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" tab) - 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" tab)
• 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" tab)
• 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" tab)
• Project Structure Manager: removed the "Create archive files" property from the alarm/event database configuration for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" tab)
• 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 frames 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 frames 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

All modules

• checking for a new version: added to the runtime software, Web client and mobile client
• checking for a new version: now is performed in the background (does not block starting the program if the connection with the update server cannot be established)
• checking for a new version: added detecting updates
• Activate License Wizard: added the option of automatically activating a license (an Internet connection is required)
• disabled Windows Ghosting (caused display issues during time-consuming operations)

All components

• fixed displaying colors in hexadecimal format in the Component Manager

Display component

• fixed painting a transparent background if display style is LCD-2
• fixed updating engineering units at design-time

Text component

• component editor: stopped setting the alignment and font to the control (multi-line edit box) intended for editing the component's text

Active Text component

• component editor: stopped setting the alignment and font to the control (multi-line edit box) intended for editing item and error text

Edit Box component

• added support for the virtual keyboard

Notepad component

• added support for the virtual keyboard

ActiveX Container component

• fixed the error (with the message "List index out of bounds") that occurred after changing the selected ActiveX control and opening its property editor

Teco IRC component

• added the "Choose module type" and "Module type" properties

Data Tree component

• the term "Branch" changed to "Node"
• added localization support
• improved node duplication
• added the synchronization of links in the tree definition
• cell of type Display: added the "Show units" property
• added applying the "Zebra view" property to cells
• altered the behavior of Drag&Drop operations applied to nodes that include nested nodes
• altered pasting nodes from the clipboard into the tree (the pasted nodes are inserted at the same level)
• fixed dynamically setting the selected node
• fixed displaying numbers in hexadecimal format
• fixed sorting by a column

Real-Time Trend component

• R4-3824 - fixed the error that occurred when loading the parent window if the component was linked to a non-existent real-time trend object

Container component

• window template: at design-time, the container is automatically resized based on the components contained in the window template in order to minimize the size
• window template: added the automatic substitution of components' links to tags when duplicating the container's parent window

Scale component

• R4-3257 - optimized painting the scale

Sauter - Time Program, Johnson Controls - Time Program components

• added possibility to configure State 0 through the component editor

Reliance Design development environment

• Create New Project Wizard: fixed generating a valid project filename if the entered project name only consists of characters illegal for a filename
• preset "/" as the default character (when creating a new project) to be used to separate complete object name parts (e.g. Device1/Tag1)
• fixed calculating the position of window bounds
• R4-2898 - added showing window bounds for dialog windows and tray windows
• Create New Window Wizard: added possibility to specify the size for tray windows (it is then used as start-up size)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed releasing system resources when opening/closing a visualization window during the export of a project (the export operation did not complete on large projects)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: improved showing the progress
• fixed the coordinates (displayed in Information Window) of the mouse cursor above a design window (previously, the position of scroll bars was not considered)
• R4-3774 - Window Manager: added the "Rename" command
• fixed the position of components pasted from the clipboard into a window if the components had been copied from another window and one of the windows had a scroll bar in a nonzero position
• Device Manager: added exporting/importing structured tags (including the nested tags) to/from CSV format
• HELP-3253 - Device Manager: added the "Alarm/event delay" property for a tag
• Device Manager: added the "Time stamp base" property for a device (the "Advanced" tab)
• Device Manager: stopped setting the font to the control (multi-line edit box) intended for editing the alarm/event text
• Data Table Manager: added the "Convert to local time" property for a data table (the "Advanced" tab)
• R4-2663 - Layer Manager: fixed painting checkboxes next to layer names after changing the current Windows theme
• Script Manager: fixed the situation when it was not possible to rename a script
• R4-3855 - Script Manager: fixed the situation when it was not possible to modify the properties common to all script types
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Play alarm/event sounds" property for a computer (the "Alarms/Events" tab)
• Project Structure Manager: replaced the "Full name" and "IP address" properties of a computer with the "Address" property
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Alternative server address" property for a server connection
• Custom Report Manager: fixed the substitution of report items' links to tags when duplicating a report
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed formatting the value of numeric items
• custom reports of type FastReport: fixed the situation when it was not possible to configure page settings after restoring the default settings in the report designer
• R4-3144 - custom reports of type FastReport: added the "DateTimeToInt64Time" and "LocalDateTimeToUTCDateTime" functions
• custom reports of type FastReport: added the "ConnectionString" property to the ADODatabase object
• Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: before opening a component's editor, the component's parent window is activated
• Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: after opening a component's editor, the component is automatically selected
• Project Diagnostics Results, Object Usage Search Results: added preventing the user from renaming components while the results are displayed
• OPC browse dialog: added the "Expand OPC Groups" and "Collapse OPC Groups" commands
• OPC browse dialog: when the dialog is displayed, only the OPC group selected in the Device Manager is expanded

Runtime software

• fixed saving text strings edited through the Managers
• fixed the error that occurred when using the Ctrl-Space key shortcut in edit boxes for editing text strings
• added generating an error message if the latest tag data cannot be loaded (e.g. if the file is corrupted due to a power failure)
• added restarting communication drivers if they have been terminated
• fixed blocking disabled alarms/events at project startup
• historical report viewer: added time stamp conversions based on the "Time stamp base" property of a data table
• added further program languages (Lithuanian, Hungarian)
• added English and Russian help

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• fixed blocking switching the keyboard layout when using security restrictions (if the "Disable 'Start' menu" option is active for a computer or user)
• R4-3640 - fixed hiding the title bar if the "Disable minimizing runtime software's main window" is active for a computer or user
• alarm/event viewer "Properties" dialog: fixed updating the names of fields (columns) after switching the program language
• historical alarms/events: fixed updating the title bar text after switching the program language
• custom filter for historical alarms/events stored in an SQL database: fixed generating SQL statements (queries)
• time filter for historical alarms/events: preset the last used settings
• fixed printing the screen (added adjusting size to paper size)
• allowed directly entering a date value into the date edit control (edit box with a calendar)
• color selection dialog: fixed some text strings
• improved showing the progress of starting a project
• R4-3306 - fixed displaying the virtual keyboard and message dialogs (previously, the program seemed to have "frozen" if a message dialog was hidden behind the virtual keyboard)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• server Web pages: added detecting Java Plugin before starting the Web client using Java Web Start
• server Web pages: added direct links for starting the Web client (without detecting Java Plugin)
• server Web pages: added links to help for data servers in various languages
• server Web pages: altered (improved) some texts
• custom application interface of the Web service: added functions for reading and writing array-type tags (allows for only a single function call for the whole array)

Web Client

• added possibility to hide/show a trend series
• fixed updating the visibility of components based on initial tag values before connecting to a data server
• trend viewer: fixed the sporadic situation when it was not possible to open the text data viewer
• trend viewer: fixed browsing data if zooming is active
• added further program languages (Russian, Lithuanian, Hungarian)
• added Russian help
• minor changes in user interface

Mobile Client

• added further program languages (Russian, Lithuanian, Hungarian)
• alarm/event viewers: fixed sorting
• alarm/event viewers: fixed adding the "Acknowledged by" column
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed displaying the X axis
• Text component: fixed displaying vertical text
• fixed displaying the unsupported components

Communication drivers

• added possibility for the driver to only work in server mode on the Ethernet, i.e. open a server socket (port) and wait for a device to connect (tested only with QMD devices)
• fixed logging the length of received data over a TCP socket
• added a flag into the status word that indicates reading historical data

