inside the component (the update interval can be configured through the "Options" dialog)
• IP camera components: added possibility to control the camera (pan, tilt, zoom and focus) if it is supported by the camera
• IP camera components: added possibility to transfer the camera's image and commands through Reliance's data server (see the "Options" dialog)
• Picture component: added support for displaying external pictures (the access to external pictures are now provided by Reliance's data server)
• added support for the Data Tree component
• Scale component: fixed painting the scale numbers if the minimum is greater than the maximum
• R4-5790 - fixed the error that consisted in not showing a dynamically loaded tray window selected as the initial window (after project startup)
• R4-5961, R4-5962 - fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that occurred on some computers at program startup if the main window's title bar was configured to be hidden
• Data Grid component: fixed controlling the selected row by a tag and updating the tag based on the selected row
• Display and Data Grid components: fixed considering the "Use locale settings" property (previously, it was ignored)
• picture viewer displayed by a "Show a picture" action: added support for displaying external pictures (the access to external pictures are now provided by Reliance's data server)
• trend viewer: fixed painting the ruler if the series name is long
• trend viewer: fixed formatting numeric values in the legend (considered decimal place count configured for the tag)
• alarm/event viewers: fixed the icon indicating alarms/events triggered by any data change in the tag value
• alarm/event viewers: added possibility to enter a note related to an alarm/event
• alarm/event viewer options: added the "Device" column
• alarm/event viewer options: options are now separate for current alarms/events, current alarms/events embedded into a window through a Container component and historical alarms/events
• historical alarms/events: fixed sporadic displaying duplicate alarms/events which might occur while downloading previous or next alarms/events
• report options: options are now separate for reports and custom reports
• fixed running scripts on server side when a dialog window is loaded and closed
• fixed entering the access code when running under Linux
• added possibility to enable/disable sending anonymous usage statistics
• added further program languages (Slovak, Polish, Greek)

Mobile Client

• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the order of series

Reliance OPC Server

• released the first public version

Communication drivers

• Driver Server: added logging
• fixed updating the time stamp of array-type tags
• fixed the error that occurred while terminating a project if the driver worked in server mode (if the "Accept connections in server mode only" property of a communication channel was active)
• fixed updating the tag value if the update interval was set to 1 ms
• considered the path for log files configured through the "Environment Options" dialog
• handled the situation when reading historical data from a device is requested and the start time has not been specified
• fixed updating the quality and time stamp of tags if the device is Offline
• fixed slowing down the driver after an attempt to open multiple Ethernet sockets with IP addresses/ports that are unavailable
• fixed the error that might cause the communications dump not to be shown in the Project Manager
• IEC104: fixed the error that consisted in sending a response to the wrong communication channel
• IEC104: fixed updating digital-type tags
• IEC104: fixed communications through TCP/IP
• IEC104: changed the way of sending the general query: previously, it was sent when a data update was requested, now it is sent as a result of writing to a tag whose type identifier is C_IC_NA_1
• IEC104: added possibility to update a single tag by a command whose type identifier is C_RD_NA_1
• IEC104: fixed receiving a message containing multiple APDUs
• IEC104: avoided reading the value of a tag after writing the tag
• IEC104: fixed sending a positive acknowledgment after restoring a broken connection
• IEC104: handled reading the wrong type identifier from the project
• IEC104: added possibility to set the driver's address as sender address as part of the cause of transmission
• IEC104: fixed receiving I-Frames whose qualifier is different from 0
• M-Bus: added support for device model Kamstrum Multical 401
• Teco, Modbus: fixed updating the tag value through a communication zone if the update interval was set to 1 ms
• Modbus: fixed reading the tags of type Array of Float through communication zones
• Modbus: added support for the "Dial-up (modem)" communication channel type
• Modbus: handled the situation when a received message contains a CRC even if using TCP/IP for communication
• Modbus: added support for device model InteliDrive DCU (bytes are not swapped in String-type tags)
• Modbus: added checking the length of received data based on the request sent to the device
• Modbus, Wago: added reading communication zones controlled by a tag
• Sauter: fixed the communications with EY2400 devices
• Amit: fixed formatting the error message for logging
• Promos: optimized communications with PL2 devices - reading multiple tags at a time
• Promos: improved checking the received data
• Generic: added possibility to use the driver to communicate to devices that send data spontaneously (i.e. devices that don't accept any data requests)
• SMS: added support for additional methods of SMS message encoding (Data Coding Scheme): 8-bit encoding (convenient for data transfer) and 16-bit encoding (Unicode text)
• SMS: added support for sending multipart SMS messages

Help and documentation

• added the "Building Automation" manual
• added the "License Key Utility" manual
• custom application interface of the Web service: updated and extended the examples by demonstrating the usage of new functions for reading and writing multiple tags at a time: GetMultiNumericTagValue, GetMultiStringTagValue, GetMultiNumericTagValueEx, GetMultiStringTagValueEx, SetMultiNumericTagValue, SetMultiStringTagValue
• custom application interface of the Web service: added an example written in Java
• custom application interface of the Web service: added an example for the Android platform
• added the ThinClientRequestHandlingFromScript example demonstrating handling thin client requests in a script

