Match! Update Page

Latest Update

The current version is 2.0.11. If you are still using an earlier version (which can be checked by selecting "About Match!" from the "Help" menu), we strongly recommend to update to the current version. This can easily be achieved by performing the following steps:

1. If Match! is running, please save any open documents and close the program.
2. Please DO NOT uninstall the previous version before installing the new version! Instead, simply install the new version on top of the existing version. This is important to make sure that your license file is retained.
3. Download the installer file for your platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux 32-bit) from the Download page, and uncompress ("unzip") it if necessary.
4. Make sure that you have administrator privileges on multi-user systems, then run the installer by double-clicking on it. More details about this topic are given in the platform-specific "Readme" files that are also available from the Download page.
5. Follow the steps in the installer until it has finished, then restart Match!.
6. Check whether the update was successful by selecting "About Match!" from the "Help" menu.

Enhancements in version 2.0.11

• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • The loading of additional diffraction data in Bruker RAW4 file format did not work.
  • In certain circumstances there was no reaction to running the raw data processing or peak searching commands.
  • A bug causing an error message after creating a new reference database has been resolved.
  • Fixed a bug in the Windows version due to which a new reference database that was created "for all users" was not available to normal (standard) users.
  • Some minor bugs have also been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.10

• Phase names in the Match list can now be edited by double-clicking on the corresponding field
• New option "[Automatically] Run search-match calculation if update of FoM-values is required" on "Batch" tab of the "Tools/Options" dialog. You may have to run "Tools/Restore default settings" to adjust the "user level" settings in the options dialog!
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • A bug in the diffraction data file format recognition code in certain circumstances mismatched the 2-column peak data and the 2-column profile data format.
  • A couple of issues affecting Match list operations like double-clicking have been resolved.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.9

• Modification of background curve has been improved: You can now adjust control points close to the edges of the pattern, and the control point size has been increased.
• Export of experimental peak data to text file (2-column *.dif or Stoe *.pks).
• UTF-7 encoding of XRDML diffraction data files is now also supported.
• When reading .esg diffraction data files, a dialog will now be displayed in which the wavelength can be confirmed or corrected.
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • In the "Add Peaks" dialog the button "Add peak" was not available in certain circumstances.
  • Some logical conflicts affecting the "Save as defaults"-option of the "Colors and Line Styles"-dialog have been removed.
  • A bug in the User Database Manager has been fixed that caused the diffraction pattern graphics to be empty if the wavelength was changed.
  • Another bug in the User Database Manager caused an error message "Invalid user database format" after the current user database had been saved by pressing the "Save" button.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.8

• Export of profile data in 2-column format is now also available as 2theta vs. intensity
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • If the option "Vertical line at mouse cursor position" was active, the program stopped working if a search-match or update calculation for the FoM-values was carried out.
  • Several bugs affecting the table "Your personal reference databases" in the Reference Database Library dialog have been fixed.
  • Some issues of the User Database Manager causing problems in its entry table (e.g. when deleting entries) have been resolved.
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.7

• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • If a large reference database (like the full COD or the PDF) was used, the Match! document files became very large. Besides this, the program might crash e.g. during/after the search-match calculation. Both issues have been resolved.
  • Sometimes the program crashed if a peak was added after a document file has been loaded or the "Undo" command was run.
  • A bug affecting the loading of version 1 document files containing excluded ranges has been fixed.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.6

• The import of background profile data is now possible ("File/Import/Background")
• You can now export the background profile data in two different FullProf formats (*.bac)
• Cubic splines background calculation/modification has been improved.
• New/modified commands "Tools/Restore default settings" and "Tools/Reset to factory settings"
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • The profile fitting did not have any effect.
  • A bug in the import filter for MDI raw data files (*.mdi) has been fixed which prohibited the recognition/import of files in this format.
  • A bug affecting the displaying of Miller indices (hkl) in the diffraction pattern has been fixed.
  • Sometimes the peaks were not displayed if the calculated profile option was not active.
  • In certain circumstances it was not possible to export profile or other data to a file, because Match! created an illegal proposition for the file name internally that caused the "File / Save" dialog not to open.
  • Several bugs affecting the loading of Match! version 1 document files have been resolved.
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.5