Modbus communication driver

• removed the restriction to the maximum length of 120 elements in communication zones located in Coils and Inputs

AMiT communication driver

• optimized communication with multiple devices on multiple channels (segments)

Utilities

• added a utility for writing into RDT files (Utils\R_DTWriter.exe)
• replaced the HwKeysUtil.exe utility with LicenseKey.Util.exe

All components (graphical objects)

• fixed updating the displayed value of a tag after switching the project language when the component is contained in a window template and linked to a data structure field
• fixed updating the help hint after switching the project language

Display component

• R4-3451 - fixed painting if the value color is black and display style is LCD-2

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed synchronizing series properties with the Real-Time Trend Manager

Reliance Design development environment

• fixed synchronizing the contents of the Visual Linking window with the Device Manager (previously, the Visual Linking window might display a deleted object)
• fixed enabling/disabling the "One Level Up" command in object selection dialogs (previously, the command sometimes got disabled after invoking the respective manager by the "Manager" command)
• fixed displaying ID (in the bottom left corner) for multiple identical strings in the Select String dialog
• added possibility to invoke the String Manager from the Select String dialog
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed exporting the active project language
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: data update interval is specified in milliseconds (previously in seconds)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: improved encrypting some pieces of exported information
• R4-2234 - fixed painting a transparent picture on a window background
• R4-3512, R4-3180 - managers: fixed displaying the vertical scroll bar
• R4-1362 - Custom Report Manager: fixed enabling/disabling the "Show Report Preview..." and "Load Report Items" buttons
• Data Structure Manager: added the "Eng. units" and "Eng. name" properties for a data structure field
• Device Manager: fixed importing tags from an OPC server (previously, OPC items added to an OPC group created in the OPC browse dialog were imported twice)
• Device Manager: added the "Automatically generate OPC ItemID for nested tags" property for a device of type "OPC" (the "Basic" tab)
• Device Manager: added the "Tag quality determination method" property for a device (the "Advanced" tab)
• Device Manager: exporting/importing tags to/from CSV format - added the "Eng. units" property
• User Manager: added the "Disable closing runtime software's main window" property for a user (the "Restrictions" tab)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Disable closing runtime software's main window" property for a computer (the "Restrictions" tab)
• Project Structure Manager: removed the "Computers" fixed folder from a control area

Runtime software

• improved time accuracy of the execution of time scripts
• fixed a sporadic confusion of tags when logging data to a data table
• fixed receiving a value of type "DoubleWord" from communication drivers (if the most significant bit was set, the value was not accepted)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• improved Unicode support when working with files and directories
• improved support for Russian
• fixed painting title bar and border icons
• Reports: fixed painting a column header frame
• Project Manager: removed the "Computers" fixed folder from a control area
• Project Manager: added displaying time stamp for internal tags
• Project Manager: added displaying quality for tags
• "Enter Value for Tag" dialog: fixed the message text displayed when violating specified limits for a tag displayed in hexadecimal format
• eliminated a short-term painting of yellow borders around components upon loading a window if the tag values are valid
• fixed sporadic failing to find a device from in script code

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• R4-3427-1 - optimized sending real-time data to thin clients (only the data of changed tags is transferred)
• fixed the error consisting in changing the decimal separator to "." upon connecting a thin client to the web server

Web Client

• R4-3427-2 - fixed repainting components after being covered by another window
• R4-3276 - fixed displaying the value of an integer tag with a non-zero number of decimal places and inactive correction of analog value
• localized file selection dialogs
• fixed displaying warnings of violating specified limits when entering a new value for a tag
• added settings for logging debug information
• components: fixed updating the help hint after switching the project language
• Data Grid component: fixed updating column header after switching the project language
• Animation component: fixed sporadic failing to paint the static picture
• R4-3275 - Gauge component: fixed painting scale labels
• Display component: fixed painting the decimal separator if display style is LCD-2
• R4-3498 - Real-Time Chart component: added displaying slice names for a pie chart

Mobile Client

• added support for the Windows CE 6.0 operating system
• components displaying text: fixed loading properties of type Font (previously, the strikeout and underlined font styles were ignored)
• vector components: fixed painting line styles
• Bevel component: fixed aligning the picture
• Bevel component: fixed controlling the visibility by a tag
• Animation component: fixed the error that occurred during loading the component if there were no pictures (states) defined
• Gauge component: fixed painting scale labels
• trend viewer: fixed retrieving later data from the server (a duplicate value issue)

Communication drivers

• added logging communication zone name, number of tags or tag name for a communication packet
• changed the default time interval to 1 second for the timer dedicated to the preparation of communication packets
• fixed memory leaks
• fixed the error (Access Violation) that sometimes occurred during termination
• R4-3475 - fixed determining quality of tags for devices in offline mode
• fixed determining quality of write-only tags

Modbus communication driver

• added mask write for digital-type tags located in Holding registers using the 06 (Preset Single Register) and 16 (Preset Multiple Registers) functions
• changed reading Coils and Inputs in order to only read digital-type tags defined in a project (if they start at 8-bit boundary)

Teco communication driver

• fixed detecting the number of bytes received during communication via Ethernet using the UDP protocol
• added support for tunneling communication via the MPC mode

Elgas communication driver

• fixed reading data activated by the Exp_ReadData function
• fixed reading the whole archive from the device (ELCOR-94)

Sauter communication driver

• fixed errors in communication
• fixed logging communications

QMD communication driver

• fixed reading historical data from the device

Note: This is a cumulative update (it also includes previous updates).

Communication drivers

• fixed detecting the number of bytes received during communication via Ethernet using the UDP protocol

Modbus communication driver

• fixed writing digital outputs (coils) using the Force Multiple Coils 15 function

Web Client

• fixed connecting to a data server when project name contained non-standard characters

All modules

• trends, charts: improved look and feel of the property editor
• license registration: added support for software keys
• Trend Manager: fixed adopting user settings when duplicating a trend
• unified some terms

All components (graphical objects)

• fixed renaming components
• fixed controlling components' position and size by a tag

Container component

• current alarms/events: fixed updating texts after switching program language
• current alarms/events: eliminated the temporary size change after switching program language
• current alarms/events: fixed enabling the "Report" command

Notepad component

• renamed commands in the tool bar and popup menu
• added the "Word wrap" property
• added possibility to configure the commands
• added possibility to print the text

Real-Time Trend component

• added updating the trend series with data right after loading the component

Reliance Design development environment

• Managers: fixed the error that occurred when selecting a deleted object in the "Search Results" window
• Data Structure Manager: added the "Matrix row count" and "Matrix column count" properties for array-type fields in data structures for an AMiT device
• Device Manager: added checking if alarm/event text is not blank
• Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "Array of Integer", "Array of LongInt" and "Array of Float" in an AMiT device
• Device Manager: added the "Matrix row count" and "Matrix column count" properties for array-type tags in an AMiT device
• Device Manager: removed the properties that define the length of registers for a Teco device (they were no longer used)
• Device Manager: enabled the "Dec. places" property for tags of type "Array of Float" and "Array of DoubleFloat"
• R4-2401 - Data Table Manager: added checking the field name in physical table to be unique
• Trend Manager: added the "Adopt User Settings" command
• Script Manager: fixed replacing text in all scripts
• Script Manager: added the "Terminate after exceeding max. execution time" property for a script
• Script Manager: added explanations for some common script properties
• Script Manager: renamed the "Execute even on change in data quality" property to "Execute even when data becomes valid"
• R4-2871 - Script Manager: fixed checking time script properties (previously, it was not possible to save changes in a time script configured to execute only once)
• String Manager: fixed finding and replacing text after switching between the tabs in the "Find Text" and "Replace Text" dialogs
• Picture Manager: the "Add Picture Folders" command pre-selects the last selected directory
• User Manager: removed the "User ID" property from the outgoing E-mail configuration (SMTP) for a computer
• Project Structure Manager: added replacing the data tables' link to a server connection group when duplicating a computer (the data tables connected to the new computer created by duplicating are automatically re-linked to the group created under the new computer)
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Directory" property
• Project Diagnostics: fixed checking the "Blocking tag" property of a data table
• "Configure Toolbars" dialog: adding the "Restore Defaults" command for the Component Palette
• Project Options: changed the default value of the "Return value even if not valid" option to active (applies to newly created projects)
• removed the "Runtime" menu, moved the "Start" command to the "Project" menu
• removed the "Project" > "Access Rights" and "Project" > "Languages" commands
• the "Open Project" command pre-selects the last selected directory
• removed the window title string from the respective RDT file (replaced with a string ID)
• added the "Exit" button to the "Welcome" window
• updated the English manual (Doc\Design_ENU.pdf)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• current alarms/events: fixed displaying Unicode characters
• alarm/event report preview: fixed displaying Unicode characters
• current alarms/events: added updating status bar texts after switching program language
• added automatically showing the virtual keyboard (if required) in all modal dialogs
• fixed centering a visualization window of type dialog shown in exclusive mode (modal dialog)
• R4-2310 - User Manager: added preventing a user administrator from being able to delete a user assigned the servicing right
• added warning about an invalid SQL connection used for data tables during project startup
• R4-2903 - added checking the security restrictions for some types of actions (Show User Manager, Show Trend Manager, Show Report Manager, Print screen)
• Alarm/Event Report Editor: fixed updating texts after switching program language
• used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Alarms/Events | Display | Font) for displaying alarms/events in the bottom panel
• added Czech help and manual (Help\Runtime_CSY.chm, Doc\Runtime_CSY.pdf)

Reliance Control Server

• speeded up opening the server Web page upon launching the program by the "Start Reliance Control Server and open Web page" from the Export Project for Remote Users Wizard

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed setting the value of tags nested within structured tags from another instance of the runtime software
• added built-in Czech help in HTML format
• added a Web page warning about license not available for thin clients (remote users)
• added information about license registration
• minor changes in server Web pages

Web Client

• decreased CPU load while processing the data sent by data servers (replaced XML parser, replaced Base64 encoder) - optimized for large projects
• allowed JRE to use more memory (1024MB)
• "Tag Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
• "Alarm/Event Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
• R4-3015 - components displaying text: fixed loading properties of type Font (previously, the strikeout and underlined font styles were ignored)
• R4-3010 - vector components: fixed painting line styles
• Time Program, Teco - Time Program components: added the time program editor
• Radio Buttons component: fixed painting the buttons
• Button component: fixed the error of not activating some windows in projects converted from the Reliance 3 format
• Bevel component: fixed aligning the picture
• Bevel component: fixed controlling the visibility by a tag
• Notepad component: added exporting/importing to/from a file
• Notepad component: fixed word wrapping text
• Notepad component: fixed using the right font
• Notepad component: fixed showing a popup menu
• Notepad component: fixed updating commands after switching program language
• Animation component: fixed the error that occurred during loading the component if there were no pictures (states) defined
• Popup Menu component: added showing the "Enter Value for Tag" dialog if clicking on a menu item linked to a tag
• Data Grid component: fixed the column header visibility
• Data Grid component: fixed selecting the whole row
• Data Grid component: fixed the scroll bar visibility
• Data Grid component: fixed grid lines visibility (horizontal and vertical division)
• Data Grid component: fixed row height
• Data Grid component: fixed aligning the value
• Data Grid component: fixed displaying the data shifted by an offset
• Combo Box component: fixed setting the selected item if the tag value does not correspond to any item
• R4-3104 - Gauge component: fixed painting scale labels
• R4-3207 - Real-Time Chart component: added support for additional series types
• fixed displaying Unicode characters at some places
• www link action: fixed showing the link if the protocol was missing (e.g. http://)
• trend viewer: fixed retrieving later data from the server (a duplicate value issue)
• added built-in Czech help
• minor changes in texts and user interface

Mobile Client

• "Tag Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
• "Alarm/Event Information" window: added continuously updating displayed information
• improved program code security

Communication drivers

• fixed communication error on the "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232,RS-485)" communication channel if using the TCP/IP protocol and multiple devices with the same IP address
• added closing the Ethernet socket after finishing reading the data if the connection to the device was caused by a request for reading historical data

Modbus communication driver

• fixed reading digital-type tags if another tag of a different data type (Word, Float) existed with the same address
• fixed reading digital inputs and outputs

Teco communication driver

• fixed the optimization of communication via Ethernet
• fixed reading/writing data from/to the Databox if the read/written data occupies multiple memory pages

Promos communication driver

• added support for the "RT" and "PL2" models

AMiT communication driver

• fixed generating configuration strings based on information from a project
• added support for digital-type tags
• added support for array-type tags (matrices)
• fixed writing data

QMD communication driver

• fixed reading real-time data

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• added converting the "Swap bytes" and "Swap words" properties of a Modbus device
• added converting the properties of a Promos device
• added converting data types of tags in a Promos device

RDT File Editor utility

• added the "Edit > Find" and "Edit > Replace" commands
• added the "Options > Font" command (enables you to change the font used for displaying the data in the grid)

Tannery example project

• revised the project so that it uses the new features of Reliance 4
• added the Japanese localization
• provided full functionality in thin clients
• added custom reports

Installation program

• fixed associating files with the .rdt, .rrt, .rrp extensions

Modbus communication driver

• fixed reading data of a digital-type tag if a tag with the same address existed in another device

Teco communication driver

• fixed communication error on the "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232,RS-485)" communication channel

All modules

• added action type: Show records related to all windows
• added action type: Show records related to active window
• added action type: Show the list of program languages
• added action type: Activate a program language
• added action type: Show virtual keyboard
• added action type: Show system information
• added action type: Show Project Manager
• added action type: Print screen
• added action type: Play a sound
• trend charts, diagrams: added possibility to configure additional axes
• added the "Register License..." command to the "Help" menu
• Activate License Wizard: added a command for saving the registration key to a file
• changed some terms in the context of a visualization project: "Database Table" -> "Data Table", "Database Field" -> "Data Table Field"
• Managers: increased the default width so that all tool bar commands are displayed

Popup Menu component

• fixed updating the text of menu items after switching the project language

Display component

• fixed showing a popup menu after clicking right mouse button
• component editor: added controls for configuring the "Frame" property

Progress Bar component

• component editor: added controls for configuring the "Frame" property

Text, Active Text, Check Box components

• component editor: fixed preview background color

Radio Buttons component

• component editor: added controls for configuring the "Frame" property
• look of radio buttons is now dependent on the operating system

Edit Box component

• R4-2451 - fixed sporadic failing to paint the label

Container component

• R4-2728 - fixed updating the container after linking it to another window template

Notepad component

• fixed painting the horizontal scroll bar for text aligned in a way other than "Left"

Sauter Time Program component

• fixed the "List index out of bounds" error that occurred during runtime

Track Bar component

• component editor: allowed configuring dynamic height

Multimedia Player component

• component editor: added the control (check box) for configuring the "Negation" property for the main tag