Installation program

• added a shortcut to Reliance Remote Control Center to the Start Menu
• R4-1053 - fixed "BDE Merge Error" that occurred when installing Reliance 4 on computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7 with active User Account Control (UAC)

Runtime software

• fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that might occur while detecting the license key via License Service

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• substantially accelerated sending real-time data to client instances of the runtime software if the value or quality of a large number of tags changes (e.g. after losing or restoring connection to I/O devices)

Runtime software

• eliminated the parallel logging of historical data to DBF files if the data table's "Database type" property is set to "SQL"
• eliminated setting bad quality to tags when a communication driver is terminated if tag quality is determined based on time stamp

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• current alarm/event viewer: fixed displaying the time stamps of alarms/events (previously, they were displayed in UTC)
• trend viewer: fixed scrolling to display older data if the data table's current file is empty

Web Client

• fixed loading a visualization window that contained a Data Grid component with a hidden column header
• fixed the action of type "Play a sound"

Communication drivers

• fixed the error that caused drivers not to function properly if multiple drivers were used at the same time (only one of them was functional)

All modules

• introduced accessing license keys via License Service
• added action type: Show application's About box
• "Customize Trend" dialog: fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to only configure Automatic maximum or Automatic minimum for chart axes
• color selection dialog: added saving the selected palette (page)
• R4-4084 - added the version number to the splash screen

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart, Equithermal Curve components

• added possibility to customize chart properties during runtime

Real-Time Chart component

• fixed displaying custom axes

Text, Active Text, Check Box components

• component editor: stopped setting the background color and font to the controls intended for editing the component's text

Data Tree component

• added possibility to duplicate a node including the subtree
• added possibility to hide columns
• the "Selected node" property: added support for the constant "-1"
• fixed the error that consisted in not allowing the user to configure the properties of cells in the last column
• fixed the title of the dialog for editing node properties

Data Grid component

• added the "Element index" property
• added possibility to hide columns
• the "Selected row" property: added support for the constant "-1"
• fixed sorting if the grid displays array-type tags with different element count
• component editor: added possibility to configure the height of the column header

Animation component

• fixed copying the "Run animation" property when duplicating the component

Combo Box component

• R4-4536 - fixed displaying the test value (previously, the item was displayed whose ordinal number matched the test value)

Reliance Design development environment

• design window: added the Replace Object Properties Wizard
• design window: fixed importing window templates (previously, the components did not link to data structure fields)
• design window: fixed showing the "Snap to Grid" command (previously, it was not always visible)
• design window: fixed showing the guidelines for aligning components (previously, they were shown even for components located on a hidden layer)
• design window: fixed setting the change flag when the "Display Grid" or "Snap to Grid" command is invoked
• design window: fixed updating the title of a window template after renaming the data structure
• Environment Options: added possibility to turn on/off the indication (checkered pattern) of window templates' transparent background (Environment | Visualization windows)
• Environment Options: added the "Also notify of new Pre-Release versions" option (Environment | Update)
• Project Options: added possibility to restore defaults for an SQL connection (Project | SQL)
• Project Options: added options related to logging information to a file (Project | Runtime module | Logging)
• Managers: fixed sporadic failing to save folder name after renaming
• Managers: improved sorting objects and folders in the bottom list view (always folders first, then other objects)
• Window Manager: fixed the indication of windows that are not loaded dynamically
• Device Manager: fixed importing tags from an OPC server over the network
• Device Manager: added possibility to define communication zones in a Wago device
• Device Manager: used different text color (gray) for disabled tags (tags that have the "Allow use at runtime" option inactive)
• Device Manager: added the "Standard text"/"Custom text" options related to the "Log write commands to alarm/event database" property
• Script Manager: added a new set of commands called "Source Block Tools"
• Script Manager: stopped checking to see if the file exists when the user selects a file during code completion
• Script Manager: added the "Enable running from thin clients" property for a script
• Script Manager: added the "Log execution" property for a script
• Script Manager: added the RSys.LogMessage method which writes a text message to the runtime software's log file
• Action Manager: added the "Keyboard shortcut" property for an action
• Communication Driver Manager: added possibility to configure the address for AMiT communication driver
• Communication Driver Manager: added the "Release communication port when idle" option
• Project Structure Manager: added settings related to controlling serial link parameters via NVT for a communication channel of type "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS232, RS485)"
• R4-5479 - Project Structure Manager, User Manager: renamed some properties of a computer and a user (the "Restrictions" page) - the "Disable editing trends" property renamed to "Disable Trend Manager", the "Disable editing reports" property renamed to "Disable Report Manager"
• R4-5479 - Project Structure Manager, User Manager: added the "Disable customizing trends" and "Disable customizing reports" properties for a computer and a user (the "Restrictions" page)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: added possibility to specify multiple server addresses (it is suitable for launching the Web client via Java Web Start when the server is accessible under different addresses from various network places)
• Backup Project Wizard: fixed generating the file name that shouldn't be based on time stamp (Time stamp = None)
• object selection dialogs: added hiding empty folders
• object selection dialogs: added the "Select All" command
• "Select SQL Connection", "Select Project Language" dialogs: fixed the selected item's ID displayed in the status bar
• "Configure Component Palette" dialog: fixed closing the dialog after editing a page name
• Project Diagnostics: improved checking visualization windows (dynamic loading)
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the "Connection string" property (Project Options | SQL)

