| Changes in WinTally 2.6.0.0 |
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| New | Added the ability to store and use multiple button layouts and to specify which one to use by default. A button layout selection is now available at the top of the button layout screen. |
| New | Added the ability to do counts based off of video by assigning a button as a "Video Interval" button that you can press each time the video time changes to a new interval (for example, every 15 minutes of video). |
| New | Added a mouse-over hint to the "Firmware Version" field that will display unit health information (such as lifetime button presses on each button) for units that have 2.08+ or 3.08+ firmware versions. |
| New | Added a new button to the multi-study save dialog that allows you to use the study locations as the filenames when saving the files. The default filename for saving a single study and for exporting a study is now the location. |
| Fix | Added an extra test in the processing of data to handle studies that don't have an "end" timestamp (off switch/timeout/uart connected). This should never happen and indicates a problem with the unit, but the software will now gracefully handle these by using the next "start" as the end of the last study. |
| Fix | Fixed a problem with handling non-US standard Windows date/time formats. Previously it would display "not a valid date/time" when trying to open a file with a system setup with a different date/time format. |
| Fix | Fixed problems with merging studies. In very specific circumstances studies would not merge together, or would cause other problems. |
| Fix | The software will now handle missing ON timestamps and missing OFF timestamps without a problem. This only happened in rare circumstances. The missing timestamps could have caused strange behavior, such as data not appearing on a report or access violations. |
| Fix | Fixed a processing bug that would incorrectly cause the software to report there was corrupt data when there wasn't. This would have been most likely to happen after attempting to merge studies. |
| Fix | Fixed a bug where approach names may have not been read in from a saved file the way they were saved. |
| Changes in WinTally 2.5.0.2 |
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| New | Added the ability to choose installation folder when installing WinTally for the first time. |
| Fix | Fixed a bug in the saving of the default button table. When the default buttons were changed by the user, in many cases the default buttons would save just fine, but in some circumstances it would not be saved. |
| Fix | Changed when the default buttons are saved. Previously when changing default button settings you would have to click "Save" after editing the buttons, and then "Save" again when exiting Preferences for the change to take effect. Now the default buttons are saved when clicking "Save" after editing them; if you click "Save" or "Cancel" on the Preferences window after that, it will have no affect on if the default buttons are saved or not. |
| Fix | Changed the file location of the default button table on new installations. It is now located in the MicroSoft suggested "Application Data\VehicleCounts.com\WinTally" folder due to some writing permission problems for some people. If you already have an existing default button table, it will remain where it is. Most users will see no difference at all. |
| Fix | Changed the default data directory (at installation time) to be "My Documents\WinTally Data". |
| Changes in WinTally 2.5.0.1 |
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| New | Did a complete over-haul of the report statistics and totals. |
| New | Added many more options to report options, so that all statistics can be enabled or disabled depending on the report and your preference. |
| New | Added extra error checking code to the opening of a com port so that WinTally will hopefully not hang when attempting to scan a BlueTooth com port that is no longer there. This extra code was added as a precaution for those that have used or do use BlueTooth devices, due to a serious bug in BlueTooth drivers/software, com ports for BlueTooth devices that are no longer attached still show up on the computer and can cause program lockup. |
| New | Added "Data Type" for each button (you can choose between 4 different types, which you can name in "Preferences"). You can now specify the type of data that a button was used to count and that data will be split out into different tables on reports by default (however, you can choose to include some or all data types into the main table). |
| New | The title on the reports can now be customized in "Preferences". |
| New | Added an "Intersection Summary" table which you can choose to print at the bottom of your report. The intersection summary will show a summary of each approach by data type. If only one data type is used or no shifted buttons are used, then the intersection summary will not be printed. |
| New | Added UTDF (Universal Traffic Data Format) volume exporting. (untested with Synchro -- as of release unable to obtain a non-demo version of Synchro for testing) |
| Fix | Changed/clarified the way disabled buttons and unselected buttons are used in calculating statistics for reports. Report statistics only include buttons that are shown on the report, so disabled buttons or unchecked columns should behave identical -- they won't show and they won't be included in any statistics. |
| Fix | Fixed an odd quirk in the graphical button layout screen. When trying to uncheck the "enabled" checkbox in the grid, it would not get rid of the check mark unless you already had that row selected first, so 2 clicks were required at times. |
| Fix | To avoid confusion, the "Approach" combobox on the graphical button layout screen is now disabled for shift/shiftlock buttons. This does not change functionality at all because the actual shift button's approach is never used only the shifted button's approach is used. |
| Fix | Added Peak Factor back to reports. In a recent version it was accidentally removed. |
| Fix | Peak hour, peak total, and peak factor (PHF) are now not displayed (even if checked) if there is not enough data to calculate these. |
| Fix | Fixed a minor bug in exporting which, at times, could have caused the first record to export twice at the beginning of the data (but the first one showing all 0's). It was most noticeable when using an interval of 1 minute, however it could have happened at any interval setting. |