• The smoothing of raw data has been significantly improved.
• The number of repetitions of the smoothing algorithm application can now be adjusted for automatic raw data processing.
• New command "Import predefined phase selection" allows the user to directly define the matching entries, by loading the corresponding entry numbers from a Match! answer set file (*.mta). This is especially helpful if series of similar samples have to be investigated.
• The settings of the "Export pattern graphics" dialog (e.g. graphics resolution) can now be saved as default values.
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • A bug affecting the import of Stoe raw data files on Windows PCs has been fixed.
  • When presets containing a lot of information (e.g. entry numbers) were loaded, the program sometimes crashed.
  • In certain circumstances, the program crashed during the indexing of a new reference database.
  • A bug in the "Find entry" code has been fixed.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.4

• New command "File/Export/Answer set (Match list)" to export the current entries in the Match list to a Match! answer set file (*.mta)
• Support for new diffraction data file format "G670" (*.gdf)
• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • A bug that prevented the adjustment of the width and height of exported pattern graphics images has been fixed.
  • The problem that on Windows and Linux machines the pattern graphics image could not be exported to JPEG- and TIFF-files has been resolved.
  • On Linux machines, all user defined settings that were saved "as defaults" were reset when the program was closed. This issue has been resolved, however, please note that at first you have to manually remove the file
    
    ".config/Crystal\ Import/Match\!\ 2.conf"
    
    in your home directory (if present), using administrator rights ("root","sudo"), and install the new Match! version afterwards, in order to fully resolve this issue!
  • The directory in which a pattern graphics file was exported was not stored.
  • An issue has been resolved that caused an error message being displayed when a user tried to open a user database file (*.mtu) that has been created on a different computer.
  • When importing Inel raw data files, a shift/error in the 2theta values might have been applied by accident.
  • Some non-ASCII characters were not displayed correctly in the splash screen.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed as well.

Enhancements in version 2.0.3

• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • Fixed a bug causing the user-defined default colors and line styles not to be retained.
  • The user-defined peak searching sensitivity for profile fitting as well as the default wavelength were not retained.
  • An issue affecting the import of monoclinic crystal structure data from cif-files (causing error message "Space group could not be identified") has been resolved.
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.2

• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • A work-around has been implemented that will enable the reading of most version 2.0.0 document files that were corrupted due to a bug in version 2.0.0
  • When using the PDF database, an incorrect error message might have been displayed at program startup.
  • A missing Linux library has been added; afterwards, the program was run successfully also on Linux 64-bit (tested with openSUSE 12.1 64-bit).
  • Some minor bugs have been fixed.

Enhancements in version 2.0.1

• Several bugs have been fixed:
  • There was no reaction (changes in the candidate list) upon changing the search-match parameters.
  • The "peak position" restrainting did not work (only 0 or 1 entry was found).
  • In the online help on Windows and Linux, several icons and symbol pictures (e.g. mouse cursors) were missing.
  • A bug in the Ital Structures (*.esg) import filter has been fixed.
  • There was a bug in the import code for Bruker RAW4 files that prevented the import of diffraction data files containing more than one pattern.
  • An issue in the import code for Stoe RAW files was resolved.
  • The "1/d"-representation of the diffraction pattern did not work if an entry was marked in the candidate or match list.
  • The "recent files" list in the "File" menu did not include diffraction pattern files.
  • The option "Experimental range only" on the "Graphics" page of the Tools/Options- dialog did not work properly.
  • If a document file contained more than one diffraction pattern, the program crashed when loading it.
  • Several issues when loading a document created using a different reference database have been fixed.
  • On Mac OS X, the "swap patterns" and "delete pattern" buttons for additional diffraction patterns did not work.
  • If cif-files that were imported into the User Database Manager contained errors, the corresponding error message file was not displayed after the import on Windows and Linux.
  • A severe bug in the User Database Manager's cif-import code was fixed that prevented the import of crystal structure data containing standard deviation data for floating point values
  • The selection criterion "Quality" was available on the "Properties" tabsheets even for the COD reference database, causing a crash of the program when being used
  • An issue in the online update code has been resolved.
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed.