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SCILAB 5.5.1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Removed Functions
Compilation
Scilab Bug Fixes
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REMOVED FUNCTIONS
datatipContextMenu and datatipEventhandler
removed.
See Bug # 8646
Second output argument of add_param removed.
See SEP # 132
COMPILATION
Required version of Arpack-ng updated to 3.1.5.
See Bug # 13058
SCILAB BUG FIXES
w # 6979 - rlist help page was not clear.
w # 7203 - titlepage help page was not clear.
w # 7549 - edit_curv did not disable standard plot menus.
w # 7804 - Small improvements added to struct help page.
w # 8502 - Axis labels wrongly used number with 3 digits in
the exponent.
w # 8646 - The datatips contextual menu opened a selection
list which was not ergonomic.
w # 8781 - There was no error message when error was
called with a complex value.
w # 8898 - getdate help page improved.
w # 9052 - Some demonstrations in graphics were
automatically closed at the end of their execution.
w # 9252 - Some error calling sequences produced screwed
display.
w # 9381 - parallel_run did not work under CentOS
(GLIBC issue).
w # 9783 - Insertion overloading did not seem to work with
mlists.
w # 10168 - kron produced a segfault in some cases.
w # 10336 - Default key of rand could change from
"uniform" to "normal".
w # 10555 - Scilab failed to build with some configure
options.
w # 10583 - ./configure --without-xcos did not work.
w # 10646 - ./configure ARPACK check linked
`-larpack -lblas` instead of `-larpack -llapack
-lblas`.
w # 10777 - "Home" and "End" keys were not trapped in CLI
mode.
Xcos Bug Fixes
Know Issues
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w # 10784 - clc was not available in CLI & ADV-CLI modes.
w # 11035 - Scilab crashed when a file created with Matlab
7.12 was loaded.
w # 11284 - Calling sequences added in file help page.
w # 11405 - Hypermatrix support added for extraction.
w # 12580 - Demonstration GUI now displays an arrow if a
selected item has sub-categories.
w # 12620 - uicontextmenus size was wrong when children
were created invisible.
w # 12700 - edit_curv (used by CURV_f) was broken.
w # 12834 - Graphics did not work under Fedora (GLIBC
issue).
w # 12918 - OpenSUSE 12.3 x64 did not have gluegen2-rt
in library path.
w # 12986 - Scilab did not start under CentOS 5.9 (GLIBC
issue).
w # 12987 - Scilab did not start under Ubuntu 10.04 (GLIBC
issue).
w # 13058 - eigs produced wrong results in some cases.
Arpack-ng library has been updated to fix this bug.
w # 13180 - surf did not handle degenerate cases.
w # 13291 - xmltojar([],[],'ja_JP') might lead to a
crash when the locale was not system-wide available.
w # 13299 - The pkgconfig file did not used the right
Tcl / Tk version.
w # 13313 - Setting datatips orientation did not disable
auto_orientation mode.
w # 13316 - There were missing tooltips on File Browser
buttons.
w # 13321 - Default figure "visible" property was ignored
when creating a new figure.
w # 13324 - Legends display were completely modified
when an item was clicked and modified.
w # 13330 - gtk2-oxygen theme engine (used by KDE)
crashed Scilab.
w # 13331 - Users are no longer able to write inconsistent
options to mopen. mopen(file, "wr") now exits with a
proper error.
w # 13333 - Selecting "Offline mode" in Scilab installer
installed Scilab in "Command line mode" (without GUI
modules).
w # 13336 - In SciNotes, it was not possible to complete
brackets only at the end of a line.
w # 13339 - Kronecker tensor product now works on
hypermatrices.
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w # 13343 - In console popup menu, "help about a selected
w # 13409 - permute(x, dims) failed when dims was
text" moved from bottom to top for better consistency with
greater than the dimensions of size(x). It now treats extra
SciNotes.
dimensions as 1.
w # 13344 - User-defined ticks were not drawn at the right
w # 13418 - crossover_ga_binary help page was not
position.
clear. mix to check the crossover positions also added.
w # 13345 - Scilab did not start under Debian Wheezy (GLIBC
w # 13419 - mutation_ga_binary help page was not clear
issue).
and lacked examples.
w # 13346 - filter did not work for simple delays. filter
w # 13420 - mutation_ga_binary did not calculate
help page improved.
multiple mutations properly.
w # 13349 - Double-clicking on a MAT-file in the file browser
w # 13421 - Callback functions for genetic algorithms were
did not load it.
missing. Now the user can set functions to stop iterations
w # 13350 - There was a buffer overrun with call.
and access the population.
w # 13351 - xstringb failed with LaTeX code.
w # 13422 - Genetic algorithms did not log the minimum
w # 13358 - intersect and unique were slow due to an
and maximum values properly.
issue in quicksort implementation.
w # 13424 - crossover_ga_binary algorithm was not the
w # 13359 - Nyquist datatip with symmetry now displays
classical point crossover one. Binary length usage also fixed.
properly negative frequencies.
w # 13425 - optim_ga and optim_moga needed
w # 13364 - Scilab did not start under CentOS 6.5, RedHat
optimization.
5.4, RedHat 5.5 (GLIBC issue).
w # 13426 - optim help page was written with bad
w # 13365 - Data bounds were not correctly updated in 3-D.
indentation.
w # 13367 - ATOMS default repository was 5.4 one instead of
w # 13432 - xstringl help page was not clear about fonts
5.5.
and LaTeX-rendered text.
w # 13369 - samplef now works with 0 frequencies input
w # 13435 - Scilab under Windows crashed when calling
values and normalized frequencies. sample and samplef
xmlRemove on the first child.
now consistently return a row vector.
w # 13438 - drawaxis did not return the handle of the
w # 13377 - showprofile now displays lines numbers.
created axis.
w # 13378 - The "Console" handle display was not
w # 13441 - Scilab crashed when uicontrol was called
homogeneous with others.
with a string for border property.
w # 13381 - eigs was failing when using a function as first
w # 13459 - A warning message about libcurl.so version was
input argument.
displayed at Scilab startup.
w # 13383 - newaxes help page did not mention the call
w # 13471 - ilib_build_jar entered an infinite loop
with a graphic handle as input.
when used on an empty directory.
w # 13384 - uicontrol help page did not mention axes
w # 13481 - varn did not work on rational fractions.
could be contained in frame style uicontrols.
w #13482 - pfss changed the variable of the rational
w # 13386 - An exception occurred when using entity picker
fractions. varn was also modified to keep variable "dt" of
on legends.
rational fractions.
w # 13388 - Display of Waitbar and Progressionbar handles
w # 13491 - intg now properly exits when the user function
did not show Tag and Userdata properties.
produces an error.
w # 13397 - saveGui() returned an undocumented
w # 13501 - Typos fixed in English help pages.
boolean parameter (success / failure flag).
w # 13503 - xarrows made Scilab crashed in some cases.
w # 13401 - Closing Scilab during halt() did not quit Scilab
w # 13507 - Imaginary part in result of a complex power was
process.
missing (Real^Complex).
w # 13402 - Bounding boxes of xarcs were not correct.
w # 13509 - It was not possible to have an empty prefix with
w # 13403 - Regression on axes labeling fixed.
xmlNs.
w # 13404 - rect property was not taken into account in
w # 13510 - Datatip callback cleared 'd'.
polarplot.
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w # 13511 - lcm returned incorrect results when used with
w # 13513 - EXPRESSION block with "u1" as expression
doubles.
failed with a singularity error.
w # 13512 - dae crashed if the evaluation function had
w # 13514 - External modules loader_pal.sce file contained
wrong prototype.
absolute path.
w # 13515 - There were wrong results for matrix /
w # 13540 - Tkscale block did not respect min and max
hypermatrix with bitset.
value.
w # 13516 - Russian and Japanese help pages were missing.
w # 13553 - "Export all diagrams" failed if the directory did
w # 13524 - strtod did not ignore the tabs and CR.
not exist.
w # 13527 - hilb did not check properly the type of the first
input argument.
w # 13543 - "slider" uicontrols did not work with the mouse
wheel.
KNOWN
ISSUES
Under GNU / Linux with KDE and under some
w # 13554 - rubberbox returned wrong values.
distributions, gtk2-oxygen theming engine crashes
w # 13579 - bar displayed useless warnings.
Scilab. As a workaround, please consult:
w # 13585 - SuiteSparse 4.3.1 was not supported.
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13330#c6.
w # 13588 - Default values of "event_handler" and
"event_handler_enable" properties were not taken into
account when creating a new figure.
Besides these points, do not hesitate to report bugs on:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/
XCOS BUG FIXES
w # 9996 - The RELATION_OP box drawn in the workspace
was not compliant with the programming.
w # 11823 - Ctrl+F2 shortcut did not work on a selected
block.
w # 12718 - Modelica Generic block reshaped the output
ports and the label was double-written.
w # 12723 - Loading a .scg file in CURVE block produced an
error.
w # 12751 - cdummy_ entry point was not found when
using Code Generation.
w # 13285 - There was no appropriate example of the syntax
for scifunc_block_m GUI on the help page.
w # 13318 - matrix * vector multiplication using MATMUL did
not work properly.
w # 13327 - Sawtooth generator icon was not a Sawtooth.
w # 13385 - TOWS_c and FROMWSB Xcos blocks needed
better examples on how to get or write a Scilab variable.
w # 13391 - scifunc_block_m help page was not clear
about the block use. An example has been added.
w # 13396 - MBLOCK did not work with an external file
containing Modelica class.
w # 13436 - STEP function was not delayed with the
Continuous Fix Delay.
w # 13443 - There was no image on CSCOPXY3D block.
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