Data Grid component

• added the "Zebra view" property to display even rows using another color

Data Tree component

• R4-2358 - allowed linking a cell of type "Active text" to a digital-type tag
• "Edit Tree Structure" dialog: fixed indicating modified nodes
• improved updating the tree after changing a node's picture
• removed the "Show root" property
• added the "Scroll bars", "Select-background color" and "Zebra view" properties

Real-Time Trend component

• fixed the order of series after loading a project
• fixed synchronizing series name in the legend

Reliance Design development environment

• new Communication Driver Manager
• design window: fixed automatically aligning components
• design window: handled adding a component on a hidden layer
• Window Manager: a duplicated window is now placed into the same folder as the source window
• Window Manager: R4-2739 - fixed enabling commands
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: added possibility to configure creating and placing a shortcut to Web client (if launched using Java Web Start) on Windows desktop and Start menu
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: fixed the error that occurred if the computer's "Data Tables" folder contained an invalid link to a data table (e.g. if the data table has been deleted)
• Export for Remote Users Wizard: improved specifying the data server address
• Project Diagnostics: improved finding unused text strings in custom reports of type "FastReport"
• Project Diagnostics: fixed finding unused actions in the tree structure of Data Tree components
• Project Diagnostics: R4-2402 - fixed performing the diagnostics of the selected scope of a project
• Project Diagnostics: R4-1311 - fixed reporting a false error for window templates not linked to a data structure
• Script Manager: R4-2239 - fixed saving a script's link to a tag after typing the tag name into the edit box
• Custom Report Manager: fixed updating the occurrence count for custom report items
• Project Options: fixed updating the Status label after changing language status (Active/Default)
• Project Options: added the "Treat invalid tag value as error" option (Scripts | Other)
• Project Options: added the "Log information about thin clients getting connected and disconnected" option (Web)
• help for scripts: added a description of the RSys.RestartWindows method

Runtime software

• limited logging internal error messages to the alarm/event database
• added alarm/event name to the data object that can be retrieved in scripts invoked on alarm/event start/end/origin by calling the RScr.GetCurrentScriptDataEx method
• historical reports: fixed column order in projects converted from the Reliance 3 format

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• trends, charts: fixed displaying Russian characters in the legend and property editor
• fixed displaying window templates nested into another template
• R4-2206 - reduced border width for tray windows and sizeable windows (border width is no longer dependent on the operating system)

Reliance Server, Reliance Control Server

• fixed failing of data server to return historical trend data to a thin client for series of type Bool
• server Web pages: fixed setting language for the page after the request for disconnecting thin clients
• server Web pages: adjusted the look of some pages
• added logging information about thin clients getting connected and disconnected to/from the data server
• added generating internal messages about write commands received from thin clients

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• fixed converting the "Terminate script on error" and "Return value even if not valid" options
• R4-2520 - fixed converting print reports
• fixed converting national characters (e.g. Russian) in scripts' source code
• fixed converting national characters (e.g. Russian) in Radio Buttons components' texts

Web Client

• system windows: added the command for window maximization
• main window: look of the background (color gradient)
• System information: fixed the displayed port number if the Web client is launched as an applet
• System information: secured the list of users
• windows: fixed showing a modal dialog window after project start-up
• windows: R4-2420 - fixed placing a normal window to the center
• windows: fixed updating text strings in dialog windows after switching the project language
• windows: fixed showing a window's popup menu
• all components: fixed background color for some components
• all components: fixed showing a component's popup menu
• all components: fixed painting rotated components displaying a tiled picture
• Real-Time Trend, Real-Time Chart components: fixed the look of the chart
• Edit Box, Notepad components: fixed maximum text length
• Notepad component: fixed the look
• Clock component: fixed painting
• Text component: fixed automatically sizing the component
• Text component: fixed displaying a vertical text
• Popup Menu component: fixed updating the text of menu items after switching the project language
• Radio Buttons component: fixed painting the frame
• Display component: fixed showing a popup menu after clicking right mouse button
• trend viewer: fixed sporadic failing to display the data during quick browsing
• trend viewer: added a settings dialog (settings are stored in the operating system's user profiles)
• trend viewer: added a quick setup panel (3D, title, legend, axes)
• trend viewer: added possibility to print the chart to a printer
• trend viewer: added possibility to save the chart to a file (as a picture)
• trend viewer: added a dialog showing trend data in text form
• alarm/event viewers: added a dialog showing alarms/events in text form
• alarm/event viewers: fixed enabling commands
• alarm/event viewers: text filter is now case-insensitive
• alarm/event viewers: added playing a sound (Beep) on alarm/event start/end
• fixed entering tag values in hexadecimal format
• fixed repeated showing the Trial version message box

Mobile Client

• added allowing running only a single instance of the program
• System information: fixed displaying the time passed since start-up (up-time)
• windows: fixed painting background pictures
• Data Grid component: handled the "Zebra view" property
• Text component: adjusted the size of displayed text
• Text component: fixed displaying a vertical text
• trend viewer: added a settings dialog (settings are stored in the operating system's user profiles)
• trend viewer: added a quick setup panel (3D, title, legend, axes)
• alarm/event viewers: fixed enabling commands
• alarm/event viewers: text filter is now case-insensitive
• alarm/event viewers: added playing a sound (Beep) on alarm/event start/end
• fixed repeated showing the Trial version message box

Modbus communication driver

• fixed communication errors

All modules

• trends, charts: fixed displaying Russian characters in the legend and property editor

Components (graphical objects)

• fixed showing a hint for some component types (previously, a hint was not shown)
• R4-2264 - optimized painting components (previously, a bigger amount of components in a window caused high CPU load)
• R4-2305 - fixed the error that might occur while automatically aligning components
• added enabling/disabling components contained in a window template depending on whether the container component linked to the template is enabled/disabled (previously, some component types responded to user actions even if the parent container component was disabled)
• R4-2114 - adding checking access rights before running scripts, actions and showing popup menus

Container component

• fixed painting a Container component linked to an empty window template (at design time)

Edit Box component

• fixed handling the "Update timeout" property
• R4-2351 - component editor: fixed the "Password character" property label

Notepad component

• fixed handling the "Update timeout" property

Data Tree component

• fixed saving the link to an action in a node (the first column)
• fixed enabling/disabling the "Enter Value..." and "Execute Action" commands (previously, the commands got enabled/disabled depending on the "Allow editing structure" property)
• R4-2324 - fixed performing diagnostics of the tree structure containing non-existent nodes

Pipe component

• component editor: fixed saving properties on the "Security" tab (page)

Real-Time Trend component

• R4-2253 - component editor: fixed overlaying controls

Simple Time Program component

• after closing the time program editor during runtime, the data is written do the device only if the editor was closed with the "OK" command

Reliance Design development environment

• User Manager: disabled the controls on the "Restrictions" tab (page) if the user has the Servicing right or is a user administrator (the restrictions do not apply to such users)
• Window Manager: added the "Find Object Usages..." command
• R4-2338 - Real-Time Trend Manager: fixed the "Tag" label (previously, the text was not displayed completely)
• R4-2338 - Real-Time Trend Manager: allowed selecting tags of type "Bool" for trend series
• Project Diagnostics: added checking component position being out of the bounds of a visualization window
• Backup Project Wizard: fixed sending a project's backup file via E-mail clients Outlook 2007 and Thunderbird
• R4-2306 - Backup Project Wizard: added saving the project before starting the wizard
• R4-2256 - export for remote users: fixed generating the web page in order not to cause a repeated redirection
• R4-2281 - configuring tool bars: disabled dragging commands to the menu bar
• fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files (eliminated the dependence on the alphabetical sorting in various language versions of Windows)
• fixed encrypting script files with empty source code
• fixed the error that might cause a hint to be shown for components located on an invisible layer
• fixed assigning a name to components in a window template created through the "Create Window Template" command from the design window's popup menu (previously, the components had an empty name)