Runtime software

• reports: fixed statistical calculations
• added logging tag write commands if logging debug information is enabled (see Project Options | Runtime | Logging)
• revised logging information to files: texts are added to an in-memory list, the contents of the list are saved to a file later (reducing disk writes)
• restricted the size of log files (by default, the maximum size is 1/2 GB)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• report viewer: added possibility to open data table archive files (the "Open File" command)
• report viewer: added possibility to hide the "Navigation" and "Filters" side panes
• Project Manager: added sorting tags by some columns in the bottom list view (Value, Quality, Time stamp)
• historical alarms/events custom filter editor: added updating the text of the last used filter after switching the program language

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed starting the Web client as an applet (previously, starting the Web client as an applet failed in some cases dependent on the computer configuration)
• report viewer on server Web pages: fixed converting time stamps to client computer's local time
• report viewer on server Web pages: improved the tree view (Sundays in different color, added help hints)
• improved logging HTTP requests
• fixed the security of the Web pages containing links for starting thin clients
• optimized the amount of real-time trend data provided to thin clients
• improved the algorithm of retrieving historical data to be sent to client instances of the runtime software (the data server splits client requests to smaller parts and handles them one after another => the clients get the first part of the data sooner)
• interface for third-party applications: added functions for reading and writing multiple tags at a time: GetMultiNumericTagValue, GetMultiStringTagValue, GetMultiNumericTagValueEx, GetMultiStringTagValueEx, SetMultiNumericTagValue, SetMultiStringTagValue
• updated the example for third-party applications

Web Client

• the list of users, trends, custom reports and reports is updated when the Web client starts and then after every change made in Control Server
• fixed the error that caused the program to hang at startup if the main window's title bar was configured to be hidden
• fixed the action of type "Show historical alarms/events of a device" (previously, it displayed the alarms/events from all devices)
• added support for running scripts on the server when the corresponding action is triggered on the client (scripts that have the "Enable running from thin clients" property active)
• R4-5606 - added the "Connect" and "Disconnect" commands to the main window's toolbar
• trend viewer: added possibility to hide the limit lines when displaying a tag trend
• trend viewer: added support for bar charts
• R4-5587 - trend viewer: added possibility to display a ruler (a vertical straight line)
• fixed painting yellow borders around components that indicates that the respective tags are invalid
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the order of series
• Data Grid component: fixed displaying data if the columns are linked to array-type tags with a different element count
• Data Grid component: fixed column height if no column has a title
• Data Grid component: fixed painting even rows in different color
• Data Grid component: fixed considering the "Allow changing sorting" property (previously, it was ignored)
• Data Grid component: added possibility to set a tag's value (value of an array element)
• improved logging

Communication drivers

• M-Bus: added a new driver for devices that use the M-Bus (Meter Bus) protocol
• SMS: handled the situation when the SIM card in the GSM modem requires a PIN (the PIN can be specified for a computer in the Project Structure Manager)
• SMS: altered the driver initialization by setting the storage for received messages so that the driver always provides information on received SMS messages
• SMS: added splitting messages to be sent that are longer than 160 characters into multiple parts
• Teco: fixed writing to a tag of type "Array of Bool"
• QMD: fixed connecting to a device as a result of a request to read historical data
• added support for controlling serial link parameters via NVT
• fixed the timeout of updating the value of a tag in order to work correctly even if the value of the tag doesn't get updated (e.g. if the tag is unknown for the I/O device)

Communication drivers

• fixed the error (exception) that occurred while terminating the driver and releasing the communications thread
• fixed automatically connecting to a device when there's a request to read historical data
• IEC104: fixed sending the Disconnect packet to the standby channel when connection fails
• IEC104: fixed resetting the sent packet counter after switching to the standby channel
• IEC104: added handling an unwanted Disconnect packet
• IEC104: fixed repeating the write packet (except for the packet for setting the system time)
• IEC104: added sending the Disconnect packet after receiving the wrong type of packet
• Modbus: added support for MODBUS TCP communication on a port other than 502
• AMiT: fixed the error in communication to multiple devices (caused by subsequent changes)
• AMiT: improved the communication diagnostics

Reliance Design development environment

• R4-5201 - design window: fixed assigning unique names to components copied to a window from a window template through the Insert Window Template Wizard
• design window: fixed hiding some items in the popup menu
• R4-5244 - Project Diagnostics: fixed reporting tags used in a window template as unused

Runtime software

• RSys.SaveCustomReport method: added creating the directory structure needed for saving the report

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• fixed unwanted switching the program and project language after user log-on even if no language has been selected for the user
• fixed the error that occurred when switching the project language after closing the trend viewer or report viewer by the border icon
• trend viewer: fixed texts displayed in the legend (previously, tag aliases (names) were displayed instead of series aliases (names))

All modules

• improved context-sensitive help
• "Customize Trend" dialog: improved localization and fixed displaying certain texts
• "Customize Trend" dialog: fixed displaying Russian characters on operating systems other than Russian
• fixed displaying Russian characters in trends

Popup Menu, Container components

• disabled the "Show hint" property

Combo Box component

• disabled rolling the mouse wheel if the combo box is not dropped down

Button component

• R4-4625 - fixed hiding the state pictures when they get disabled

Data Grid component

• fixed editing a new value for a tag of type "Array of DateTime"

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed updating the chart title and series aliases in the legend after switching the project language

Reliance Design development environment

• Data Structure Manager: added importing a simple user-defined data type as a data structure with a single field
• Device Manager: added a new device type named "Generic" (uses a new communication driver of the same name)
• Device Manager: added the "Allow use at runtime" property for a tag
• Data Table Manager: added generating a unique physical table name when copying and duplicating data tables
• Window Manager: added indicating that a window has changed by the icon of a red exclamation mark
• Window Manager: added indicating that a window is not loaded dynamically by a different background color
• Window Manager: added a new command for finding an object (window, window folder)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Data update interval" property for a server connection (supersedes the same-named property of a communication channel belonging to a device connected to a client computer through a server connection)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Complete data recording interval" for a computer (the "Postmort" page)
• Project Structure Manager: added possibility do enter a URL instead of IP address for a channel of type "Network (Ethernet)" or "Network (Ethernet)/serial (RS-232,RS-485)" (allowing for connecting to the device through DNS)
• R4-2211 - Project Diagnostics: fixed reporting data structure fields as unused
• R4-4837 - Project Diagnostics: fixed reporting the text of a Popup Menu component's separator item as unused
• R4-4839 - Project Diagnostics: fixed finding objects (e.g. devices) with no child items
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking data structures in a Data Tree component
• added the Insert Window Template Wizard which enables you to insert a window template in a regular window in two ways: through a Container component or by copying the components and linking them to tags
• Project Options: removed the "Encrypt and compress transferred data" option (Web) (data encryption and compression is always used in communication with thin clients and never used in communication with third-party applications)

Runtime software

• substantially accelerated the transfer of real-time data between a data server and client instances of the runtime software (only data changes are transferred; the clients don't poll for data, the data server sends the changes automatically)
• fixed a sporadic confusion of tags during the transfer of real-time data between a data server and client instances of the runtime software on computers with different language settings (the problem might have occurred when using national characters in tag names)
• changed the format used for storing postmort records (the new format is resistent to changes in the definition of tags within devices, e.g. deleting a tag or adding a new tag)
• revised creating archive files for data tables (the new method requires much less computing memory)
• extended the RSys.SaveCustomReport method (a custom report can now be saved in the PDF, HTML, CSV, XLS, FR3 and RRP formats)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• new report viewer (possibility to select a time period using a tree view, possibility to create and save filters)
• R4-3600 - fixed displaying tray windows that have the same alignment and different size
• R4-5040 - added closing modal dialog windows when a project is terminated or restarted through Reliance 4 Remote Control Center
• revised the main menu (the "File" submenu divided into multiple parts)
• added invoking the help system by pressing the F1 key if no key script exists for this event
• reports: fixed the memory leak caused by exporting a report to MS Excel
• trend viewer: fixed updating the chart title and series aliases in the legend after switching the project language
• picture viewer displayed by a "Show a picture" action: fixed updating the window title after switching the project language
• Web browser displayed by a "www link" action: fixed updating the window title after switching the project language
• R4-5053 - fixed the sporadic error while activating the virtual keyboard that caused the program to crash
• changed the dialogs for the selection of trends, reports and custom reports into standard selection dialogs that also display folders

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• altered the method of checking whether thin clients run the save version of the project as the data server (ignored files that are not part of the project)

Reliance Server

• R4-4507 - added implementation of the RSys.SaveCustomReport method
• the Windows service fails to start if the configuration file (R_Srv.ini) contains invalid parameters (e.g. invalid path to the project)
• added possibility to register the Windows service in a way that allows for starting it automatically (introduced the "ProjectAutoStart" parameter in the configuration file)
• added logging the most important information to Windows event log

Web Client

• minimized the number of messages sent to the server
• revised the main menu (the "File" submenu divided into multiple parts)
• R4-4774 - fixed adjusting the main window size to the screen resolution
• R4-3600 - fixed displaying tray windows that have the same alignment and different size
• fixed the error that caused components to be marked with yellow border after connecting to the server
• trend viewer: added a command for displaying the data from any time range
• trend viewer: fixed updating the trend after changing the time range
• trend viewer: fixed updating the trend after switching the project language
• trend viewer and alarm/event viewer: added possibility to maximize the trend viewer using the standard icon in the title bar (only on the Windows platform)
• revised the picture viewer displayed by a "Show a picture" action
• added possibility to turn off playing sounds associated with alarms/events
• R4-4838 - Active Picture component: fixed displaying the linked popup menu
• Container component: fixed disabling the component by a tag if it contains current alarms/events
• Container component: fixed the alignment if the component contains a window template
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed updating the chart title after switching the project language
• Time Program and Teco - Time Program components: added support for tags of type "DataBlock"
• Level Fill Picture component: fixed painting the component if the "Layout" property was set to a value other than "Normal" (previously, the component was not displayed at all in some cases)
• Level Fill Picture component: added repainting the component in some situations

Communication drivers

• Generic: a new communication driver designed for the data exchange (through a serial port or the Ethernet) between Reliance and devices for which a native driver or OPC/DDE server is not available
• IEC104: fixed communication with multiple devices
• IEC104: fixed memory leaks
• Modbus: added possibility to read extended memory (function 20)
• Teco: added priority reading the value of a tag after writing the tag
• Teco: added mask write for digital-type tags for the NS946 model

Reliance Remote Control Center

• fixed the communication with the runtime software

All components

• fixed displaying Unicode characters in help hints

Active Text, Pipe, Notepad, Data Tree, ActiveX Container, AXIS IP Camera, Vivotek IP Camera, vector components

• added the automatic substitution of some links to tags when duplicating the parent window

Button-type components

• R4-4540 - eliminated shifting text and the picture when the button is pressed if the frame has zero width

Check Box component

• R4-4293 - added the "Negation" property for the main tag

Data Grid component

• fixed changing sorting if the "Automatic sorting" property is not active
• added the automatic substitution of some links to tags when duplicating the parent window

Combo Box component

• fixed enabling the confirm button after changing the selected item
• fixed setting the background color

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed repainting the component after deleting a trend series

Container component

• current alarms/events: decreased CPU load if the toolbar is displayed

Reliance Design development environment

• Managers: enabled the "Export to CSV...", "Export to CSV (Unicode)..." and "Import from CSV..." commands in the popup menu of objects (e.g. data structures, data tables, trends, etc.) that have subordinated objects
• Data Structure Manager: fixed importing fields of type "ShortInt"
• Data Structure Manager, Device Manager: renamed format CoDeSys EXP (import source format) to ST (IEC EN 61131-3)
• Data Structure Manager: added possibility to import data structures from format XML (IEC EN 61131-3) - PLCopen format
• Device Manager: added possibility to import tags from ST (IEC EN 61131-3) format into a Teco device
• R4-4699 - Device Manager: fixed importing tags of type "ShortInt" from PUB format into a Teco device
• R4-4649 - Device Manager: fixed exporting/importing dynamic limits of a tag to/from CSV format
• Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property of a device to "Local time"
• Data Table Manager: extended checking the field (column) name in physical table of type dBASE (the name must not begin with an underscore and must not collide with the reserved names)
• Trend Manager: added the "Order" property for a trend (enables you to define the order of series within the trend)
• Script Manager: added exporting/importing some properties of scripts to/from CSV format
• Project Structure Manager: displayed the "New Server Connection Group" and "New Server Connection" commands in the popup menu even in the Trial and Desktop versions (when either command is selected a message box is displayed informing the user that the respective feature is not available)
• R4-4570 - design window: middle handles are no longer displayed for selected components with a rotation angle of zero degrees
• Project Diagnostics: eliminated checking links to text strings that are synchronized (replaced) with another string (e.g. the trend title with the trend alias or name)
• Project Options: changed the default font (Languages | Font) and alarm/event display font (Alarms/Events | Display | Alarm/event text font) in newly created projects
• Environment Options: added possibility to enable debugging scripts by an external debugger (Just-In-Time debugging)
• Environment Options: added further file types that can be associated with the software
• allowed starting the open project even if any project is already running in another Windows session (e.g. in Reliance Server as a Windows service)
• Czech version: improved the help system by making it context-sensitive

Runtime software

• added implementation of the RDev.SendCustomData and RDev.ReceiveCustomDataReply methods

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• improved support for Russian
• added updating the list of trends, reports and custom reports after switching the project language
• report viewer: fixed generating a print preview and printing (previously, only part of the data was loaded from the table)
• decreased CPU load caused by toolbars

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• server Web pages: fixed the displayed project status after terminating a project
• altered the method of checking whether thin clients run the save version of the project as the data server (ignored files that can change during runtime as a result of using the Trend Manager, Report Manager and the User Manager)
• reports generated for thin clients and server Web pages: fixed the navigation tree if the table contains no data (previously, the year 1601 was displayed in the tree)
• reports generated for thin clients and server Web pages: fixed the order of displayed columns
• reports generated for thin clients and server Web pages: added converting the time stamps of records to computer local time (previously, the time stamps were expressed in UTC)

Web Client

• improved the Trial mode warning message (mentioned the reason for the Trial mode)
• R4-4547 - added the warning of a problem while playing a sound file in the WAV format
• Combo Box component: fixed the number of displayed items
• Combo Box component: fixed foreground and background color
• Radio Buttons component: fixed painting if disabled
• Check Box component: fixed painting if disabled
• Track Bar component: fixed immediately setting the value of the main tag on mouse drag
• fixed saving certain properties from the "Chart Properties" dialog
• fixed sorting in the object selection dialog
• fixed displaying Unicode in case of Windows Look & Feel (added the "Use system font" parameter to the "Options" dialog)
• added scroll bars if the visualization is larger than the screen resolution (only in the mode when the visualization is not adjusted to the screen resolution)

