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1/7

IMPROVEMENTSA warning has been added for 1./x and 1.\x syntax

clarication.

A new output argument has been added to &ege%

function to retrieve subpatterns matches.

See SEP # 86.

New!Nae function added to retrieve the name of a

XML element.

c!c(): New icon in the toolbar to clear the console.

See Bug # 12049.

e_no longer takes into account skipped tests in

the summary.

See Bug # 12117.

Two new commands added:

wFor SciNotes:

78 68>/8;/6*;8/@8. opens a le.

If the le does not exist, SciNotes proposes to create it.

78 -77 68>/8;/6*;8/@8.

allows to indent automatically a Scilab le.

wFor Xcos:

8 68>/8/*69/7;*.8 opens the

integral Xcos schema. If the le does not exist, Xcos proposes tocreate it.

Search is now possible in the console. Shortcut F3 or

CTRL+F enables it.

See Bug # 11841.

eda&proposes direct save to the CSV format of the

whole variable or the selection.

Completion in Scilab is now case insensitive.

See Bug # 6320.

variance is now vectorized and allows the syntax

a&a#ce(,"*",+).See Bug # 12362.

Console command history is now stored in

SCIHOME/h$&le under all platforms.

In Scilab documentation,

'c!ab:#eed-ea%!e="#$"'tag has been added

to specify that the help page does not need example.

XCOSNew Flowmeter block in the thermohydraulics palette

added to measure a thermohydraulics ow.

Palette icons and some blocks rendering improved.

c$Pa!Ge#e&aeA!!Ic$#function added as a Xcos

palette utility function.

New ODE solver added

LSodar automatically switches methods to efficiently solve both

stiff and nonstiff problems. It includes a rootnding feature.

Two new xed-size step ODE solvers added

Dormand-Prince 4(5) and Runge-Kutta 4(5) have been added to

the CVode package. They also benet from the rootnding

feature.

Implicit xed-size stop ODE solver addedImplicit Runge-Kutta 4(5) also benets from the CVode

rootnding feature.

Block parameter errors (types and sizes) reporting

improved.

Some scopes blink on simulation avoided.

COMPILATIONEnforce a minimal version of Flexdock (1.2.3).

Enforce a minimal version of JLaTeXMath (1.0.2).

Enforce a minimal version of Scirenderer (1.1.0).

Enforce a minimal version of XMLGraphics (1.4).

Scilab 5.4.1 Release Notes - 1 2013 - Scilab Enterprises

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Improvements 1

Xcos 1

Compilation 1

Obsolete Functions 2

Removed Functions 2

Bug Fixes 3

SCILAB5.4.1 RELEASENOTES


2/7

OBSOLETE FUNCTIONS

REMOVED FUNCTIONS

1 More details on: http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/texmacs


Obsolete Function New Function Removed in Details

*() daaf() Scilab 5.5.0See

Bug # 9306.

87() ged() Scilab 5.5.0

7() ged()

6*;4() ged() Scilab 5.5.0

6+8() ged() Scilab 5.5.0

@78() c!$e() Scilab 5.5.0

6()e()ge()

ged()

Scilab 5.5.0

Removed Function New Function Details

*;886()

868*;()

87() %&efe&e#ce()

;*989>9() c$#ee#()

6+87? c$#()

6+;96*() &e%a()

7;6*9*

76989* 896+*9*

896699;7

d%()

896698;7 g()

;8() &cc()

8@*>67>*7() e(ge(0), "Sh$+Hdde#Ha#d!e", "$#")

@9?6() gee&$#()

@6*()TeXmacs is now an ATOMS

module.1

+*;()Automatically managed by

Scilab now.

() h$+_+#d$+()


3/7

BUG FIXES

Scilab

w# 2547 - Small size marks were not correctly exported.

w# 3313 - In the documentation, the title of a link used the

XML id instead of the title of the page.

w# 4504 - 4 function did not work with two outputs

(corresponding help page updated).

w# 4405 - :;()was poorly documented.

w# 4946 - Bad rendering of a big rotated label.

w# 5291 - ;8 returned 0 when no real number was

detected.

w# 5478 - Scilab could not be started with a non

readable/writeable SCIHOME.

w# 5548 - Error messages in some examples of Simulated

Annealing help pages xed.

w# 5576 - 7;9()help page has been improved.

w# 6583 - 6*()was poorly documented.

w# 6890 - Strings were exported as shapes rather than

Postscript strings in EPS / PS export.