Runtime software

• fixed logging String-type tags to SQL databases
• R4-2340 - fixed processing the last error information in scripts running in different threads (information about the last error is now stored for each thread)
• fixed computing the check sum (hash) of project files (eliminated the dependence on the alphabetical sorting in various language versions of Windows)
• fixed the RInet.SendMail function's return value (previously, the function sometimes returned False even if the E-mail was sent successfully)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• R4-2341 - fixed running the script on loading a window configured as the initial window for a computer
• added the "Previous Window" and "Next Window" commands to the main menu

Web Client

• R4-2306 - Animation component: fixed running the animation if not controlled by a tag
• R4-2339 - Data Grid component: fixed painting
• Edit Box, Notepad components: fixed enabling the component by a tag
• fixed the position of modal dialog windows
• secured entering access codes

Mobile Client

• Grid component: fixed displaying data

All modules

• window templates are now transparent
• in unofficial versions, added displaying detailed version information in the main window's title bar
• fixed detecting a hardware key under Windows Server 2008

Components (graphical objects)

• fixed updating engineering units of tags after switching the project language
• R4-2121 - fixed invoking the "Close dialog window" action from some components
• changed the way of saving components' external data
• changed the way of building names for external data files
• fixed resolving links to dynamic limits of tags for components contained in a window template

Button component

• used the correct project language for the query on changeover to the other state (state 0/1)

Text component

• fixed displaying Russian characters in a vertically-oriented text
• fixed dynamic height/width when the "Automatic size" property is active

Display component

• R4-2091 - fixed sporadic displaying the value outside the component when linked to a String-type tag

Circle component

• fixed painting a color gradient if centered

Check Box component

• fixed saving the "Word wrap" property

Data Grid component

• the number of grid rows is adjusted to column tag's array element count if the tag controlling row count is set to -1 (previously 0)

Picture component

• fixed controlling the component's position by tags when relative coordinates are used
• fixed adjusting the component's size to the picture size

Active Picture, Level Fill Picture, Animation components

• fixed adjusting the component's size to the picture size

Real-Time Trend component

• R4-1837 - series properties are stored in visualization windows

Edit Box, Notepad component

• fixed the error that occurred while updating the component based on the main tag after closing the window containing the component

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: added possibility to control an OPC group's state (active, inactive) by a tag
• Script Manager: added multi-line search using regular expressions
• Script Manager: added the "Thread" property for a script which allows for parallel execution of multiple scripts
• Script Manager: added the RWS.GetThinClientList method which enables you to retrieve information about thin clients connected to Reliance's data server
• Script Manager: added the RUser.CheckUserPassword method which enables you to check a specified user's password
• String Manager: added a transition into text edit mode using double-click
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Network (Ethernet)/Serial (RS-232,RS-485)" type of communication channel for a Modbus device
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Show menu bar" and "Show title bar" properties (computer | "Display")
• Create New Project Wizard: removed the "Create a separate folder" option
• Backup Project Wizard: added the "Send Backup File via E-mail" command
• added the "Restore Project from Backup" command ("File" menu)
• export for remote users: used computer hostname instead of "localhost"
• export for remote users: split the "Allow remote users to control devices and acknowledge alarms" option into two separate options
• export for remote users: added the "Enable forcing data to be updated" option
• export for remote users: options configured through the wizard are now stored in the project main file (the original .tcl file is automatically removed)
• design window: fixed updating layer names in the popup menu (in the list of layers shown by invoking the "Move to Layer" command) after duplicating a window
• design window: fixed the "Division by zero" error
• R4-2088 - Project Options: fixed saving the "Verify user identity" property for access rights
• R4-2140 - fixed service center numbers for the providers Mobistar and Proximus (Belgium) in the file SMSCN.txt
• Project Diagnostics: fixed the error that occurred when opening the editor of an object that no longer exists
• Project Diagnostics: enhanced script diagnostics (added support for "_" at the end of a line)
• Environment Options: added proxy server settings
• Environment Options: added possibility to deactivate checking for a new version
• Environment Options: options saved to R_Options.ini instead of R_Design.dsk

Runtime software

• OPC client: fixed reading the value of a tag defined in a project as "LongInt" if an OPC server returns it as "DoubleWord"
• historical reports: handled the situation when exporting reports and there is no default printer in the operating system
• custom reports: added the report title to HTML pages generated by the data server
• added implementation of the RUser.CheckUserPassword method

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Project Manager: disabled controls for configuring properties of project-defined objects
• "Enter Value for Tag" dialog: fixed checking the value to be within allowed range for tags in hexadecimal format
• R4-2049 - fixed sending e-mail messages with text containing line breaks (line breaks were previously omitted)
• speeded up loading window templates
• historical alarms/events: fixed disabling printing alarms/events from a preview
• historical alarms/events: fixed printing if column width is greater than page width
• current alarms/events: added possibility of printing
• fixed invoking the "Close dialog window" action from a visualization window

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

• server Web pages: added switching language (English, Czech)
• server Web pages: added switching language for historical data reports and custom reports (project languages)
• server Web pages: adjusted the look and ensured validity in compliance with W3C standards
• R4-2041 - fixed encoding of messages sent by the Web service
• added implementation of the RWS.GetThinClientList method
• fixed sporadic failing of data server to return historical trend data to a thin client

Web Client

• added possibility to display information about the currently logged on user
• all program windows: added a button for closing a window (suitable for graphical environments that do not show window title bars)
• fixed painting tool bars under Linux
• added commands to the tool bar that were missing compared to the tool bar in the runtime software
• added the "Update Tag Value" command to components' popup menu
• enhanced the "System Information" dialog
• Historical alarms/events: added updating the contents of the viewer before opening
• R4-2141 - added hiding/showing the main window's title bar and menu bar
• Circle component: fixed painting a color gradient if centered
• R4-2166 - Display component: fixed loading components not linked to a tag
• R4-2165 - fixed components displaying text containing the '&' character

Mobile Client

• added possibility to display information about the currently logged on user
• optimized performance: added freeing pictures that are no longer being used
• "Real-Time Trend", "Real-Time Chart components: fixed displaying time stamps

Reliance Driver Server

• added the R_DrvSrv_RegServer.bat batch file for registering the program as a COM server

Communication drivers

• handled the situation causing a modem not to hang up
• fixed checking the DCD signal
• fixed repeating connecting to a device after an unsuccessful attempt to read data
• communication diagnostics: fixed the statistics of received and sent communication packets for a modem

Elgas communication driver

• added support for Elcor94
• improved checking the received data for validity
• fixed the error of not reading the whole archive
• communication diagnostics: added further information

Modbus communication driver

• fixed checking the packet used for establishing a connection
• optimized reading binary tags data from Inputs and Coils
• fixed reading the data of a communication zone that contains no tags
• communication diagnostics: added further information

Other

• examples of client applications able to communicate with a data server via a Web service interface: added working with a String-type tag
• added the R_AppKill utility intended to terminate all instances of a specified application (process)

All modules

• standard message dialog: used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Languages | Font) for displaying the message text

Components (graphical objects)

• component editors: increased the width
• component editors: removed scroll arrows of tabs (pages) in the PageControl

Picture component

• added possibility to control the name of the picture to be displayed by a tag (enables you to dynamically change the picture)