| Fix | The behavior of the date/time range selection, when exporting and printing reports, has been changed to it's intended behavior. The range selected now applies BEFORE any time adjustment is made, this way for the majority of users, all of your data will still be selected by default if you need to adjust the time. This means if you enter in 11:57 for your start time and then enter in a 3 for time adjustment your start time will really be 12:00. Prior to this change, if you made a time adjustment you had to modify your start and stop date/time ranges so that all data would print out by default. |
| Fix | Fixed a memory overrun problem when downloading data out of MicroTally-18 units if the default button table has never been modified or preferences saved. This may have caused unknown and strange behavior to occur in those cases. |
| Fix | As of version 2.4.0.0 merging studies with newer MicroTally-14 units (version 3.04 or higher) caused an "Invalid Data Encountered" error. This has been fixed. |
| Fix | Fixed a bug with upgrading of units in 2.5.0.0, it should not have upgraded units to 3.06. The latest working firmware version is 3.04. Please contact us if you have version 3.06 in any of your units. |
| Changes in WinTally 2.4.0.2 |
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| New | Added export to PDF. |
| New | Report and export settings are now saved automatically. So if the same options are always selected they won't have to be set each time the software is used. |
| New | Added a way to adjust column sizes (all columns at once) for the report. |
| New | Added an option to print all on one page. This will stack all the tables (or as many as will fit) on to one page if you have shifted data. |
| Fix | Fixed a minor bug when changing the default data directory in "Preferences", occasionally it wouldn't update until the software was reloaded. Now, if it is changed it will always take effect immediately. |
| Fix | Changed the way the com ports are scanned. When the WinTally software was opened up it scanned to see what ports exist on the computer. Now it will perform that scan any time the "Scan for unit" button is clicked. This allows USB-to-serial cables to be plugged in to the USB port after the software is already running. |
| Changes in WinTally 2.4.0.0 |
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| New | Com ports that are currently used on your computer are now scanned when looking for a unit (instead of always scanning coms 1-8). If you have com ports above 8 on your system, they will now be scanned as well. |
| New | Added graphical view of MicroTally unit for setting button names. MicroTally-18's are also supported in this new graphical format with all 18 buttons showing. |
| New | Added the ability to change which "approach" each button is in. |
| New | Added default button table for new MicroTally-18, corner keys by default are "Peds" keys. |
| New | Added start/stop date/time range for reports and exports. |
| Fix | Reports had some quirks with the percentages shown. Notes about the percentages shown on the reports: The percentages for "Approach %" are the same -- they are the percent of an approach's entire traffic total (not just for that page). The "Total %" gave strange results when displaying shifted data, it now will be the percent of total intersection traffic (this includes all shifted data). Percentages are all rounded to the nearest 10th of a percent, so percentage numbers will add up slightly higher or lower than 100% due to the rounding. If you count pedestrians or bicycles, depending on how you use the data, you may want to print them on a separate report (by unselecting those columns, printing, then selecting only those columns). That way they won't be included in the total and approach percentages, as well as the peak factor. |
| Changes in WinTally 2.3.0.0 |
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| New | Added the naming of approaches and "group by approach" to reports. |
| New | Added more statistics to reports most of which are related to approaches. (total %, approach %, peak hour, approach peak, and peak factor) |
| New | Added code to convert old button names to new approach and button names. (i.e. finds occurrences of "Northbound" in button names and remove it and sets approach to "Northbound") |
| Fix | When printing, the data selection form had the text "Columns to export", changed that to "Columns to print". |
| Fix | When downloading, if user presses "Cancel" when prompted for button names or study info, it now aborts back to the main window instead of continuing to the data overview screen. |
| New | Added software version to data file, all versions of software from this point on will make sure the data was not saved with a NEWER version of software before opening a file. This will prevent version conflicts with data files. |
| Fix | Changed button labeled "Save" when editing buttons to "Continue >>" or "OK" depending on the circumstance. So "Save" isn't confused with actually saving to a file. |
| Fix | Fixed a possible bug with having different button set-ups for different studies in the same download. It may have saved the same button configuration for each study. This has been fixed. |
| Fix | Fixed a bug in the date on reports. It would show the numeric month followed by the month name, instead of the numeric day followed by month name as it should have. |
| New | Added the ability to upgrade demo units to extend demo time or change into a full unit. |
| Fix | First time installations when run for the first time may have had strange behavior, subsequent runs should have worked fine. This has been fixed. |
| Fix | On a first time installation, "What's new" is no longer shown since everything is new. |
| New | Added the use of the new store/restore commands to store and restore unit settings before/after unit upgrades. |
| Changes in WinTally 2.2.0.1 |
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| New | Shifted button names can now be changed to anything the user enters. |
| New | All buttons (including shifted buttons) can now be exported/printed in any order the user chooses, the order is set in the button header. |
| New | Comboboxes are always visible for the button type when editing the button layout, this makes it a bit more user-friendly. |
| New | Added starting date/time next to study when entering locations/comments so it's easier to identify a study. |
| New | Added a more standard export and moved the old export to "Standard (Variation #1)", also added a timestamp export to export the actual timestamps. |
| New | Added some more features to the reports, such as the ability to subtotal every X intervals, and a peak hour calculation. |