Communication drivers

• fixed loading communication channels of type modem at project startup
• IEC104: added the function of deleting a standby connection
• IEC104: fixed processing data received with the qualifier of variable structure > 1
• IEC104: eliminated sending the global query after project startup
• IEC104: fixed the behavior when the connection is interrupted and restored
• IEC104: implemented sending the global query after receiving the INIT frame
• IEC104: fixed ending the communication when controlled by a tag
• IEC104: fixed detecting the S-frame

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• added the conversion of communication zone update interval to the update interval of tags

Other

• added Reliance 4 Remote Control Center (file Reliance4\R_RCC.exe) to Reliance 4 program files

Display, Level Fill Picture components

• R4-4491 - added possibility do enable/disable displaying the standard popup menu

Data Tree component

• fixed the confirmation of the "Create New Node" dialog (previously, the OK button did not work)

Reliance Design development environment

• Export for Remote Users Wizard: added replacing the font MS Sans Serif with Microsoft Sans Serif
• R4-4509 - Device Manager: fixed the displayed results of importing tags from TDR format (Epos for Windows)
• R4-3189 - Device Manager: added possibility to inhibit an alarm/event by a digital-type tag (a so-called inhibitor tag)
• R4-3601 - Script Manager: fixed the border icon for maximizing/restoring the side panes
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Save window position" property for a computer
• R4-4381 - Project Diagnostics: fixed the error that caused the aliases of trend series to be reported as unused

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• R4-4507 - fixed the error that caused custom reports not to be generated by a call to the RSys.SaveCustomReport method
• replaced object names with object aliases in various places in the user interface (e.g. the dialogs for selecting a trend, report or custom report)
• fixed the background color of the bottom panel for displaying alarms/events (previously, it was dark gray regardless of the alarm/event status)

Reliance Server

• fixed checking for new versions of Reliance

Web Client

• added a warning about not being connected to the data server before displaying the Web page of a report or custom report, or the data server Web page
• introduced a new input control (a drop-down calendar) for entering date
• fixed saving certain properties from the "Chart Properties" dialog
• fixed setting the value of String-type tags

Communication drivers

• fixed the error that caused the drivers to load even configurations not connected to the current computer
• Teco: fixed connecting to the Mosaic software running on the local computer

All modules

• R4-4290 - fixed painting Unicode characters on certain places in the user interface
• Activate License Wizard: added possibility to activate a license automatically (without needing to use the Reliance Website or e-mail; an Internet connection is required)
• added support for time-limited licenses (suitable for lending a license or a quick temporary replacement for another license, e.g. if a hardware key gets damaged or stolen)
• added a warning about the "Caps Lock" mode being active in the "Logon User" and "Enter Access Code" dialogs

All components

• components having a runtime editor: added support for the virtual keyboard
• components with the ability to configure the runtime editor title: if the title text is not specified (it is blank), the component type name is used as the title

Display component

• fixed updating the displayed value of a digital-type tag after switching the project language if text strings for states "Logical 0" and "Logical 1" were specified

Time Program component

• added highlighting the edited time range during setting the desired values in the accurate manner
• fixed setting the desired value through levels (a double-click results in changing the value by two levels; previously, it resulted in changing the value by a single level)
• fixed painting the timestamp with a value of 24:00

Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components

• fixed the serious error that occurred during freeing a window containing the component (Real-Time Trend or Real-Time Chart) as part of a window template embedded into the window through a Container component

Combo Box component

• fixed painting the component (previously, the component blinked if the "Height base" option was set to "Top")

Data Tree component

• fixed displaying the values in cells of type Display

Data Grid component

• fixed indicating the current type of sorting

Edit Box component

• added support for entering values of type Bool and DateTime
• fixed the error that caused the entered value not to be written to the tag after previously entering another value being outside the data type range

