Release History

Version 4.5.1

• This release runs on Windows (10 or 11), macOS (10.14.6 or later), and Linux (Ubuntu 64bit, 20.04 LTS or later)
• Added Data Loading preference: Allow Aperiodic Samples
• Updated HASP driver
• Updated VRFAME message format
• Added WebLink preference: Video Offset for WebLink/PCP
• Other general fixes and performance improvements

Version 4.4.1

• Improvements in handling display scaling and dialog box placement on Windows
• Improved the interface for multiple EDF file importing on macOS and fixed bugs related to file import/export navigation panel
• Added SAMPLING_RATE to Fixation, Interest Area, Message, Saccade, Sample, Trial Reports
• Added x, y coordinate of the launch site variables in the Interest Area Report: IA_FIRST_RUN_LAUNCH_X/Y, IA_SECOND_RUN_LAUNCH_X/Y, IA_THIRD_RUN_LAUNCH_X/Y, and IA_LAST_RUN_LAUNCH_X/Y
• Added the following variables to the Saccade Report: CURRENT_SAC_START/END_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP, NEXT_SAC_START/END_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP, PREVIOUS_SAC_START/END_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP
• Added the following variables to the Sample Report: AVERAGE_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP, LEFT_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP, RIGHT_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP,
• Added IA_*_GROUP variables to the Time Course Analysis Report
• Supported adding new messages to a group of trials relative to the start of a trial or the start of an interest period
• Added a "Gaze Cursor Eye Selection" property to the Animation Preferences to turn off the left or right gaze cursor when playing back binocular recordings
• Bug fixes and improvements in handling video clips
• Improvements in the zooming operations in the Temporal Graph View

Version 4.3.210

• Added WebLink preference "Maintain X,Y Offsets on Image Update"
• Updated the Data Loading preference "Collapse Identical Interest Areas with Different Time Stamps"
• Bug fixes and improvements for the dynamic fixation map and video playback in the aggregated mode
• Added Animation preference "Use Aggregate Trial Start IP for Traces"
• Bug fixes for reporting "AVERAGE_" variables in the Cyclopean Mode
• Added EYE_TRACKED to Fixation, Saccade, Interest Area, Message, Trial reports. Renamed EYE_USED to EYE_REPORTED
• Added Gaze Precision Measures (RMS_S2S and SD (Window)) to the property table of fixation events
• Added the following variables to the Fixation Report: CURRENT_FIX_PRECISION_MEASURE_RMS_S2S, CURRENT_FIX_PRECISION_MEASURE_SD_WINDOW
• Added Output/Analysis preferences: Window Size (Samples) and Use Median for SD Window Calculation
• Added the following variables to the Trial Report: VALIDATION_RESULT_LEFT_EYE, VALIDATION_RESULT_RIGHT_EYE
• Updated the icons used to show Video View and Image View for playing back the WebLink recordings in the Animation Mode
• Bug fixes for reporting intermediate interpolated IA sizes of CURRENT_FIX_INTEREST_AREA_PIXEL_AREA, LEFT/RIGHT_INTEREST_AREA_PIXEL_AREA variables
• Updated the default interest period naming when creating multiple IPs.
• Supported loading image file containing non-ASCII characters
• Supported VFRAME messages with negative offset

Version 4.3.1

• Data Viewer now runs on Windows 7, 8, 10, or 11, macOS (10.11 or later), and Linux (Ubuntu 64bit, 18.04 LTS or later)
• Added "Data Viewer workflow and best practices guidelines"
• Added "Time Scale" to Output/Analysis preferences
• Added TIME_SCALE variable to the Fixation, Saccade, Message, and Interest Area Reports.
• Added "Message Filtering" and "Message String" to the Data Filters preferences to selectively exclude or keep messages in a viewing session
• Bug fixes for the inconsistent duration of exported video clips from the Animation Playback View
• Bug fixes and improvements in the license key management
• Added support for long messages recorded to the EDF files
• Added "Disable Consistency Check and Fix" option in Data Loading preferences
• Added "Report Missing Value for Excluded Regions" preference for time-course (binning) analysis
• Modified the default value for the following preferences:
  • Output/Analysis -> "Cyclopean Mode"
  • Output/Analysis -> "Use UTF-8 Encoding"
  • Output/Analysis -> "Include Fixation in Single IA"
  • Data Filters -> "Show Interest Areas Pre Interest Period" and "Show Interest Areas Post Interest Period"

Version 4.2.1

• Data Viewer now runs on macOS (10.11 or later)
• Added support for analyzing PDF tracking data collected with SR Research WebLink
  • Added PDF Navigations, Page Dimensions, Page, Page Displayed, Orientation, Zoom Level to the property table of the Trial node
  • Added/updated Webpage/PDF-specific condition variables to the Trial Variable Value Editor and analysis reports: PAGE_VISIT_DURATION, PAGE_HEIGHT, SEGMENT_PARENT_TRIAL, SEGMENT_INDEX, CURRENT_PAGE, PAGE_VISIT, PAGE_WIDTH, ZOOM_LEVEL, PAGE_ORIENTATION, PAGE_NUMBER
  • Added "PDF Load Start Value" to the WebLink preferences

