What's New for Users - mXrap 6.0.5

Last update: 30 June 2024
Also includes changes from 6.0.2  6.0.3  6.0.4

Initial Dates now start 1 Jan this year

New Fixed-Width (monospace) Font

Better Dongle (aka Codemeter) Error Messages

Removed Codemeter Installation Requirement

Codemeter Server Management

Bugfixes

Initial Dates now start 1 Jan this year

The Date variables used to start in 2000, which was annoying to adjust to a more recent date.
Now date variables initialise at Jan 1, in the current year.

New Fixed-Width (monospace) Font

We now use a new fixed width font for numbers in Tableviews, and JS code in Tablecalcs.
This is a special kind of font that allows us to align the digits of the numbers in the table.
It looks different to the regular (variable-width) font.
The normal font is nicer to read text, and the fixed width font is nicer to read numbers.

Better Dongle (aka Codemeter) Error Messages

We are improving the error messages when there are problems with your Codemeter Licence,
the messages now include links to FAQ pages and tips on how to solve the problem.

Removed Codemeter Installation Requirement

The Codemeter driver no longer needs to be installed with Admin rights.
Instead, Codemeter is bundled with the installation, and will automatically load the bundled copy if Codemeter has not yet been installed.

Codemeter Server Management

Users can now specify Codemeter Server directly within mXrap, via mXrap-About, or the Codemeter Error window.

You can also create a text file with the server's address inside.
Put this file somewhere on your network (likely, in the root folder), and users can specify that file.
mXrap will automatically keep the user's server search list in sync with the file.

This means to install mXrap on a new computer, you do not need to know the server address.
Instead, you need to know the location of the root folder, and the location of the server-list-file (which is likely in the root folder).

Talk to mXrap support for help to set this up for your site.

Autobackups folder now cleared properly

The Autobackups folder will now correctly auto-clear old backups.

Auto-Reload-Data Option is no longer saved

There is an "Auto-Reload-Data" option in the Advanced settings, that will automatically click the Reload Data button on a schedule.
This is used for the Monitoring app, but is really confusing when it is switched on in regular apps, which would happen after trying out the Monitoring app.

Instead, the apps that need this feature will enable it as required.

Improved Survey File Support

Improved support for Deswik DCF file naming, and load performance.

Improved date handling in DXF attributes.

Keep original survey colours when decimating.

Bugfixes