Progress Bar component

• fixed painting in the multi-color mode

Gauge component

• R4-1840 - fixed painting if the main tag has dynamic limits

Edit Box component

• fixed repeated showing a dialog warning against exceeding a limit

Time Program, Teco - Time Program, Simple Time Program components

• enabled linking the component to the main tag of data type "DataBlock", "Array of Byte", "Array of Word", "Array of DoubleWord", "Array of Integer", "Array of LongInt"

Teco - IRC component

• fixed reading data from the PLC before opening the editor during runtime

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

• fixed loading string-type properties of the chart

Button component

• fixed disappearing button text after switching the project language during runtime

Text component

• fixed text position when the component is aligned to an edge (e.g. to the top) and has automatic size

Combo Box component

• added an icon for the confirm button

Reliance Design development environment

• R4-1835 - Managers: fixed the error that occurred when clicking on the bottom list of objects that only display the Name property in this list (don't display multiple columns)
• Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "DataBlock" in "Teco", Virtual and System devices
• Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "Array of Bool", "Array of DoubleWord", "Array of Integer", "Array of LongInt", "Array of Float", "Array of DoubleFloat", "Array of DateTime", "Array of String" in a Teco device
• Device Manager: added importing tags of time program types (__TTP2__, __TTP4__) from PUB format into a Teco device
• Script Manager: fixed sporadic "freezing" the program that occurred due to quickly opening scripts by double-clicking the tree view
• Script Manager: used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Languages | Font) for displaying the script check results and search/replace results
• Custom Report Manager: fixed the "Duplicate Object" command
• Project Diagnostics: added script diagnostics
• Project Diagnostics: added detecting unused objects
• Project Diagnostics: used the font selected in the project (Project Options | Languages | Font) for displaying diagnostics results
• Project Backup: added the Settings/Components directory
• exporting objects to CSV format: added possibility to choose Unicode or ANSI encoding

Runtime software

• improved logging debug information: added project name to every record (line), changed the time format (precision to milliseconds), added logging additional events (began opening the project, finished opening the project, finished loading project options, etc.)
• fixed reading the alarm/event type from a database (previously, it was always "Alert")
• added checking if communication drivers have the same version as the runtime software
• added checking if communication drivers are loaded from the same location as the runtime software

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Project Manager: made available in all language versions
• historical trend viewer: fixed the error that occurred when reading empty values from a database table after a new database field had been added to the table (error message: Could not convert variant of type (Null) into type (Double))
• historical trend viewer, historical report viewer: handled errors that occurred when saving settings to a user profile (if the profile path was not accessible), added displaying error messages
• R4-1940 - historical trend viewer: used Alias instead of Name when displaying information about a trend and trend series
• R4-1768 - "Customize Trend" dialog: fixed updating the color indicator after selecting a color from the dialog invoked through the button
• R4-1659 - custom report viewer: fixed sending a report via E-mail through an Extended SMTP (ESMTP) server

Reliance Server

• fixed launching multiple instances of the program as a Windows service

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

• R4-1854 - fixed handling thin client requests for historical alarms/events stored in a SQL database
• added a Web service interface intended for third-party applications to be able to connect to the data server
• White/Black filter: added support for wildcard characters
• server Web pages: added a link for downloading the Mobile Client installer (CAB)
• server Web pages: handled a request for a non-existent page (HTTP 404) if the project has not yet been exported for remote users

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• fixed memory leaks during a project conversion

Web Client

• R4-1502 - added displaying a virtual keyboard
• R4-1574 - added displaying an alarm/event panel at the bottom
• fixed computing components' dynamic position
• optimized painting vector components
• R4-1295 - added rotating components
• R4-1834 - Button component: fixed writing a constant, hexadecimal value
• Button component: fixed text color in the "hot" state (previously always black)
• Progress Bar component: added support for dynamic limits
• Progress Bar component: fixed displaying colors based on limits
• Real-Time Trend component: fixed the date/time format on the time axis
• Real-Time Chart component: fixed updating the data
• Picture, Active Picture, Animation components: fixed resizing the component based on the picture
• Combo Box component: fixed the component's behavior when linked to a string-type tag
• R4-1931 - fixed setting a tag's value through an action
• R4-1934 - fixed activating a visualization window related to an alarm/event
• many user interface improvements

Mobile Client

• fixed computing components' dynamic position
• Progress Bar component: added support for dynamic limits
• Combo Box component: fixed the component's behavior when linked to a string-type tag
• fixed running the program on devices of type WindowsCE
• added possibility to run the program in fullscreen mode
• added possibility to rotate the program's GUI on devices of type PocketPC

Other

• added a PDF document describing how to activate a license (Doc\LicenseActivation.pdf)
• added examples on creating a client application able to communicate with a data server via a Web service interface (Object Pascal - Borland Delphi 7, C# - Microsoft Visual Studio)

All modules

• EurekaLog error dialog replaced in most cases with a standard error message dialog
• added key shortcuts in the standard message dialog

Progress Bar component

• added possibility to link minimum and maximum to tags (enables you to dynamically change the range)
• added possibility to link warning and critical limits to the respective limits of the main tag

Edit Box component

• fixed displaying decimal place count
• added ending edit mode when another window is activated
• enhanced security features related to entering a value

Notepad component

• added possibility to show or hide the toolbar
• added ending edit mode when another window is activated
• fixed watching file changes (did not work correctly if the file did not exist when the component was created)

Data Tree component

• fixed updating the cell type name in the list of used cells of a node
• fixed the last column's width

Popup Menu component

• started using the "Visible" property during runtime

Reliance Design development environment

• Managers: replaced "Cancel" with the "Close" command
• Device Manager: removed the length restriction of a tag's "OPC ItemID", "DDE Item" and "Technical name" properties
• Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "DoubleFloat" and "DateTime" in a Teco device
• Database Table Manager: fixed the "Archive files" property (the "Daily" and "Monthly" options were swapped)
• Script Manager: fixed renaming a script when the "Properties" pane is hidden
• Custom Report Manager: fixed loading a template (*.rrt) before displaying a preview from the Custom Report Manager
• Custom Report Manager: fixed generating event scripts
• Custom Report Manager: fixed displaying Query Builder from a table not linked to a database
• Project Structure Manager: added the "Main\CustomReports" and "ThinClients" directories to the list of directories that can be automatically updated
• fixed saving access rights required by an object when access right names were renamed during selecting them
• fixed editing visualization window properties
• fixed considering a window's scroll bars position by a component (previously, components might have an incorrect position after duplicating a window)
• encrypted some parameters exported for thin clients

Runtime software

• optimized previewing historical and custom reports (previously, there was 99% CPU usage)
• fixed the RSys.PrintCustomReport method (eliminated displaying a printer setup dialog)
• fixed formatting time in the main window toolbar (time did not fit in the place)
• fixed connecting to a standby server when connection with the primary server is lost
• OPC client: fixed sporadic failing of read and write operations invoked from a script
• fixed sporadic failing of the write operation (setting a tag's value) invoked through an action

Reliance Control Server", "Reliance Server

• added notifying thin clients of data quality changes
• changed encryption of data exchanged with thin clients

Web Client

• fixed entering the value of tags with decimal place count greater than 1
• added enabling the command for showing a tag's trend based on whether the tag is logged to a database
• Popup Menu component: started using the "Visible" property
• Active Text component: fixed blinking
• new Options dialog: alarms/events viewer column settings
• new Options dialog: custom report format settings
• new Options dialog: options for suppressing some confirmation dialogs
• added saving windows positions and alarms/events viewer column settings on exit
• secured and obfuscated the program code
• fixed the error consisting in handling mouse clicks by components overlaid by another window

Mobile Client

• added enabling the command for showing a tag's trend based on whether the tag is logged to a database
• Popup Menu component: started using the "Visible" property
• new Options dialog: alarms/events viewer column settings
• secured and obfuscated the program code
• fixed sorting in alarms/events viewers

Communication drivers

• fixed computing address, register type and bit number of structured tags when loading a project

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• fixed converting state texts of Active Text components (state texts were missing in converted projects; the error originated in version 4.0.10)
• fixed converting visualization window titles if they used a character set other than that of the operating system on which the conversion was performed (e.g. Russian strings on English Windows)

Teco - Time Program component

• changed internal format of the "Heating/Air-conditioning" time program

AXIS IP Camera component

• added duplicating certain properties
• added possibility to maximize/restore the camera image on double-click

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: added support for devices of type "AMiT" and "Inmat"
• Device Manager: fixed importing tags from CoDeSys EXP format (under certain conditions, tag address was not imported)
• Script Manager: added the "Insert Parameter" command
• Script Manager: extended the RSys.SetProjectLanguage method (accepts also language ID)
• Script Manager: extended the RSys.SetProgramLanguage method (accepts also language name - "CSY", "ENU", "PLK", "RUS", "DEU")
• Custom Report Manager: added SQL Query Builder
• Custom Report Manager: added support for charts
• Custom Report Manager: fixed group bands
• Custom Report Manager: added the Int64TimeToDateTime and UTCDateTimeToLocalDateTime functions
• Environment Options: added Script Manager options
• Backup Project Wizard: added backing up the Main\CustomReports directory

Runtime software

• alarm/event viewers: added the "Priority" column
• current alarm/event viewer: added saving the position before terminating the project
• improved logging debug information (added logging additional events)
• fixed creating archive files of historical database tables (creating archive files was delayed)
• fixed the function RSys.SaveCustomReport (it did not work if the report template was in TXT and HTML format)

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

• fixed "freezing" the program that might occur during communication with thin clients
• fixed the error that caused the built-in Web server (Web service) to stop responding to thin clients
• fixed memory leaks that occurred during communication with thin clients
• fixed displaying dynamically generated texts if they contained HTML tags

Reliance Server

• added possibility to run multiple instances of the program (Windows Services) on a single computer

Web Client

• fixed positioning non-maximized visualization windows
• localized certain text strings
• alarm/event viewers: added the "Priority" column
• Button component: fixed aligning word-wrapped text
• Button component: fixed the error that caused the button configured as momentary to remain pressed
• Button component: fixed the query before setting a digital-type tag (previously, it was displayed twice)
• Data grid component: fixed handling the selected row tag
• Data grid component: fixed the error that occurred if the grid contained a column not linked to a tag
• Edit Box component: fixed alignment
• fixed a temporary file conflict while running multiple instances with the same project
• improved logging debug information (restricted the log to a maximum size, used file rotation)
• deactivated logging debug information into the console (it might have caused a slow response of the program or disconnecting and reconnecting to the server)
• updated the user log-on status after disconnecting and reconnecting to the server

Mobile Client

• fixed positioning non-maximized visualization windows
• localized certain text strings
• alarm/event viewers: added the "Priority" column
• Button component: fixed aligning word-wrapped text
• improved logging debug information (restricted the log to a maximum size, used file rotation)
• updated the user log-on status after disconnecting and reconnecting to the server

Communication drivers

• added drivers for devices of type "AMiT" and "Inmat"
• fixed the error that sometimes caused Driver Server not to terminate and resulted in 99% CPU load

Modbus communication driver

• fixed reading a digital-type tag when bit number is greater than 7

Elgas communication driver

• fixed hanging-up modem on error in communication

Johnson Controls communication driver

• added connection type Ethernet/Serial

SMS communication driver

• improved logging (used the Reliance4\Logs directory)

External Communicator

• allowed running multiple instances of the program
• fixed the error in the GetData method if the communication channel is configured to get closed automatically

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• fixed converting text strings if they used a character set other than that of the operating system on which the conversion was performed (e.g. Russian strings on English Windows)

Combo Box component

• fixed unwanted changing the current item after switching the project language

Reliance Design development environment

• fixed the error while detecting the HW key that caused the program to terminate
• hidden the "Activate License..." command if a HW key is detected
• About box: added displaying the serial number/HW key number
• Script Manager: added possibility to replace text in multiple scripts
• Script Manager: added the "Print" command
• Script Manager: fixed displaying the introductory help page by the "Help" | "Contents" command
• Data Structure Manager: added the "Device type" column in the detailed view of data structure list
• Data Structure Manager: fixed importing data structure fields of a structured data type from CoDeSys EXP format
• Picture Manager: added the "Add Folder with Pictures" command
• export for remote users: added the "Start Reliance Control Server and open Web page" command

Runtime software

• fixed the error while detecting the HW key that caused the program to terminate
• hidden the "Activate License..." command if a HW key is detected
• About box: added displaying the serial number/HW key number
• eliminated displaying decimal places for an integer-tag if the analog value correction is not enabled

Reliance Control Server

• fixed detecting the number of data points available with the license

Mobile Client

• Line component: fixed line width (previously, line width was ignored)

Teco communication driver

• fixed reading String-type tags if they are located in multiple communication zones
• fixed reading tags through communication zones (if a tag is located fully or even just partially in a communication zone and has the same update interval, it is only read through the zone; otherwise it is only read separately)

Modbus communication driver

• fixed confusing the RTU and ASCII communication protocol types

Elgas communication driver

• improved generating communication packets so that the queue does not fill unnecessarily
• handled the situation when a modem returns the driver's request
• handled the situation when a device returns current date-time value of zero
• handled the situation when a device returns a historical record of zero length
• added date and time of the currently read historical record to the dump of communication packets

Installation program

• added registering file types with extensions .rp4, .rdt, .rrt, .rrp in Windows

All modules

• software license

Line component

• fixed component size being saved if the line includes the ending arrow

Edit Box component

• fixed painting label background color

Data Grid component

• fixed updating the grid when the values of related tags change

Reliance Design development environment

• Data Structure Manager: added selecting device type before importing data structures from CoDeSys EXP format
• Managers: fixed the error that occurred when deleting multiple objects located on different levels of the tree structure
• Managers: fixed saving the new name after renaming an object by editing the name in the tree view
• color selection dialog: fixed the RGB order in the hexadecimal representation of color
• fixed saving a window's content after duplicating
• fixed the help for scripts (some topics could not be found)
• added saving all unsaved windows before exporting a project for remote users

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Managers: fixed the error that occurred when deleting multiple objects located on different levels of the tree structure
• Managers: fixed saving the new name after renaming an object by editing the name in the tree view
• color selection dialog: fixed the RGB order in the hexadecimal representation of color

Web Client

• Line component: fixed line width (previously, line width was ignored)

Communication drivers

• fixed logging communication for communication channel of type modem
• fixed loading modems into separate threads

Modbus communication driver

• eliminated reading Coils of zero length when no Coils were defined
• fixed receiving an exception: the driver does not repeat the request and logs the exception number to a log file

Elgas communication driver

• fixed the error consisting in doubled date in read historical data
• fixed recomputation of standardized volume

