WINDOW 5.2 Feature List 

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Last update:07/11/03 07:50 PM

WINDOW 5.2 includes all of the WINDOW 5.0 and 5.02 capabilities, and includes the ability to read the combined Condensation Resistance and U-factor results generated by THERM 5.0.

Questions? Send e-mail to WINDOWHelp@lbl.gov

Features and Bug Fixes

For a complete list of all bugs fixed, go to the Version Fixes List.

General

Implemented the ASTM SI-10 conversion units for converting from SI (WINDOW5's native units) to IP.

ID's greater than 33,000 now should work for all libraries

Optics DB path is now remembered in File/Preferences

Program doesn’t crash when accidentally opening an Optics database as a WINDOW 5 database

Fixed memory leaks -- one related to THERM temperature profile data and one from repeated open and closing of databases

Opening a recent file no longer causes the current file from not appearing on the recent file list

Reports should now print properly with the Microsoft XP Operating System

When the Nominal Thickness preference is changed, all results (both window and glazing system) are invalidated and must be recalculated

Going from List to Detailed view in the glazing system library is no longer slow

Libraries in General

Fixed bad behavior when there were no records in any of the libraries
Copy and New now prompt for saving the current record before making the new record
Keyboard shortcuts have been added for most buttons

Window Library

Fixed bug where the Delete key would delete an entire record in the Window Library Detailed View
Fixed bug which would not allow calculation of Tilted products
Fixed bug which caused a Division by Zero error when generating some reports
More rigorous checking of updated Frame and Divider libraries when doing a calculation of multiple records from the Window Library List View. Now that calculation should always produce the same result as a calculation from the Window Library Detailed View

Added Export function to the SHGC0/1 and VT0/1 Details dialog box to export the results to a CSV file.

Temperature map now displays properly

Dewpoint temperature in CI Details view now displays in the units that the program is in (either SI or IP -- used to only show SI)

Angular data is now correct in the Window Library detailed report

3 decimal output for SCc, SHGCc, and VTc for Glazing Systems in the Window Library detailed report

Energy Plus reports now work properly for windows with two glazing systems

Relative pathnames no longer cause Temperature Map image to fail

Minor format changes to the Window Library detailed report

Glazing System Library

Added a Color Properties Tab which displays L*a*b*, purity and dominant wavelength

A warning is displayed at Calc time if there are glass layers that do not have spectral data

Optics standards files that don't have color or UV methods now generate warnings, rather than errors, and set those values to "N/A"

Occasional non-responsive glazing system layer spin button fixed (this happened when you changed another field first (e.g. comment) then directly hit the spin button.

Glass Library

A warning is displayed when copying a glass record saying that the copied record will not contain spectral data.
Added the ability to export WINDOW 4.1 style spectral data text files

Database

Clean up deleted glazing system layers in the underlying database when the program is closed. Before, they were kept in the database and just not referenced, now that is cleaned up.

Reports

Fixed bug where the EnergyPlus and DOE2 reports may get the following error message "Division by zero" in dialog box labeled "Optics5 DLL error in CIE Dominant Wavelength calc".  
Added Reports for the List View in all libraries
Added option to Save reports to either Text or RTF formats.

DOE2 Report

Added name of spectral data file if one exists in the glazing system section

Questions? Send e-mail to WINDOWHelp@lbl.gov


WINDOW 5.1 Features

In General

Added New, Copy, Delete, Save and Report buttons to all the Library Detailed view

Added ability to import and overwrite protected records with protected records from another WINDOW5 database

Added a database “Compacting” feature in the Tools menu, which is useful when records have been deleted.

Glazing System Library:

Added a tab in the Results section for Angular Data.

Added a Glazing System Report (similar to that in WINDOW 4.1) which includes the angular dependence table and the temperature information.

Added damage weighted UV Transmittance calculations for both Krochman and ISO methodologies

Glass Library

Implemented a checksum feature, at both glass layer import and also at calculation time, which checks to see that the spectral data in the Glass Library has not been altered from that of the International Glazing Database. If the checksum does not compute correctly, WINDOW will automatically remove the # value.

Conductivity of the glass layers from the International Glazing Database have been set to 1.0. This will minimally  change the U-factor calculations.

When importing records from the International Glazing Database, the IGDB version number is displayed.

Reads Optics 5.1-format databases

Added ability to change the ID of a record imported from the Optics5 user database.

Changed what the program pre-pends in the Source field when importing records – importing from the International Glazing Database pre-pends “IDGB < db version #>”, importing from an Optics5 user database prepends “IGDB User”.

Gas Library

The gas properties reported in the DOE2 report are now correct

Frame Library

The THERM file paths are now relative to the currently open database (MDB) file.

Improved the speed of importing THERM files.

Fixed a problem for Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 operating systems that caused a large increase in memory use when importing THERM files.

Fixed a crash when going from the List View to the Detail View

 

Send feedback about the program via email to WindowHelp@lbl.gov. Also as bugs and comments are submitted by testers, they are posted on the program Knowledge Base, so check there for the latest information about the program.

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