The readers for Shimadzu files (GCD/QGD/LCD) have been optimized to eliminate random failures and significantly improve speed and efficiency.
The Windows > Tile Selected Windows action now manages all open windows instead of a select few.
The Windows menu now lists and can be used to access all open windows instead of a select few.
The Windows > Close All SIC Windows action will close all SIC windows with a single click.
Off-screen windows will automatically come back into view when selected from the Windows menu. The main Image window will be placed into view if it is off-screen on launch. This improvement makes it easier to switch between single and dual monitor setups.
New icons for Windows > Tile Vertically and Windows > Tile Horizontally menus provide a more intuitive understanding of the available layout options.
The Blob Set Table has a new ordering and color scheme. The rows of the blob set table are clustered into and colored by the following three categories, ordered from top to bottom:
Up to 10 recently used MS ranges and formulas for opening SIC views and selecting ranges will be remembered.
A list of common hydrocarbon general formulas is now conveniently listed within the MS Range edit UI.
The MS Range edit UI pane is now more compact and collapsible in MS View.
The calibration settings include the new Set Intercept to 0 option to force a calibration curve to pass through the origin (0,0).
The quantifications settings include the new Default Response Factor option to apply a pre-defined default response factor to uncalibrated compounds.
Compatibility: The following options have been moved and/or relabeled for clarity:
The calibration table now uses 4 decimal places to display amount and response values.
The Quantification > New Calibration from Response Factor Table... action enables generating a calibration table from an existing table of response factors.
The new Target Group assignment option for calibrants enables greater specificity with group-based calibration by assigning specific target groups to individual calibrants.
An interactive report is now directly accessible from the Calibration Table toolbar.
Compatibility: In the report, the ISTD columns are only shown for ISTD calibration.
A new Response Factor column is included in the Calibration Report when using a Linear Fit with 0 intercept.
In Investigator, the Use Configuration option for File > Load Images... will now persist across sessions.
During the Auto Feature validation step, any invalid run paths will now be logged for easier troubleshooting.
The Auto Feature process now automatically identifies and sets the internal standard (ISTD) present in all samples within the feature template.
Investigator > Find Compounds uses a new enhanced 2024r1 algorithm that improves the identification of both common and unique compounds.
Compatibility: The Legacy version option allows the previous algorithm to be used for compatibility.
The Investigator Spectra View now provides a clearer and more informative presentation of class data, including:
The Compare Images (Side-by-Side) tool will now automatically pan the view to the selected blob.
The Compare Images (Side-by-Side) tables will now display blob attributes based on current blob table configuration.
The Compare Images (Side-by-Side) tool now allows the user to open multiple instances, each operating independently. Additionally, the tool no longer blocks access to the main Image window.
In some cases, when importing a CSV in the software (e.g. Compound Library > Import), the byte-order mark (BOM) at the beginning of the CSV file would be read in as an invisible character.
Workaround: Save the CSV without the BOM by opening the CSV in Excel and saving as either CSV (Comma delimited)(*.csv) or CSV (MS-DOS)(*.csv). Then import the CSV into the software.
When running the software in a virtual machine, using either the MS Cube or 3D View tools could cause the whole program to crash due to missing 3D rendering dependencies. Now, the missing dependency is detected and the incompatible view is disabled without crashing the program.
The label for View > 1D View > Static > Unit incorrectly indicated (min) even for Column II projections.
After performing an interactive library search (Configure > Settings > search library > set interactive > perform library search), the AUTOIMP.MSD file in the NIST install folder was not correctly restored. This could cause third-party software connections with the NIST MS Search program to break.
Workaround: If a third-party software connection with the NIST MS Search program is broken, reinstall the NIST MS Search program and verify the connection is restored. Then, navigate to the MSSEARCH folder of the NIST installation and copy the AUTOIMP.MSD file to create a manual backup. If the connection is broken again, restore the AUTOIMP.MSD file from this manual backup.
When importing a CSV file from Quantification > New Calibration Table from Existing Table, any I/O errors were reported with a non-descriptive message: "I/O Exception Caught". Now, a more detailed error message is shown.
When editing the Calibrant Name field of Quantification > Calibration Table, selecting another calibrant would cause the current edit to be lost without applying the change.
After saving a report to XLSX format with colorized rows, decimal formatting for numeric values within these rows was lost in the saved XLSX file. This issue affected all reports with colorized rows, e.g. Blob Table and Blob Set Table.
Affected Versions: This bug affects versions v2020r2 - v2022r3.
Saving a report to XLSX format with colorized rows resulted in a limited color palette being used for cell colors. The exported XLSX file displayed with reduced color depth (6-bit instead of the expected 12-bit). This issue affected all reports with colorized rows, e.g. Blob Table and Blob Set Table.
An error occurred when generating a Slice report from the Reports > Slice menu in Project using custom mass percent slices that fell outside the valid range (0% to 100%, exclusive). This resulted in an uncaught exception, causing the report generation process to fail unexpectedly.
Generating Slice reports from the Reports > Slice menu in Project failed for images acquired using variable modulation.
The Slice Report option dialog in Project became excessively wide and unusable when a long list of custom slices was specified.
Previously, when copying files in the Project - Others Folder file browser by dragging or copying/pasting, the existing file was not replaced, even after selecting Yes to overwrite in the confirmation dialog.
The command line would not exit until all processing steps were displayed, causing the program to appear frozen with large outputs.
Workaround: Pressing the spacebar repeatedly to display the full output page by page will make the command line to exit.
The following legacy response factor features are deprecated in favor of external standard calibration for quantification.