Version 4.1.1

• Data Viewer now runs as either a 32-bit or 64-bit application on Windows 7, 8, and 10
• Added support for analyzing webpage tracking data collected with SR Research WebLink
  • Automatic trial segmentation based on the webpage URL
  • Trials browsing the same webpage URL can be grouped together
  • A timeline in the Animation and Spatial Overlay views facilitating navigation between different URLs within a recording trial
  • Allows playing back the recorded trial over the entire image captures of the webpages, or over the saved video recording to view dynamic content
  • Automatic scroll compensation for eye events and samples in the Spatial Overlay View and Animation View
  • Marking of mouse clicks in the Spatial Overlay View and Animation View
  • Webpage-specific condition variables (WEBPAGE_DURATION, WEBPAGE_HEIGHT, WEBPAGE_PARENT_TRIAL, WEBPAGE_SEQUENCE, WEBPAGE_URL, WEBPAGE_VISIT, WEBPAGE_WIDTH) automatically added into the Trial Variable Value Editor and analysis reports
  • New variables in output reports pertaining to scrolling and mouse clicks available in the Trial, Fixation, Saccade, Sample and Interest Area reports
  • New preference settings specific to WebLink integration
• Added GROUPING_VARIABLES to the reports
• Added CURRENT_/NEXT_/PREVIOUS_FIX/SACC_MSG_LIST_TEXT and CURRENT_/NEXT_/PREVIOUS_FIX/SACC_MSG_LIST_TIME to the Fixation and Saccade reports
• Added INTEREST_AREA_FIXATION_SEQUENCE_DWELL_TIMES to the Trial Report
• Added INTEREST_AREA_FIXATION_SEQUENCE to the Interest Area Report

Version 3.2.1

• Added support for reparsing eye events for selected trials or recording sessions
• Added "Event Reparsing" options to the "Output / Analysis" preferences
• Supported saving color and group label of interest areas into an interest area file
• Added support for duplicating selected interest periods in the Interest Period Editor
• Provided more example EDF files.

Version 3.1.246

• Added support for macOS High Sierra (version 10.13)
• Added the following variables to the Interest Area Report: IA_FIRST_FIXATION_PREVIOUS_FIX_IA, IA_FIRST_FIXATION_PREVIOUS_IAREAS, IA_FIRST/LAST_/SECOND_/THIRD_RUN_LANDING_POSITION, IA_FIRST/LAST_/SECOND_/THIRD_RUN_LAUNCH_SITE
• Added "Reading Direction" and "Report Distance in" Options to the Output\Analysis preferences
• Texts of the message events are now displayed in the event list

Version 3.1.97

• Provided various bug fixes and documentation updates for the 3.1.1 release
• Added options to skip some stages when performing four-stage fixation cleaning
• Added the following variables to the Trial Report: SD_SACCADE_AMPLITUDE, and SD_FIXATION_DURATION
• Added the following variables to the Saccade Report: CURRENT_SAC_ NEAREST_START_INTEREST_AREA_DISTANCE, CURRENT_SAC_ NEAREST_END_INTEREST_AREA_DISTANCE

Version 3.1.1:

• Added "Add/Edit Event Mode" to the Temporal Graph View
• Added grid lines to the Temporal Graph View
• Added a sample cursor line to the current mouse position in the Temporal Graph View
• Added "Sample Info" button and floating window to the Temporal Graph View
• Added interest period boundaries to the Temporal Graph View
• Supported displaying dynamic interest areas in the Temporal Graph View
• Added "IA Shape Actions" option to support the following operations when interest areas are selected:
  • Conversion between different interest area shapes
  • Horizontal or vertical flip
  • Rotating interest areas
  • Resizing/rescaling interest areas
  • Moving interest areas
• Added interest area "Link" option to replace multiple interest areas with a linked object; added "Unlink" option to restore the original interest areas
• Added "Create Output Report for all Custom Interest Periods" option to the Reports
• Added option to create multiple consecutive duration-based interest periods
• Added "Use Average Aggregate Cursor" option to Animation View Preferences
• Added "Gaze Cursor Transparency (0.0 - 100.0)" to Animation View Preferences
• Added "Video Handler" option to Animation View Preferences (Windows version only)
• Added support for playing back .mov video files in the Animation View (for the data collected with SR Research Experiment Builder)
• Allowed to import messages relative to the currently selected interest period
• Added the following variables to the Trial Report: MEDIAN_SACCADE_AMPLITUDE, MEDIAN_FIXATION_DURATION
• Added the following variables to the Saccade and Fixation Report:
  • CURRENT/PREVIOUS/NEXT_SAC_BLINK_START
  • CURRENT/PREVIOUS/NEXT_SAC_BLINK_END
  • CURRENT/PREVIOUS/NEXT_SAC_BLINK_DURATION

Version 2.6.1:

• Provided a new interface for creating and editing interest periods
• Provided options to create a shorter sample report (i.e., down-sampling)
• Added "File -> Unpack" menu option
• Added "Selected Freehand Point" property to freehand interest areas for the precise adjustment of vertex coordinate
• Added "Remember Last Browsed Directory" for some default directories
• Added HTARGET_DISTANCE_BIN, HTARGET_X_BIN, HTARGET_Y_BIN, SAMPLING_RATE, and SAMPLE_INTERVAL variables to the Time-Course Analysis Report
• Added "Start Event Offset" option to the Reaction Time Definitions
• Added "Animation Background Color" to the Animation View preferences
• Added "Apply Blink Correction in the Sample Report" option to the Data Filters preferences

Version 2.5.0:

• Added Time-Course (Binning) Analysis Report
• Supported .mov file output on Mac OS X
• Added property to fixation event to indicate if the event is trimmed by interest period filter.

Version 2.4.1:

• Data Viewer now runs on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10), Mac OS X (Intel Mac 10.6 or later), Linux (Ubuntu 14.04LTS)
• Supported dynamic heat map presentation in the Animation View
• Supported creating a difference heat map
• Added option to export the fixation map matrix as a text file.
• Allowed playback of supported video clips on Mac OS X
• Added a history of eye positions in the Animation View
• Added Backward Frame and Forward Frame buttons in the Animation View
• Supported zooming in or out of the Spatial Overlay View
• Supported toggling on/off the background image in the Spatial Overlay View
• Added keyboard shortcut help menu to the Trial View Window
• Supported scaling gaze cursor size in the Animation View based on pupil size
• Added "Pupil Trace Scaling Factor" to the Temporal Graph View preferences
• Bug fix for the "Include Hidden Events" option being toggled on randomly. The hidden events now are drawn in dashed-lines.
• Added new variable to Trial Report: INTEREST_AREA_FIXATION_SEQUENCE
• Added new variable to Interest Area Reports: IA_LEGAL_IMMEDIATE
• Added "Apply Strict Event Matching" option to the Interest Period Editor
• Added new variables to Trial, Fixation, Saccade, Message, Sample, and Interest Area Reports: IP_END_EVENT_MATCHED, IP_START_EVENT_MATCHED

Version 2.3.1:

• Supported Aggregate Mode
  • Displays the aggregate data in the Spatial Overlay and Animation View of the Trial View Window
  • Displays aggregated statistics for the events and interest areas in the trial group in the property table
  • Provided Aggregate Event Statistics and Aggregated Interest Area Report
• Added support for color coding the visible data in a trial/group of trials
• Supported selecting variables in the output reports though drag-and-drop
• Provided option to display the fixation map in the Spatial Overlay View
• Supported merging viewing sessions
• Supported adjusting the location of the interest areas using the center position
• Added Step Backward button in the toolbar of the Animation View
• Added XVid lookup table support for faster frame seeking in the Animation View

Version 2.2.1:

• Added support for loading input events from EDF files.
• Supported using the input events as the end event in the interest period and reaction-time definitions.
• Supported trial splitting based on the messages or input events.
• Added "Use Substring Match for Messages" option to the interest period and reaction-time definition editor.
• Supported packaging and unpacking viewing session files.
• Added option for removing fixations immediately before or after a blink event in the Data Filter preferences.
• Added new properties to the trial node: Number Input Events, Mode, Pupil Data Type, Eyes, Event Parse Type, Mount Type, File Filtering Level, and Pupil Tracking Algorithm.
• Supported inserting a new messsage or editing message text in the viewing session.
• Added "Create one report file per each EDF file" option in each of the reports.
• Added "Default Video Directory" in the General preference.
• Added new properties to the Data file node: EyeLink Version and Recorded by.
• Added new variables to the sample reports: SAMPLE_INPUT
• Added the following variables to the fixation report and saccade report: CURRENT_/PREVIOUS_/NEXT_FIX_INPUT_EVENTS, CURRENT_/PREVIOUS_/NEXT_SAC_INPUT_EVENTS
• Added the following variables to the trial report: INPUT_COUNT, RT_EVENT_INPUT
• Added the following variables to the saccade report: CURRENT_SAC_START/END_INTEREST_AREA_X_OFFSET CURRENT_SAC_START/END_INTEREST_AREA_Y_OFFSET CURRENT_SAC_START/END_INTEREST_AREA_DATA
• General bug fixes for video playback and saving in Data Viewer animation view.