Level Fill Picture component

• enabled rotation
• fixed painting a color gradient

Display component

• fixed painting engineering units

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: added possibility to define tags of type "LongInt", "DoubleWord", "DoubleFloat" in a Modbus device
• Device Manager: fixed data types of tags in a Johnson Controls device
• Device Manager: added exporting/importing some properties of tags to/from CSV format
• Database Table Manager: extended and added properties for a database table (added "Read time-stamped data from device" to the list of possible values of the "Data acquisition method" property, added the "Last logged record" | "Time stamp" property)
• Project Structure Manager: added controls for configuring logging data to a MEM file for a connected device
• Project Structure Manager: added properties for a modem (the "Command mode transition delay (ms)" and "Idle period between dialing (ms)" properties)
• Script Manager: fixed finding whole words in the script editor
• Project Diagnostics: fixed focusing the control corresponding to a detected issue from the "Diagnostics Results" window
• Project Diagnostics: added checking the "SQL connection" property for the alarm/event database of a computer
• design window: fixed clearing the guidelines for aligning components
• fixed saving components' position (sporadic one-pixel error)
• visualization window export/import: fixed the file mask in the file selection dialog
• fixed localized texts in the dialog for exporting a custom report to PDF format

Runtime software

• fixed validity (data quality) of internal tags defined in physical devices (devices other than virtual and the System device)
• fixed writing to internal tags defined in physical devices (devices other than virtual and the System device)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• main window toolbar: fixed enabling the "Previous window" command

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

• server Web pages: added the command for disconnecting thin clients

Web Client

• added displaying the tag value in the "Information on Alarm/Event" dialog
• added preserving tables' row selection after updating
• added possibility for the user to choose at startup whether to adjust the display of visualization to the client computer's graphical resolution
• all component types: texts displayed using the right font
• Text component: fixed displaying wrapped text containing the CRLF characters
• Level Fill Picture component: fixed displaying the value (range is based on the active area size)
• Gauge component: added painting the color scale
• Check Box component: fixed aligning text
• Data Grid component: fixed displaying data, fixed text color, fixed displaying scrollbars

Mobile Client

• added displaying the tag value in the "Information on Alarm/Event" dialog
• Gauge component: added painting the color scale
• fixed computing components' position when scrolling

Reliance 3 to 4 Project Converter

• fixed converting components' Hint property
• fixed saving components' position (sporadic one-pixel error)

Communication drivers

• fixed path to log files
• added properties to a modem (Command mode transition delay, Idle period between dialing)
• restarting a communication channel does not clear the communication packet queue

Modbus communication driver

• fixed swapping bytes
• fixed situation when a communication zone is longer than 240 bytes
• fixed error in serial communication using RTU frame
• supported communication functions can be different for each device
• added data types for input registers

Elgas communication driver

• added communication with devices using the Elgas2 protocol
• added reading historical data

Reliance Design development environment

• Project Structure Manager: added properties to configure a virtual keyboard (computer | "Display")
• Project Structure Manager: added "115200 Bd" to the list of communication speeds via serial cable
• Project Structure Manager: added "Siemens TC65" to the list of supported GSM modems (computer | "GSM" | "GSM device type")
• Report Manager: fixed the error that occurred when canceling the selection of a database field for a report item
• Script Manager: added the "Run on initialization" property for a script
• Environment Options: added the "Show guidelines for aligning components" option
• design window: added displaying window name in the title bar
• Help menu: added the "Check for Updates" command to check for a new version of Reliance available to download
• Project Options: fixed the error that occurred when deleting the last SQL connection from the list

Runtime software

• added sending and receiving SMS messages through SMS Driver (R_DrvSMS.dll)

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Help menu: added the "Check for Updates" command to check for a new version of Reliance available to download
• Report viewer: handled the error that occurred during opening a report if Borland Database Engine (BDE) had not been installed
• added displaying a virtual keyboard to: "Log On User" dialog, "Enter Value for Tag" dialog, "Enter Limits for Tag" dialog

Reliance Control Server, Reliance Server

• added processing some types of requests received from thin clients: setting tag values through communication drivers, acknowledging alarms, retrieving historical alarms
• optimized transfer of array-type tags to thin clients

Web Client

• added checking identity of projects loaded by the client and the data server
• fixed activating a visualization window through an action
• fixed repeated opening a dialog window
• fixed the error that occurred when starting the Web Client on an operating system other than Czech and English
• fixed downloading historical alarms/events
• fixed acknowledging alarms/events
• Data Grid component: added displaying data
• Level Fill Picture component: fixed painting the background
• Container component: added displaying current alarms/events, fixed the order of components contained in the window template
• Edit Box component: fixed painting
• Notepad component: fixed painting, fixed aligning text
• Track Bar component: added displaying a scale
• Combo Box component: fixed displaying confirmation dialogs
• Display component: fixed displaying substitution texts for digital-type tags
• Real-Time Trend component: added displaying a title
• Scale component: added displaying color scale

Reliance Design development environment

• fixed the error that occurred when opening a component's editor after closing and re-opening the visualization window that contains the component
• fixed the error that occurred when closing a project containing visualization windows with embedded window templates

Runtime software

• added implementation of the RSys.RestartWindows method

Web Client

• fixed position of dialog visualization windows that are configured to show maximized

Components (graphical objects)

• added the "Enabled" (CtlEnabled) and "Visible" (CtlVisible) property

Active Text component

• fixed copying the error state text when duplicating the component

Internet Explorer component

• fixed the error that occurred when terminating the runtime software

Track Bar component

• added the "Scale inverted" (TrbScaleInverted) property

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: export of alarms/events to CSV format - fixed exporting/importing the link to a tag that is a field of a structured tag
• Project Structure Manager: fixed painting controls for configuring device communication channel properties
• Project Diagnostics: blank IP address of Teco and Modbus devices is considered an error only when communication via Ethernet is used
• Project Options: added the "Absolute/Relative" option for component rotation angle
• design window: window bounds (lines indicating the areas that will fit on the screen during runtime) consider the "Start-up size" property of trays

Runtime software

• fixed connecting to communication drivers at project start-up on Windows Vista

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• Managers: newly defined objects (historical trends, reports, users) get automatically connected (made accessible) to the current computer
• made accessible only objects (historical trends, reports, users) connected to the current computer

Web Client

• translated the word "Akce"

Display, Radio Buttons, Clock, Level Fill Picture components

• value of the main tag cannot be set by the user if the component is disabled

Reliance Design development environment

• Device Manager: disabled the "Update interval" property for tags of an OPC device (the displayed value is adopted from the OPC group)
• Device Manager: disabled the "Dec. place count" property for integer tags if value correction is not used
• Script Manager: fixed suggesting methods names of Reliance-defined objects if the object name is followed by further text
• design window: components created by duplicating are located on the same layer as the original components

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• User Manager: translated Czech texts
• fixed setting a visualization's window size and position based on the "Start-up size" property

ActiveX Container component

• fixed error that occurred during Project Diagnostics

Runtime software

• OPC client: fixed registration of structured tags in OPC server

Reliance View, Reliance Control, Reliance Control Server

• added User Manager

All modules

• fixed disappearing controls (buttons, check-boxes, etc.) on Windows Vista

Components (graphical objects)

• component editors: added indicating edited property values by changing the color of corresponding controls

Time Program component

• translated Czech texts

Reliance Design development environment

• Project Diagnostics: when an issue is found in a component (graphical object) and the issue row is double-clicked in the Diagnostics Results window, the component's editor is opened and the control corresponding to the property is focused
• Database Table Manager: added the "Time stamp base" property for a database table
• fixed updating a visualization window's title after switching the project language

Runtime software

• Fixed displaying a popup menu for a visualization window
• fixed updating a visualization window's title after switching the project language

Web Client

• fixed updating a project from a server and running cached projects

HASP hardware key driver

• updated to version 4.102

first official version