dSPACE ControlDesk 2.8p2                                    April 2007
Last-Minute Information
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Copyright (c) 2007 dSPACE GmbH, Germany

Contents:

1. General
2. Problems Fixed by This Patch
3. Limitations
4. Installing the Patch

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1. General
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This patch can only be installed on an existing ControlDesk 2.8
installation (dSPACE Release 5.1). It also contains previous patches
for this ControlDesk version.


2. Problems Fixed by This Patch
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- The show list of the Parameter Editor is not updated on execution of
  the menu option Read All Parameters Now.

- The property page of the Simulink offline platform may show corrupted
  data.
           
- The Update Firmware button of the Firmware Management dialog for the
  DS1005 PPC Board is not disabled if a wrong firmware file
  is specified.

- Toolbars of the PlotterArray and TableEditor instruments are
  disabled on switching from the edit mode to the animation mode.
  
- When a windowless instrument is removed from a layout, the layout is
  not redrawn in certain situations.
  
- The Cut option of the instrument context menu does not work if the
  instrument has not been selected.
  
- The assignment of Plotter connections to different host services
  using the context menu of the Plotter Array instrument does not work
  correctly.

- The Python interface for the Instrumentation does not support the
  assignment of the Plotter signals to different host services.
           
- ControlDesk may crash when the registration of a multiprocessor
  system with I/O-boards DS2301 or DS2302 is cancelled.

- In certain cases the board DS2302 may be unregistered after
  Refresh Platform Connection.

- On download of a real-time application for a multiprocessor system
  with DS1005 processor units and I/O-board DS2201, the slave DSP of
  DS2201 is not started.

- The menu option Tools - Create Support Information File does not
  save the current state of the simulation system, but the system
  state on start of ControlDesk.

- The processor board DS1006 is put into an invalid state and can no
  longer be accessed if following conditions occur: a) ControlDesk
  runs, b)a real-time application runs on the processor board DS1006,
  c) you call scoutcmd.exe with an invalid application name, in order
  to load a new application to the DS1006. ControlDesk crashes if you
  try to load a new application to the DS1006.

- Downloading a hand-coded application which does not call the Init()
  function on start (programming error) may cause the processor board
  (e.g. DS1005) to be locked (not accessible) for clients other than
  ControlDesk.

- Data capture with stream to disk stops when the file size of 4 GB
  has been reached, even if NTFS file system is used.

- It is not possible to convert the part of an IDF file over 2 GB into
  readable CSV files or into MATLAB binary files.

- Registry handles are not released when RTPLib objects are destroyed.
  An automation script which recurrently creates and destroys RTPLib
  objects may crash, if all available registry handles are used.

- When MotionDesk is started from MATLAB, the Navigator window of
  MotionDask contains an additional tab, called "Platform", which is
  normally not part of MotionDesk.

- ControlDesk Basic Version crashes when the Read Showlist Parameters
  Now option of the Parameter Editor is selected.

- The Find Signal dialog of the Parameter Editor is too small to
  display long path names of model variables found.

- The Merge Parameter Files dialog of the Parameter Editor is too
  small to display long path-names of files to merge.

- The values of the scdacon constants tpcTicLeft and tpcTicRight are
  swapped (Python module instrumentationcomponent.py). This leads to
  malfunction of the script "%DSPACE_ROOT%\Demos\ControlDesk\
  AutomationOfControlDesk\InstrumentSpecificHandling\Altimeter\
  d_Altimeter.py".

- There is a problem to access variables of an offline model, when
  path names of the variables contain escape sequences, like "\\",
  "\n" or "\t".

- ControlDesk crashes when the real-time application contains more
  than one Host Service, at least two variables are connected to a
  plotter instrument using different Host Services and the first
  connected variable is removed.

- The Selection Box instrument can not import CSV files created with
  ControlDesk versions prior to 2.6.

- Import of big CSV files in the Selection Box instrument is time
  consuming.

- Avionics instruments are not always correctly redrawn, after the
  instrument layout has been scrolled.

- Caption of the Sound Controller instrument may be cleared, if the
  property sheet is opened and then closed using the button "Cancel".

- The Parameter Tree context menu option Create Application Image
  does not write correct the lookup table values in the PPC file.


3. Limitations
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No known limitations


4. Installing the Patch
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To install the patch, you must be logged on with administrator rights.

Ensure that the active installation referenced by %DSPACE_ROOT%
contains ControlDesk 2.8. If you are unsure, start dSPACE
Installation Manager and check whether ControlDesk 2.8 appears in the
list of installed products for the active installation.

To install this patch, simply run ControlDesk28P1.exe. The setup
will automatically locate and patch the active dSPACE installation.

After this patch is applied, the version of ControlDesk on the splash
screen and in the About box is set to ControlDesk 2.8p2.

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