Version 2.1.1:

• Added Dynamic Interest Area Support:
  • Modified interest area format.
  • Added Mouse Record Mode for creating dynamic interest area instances.
  • Added Paste Current and Paste After options.
  • Modified interest area creation dialog box.
  • Supported position and shape interpolation across instances of Dynamic Interest Area
  • Interest Area data reporting can be either based on the fixation events or samples
• General performance improvements and reworked on the playback in the Animation View and video saving.
• Improved Trial Grouping interface.
• Supported adding or removing points for a freehand interest area.
• Animation View now displays time relative to start of the trial and/or start of the current interest period.
• Allowed independent setting in the Data Filter preference for "Hide Spanned Events" and "Trim Spanned Fixation Duration" at the start and end of interest period.
• Added a "Use Substring Match for Messages" option to the Reaction Time and Interest Period definitions.
• Added "Default Video Directory" setting to the General Preferences; supported selection of multiple directories for the "Default Image Directory" and "Default Video Directory".
• Added new variables in the Interest Area Report : IA_DYNAMIC, IA_END_TIME, IA_INSTANCE_COUNT, IA_START_TIME, REPORTING_METHOD, TRIAL_IA_COUNT, and TRIAL_TOTAL_VISITED_IA_COUNT.
• Added new variables in the Fixation Report and Saccade Report: CURRENT_/NEXT_/PREVIOUS_FIX_INTEREST_AREA_ID, CURRENT_/NEXT_/PREVIOUS_SACCADE_START_INTEREST_AREA_ID, and CURRENT_/NEXT_/PREVIOUS_SACCADE_END_INTEREST_AREA_ID.
• Added new variables in the Message Report: CURRENT_MSG_INTEREST_AREA_ID.
• Added new variables to the Trial Report: AVERAGE_BLINK_DURATION, and IA_COUNT
• Added new variables to the Sample Report:LEFT_FIX_INDEX, RIGHT_FIX_INDEX, AVERAGE_/LEFT_/RIGHT_INTEREST_AREAS, AVERAGE_/LEFT_/RIGHT_INTEREST_AREA_DATA, AVERAGE_/LEFT_/RIGHT_INTEREST_AREA_DISTANCE, AVERAGE_/LEFT_/RIGHT_INTEREST_AREA_PIXEL_AREA, LEFT_SACCADE_INDEX, RIGHT_SACCADE_INDEX

Version 1.11.900:

• Added support for EyeLink 1000 Plus recording files.
• Fixed crashes in loading some EDF files on Mac OSX.
• Added blink correction for pupil size calculation for PUPIL_SIZE_MIN and PUPIL_SIZE_MEAN variables in the trial report; now samples during a blink are not included in the pupil size calculation.
• Added options to exclude some samples before and after a blink event in the pupil size calculation ("Duration to Exclude Before Blinks (msec)" and "Duration to Exclude After Blinks (msec)" in the Data Filters preferences).
• Bug fix for handling blink events in some EDF files.
• Bug fix in handling target position commands ("!V TARGET_POS").
• Supported saving interest area files in UTF-8 encoding.
• Added variables to the Interest Area Report: IA_FIRST_SACCADE_INDEX and IA_LAST_SACCADE_INDEX.
• Bug fix for Interest Area Report variables: IA_FIRST_FIXATION_RUN_INDEX and IA_FIRST_FIXATION_VISITED_IA_COUNT.
• Added option in the "Output/Analysis Preferences" (Identify first/last saccade based on the first last/last fixation) to match the first/last saccade event to the first/last fixation event in the Interest Area Report.

Version 1.11.1:

• Added support for multiple EDF file loading contained in different directories.
• Trial variable value editor now supports copy and paste.
• Added a "Report Hidden" option for the Recording Session and trial groups.
• Added FIXATION_DURATION_MAX, FIXATION_DURATION_MIN, FIXATION_DURATION_MAX_TIME, and FIXATION_DURATION_MIN_TIME to trial report.
• Added IA_LAST_RUN_DWELL_TIME, IA_LAST_RUN_END_TIME, IA_LAST_RUN_FIXATION_%, IA_LAST_RUN_FIXATION_COUNT, IA_LAST_RUN_START_TIME, IA_LAST_FIXATION_RUN, and IA_THIRD_RUN_FIXATION_COUNT to the interest area report.
• Fixed various EDF file loading issues.
• Bug fix for setting the directories in "General Preferences".
• Bug fix for displaying non-ASCII characters in the interest area label, trial variable value editor, and messages.

Version 1.10.123:

• Added support for exporting and importing variable selection in the output reports (trial, fixation, saccade, interest area, sample, and message).
• Added support for exporting and importing interest periods across sessions.
• Added support for exporting and importing preference settings.
• Added legend to the grayscale version of fixation maps.

Version 1.10.1:

• This version runs on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OSX.
• Better support for non-ASCII characters in the trial variable value editor, interest area label, messages, and report outputs.
• Added "Use UTF-8 Encoding" option to the "Output/Analysis" preference.
• Bug fix for saving the animation view with cyclopean gaze cursor.

Version 1.9.193:

• Added IA_FIRST_FIXATION_X, IA_FIRST_FIXATION_Y, IA_SECOND_FIXATION_X, IA_SECOND_FIXATION_Y, IA_THIRD_FIXATION_X, IA_THIRD_FIXATION_Y, IA_LAST_FIXATION_X, and IA_LAST_FIXATION_Y variables to the interest area report.
• Added CURRENT_MSG_INTEREST_AREAS, CURRENT_MSG_INTEREST_AREA_INDEX, and CURRENT_MSG_INTEREST_AREA_LABEL to the message report.
• Added LAST_BUTTON_RELEASED, LAST_BUTTON_PRESS_TIME, and LAST_BUTTON_RELEASE_TIME to the fixation report. The LAST_BUTTON_TIME variable now returns the time when the last button is pressed or released.
• Added PUPIL_SIZE_MIN_X,PUPIL_SIZE_MIN_Y,PUPIL_SIZE_MIN_TIME, and VISITED_INTEREST_AREA_COUNT to the trial report.
• Bug fix for interest period selection if the end time of the interest period is equal to the start time of a fixation event.

