Prog-Express Changelog

What's new in Prog-Express 3.2.9

May 2, 2012
  • Enhanced chip support.
  • Updated software translations: Greek and Turkish language
  • Updated software manual: German language
  • Fixed a bug in the multi file mode control that prevents a restore of saved buffer offsets.
  • Fixed a potential crash of the additional file information area.
  • Fixed a display bug in the 2D data view of the Hex-Editor mode.
  • Several smaller improvements

New in Prog-Express 3.2.8 (May 2, 2012)

  • Enhanced chip support.
  • Improved reliability and safeness of the firmware update process.
  • Improved operator mode settings to provide a more secure production environment.
  • Improved the password dialog used by the operator mode. From now on the entered password is masked behind asterisk letters to keep out prying eyes.
  • Fixed a potential crash trigged by the attempt to load or save a project while the physical file is locked by an external program.

New in Prog-Express 3.2.7 (May 2, 2012)

  • Enhanced chip support.
  • When the process step “program chip with buffer” is executed separately, Prog-Express automatically checks if the chip is empty before.
  • Separate process steps are visible by default now.Separate process steps are now displayed crossed out if disabled.
  • Chip auto detection feature improved.
  • Several small improvements.
  • Fixed a bug at NAND chip programming when using the spare area usage option “don’t use spare area”. When using this special option the source data wasn’t programmed correctly. Verify failed and/or a lot of bad blocks were detected at further accesses.
  • Fixed a bug in the chip options control, which throws an exception if the user chooses an invalid Intel-Hex (with bad formatted records) as input file.
  • Fixed a bug that could occur is the programmer is disconnected while he is in work.

New in Prog-Express 3.2.6 (May 2, 2012)

  • Enhanced chip support.
  • Improved Mac OS compatibility.
  • Removed the X11 dependency on Mac OS.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an application crash on Linux and Mac OS.
  • Fixed a bug that prevents the sound playback on Mac OS.
  • Fixed a bug that could emit a breakdown of the file menu after its first usage on Mac OS.
  • Fixed a bug in the checksum calculation that could cause an infinite loop in a special case.
  • Fixed memory leaks.
  • Fixed enable/disable GUI feedback in the production mode.
  • Fixed scrollbar of chip browser.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in Prog-Express 3.2.5 (May 2, 2012)

  • Added possibility to update the programmer Firmware for BX23-BX40 on Linux.
  • Improved status bar of hex editor to provide better multi platform features.
  • Removed the unnecessary border around hex editor documents.
  • Fixed a drawing issue of the number box.
  • Fixed a bug in the number box that could crash the application in some special cases.
  • Fixed a bug while verifying chip options of a memory chip with readable sector protection bytes. The log area showed always that the process was failed - also if the verify was correct.
  • To remove rarely racing situations on some pc, the checksum recalculation was disabled while file operations are running.
  • Fixed a bug within the production mode. Removed a wrong/unnecessarily warning message when programmer specific chip options were used at some chips.

New in Prog-Express 3.2.4 (May 2, 2012)

  • Applied refactoring on several dialogs to acquire a more standardized look and feel.
  • Improved Linux and Mac OS compatibility.
  • Replaced icons on some places by more significant ones to improve the clarity and comprehensibility of its purpose.
  • Fixed a bug in the Linux version that prevents an update of the status text on a document change.
  • Fixed rendering bugs that occurred on Linux and Mac OS.

New in Prog-Express 3.2.3 (May 2, 2012)

  • Enhanced chip support.
  • Improved the handling of the software option for undefined bytes. From now on this setting is more generally admitted.
  • Improved the file chooser control. From now on it polls the selected file for external changes and updates the file metadata automatically if necessary.
  • Improved the operator mode behavior. While operator mode is activated, software options can’t be accessed anymore.
  • Updated copyright information to 2012.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent the selection of a programmer through the dropdown of the programmer choose control according to a manual USB reconnection.
  • Fixed a bug that could crash the application on to the usage of damaged project files.
  • Fixed memory leaks.