Vector components

• fixed painting the gradient color fill if the component is rotated

Reliance Design development environment

• design window: added possibility to quickly activate a window (or window template) associated with a component by clicking middle mouse button on the component (e.g. a Button component linked to a window, a Container component linked to a window template)
• design window: added possibility to quickly create a Container component linked to a window template by dragging the template from the Window Manager and dropping it onto a window
• design window: fixed the "Alignment" > "Right" command in the popup menu (previously, it did not perform any operation)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting color-type properties for some system colors
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: added possibility to start the Web client directly from the last step of the wizard (after finishing exporting the project) without needing to visit the Web page of the data server)
• R4-4047 - Data Structure Manager: added possibility to import data structures for OPC devices from CoDeSys EXP format
• Device Manager: added information on data type size (number of bits enclosed in parentheses) to tag data type names, e.g. LongInt (32 b)
• Device Manager: renamed the "Integer" data type to "SmallInt (16 b)"
• Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "ShortInt (8 b)", "LargeInt (64 b)", "Array of ShortInt (8 b)", "Array of LargeInt (64 b)" in some device types (e.g. Modbus, Teco)
• Device Manager: unified the data types of tags in Modbus and Wago devices
• Data Table Manager: added exporting/importing some properties of data tables to/from CSV format
• Trend Manager: added deleting the user settings file of a trend from user profiles when the trend is deleted
• Report Manager: added deleting the user settings file of a report from user profiles when the report is deleted
• Report Manager: fixed painting report title background color in the preview
• Script Manager: added the RSys.Sleep method which suspends the execution of the current script for a specified interval
• Script Manager: added the RSys.RelativePathToPath method which converts a specified relative path to the corresponding absolute path
• Script Manager: added the RSys.PathToRelativePath method which converts a specified absolute path to the corresponding relative path
• Project Structure Manager: improved searching (added further object types to the "Select Object Type" dialog)
• Project Structure Manager: added properties for a communication channel of a connected device of type IEC104 (the "Received I-frame acknowledgment timeout (T2) (ms)", "Maximum unacknowledged I-frame count" properties)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Position automatically" property (related to the virtual keyboard) for a computer (the "Display" page)
• Project Structure Manager: removed the "Create archive files" property from the alarm/event database configuration for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" page)
• Project Diagnostics: added the "Communication Driver Manager" scope to the list of project scopes
• Project Diagnostics: added a warning about objects with no subordinated objects (e.g. a report should always contain at least one report item)
• Project Diagnostics: fixed the detection of data structure fields' invalid links to data structures

Runtime software

• added prevention from logging a record with a duplicate or earlier time stamp to a data table
• fixed reconnecting to the alarm/event database after losing the connection to MS SQL server
• fixed reading communication zones controlled by a tag
• DDE client: fixed the error that caused the DDE client to disconnect from some DDE servers (e.g. MICROPEL DataServer) when writing a tag
• R4-4331 - RAlm.CreateAlarm procedure: fixed processing the "StartTime" parameter (previously, it was processed as a UTC time; now it is processed as the computer's local time)
• added implementation of the RSys.Sleep, RSys.RelativePathToPath, RSys.PathToRelativePath methods

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• substantially speeded up starting the program (only DLLs of components used in the project are loaded into memory)
• "Select Date and Time" dialog (used in the trend viewer), "Rename Recipe" dialog: added support for the virtual keyboard
• R4-4459 - trend viewer: trend and series titles are no longer getting loaded from user profiles
• fixed displaying texts of states Logical 0 and 1 for digital-type tags (e.g. in a Display component)
• trend viewer, report viewer: enabled changing the position and size of the viewer window
• alarm/event viewers: added displaying object aliases (localizable strings) instead of names (of devices, tags, etc.)
• date and time input control: improved checking the entered value (the check is performed only after confirming the input, e.g. by pressing Enter)
• added support for Windows themes
• virtual keyboard: added possibility to display the virtual keyboard from all modal dialog windows
• virtual keyboard: now it corresponds to the standard keyboard (includes all keys)
• virtual keyboard: automatically positioning the keyboard is controlled by the "Position automatically" property of the current computer
• Project Manager: improved searching (added further object types to the "Select Object Type" dialog)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• speeded up starting the program: optimized unpacking the archive of help files for Reliance's data servers and thin clients (the archive is only being unpacked when starting the program for the first time)
• fixed sending historical data of digital-type tags to thin clients (previously, the data server sent a value of -1 instead of logical 1)
• server Web pages: added displaying the number of data points in the license of the data server
• server Web pages: revised the links in the "Project" section
• server Web pages: added possibility to display a list (table) of current alarms/events
• server Web pages: new report viewer (allows for selecting a time range through a tree diagram)
• server Web pages: fixed displaying column header texts in reports in HTML format
• server Web pages: added possibility to display a list (table) of tags from all devices
• server Web pages: added possibility to download information (e.g. table of current alarms/events, table of tags) in CSV format
• server Web pages: added possibility to switch project language (it affects displayed object aliases and other localizable strings, e.g. alarm/event texts)
• server Web pages: further minor changes

Web Client

• R4-3880 - added playing sounds associated with alarms/events
• Czech version: added the Czech translation of texts in the dialogs for configuring trend properties, selecting font and selecting color
• "Enter Tag Value" dialog: added checking the entered value to be within the range of the tag data type
• "Enter Tag Value" dialog: fixed the format to enter a value for tags of type "DateTime"
• added checking the status of connection with the data server before certain commands (e.g. commands displaying the "Enter Tag Value" dialog, time program editors, etc.)
• fixed the action showing alarms/events of a device (previously, the action displayed alarms/events of all devices)
• fixed building the complete names and aliases of objects (e.g. tags)
• alarm/event viewers: the filter combo box now only contains devices that have some alarms/events defined
• improved the precision of adjusting the main window size to the screen resolution
• fixed detecting losing the connection to the data server if the client computer loses the connection to the network (e.g. if a network cable gets unplugged)
• added the "Print Main Window" command
• added support for the "Print Main Window" action
• added indicating the quality of tags being bad by yellow borders around components
• added automatically activating the current alarm/event viewer on starting an alarm/event (if it was configured for the alarm/event)
• Data Grid component: fixed the error that caused the automatic sorting to occur even if turned off
• Pipe, Active Text, Vector components: added indicating the error (failure, fault) state
• Button component: fixed adjusting the size of pictures associated with button states to the screen resolution if the "Graphical button" option is active
• Edit Box component: added possibility to enter a value for numeric tags
• Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: fixed displaying the values
• Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added checking time ranges
• Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added highlighting the edited time range during setting the desired values in the accurate manner
• Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added possibility to enter time ranges directly (into edit boxes)
• Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: further improvements and alterations to make the component behave the same as in the runtime software
• virtual keyboard: fixed the error that made it impossible to activate the virtual keyboard after closing it from a modal dialog window
• virtual keyboard: fixed the error that caused the virtual keyboard to hide after closing a modal dialog window (even if the keyboard was visible before opening the dialog)
• virtual keyboard: added automatically activating the virtual keyboard for all modal dialog windows
• virtual keyboard: fixed certain keyboard layouts (added missing keys)
• virtual keyboard: fixed key labels when pressing the modification keys AltGr or Ctrl+Alt
• virtual keyboard: fixed key labels in the "Caps Lock" and "Num Lock" modes
• virtual keyboard: fixed the behavior of the "Windows" key
• virtual keyboard: improved the keyboard layout initialization at first start
• virtual keyboard: fixed automatically positioning the keyboard (previously, the keyboard might have appeared outside the screen)
• virtual keyboard: added the "Clear" command for erasing the text content
• Options: added the "Endless width" a "Endless height" options (used when displaying reports in HTML format)

Mobile Client

• fixed displaying numbers in hexadecimal format
• fixed the "Terminate the program" action
• fixed the behavior during entering a value when HW buttons are pressed
• Notepad component: fixed displaying scroll bars
• Notepad component: added a warning message prior to erasing the contents
• Notepad component: fixed the import/export
• Notepad component: altered the look and feel
• added Text data viewer
• added missing texts in window title bars
• added playing sounds associated with alarms/events
• "Enter Tag Value" dialog: added checking the entered value to be within the range of the tag data type
• "Enter Tag Value" dialog: fixed the format to enter a value for tags of type "DateTime"
• fixed the action showing alarms/events of a device (previously, the action displayed alarms/events of all devices)
• alarm/event viewers: the filter combo box now only contains devices that have some alarms/events defined
• added indicating the quality of tags being bad by yellow borders around components
• Pipe, Active Text, Vector components: added indicating the error (failure, fault) state

Reliance Driver Server

• substantially speeded up starting the program (only DLLs of drivers of devices connected to the current computer through the Project Structure Manager are loaded into memory)

Communication drivers

• Teco: fixed writing to a tag by multiple subsequent commands during communication through a channel of type "Network (Ethernet)/serial (RS-232,RS-485)" using the UDP protocol
• Teco: added support for tags of type "ShortInt (8 b)", "Array of ShortInt (8 b)"
• Johnson Controls: fixed reading the data of time programs right after project startup
• IEC104: added error code evaluation
• IEC104: added support for a qualifier with the C_SC_NA command
• IEC104: altered the timing when sending TESTFRAME - the time is measured from the last received communication packet of any kind
• Wago, Modbus: added support for tags of type "ShortInt (8 b)", "LargeInt (64 b)", "Array of ShortInt (8 b)", "Array of LargeInt (64 b)"
• Modbus: added support for tags of type "Array of DateTime" and "Array of String"
• External Communicator: fixed detecting a hardware key under Windows Server 2008

Help and documentation

• extensively revised the manual for the development environment
• added the English version of the manual for the data servers, Web client and mobile client
• added the Russian version of the document "Data Exchange Methods"

All modules

• added unpacking the archive of examples at first start
• custom reports of type FastReport: altered the Chart object in order to be able to display values of type Bool in a series

Data Grid component

• R4-4055 - fixed automatic sorting

Reliance Design development environment

• Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: fixed opening a component's editor if the component's parent window is was not loaded into memory
• Device Manager: changed the default value of the "Time stamp base" property of a device to "Local time"
• fixed reloading the respective parts of a project after saving the changes to the project in the Managers invoked from the runtime software

Runtime software

• fixed considering the "Automatically check for new versions of Reliance 4" option

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• trend viewer: by default, enabled the Zoom feature
• fixed doubling the title bar of the viewers embedded into the main window (current alarms/events, trends, reports, etc.)

Web Client

• fixed saving some settings of a trend
• fixed Russian text strings (previously, some of them contained HTML tags)
• fixed verifying an access code if multiple codes were specified when exporting the project for remote users
• improved adjusting the main window size to the screen resolution (the aspect ratio is preserved)
• Pipe component: fixed determining the current dynamic state when the main tag value does not correspond to any state
• Data Grid component: fixed automatic sorting

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• added freeing system resources (memory, GDI objects, windows handles, etc.) while converting visualization windows

Installation program

• changed the way of installing examples (a ZIP archive in the Reliance4\PostInstallFiles directory)
• added possibility to create updates