Version 1.9.1:

• Fixation map/heat map is completely redone with the following modifications:
  • Four variants of fixation maps are provided: 1 = based on duration; 2 = based on fixation count; 3 = based on count density; and 4 = based on duration density.
  • A fixation map color legend is provided.
  • Renamed "Minimum Contrast Multiplier" option in the fixation map preference settings to "Low Activity % Cut-off".
  • Supported drawing a title.
  • Transparency setting supported.
  • Option added to customize the Low, Medium, and High activity colors.
  • Option added to set a fixed maximum and minimum value for heatmap scale.
• The compressed EDF files collected on EyeLink CL eye trackers are now supported.
• Added TRIAL_INDEX variable to the fixation, saccade, sample, message, and interest area reports.
• Added IA_FIRST_FIXATION_INDEX, IA_FIRST_FIXATION_RUN_INDEX, and IA_FIRST_FIXATION_VISITED_IA_COUNT variables to the interest area report.

Version 1.8.599:

• Added the following variables to the fixation report and saccade report: CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_END_INTEREST_AREA_INDEX, CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_END_INTEREST_AREA_LABEL, CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_START_INTEREST_AREA_INDEX, and CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_START_INTEREST_AREA_LABEL.
• Added the following variables to the saccade report: TRIAL_SACCADE_TOTAL.

Version 1.8.547:

• Bug fix for the calculation of IA_AREA measure for freehand interest areas.

Version 1.8.522:

• Bug fix for the "Trim Spanned Fixation Times" in the Data Filters preferences.
• Bug fix for loading EDF files with 2000 hz recordings.
• Added the following variables to the fixation report and saccade report: CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_CONTAINS_BLINK.
• Added the following variables to the fixation report and saccade report: CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_FIX_X_RESOLUTION, CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_FIX_Y_RESOLUTION, CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_START_X_RESOLUTION, CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_START_Y_RESOLUTION, CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_END_X_RESOLUTION, and CURRENT/NEXT/PREVIOUS_SAC_END_Y_RESOLUTION.

Version 1.8.497:

• Added "Collapse Identical Interest Areas with Different Time Stamps" option to the Data Loading Preferences.

Version 1.8.402:

• Added a vertical scrollbar to the Temporal Graph View.
• Bug fixes for message loading and interest area integration.
• Improved video saving capability in the animation view.

Version 1.8.375:

• Improved memory usage when creating reports.
• Fixed the "Could not open EDF file or the EDF file is corrupted" bug caused by an installer problem.

Version 1.8.221:

• Supported loading of EyeLink Remote files. Added the following variables "HTARGET_DISTANCE", "HTARGET_X", "HTARGET_Y", and "HTARGET_FLAGS" to the Sample Report to extract head target information.
• Supported showing a cyclopean gaze cursor in the animation view for binocular recordings. Added an option "Use Cyclopean Gaze if binocular" to the Animation View Preferences.

Version 1.8.1:

• Supported loading of EyeLink 2K EDF files (with 2000 hz sampling rate).
• Added a "Trim Spanned Fixation Times" option to the Data Filters preference.
• Added the following variables "IA_LEGAL", "IA_SKIP", and "IA_SPILLOVER" to the Interest Area Report.
• Added "CURRENT_FIX_LABEL", "PREVIOUS_FIX_LABEL", "NEXT_FIX_LABEL", "CURRENT_SAC_LABEL", "PREVIOUS_SAC_LABEL", and "NEXT_SAC_LABEL" variables to the fixation report and saccade report.
• Added "PUPIL_SIZE_MAX_X", "PUPIL_SIZE_MAX_Y", and "PUPIL_SIZE_MAX_TIME" to trial report.
• A four-stage fixation cleaning option is now provided; this option is intended for some reading applications.
• Fixation map saving now supports the color head-map mode. A "Heat Map Mode" option is added to the Output/Analysis Preferences.
• Fixed a bug with Video playback in the animation view.
• Saved Data Viewing session name is now displayed in the program title bar.
• Hiding events is no longer supported for events.
• Fixed bugs associated with interest period filtering when different interest periods are selected.

Version 1.7.160:

• Fixed "IA_REGRESSION_OUT_COUNT" and "IA_REGRESSION_OUT_FULL_COUNT" bug in Interest Area output report.

Version 1.7.91:

• Added an "EYE_USED" variable to the trial report, saccade report, fixation report, and interest area report, and message report.
• Added "CURRENT_FIX_INTEREST_AREA_X_OFFSET" and "CURRENT_FIX_INTEREST_AREA_Y_OFFSET" to the fixation report.
• Added "IA_REGRESSION_OUT_FULL" and "IA_REGRESSION_OUT_FULL_COUNT" to interest area report.
• Fixed a bug with incomplete output reports introduced by version 1.7.1.

