OMNIC Picta Release Notes

When collecting a single sample scan, the software does not prompt the user to enter a spectrum title before collecting the spectrum. This causes issues when the "Auto save a collected spectrum using the spectrum title" Data Security policy is enabled. The spectrum will be saved with the default title, which is the timestamp.

When a mosaic is collected or displayed with flat field correction enabled, an "Unhandled Exception" dialog appears.

This release updates drivers needed for the iN10 core card update.

With OMNIC Picta installed, OMNIC Specta program crashes when doing the spectral interpretation and during the multi component search.

Completely deleting detector spectral range causes unhandled exception on active detector when trying to change the min. spectral range.

When the "Prevent changing directories when opening files" policy is set, the user can change directories when opening an experiment file. However, you cannot change directories when saving an experiment file.

When the "Prevent changing directories when opening files" policy is set, the user can change directories when choosing to use a saved background.

When a mosaic is collected or displayed with flat field correction enabled, an "Unhandled Exception" dialog appears.

The ability to do automatic baseline correction on each spectrum during a collect has been added.

The ability to do automatic atmospheric correction on each spectrum during a collect has been added.

When the particle analysis wizard is complete, the data can be saved as a map file. A new file will also be saved the will allow the reanalysis of the particle map in OMNIC Atlµs.

OMNIC Picta has crashed on some occasions when multiple particle wizard runs are done sequentially with a large number of particles.

Completely deleting detector spectral range causes unhandled exception on active detector when trying to change the min. spectral range.

When the "Prevent changing directories when opening files" policy is set, the user can change directories when opening an experiment file. However, you cannot change directories when saving an experiment file.

When the "Prevent changing directories when opening files" policy is set, the user can change directories when choosing to use a saved background.

When a mosaic is collected or displayed with flat field correction enabled, an "Unhandled Exception" dialog appears.

Before collecting a map, collecting a spectrum will save and prompt for a signature. After collecting a map, then collecting a spectrum, the spectrum will not automatically save and prompt for signature.

After using the particle wizard several times, it will crash.

At times the collect engine does not start when OMNIC Picta is started. The wait time for the collect engine has been increased to allow for long delays on distributed security systems.

Completely deleting detector spectral range causes unhandled exception on active detector when trying to change the min. spectral range.

When collecting a map with more than 100 particles the software would crash after attempting to sign the map file.

When saving a file after a particle analysis, an existing file could be overwritten even though the policy defined this as not allowed.

When saving a file after a particle analysis, the file is signed. When verifying the signature, the file is reported as being modified since it was signed. The file is now correctly signed.

The particle wizard has been enhanced to not allow cancelation of the wizard during all the collection and process steps until the data has been saved. When cancel is not allowed, the process stage will force a file save to a map file of all data so that it will be properly saved and signed.

OMNIC Picta will now save maps only to the secure folder when security policy defines that state. This has been improved to support all security cases.

Reports could be printed without saving data. This has been changed to prevent printing until the data is saved and signed.

OMNIC Picta will now save maps only to the secure folder when security policy defines that state.

Audit events have been added to several actions. These include print from particle wizard, save video image, print from the file menu, save profile as CSV and print button in analyze images option.

When using the software in French, the imaging detector was not available.

The stage movement and mosaic did not operate correctly in German.

When collecting a map with many particles, only 100 are reported.

When setting up a particle analysis map collect, the background step was blocked by a disabled button.

When video has been calibrated and then the region information is changed in the operating system so that decimal point type is not correct, the video calibration is lost. The fix for this is to edit the OMNIC_MC.INI file. Change the decimal point in the calibration section to use either a comma or period to match the local settings then the calibration can be used.

When doing an image analysis report, the software would crash when multiple items clicked in table.

When starting a map collect with security setup, the maps would not collect.

Sometimes the bar graph for size distribution would not match the actual size distribution.

When doing the particle wizard, it now reports the particle length and width.

The spectra in the particle analysis report are shown as common scaled so if one spectrum is large compared to the others, the other spectra will be just a line. The report has been changed to show all spectra at full scale.

The OMNIC Picta stage tool is not synchronized with the instrument stage when changing between the virtual and the mechanical joystick.

Extensive changes to improve memory usage, user warnings and error trapping when collecting larger maps and mosaics.

Fixed an issue that caused memory loss when collecting large ATR maps, eventually causing the collect to stop.

Fixed an issue that prevented OMNIC Picta from starting intermittently.

A crash was found when using the image analysis tool when selecting the second step.

When attempting to save particle analysis results to a map, the file was not created.

When viewing a spectrum header for a spectrum collected in OMNIC Picta, it shows the incorrect experiment filename. This has been changed to show the OMNIC Picta experiment filename.

The application will not start after failed logins. It will record an event in the event log

Under certain conditions, a particle was reported as 0%.

Certain parameters were not persisted when saved in languages other than English.

When doing a report in the advanced diagnostic test, the wrong instrument name was reported.

It was found that when processing a map of discrete map points, the changed data could not be saved. This will now function correctly and save the new data and the information about the spectral history.

When set to languages other than English, the ATR release distance was not always the selected value.

When loading an experiment file saved with the ATR collect mode, the background reference button was not disabled for selection. All background buttons are not in the correct state when the experiment file is loaded.

The aperture settings were not saved in the map file. Therefore, the map information did not report the settings at collection. This has been changed to save the aperture settings.

When collecting a line map, drawing the line from left to right or right to left will affect how the mosaic is collected.

After collecting a map, there can be multiple Save Map commands shown.

When exporting a map after a normalize scale operation, the file will not always be saved.

After selecting a point on a point map and copying the spectrum, OMNIC Picta would hang up.

When using an OMNIC Picta particle wizard, the software would sometimes hang up.

When Thermo Security is set up to not allow certain users to open OMNIC Picta, OMNIC Picta would put a message that stated it would not open but then went and opened anyway.

Increased distance stage moves down when releasing ATR.

Polish translation is complete, improved Japanese and German translations.

Fixed issue when setting up discrete point maps and attempting to use the "Go to point" on the first point.

Fixed to collect background after time so that new background is collected at the specified time.

Saved backgrounds were not being used, instead used in memory background.

New profiles were not saved to some maps. The profile will now be saved to the map file.

OMNIC Picta will now use the settings from OMNIC DS that are appropriate.

OMNIC Picta will now log failed logins so that they can be monitored.

OMNIC Picta auto focus has been improved.

The time between sample and background collects has been increased. It is also adjustable using a setting at the bottom of the experiment setup page.

Operations to change format, apply Kramer’s Kronig or other operations on a map have been fixed to work with all maps.

You can now specify an additional release distance with the ATR pressure profile.

Collected backgrounds are not invalidated by changing collection parameters and reverting to previous values.

Collecting background after sample has been disabled for ATR data collection.

OMNIC Picta has been updated to support features of OMNIC 9.

Changes have been made in OMNIC Picta so that dialog boxes will not drop behind the application or become forced topmost windows.

Collect Background after sample does not work for maps and this feature will be disabled. This feature will be re-enabled when fixed.

OMNIC Picta now supports 64-bit Windows.

Changes have been made in OMNIC Picta so that dialog boxes will not drop behind the application.

If you have a manual XY stage, the live video image may shrink during use. The only way to resize the live video image was to restart OMNIC Picta. If you have a motorized XY stage, you are not affected by this issue and no additional fixes are included.

When using the Image Analysis tool in OMNIC Picta an exception error will be displayed and the feature will work.

When collecting a Point map with multiple aperture sizes, a single beam may be displayed instead of ratioed spectra.

When using DDiag to communicate with the iN10, it may indicate a failure to communicate and not allow the requested operation.

When a Point map experiment is saved and reloaded at a later time, the original Z axis values of each sample point is not correctly restored.

OMNIC Picta now supports digital security and the Thermo Security Administration application.

A user may choose to select a specific default OMNIC Picta experiment file to be loaded at startup. To select a default experiment file, navigate to the Advanced section of Experiment Setup in the View and Collect section.

The instrument firmware version can be found by opening the About OMNIC Picta dialog in the Help section.

When two like maps are opened in OMNIC Atlµs the Map Math function is available. The Map Math function provides the following map math functionality

A right-click option has been added to send map spectra to the OMNIC Specta application as temporary files.

If the mosaic has not changed since the last time collected prior to map collection, it will not be recollected. Instead the current mosaic collection will be used for the map collection.

DDiag now has a live video image display.

A progress window is now available during the optimize condenser operation.

A stop button is now available during the optimize signal operation.

The Map Blend option did not work correctly when in transmission.

When selecting color options in the Cross section and Random Mixture wizards did not work correctly in version 1.0.

Data collection now works properly and waits correctly between the background and sample collection.

When setting a new background, the condenser position is now remembered.

Changing the aperture size now invalidates the background.

When reopening the OMNIC Picta application, additional experiment settings are now retained such as background collection settings, number of scans, resolution, number of background scans, aperture size, final format, step size, apodization and scan speed.

Only the data format is changed when changing the data format in ATR mode, the ATR pressure is no longer released and reapplied.

Multiple windows are no longer spawned when viewing the Electronics system status.

Ultra-fast mapping option is now available after using the array zoom feature.

Drawing area maps at the viewing limits was not allowed in version 1.0 of OMNIC Picta.

Array zoom now requires a new background collection.

DDiag window issues have been addressed such as windows appearing behind other windows.

The ATR release distance has been increased from the previous version.

In the previous version of the software rotating the aperture by modifying the values in the dialog boxes now work correctly along with rotating the rectangle in the window.

The macro library setup option is now available in OMNIC Picta.

DDiag now supports and option to save the backup parameters.

The translation files have been updated.

QC libraries are not available in OMNIC Picta. However, QC library options do appear in Library Manager and Library Setup

Close or minimize all applications when running OMNIC Picta. At times if other applications are running behind OMNIC Picta, they can show through the application, and spectral or map data windows may not appear correctly in Analyze Maps and Data.

When drawing an area map with the array mode selected, use the Mosaic pane to specify the area rectangle instead of the live video pane, because the live video pane may cause the display to jump

TQ Analyst must be reinstalled after OMNIC Picta if it existed on the system before OMNIC Picta installation. The OMNIC Picta installer will install TQ EZ instead.

Line segments larger than half the current step size must be specified for the line segment to be drawn on the display.

Photoacoustic processed data does not work well with the wizards.

When you are running the Thermo Software IQ program, a warning will appear indicating that the omnic_wc.dll installed with OMNIC Picta is a newer version than expected for OMNIC. This is expected with the OMNIC Picta version 1.0 release. There will also be a warning message because the OMNICAdministrator.exp file size is different when installed with the iN10 driver. This is an obsolete file that is no longer used, and the change in file size will not affect the software functionality.