w# 6975 - *+(), *+() and *+() functions

were not documented.

w# 7058 - There was an error in MathML formula in +*

help page.w# 7190 - *+8>9*was not documented.

w# 7410 - %9() and 29() failed to display polyline

entity associated to datatips.

w# 7583 - +786* function moved in the distribution

function chapter.

w# 7698 - The "Graphics \ Animations \ Riemann surface"

demonstration background was black (instead of white).

w# 7769 - >7879*did not have a unit test.

w# 7790 - Line thickness was not taken into account when

drawing marks.

w# 8213 - 863 help page had no examples.

w # 8395 - has been deprecated to .

w# 8414 - Some genetic algorithms functions had no

examples.

w # 8484 - 7 help page has been moved to CACSD

chapter.

w# 8638 - Examples given in help page have been

improved.

w# 8649 - * and *9*7 arguments were not

documented in +*7*6 and ;7*6 help pages.

w# 8883 - In some cases, Scilab built from sources was

looking for libraries at the wrong place.

w# 8899 - 972 help page was unclear about the size of

the arguments.

w# 8901 - 7;92help page was unclear about the size

of the arguments.

w# 8964 - The 896*, 68*, 7*, 7*2

functions did not always create initial population.

w # 9005 - + function did not have any tests.

w # 9196 - The threshold level for conditioning in backslash

and slash was too small.

w# 9305 - In optimization help pages, a new chapter

untitled "Least Squares functions" has been created.

w# 9584 - ;*7 returned non-empty matrix for negative

size argument.

w# 9934 - *;(&&"A","B") returned a non standard

error message.

w# 9935 - *;() did not clear all variables.

w# 10278 - *;(1) returned a wrong error message.

w# 10415 - Removing a session line in the history caused

the removal of the session node in the history browser.

w# 10546 - 78help page updated.

w# 10606 - >7 did not return standard output in

somes cases.

w# 10661 - 689 and 689were failing in the

binary version.

w# 10815 - help page did not have a "See Also"

section.

w# 11134 - 68>()prevented callback menu

execution.

w# 11209 - ?*;*7 returned wrong results for complex

arguments.

w# 11362 - *9;89;help page did not explain

that6*;4=6*;4=0 drew a single dot.

w# 11436 - With M*98, color outside the colormap was

replaced with the last color in colormap.

w# 11474 - *?8;6*help page was still refering to the

old save format (SEP # 64 content used to update this page).

w# 11477 - There were memory leaks with textures.

w# 11497 - EDT violations were detected by the

ThreadCheckingRepaintManager tool.

w# 11501 - $$..$$ is now used for LaTeX in SciNotes

comments to avoid confusion with Scilab code.

w# 11549 - Preferences window changed its dimension

when hitting Default button.



4/7

w# 11567 - Scilab failed to start when there was an

accentuated character in the pathname.

w# 11569 - F5 to navigate in the dock was incompatible

with SciNotes. F5 has been replaced by shift+F6 to go to the

previous tab.

w# 11639 - Uninstalling Scilab removed all Scilab registry

information.

w# 11662 - *7 help page had no example (resolved with

Bug # 11663).

w# 11663 - *9 and *7 help pages were incomplete.

w# 11664 - ? help page had no example.

w# 11665 - 7:> help page had no example.

w# 11668- ;96help page had no example.

w# 11669- 4*6and ;4 help pages had no example.

w# 11682 - "resizefcn" and "closerequestfcn" properties

description was not precise enough in the >;

properties help page.

w# 11711 - 4 and 68>did not work under

Mac OS X.

w# 11778 - Bad 88;6*9dimensions did not return an

error.

w# 11801 - Bug with 8?@="87"on subplots xed.

w# 11804 - Zoom messages were not translated.

w# 11811 - Typo in SciNotes help page xed.

w# 11814 - Typo in one of the titles of CACSD xed.

w# 11851 - Default EOL under Mac is now LF.

w# 11860 -@*?@; failed for 24-bit les due to an error

in *?@*? function.

w# 11924 -@78()was not tagged as obsolete.

w# 11931 - In graphics, white space was not used as default

thousand separator.

w# 11939 - 9;7 formatting lacked accuracy.

w# 11941 - 8@6*;7() failed in "7:>"mode if

the system was in state-space form.

w# 11944 - In SciNotes, untabify several lines did not work

properly.

w# 11949 - *?() help page did not explain how to

append data to a SOD le.

w# 11952 - In SciNotes, a Java exception occurred when a

text containing a E was selected.

w # 11954 - 98;85was not able to export the

same variable twice.

w# 11958 - **=0was not taken into account in

9823.

w# 11962 - ?7*7; could be called with wrong

>;.

w# 11965 - Export to SVG converted texts in shapes.

w# 11969 - Only the rst line was executed when a code was

piped under Linux.

w# 11971 - Canceling "Open File" action when launched

from icon in the toolbar opened SciNotes anyway.

w# 11976 - ?S*7 third parameter validity was not

checked.

w# 11980 - 6returned an error message in some cases:

"Submatrix incorrectly dened".

w# 11981 - 688 French help page had a wrong

declaration (colonnes => lignes).

w# 11982 - Ticks computations were made when drawing.

w# 11986 - Wrong 4 behaviour on keyboard input

xed.

w# 11991 - Under Windows, some empty lines were added

by ?;.

w# 11998 - ?*;75did not close the hdf5 le.

w# 11999 - Blank lines are now ignored by default by

?R*/;*?.

w# 12003 - Typo in 9;*module xed.

w# 12004 - "Conguring scaling factor" part added in

4*;6*;4*;help page.

w# 12019 - In help page, NE!was unclear.

w# 12020 - Default value of NC! parameter ( function)

was not documented.

w# 12021 - help page improved.

w# 12022 - >7: help page had an incorrect example.

w# 12028 - The ;*@*;/;*@78@ functions did not

work as expected.

w# 12033 - *;4*68:>*was failing with

two %7 values.

w# 12043 - Typo in the *86S8@help page xed.

w# 12050 - Typo dimensionnal => dimensional xed.

w# 12059 - Indices returned by 8;were wrong for

sparse matrices.

w# 12062 - 66;() failed for some

properties such as 'SMC#MA#IMIED'.

w# 12071 - Printed information of a XML object was

inconsistent with available elds.

w# 12076 - ?R*was not able to open CSV les when

separators were not spaces.

w# 12077 - In Scilab documentation, the attribute

"+88;" was not handled in tables.

w# 12083 - Loading multiple variables from a SOD le could

failed.



5/7

w# 12087 - 9;8 help page did not mention

*9;87.

w# 12097 - Scilab wrongly detected DLL platform

information.

w# 12111 - 4*;6*;4*; function did not generate

appropriate warnings.

w# 12115 - 9*98(;:,+,9)did not work.

w# 12119 - +*; and +*; had wrong x / y bounds.

w# 12120 - function was broken for complex sparse

matrices.

w# 12122 - >* help page did not specify that >*

did not handle complex matrix.

w# 12133 - 9*;*;>7was not available.

w# 12134 - Default stack size value was wrong in

*4 help page.

w# 12135 - *4('6*') failed without displaying

error message.

w# 12137 - (A,B) returned incorrect results for sparse

matrices.

w# 12139 - ran out of memory for sparse matrices.

w# 12140 - ?R* failed when a comma was used as a

decimal mark.

w# 12141 - Calls to in ;>++;+8help page

examples have been removed. Items will be translated in

each available languages.

w# 12144 - ?R* triggered some error messages when

ranges were wrong.

w# 12151 - Axes did not pass through (0,0) when

8*87 and 8*87were set to '8;7'.

w# 12166 - There was a bad label with ;*@*.

w# 12168 -6*?*;crashed when listing

variables of a closed MAT-le.

w# 12174 - ;8> function gave incorrect output for all

denominators that included gain value "k".

w# 12179 - Incompatibility with MPI version of HDF5 xed.

w# 12184 - Performances of ;?* function improved.

w# 12186 - Performances of 8;7; function improved.

w# 12190 - 9;97 help page description updated.

w# 12196 - There were no log-scales with F and F*3.

w# 12204 - Typo in French localization xed.

w# 12219 - ("*")did not recreate a basic axe

within a cleaned gure.

w# 12231 - In SciNotes, a whole word search did not work

properly.

w# 12232 - There were several memory leaks in various

llers.

w# 12234 - Graphics could crash with an invalid property.

w# 12235 - Matplot did not update on 88;6*9 change.

w# 12238 - &, ? = (A) was broken for sparse

matrices.

w# 12239 - Recent changes in applied to .

w# 12240 - function refactored.

w# 12243 - 9*;*;>7did not run all calculations on 8

core processors.

w# 12246 - An error message is now returned when reading

invalid Excel les (which have declared wrong column / row

count).

w# 12247 - Typo in some error messages xed.

w# 12248 - SciNotes toolbar was missing.

w# 12259 - Wrong translation for "Filled" xed in SciNotes.

w# 12260 - Grid was not drawn with log scale and

user-dened ticks.

w# 12270 - When the console lost the focus between

SciNotes and the console, the caret could become visible in

the console instead SciNotes.

w# 12272 - Presentation of Cyrillic letters on sample images

of Russian help page for ;*7 function xed.

w# 12284 - Completion in console could led to a crash (or

deadlock).w# 12285 - 98;85 function did not manage any

matrix in append mode.

w# 12289 - >+4property was ignored.

w# 12291 - A list of handles could not be displayed as a

handle userdata.

w# 12296 - Calling 7?with a big environment variable

led to memory corruption.

w# 12304 - Undocking, redocking and undocking a graphic

gure led to an exception.

w# 12305 - Legends could not be loaded from SOD les.

w# 12307 - ftp addresses were not handled in the help

browser.

w# 12317 - eventhandler functions no more reported

keyboard events.

w# 12321 - Saving environment failed to save library

variables. Now these variables are ignored like in previous

versions of *? function.

w# 12333 - Command history was restored after reopening

Scilab even when cleaned.

w# 12335 - ;8 did not work with negative numbers.

w# 12343 - SciNotes help page was pointing to the

8;() function.



6/7

w# 12346 - () help pages moved to CACSD

chapter.

w# 12348 - >;() disabled 7(7) if there was no

input variable.

w# 12354 - SciNotes wrongly detected an invalid function

with a semicolon after *; declaration.

w# 12360 - Format for purely real complex value was wrong

in ?;.

w# 12361 - Error in ;98()help page examples xed.

w# 12370 - Example with marks added in 98 help page.

w# 12373 - 968>8(7,6787.

w# 12418 - Continuation was incorrectly supported in

+?8.

w# 12442 - 9*87?;()help page was not clear about

input arguments.

w# 12444 - The fontname argument was buggy in the title

function.

w# 12448 - Double click on .sod le tried to open it in

Scinotes instead of loading it.

w# 12450 - 87() did not return font names as

specied in the documentation.

w# 12455 - 8;6*7 property had no effect on "axis"

handles.

w# 12457 - ;*@*;() was not taken into account with

98.

Xcos

w# 5040 - Fit diagram to view did not work with a single

block.

w# 5162 - "Export all" menu to export all diagram layers

added.

w# 9074 - Calling a function on the context gave a warning.

w# 10040 - !ARIABLEDELAhelp page did not fully

describe the initial value behavioral.

w# 10434 - 8*#8L+ changed the value of 9;.

w# 10435 - Undo in a superdiagram did not update

superblock ports and links.

w# 10660 -682+4 and *+4 crashed Scilab under

64-bit platforms.

w# 11193 - 78 did not respect context values.

w# 11775 - xcos.tst crashed under Linux and Mac OS X.

w# 11812 - Upper / lower case issues in Xcos documentation

xed.

w# 11821 - Running 8P*A example from help led

to deadlock.

w# 11871 - Connectors were misaligned after an Undo

command.

w# 11913 - UnconnectedCLSS block with empty matrix

parameters made Scilab crash.w# 11919 - DLSS block with empty matrix parameters made

Scilab crash.

w # 11945 - When running simulation on large diagram, the

grey lter did not apply to the entire diagram.

w# 11963 - Input ports in a superblock were corrupted.

w# 11988 - Copying or draggingAFFICH6block threw

Java NullPointerException.

w# 12014 - 9> help page was wrongly detailed.

w# 12031 - Changes in the context of a superblock did not

always have effect.

w# 12057 - Scopes with big scope buffer size simulation

were much more slower than in Scilab 5.3.3.

w# 12101 - Port ordering was not maintained when

changing parameters.

w# 12162 - ++>+84did not report errors.

w# 12167 - Text of ports in superblocks was not updated.

w# 12213 - The example given in 78 help page

produced an undened variable warning.

w# 12265 - The example diagrams given in

86>*help page had a badly rendering due to

CLR blocks.



7/7

w# 12290 -AFFICH6block inside a superblock led to a

Java NullPointerException.

w# 12350 - Under Windows Explorer, opening a xcos/zcos

le did not try to nd an existing instance of Scilab.

w# 12351 - The user could not save a diagram as a xcos le

when using the "Save as" menu, zcos format was forced.

w# 12352 - Critical error when closing a scope windows

during simulation xed.


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