Version 1.7.152:

• Fixed BLINK_AROUND bug in Fixation output report. Now BEFOR, AFTER, and BOTH blink location types are reported.

Version 1.7.1:

• Added a Message Report.
• Greatly improved disk space needed to save a DVS. Important: Effective from version 1.7.1, a later version of Data Viewer software can be used to open a viewing session saved with earlier versions. However, an earlier version of DV software cannot be used to open a viewing session created with latest version of software.
• Provided a memory usage indicator for a viewing session in the Inspector Window.
• To improve the Data Viewer performance, selection of the events is not memeorized when going through various trials. As a result, the following variables are removed from the fixation and saccade output reports: "CURRENT_SAC_SELECTED", "PREVIOUS_SAC_SELECTED", "NEXT_SAC_SELECTED", "CURRENT_FIX_SELECTED", "NEXT_FIX_SELECTED", "PREVIOUS_FIX_SELECTED".
• Removed "Fully Load Trials into Memory" option from the Data Loading preferences. Now it is always false.
• "Load Samples" in the Data Loading preferences is false by default. Sample output report will be empty if the samples are not loaded.
• Added "Override Custom Reaction time definitions" option to Reaction Time Manager.
• Added an "IP_LABEL" variable to the Data Viewer trial report, saccade report, fixation report, and interest area report.
• Added "IP_LABEL", "IP_START_TIME", "IP_END_TIME", and "IP_DURATION" to sample report.
• Changes are made to the "Data Filter" preferences so that the fixation/saccade filtering is turned off by default. Now, the "Merge Nearby Fixations" of the Data Filter preference is set to False by default; the "Fixation Duration Threshold" is set to 0.
• EDF files with same file name can not be imported more than once in the same viewing session.
• Fixed a bug with velocity calculation for the sample reports introduced in version 1.6.67.

Version 1.6.67:

• Supported loading of EyeLink 1000 EDF files.
• Fixed a bug with saving viewing session files introduced by version 1.6.1.
• Implemented new velocity and acceleration calculation algorithms.
• Added "Missing Value" and "Decimal Places" settings in the Output/Analysis Preference settings.
• Added "Display Frame Number" setting in the Animation Preference settings.
• Added file extension filter for saving video files in the animation playback view.
• Added following the variables to Saccade Output report:
  CURRENT_SAC_PEAK_VELOCITY_TIME: EDF time of the sample with peak velocity in the current saccade.
  PREVIOUS_SAC_PEAK_VELOCITY_TIME: EDF time of the sample with peak velocity in the previous saccade.
  NEXT_SAC_PEAK_VELOCITY_TIME: EDF time of the sample with peak velocity in the next saccade.

Version 1.6.1:

• Removed "PDF Help Viewer", "Exported Data Viewer", and "Auto Find Helper Program" options from the General Preference settings.
• Added "Default Report Directory" in the General Preference settings for outputting reports.
• Added file extension filter for report outputs.
• Added following variables to Fixation Output report:
  CURRENT_FIX_END_OTHER: Trial time when the current fixation ends (on the other eye in a binocular recording).
  CURRENT_FIX_START_OTHER = Trial time when the current fixation starts (on the other eye in a binocular recording).
  CURRENT_FIX_X_OTHER = X coordinate of the current fixation (on the other eye in a binocular recording).
  CURRENT_FIX_Y_OTHER = Y coordinate of the current fixation (on the other eye in a binocular recording).

Version 1.5.13:

• Fixed an issue that would cause an EDF file not to load if a RT viewer command message was in the file that had an incorrect format. Now the command is simply ignored if the format is incorrect.

Version 1.5.6:

• Updated licensing to support simultaneous use with Experiment Builder software on appropriately licensed installations
• Added new features to provide base level of SceneLink integration:
  • To load data files using the SceneLink gaze mapping, set the following preferences to true:
    Preferences -> Data Loading -> Enable SceneLink Gaze Mapping
    Preferences -> Data Loading -> Generate SceneLink Frame Messages
    Then import the data files. Be sure that you have already created the lookup tables for the trials in SceneLink.
  • You can see the SceneLink frame messages in the event list by enabling the following pref:
    Preferences -> Data Filters -> Include Display Command Messages
    and turning on the Message Event Visibility. The frame messages will appear as VFRAME commands, with text of:
    frame_number video_file
    where frame_number is the frame index in the video specified by video_file. Indexes start at 1
  • Added the following variables to Fixation and Saccade reports:
    VIDEO_FRAME_INDEX_START = Index of the video frame that was visible at the start of the eye event.
    VIDEO_FRAME_INDEX_END = Index of the video frame that was visible at the end of the eye event.
    VIDEO_NAME_START = Name of the video frame that was visible at the start of the eye event.
    VIDEO_NAME_END = Name of the video frame that was visible at the end of the eye event.
  • Added the following variables to Sample Report:
    VIDEO_FRAME_INDEX = Index of the video frame that was visible at the sample time.
    VIDEO_NAME = Name of the video frame that was visible at the sample time.

Version 1.4.281:

• Fixed problem with Interest Area output report REGRESSION_OUT variables that was causing incorrect regression out counts to be stated. Prior to this version some IA that did have first pass regression outs were reporting no regression outs.

Version 1.4.280:

• Supported playing back video clips in the animation view for Experiment Builder recordings. Current limitations:
  • Only one video clip can be presented in the Animation view at a time.
  • If display contains a video resource, then non video resources will not be displayed in animation view playback.
  • Can not save Animation View as an .avi file when a video clip is present.
  • If video clip is in XVID format, a P4 CPU is required for playback in Data Viewer.

Version 1.4.265:

• Fixed Interest Area Template bug introduced in 1.4.255
• Fixed incorrect reporting of recording mode and speed in session properties table.
• Added following variables to Interest Area Output report:
  IA_LEFT: left side pixel position of non-freehand IA
  IA_TOP: top side pixel position of non-freehand IA
  IA_RIGHT: right side pixel position of non-freehand IA
  IA_BOTTOM: bottom side pixel position of non-freehand IA
  IA_POINTS: x,y point list for freehand Interest Areas

Version 1.4.255:

• Greatly improved performance for Interest Area report processing.
• Fixed report processing exception with some reopenned DVS files
• Fixed installer issue with EDF Converter GUI.

Version 1.4.17:

• Added "Group" label for interest areas.
• Supported merging rectangular interest areas.
• Added IP_START_TIME, IP_END_TIME, IA_FIRST_RUN_FIXATION_COUNT, IA_SECOND_RUN_FIXATION_COUNT, and IA_GROUP to interest area output report. These variables represent EDF time of start end end of active Interest Period.
• Added IP_START_TIME, IP_END_TIME, and CURRENT_/NEXT_/PREVIOUS_FIXATION_INTEREST_AREA_GROUP to fixation output report.
• Added IP_START_TIME, and IP_END_TIME to saccade output report.

Version 1.3.60:

• Added "Duration Based" Interest Period type.
• Added start time and end time offset fields to Interest Period.
• Added IP_START_TIME and IP_END_TIME and IP_DURATION to trial output report. These variables represent EDF time of start end end of active Interest Period.
• Added following variables to IA report for fixation sequence analysis. If used, n columns are output in the report, where n is equal to the number of unique IA ID's in the data viewing session. Column lables are the variable name with "_IA_ID" appended to it, where IA_ID is the ID of the given IA.

  	IA_BSA_COUNT defines the number of times a fixation n started in the current row IA and fixation n+fixation_skip_count was in the current column IA.
  	IIA_BSA_DURATION defines the sum of fixation durations for fixation n+fixation_skip_count where fixation n started in the current row IA and fixation n+fixation_skip_count was in the current column IA.

  If you have lots of interest areas in a trial, including IA_FSA_COUNT and IA_FSA_DURATION in the output report may take a very long time for the Viewer to generate the report.
• Added "Fixation Skip Count" property to Output / Analysis section of preference settings. Default is 1. Can not be less than 1. Defines the number of fixations to skip when looking for the next IA to use in the fixation sequence analysis output variables of the IA report.
• Added the following variables to interest area report for regression analysis:

  	IA_SECOND_FIXATION_TIME - time of second fixation in IA, regardless of run
  	IA_THIRD_FIXATION_TIME - time of third fixation in IA, regardless of run
  	IA_SECOND_FIXATION_DURATION- duration of second fixation in IA, regardless of run
  	IA_THIRD_FIXATION_DURATION- duration of third fixation in IA, regardless of run
  	IA_SECOND_FIXATION_RUN - index of run that second fixation is in
  	IA_THIRD_FIXATION_RUN - index of run that third fixation is in
  	IA_FIRST_FIX_PROGRESSIVE - 1 if NO higher IA ID in earlier fixations than first IA fixation; 0 otherwise
  	IA_REGRESSION_PATH_DURATION - the summed fixation duration from when the IA is first fixated until the eyes enter a IA with a larger ID than the starting IA.
  	IA_REGRESSION_OUT - 0 if IA was not exited to a lower IA ID (to the left in english); 1 if it was
  	IA_SELECTIVE_REGRESSION_PATH_DURATION - only includes fixation and refixations of the same IA before the eyes enter an IA with a larger ID
  	IA_REGRESSION_IN - 0 if IA was not entered from a higher IA ID (from the right in english); 1 if it was
  	IA_REGRESSION_OUT_COUNT - number of times IA was exited to a lower IA ID (to the left in english);
  	IA_REGRESSION_IN_COUNT - number of times IA was entered from a higher IA ID (from the left in english);

• Added progress bar for report creation. Cancelling progress bar cancelling report creation (example ).

Version 1.4.15:

• - Added "Auto Select IAS for Trial" property to Output / Analysis Preference Settings. Default is false. If true then trial interest area set association is done automatically by using "Image Name mapping" attribute of Interest Area Set Template in the Data Viewer session.
• - Added "Image Name mapping" field to Interest Area Set Template. If there is a value in the "Image Name mapping" field and "auto Select IAS for Trial" property is true, then this value is used to automatically associate the interest area set to trials. If the last Data Viewer image load command entered in a trial contains a image name that contains the "Image Name mapping" text of the IAS, then the IAS is associated with the trial. Matching is case sensitive. The "Image Name mapping" text does not need to be the full image name in the trial though. If no matching "Image Name mapping" text was found for the trial in any IAS template, then the trial's IAS is set to the default empty IAS template.
• - Added "Maximum Graphics Commands to process" preference in the Data Views->Overlay preference settings. -1 = process all graphics commands; else = process the number of graphics commands specified when creating background image for overlay view.
• - Added "Fit Overlay Image Change to Display" preference in the Data Views->Overlay preference settings. If True, when the background image for a trial is manually changed, the image is scaled to fit the display dimensions for the trial. If false, the image size is not altered and the image is centred on the trial overlay view.
• - Added single trial variable message token command. The default value is "TRIAL_VAR". This command lets the user specify a trial variable and value for the given trial.
• - Added following variables to IA report to represent the average, minimum, and maximum fixation pupil size:
  IA_AVERAGE_FIX_PUPIL_SIZE,
  IA_MAX_FIX_PUPIL_SIZE,
  IA_MIN_FIX_PUPIL_SIZE.

Version 1.3.0:

• - Added sample output report .
• - Added ability to load a set of messages into an EDF file in the data viewer. This is done by using the "Import Message List" pop-up menu item when a EDF file is selected in the tree view.
• - Added TRIAL_START_TIME variable to fixation, saccade, and IA reports
• - Changed all eye event start and end times in IA report to be relative to trial start instead of absolute
• - Added following variables to IA report:
  IA_SECOND_RUN_FIXATION_%
  IA_SECOND_RUN_DWELL_TIME
  IA_THIRD_RUN_FIXATION_%
  IA_THIRD_RUN_DWELL_TIME
  IA_FIRST_RUN_START_TIME
  IA_SECOND_RUN_START_TIME
  IA_THIRD_RUN_START_TIME
  IA_FIRST_RUN_END_TIME
  IA_SECOND_RUN_END_TIME
  IA_THIRD_RUN_END_TIME
• - Added following variables to Trial report:
  PUPIL_SIZE_MIN
  PUPIL_SIZE_MAX
  PUPIL_SIZE_MEAN
• - The user can now delete interest area template from IA template list. If a trial is using the template; the trial IAS is set to the empty template.
• - Added targetPositionString to data loading preference settings. Defines the message text to match on for target position extraction.
• - Added ability to plot accelleration and velocity traces in trial temporal graph view
• - Added target1 and target2 trace buttons to trial temporal graph view
• - In Trial output report, REACTION_TIME variable is retrned as a '.' if the trial does not have an RT end event.
• - Can now load multiple EDF files at once. Each file is processed in sequence.
• - Changed the extension of the output file: if any output report name does not contain a '.xxx', where xxx are any 3 characters, then the file name is appended with a '.txt'.
• - Interest Area Set files now treats any line with a # as a comment
• - If lastDirectoryAccessed is not null, this is now used as starting directory for IAS importing
• - Can now load multiple interest area template files at once;
• - Default IA set directory preference added. Changes to this preference only take effect on files loaded AFTER the change.
• - Default image loading directory now supports image paths that use / or \ as file seperator in message text
• - Can now save the trial playback into a QuickTime .mov file or an uncompressed .AVI file.
• - Fixed a bug which closes an EyeLink Data Viewer session when loading an EDF file with non-latin characters in the file name or path.
• - Can now display non-latin characters contained in the EDF messages when running Data Viewer in the intended non-English operating systems.

Version 1.2.452:

• - Added time attribute to InterestArea class. This is used to filter IAs based on the current selected IP.
• - Added two properties to the Filter Viewer properties section:
  "Show Interest Areas Pre Interest Period "
  "Show Interest Areas Post Interest Period "

Version 1.2.420:

• - Fixed bug in helper application path search that was causing it to run every time the app. was started. Fixes were all made in the ViewerProperties.java
• - Added attribute to Viewer Preferences panel -> General, that lets you specific if helper applications should be searched for or not.
• - Added all these to IA report:
  IA_FIRST_FIXATION_DURATION
  IA_LAST_FIXATION_DURATION
  IA_FIRST_RUN_DWELL_TIME
  IA_FIRST_RUN_FIXATION_%
  IA_FIRST_SACCADE_START_TIME
  IA_FIRST_SACCADE_END_TIME
  IA_LAST_SACCADE_START_TIME
  IA_LAST_SACCADE_END_TIME

Version 1.2.391:

• - Added IA_AREA variable to IA report and to IA object
• - Added IA_FIRST_FIXATION_TIME to IA output report
• - Added IA_LAST_FIXATION_TIME to IA output report
• - Added IA_RUN_COUNT to IA output report
• - Fixed bug in fixation moving functionality that would cause exception if the fixation being moved did not have a saccade object on either side of it in the event list.

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