Release History

4.62.0 – 5 November 2023

A few small improvements

Enhancements

• barxui
  • Print button in labels and data manager more obvious (#1414)
  • Moved refresh button in label manager (#1383)
  • Item console now stretches to fill the page (#1444)

Fixed

• barxui
  • Import of samples could cause duplicate data and images (#1402, #1436)
  • File uploading text too long for panel (#1424)
  • Table with missing queries could break datamanager (#1439)

4.61.0 – 1 November 2023

Improved text alignment, updated image processing and many small updates and fixes

New

• barxui
  • Vertical text alignment for text shapes (#1420)
  • Multi-line prompted text inputs (#1420)
  • New image processing to handle more formats, also faster (#1390)
• barxui Agent
  • Show printer name in activity (#1427)

Fixed

• barxui
  • Reduced the nagging of the limits warning
  • Updated layout of text shape properties dialog (#1420)
  • Circle shape resizing (#1398)
  • Date picker for prompted dates (#1425)
  • Close save-as dialog after saving (#1421)
  • Agent list now alphabetical (#1418)
  • Deleting a table in data manager not clearing status indicator (#1417)
  • Down arrow missing from Table menu in data manager (#1415)
  • Font dialog from designer had 2 save buttons (#1411)
  • Image select list was cut-off at bottom (#1395)

4.60.0 – 5 October 2023

Image editing, lookup substitutions and some small fixes.

New

• barxui
  • New image editing. You can now crop and image and save as a new version (#1351).
  • Replace word using new Lookup Substitution formatter and a table containing words or phrases to replace in output text (#1380).
  • When printing from the data manager, print the current highlighted row if no rows selected (#1385).
  • When printing to PDF, the maximum file size has been increased to 20mb to allow for larger images on labels (#1401).

Fixed

• barxui
  • When printing from the data manager, Test button should be disables if Print button is also disabled (#1384).
  • The refresh button in the data manager was not refreshing the data, only the list of tables (#1388).
  • After deleting files in the Library the progress indicator on the Designer would show ‘Deleting files…’ and a browser refresh was required to stop it (#1389).
  • Barcode shape properties would become invalid when toggling the readable switch (#1396).
  • Printing many large images could crash the API. Invalid or corrupt images would break printing. (#1401).
  • Print result could indicate error without reason. When printing to PDF there is a limit on the number of pages and file size. This was not shown (#1403).
• barxui Agent
  • Fix manual data sync. Was only working if data sync items where disabled. Now works either way (#1387).
  • Labels with multiple fonts would not always selected the correct font for some text (#1409).

4.53.0 – 29 July 2023

• barxui
  • Automatically deactivate organisations with expired trial period.

4.52.0 – 27 July 2023

Improved data upload

• barxui
  • Data Manager
    • Improved the file upload to be clearer about creating new tables and updating existing one.

4.51.0 – 16 July 2023

Improved black & white image printing

• barxui & barxui Agent
  • Image quality of black and white images improved when printing.

4.50.0 – 5 July 2023

File library

• barxui
  • A file library for managing images and other files. Upload, view, download images, word, excel and other files.

4.20.0 – 18 May 2023

barxui user interface refresh and update including many small enhancements and fixes.

• barxui
  • Page layout now correctly fills the screen with scrolling where necessary.
  • New Home page and improved flow for new users (#1291)
  • Design Manager
    • Sort menu now indicates current order (#1301)
  • Designer
    • Improved layout of toolbar and property panel.
    • Designer canvas now fits the page correctly.
  • Data Manager
    • Improved table selector that can scroll when there are many tables.
    • Record count now shows correctly.
    • Query editor improved layout and fit.
  • Consoles
    • Improved console selector that can scroll when there are many consoles.

4.12.0 – 24 February 2023

Improvements to printing results and general stability.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Print Dialog
    • The layout of the window is improved with less clutter on the tool bar.
    • When printing to PDF the View Results button will display errors and warnings when an item on a label cannot be drawn as expected. Eg, if text shape content is set from a datasource and the datasource does not have a value, there will be a warning that the text is set to the default value. If a variable cannot be evaluated then this will create an error and stop the remaining labels from printing.
    • When printing to a barxui Agent, the print dialog will not wait for the agent to finish but instead, the print status from the agent will pop-up briefly at the bottom of the screen and the results can be display by clicking there.
    • The messages from the agent are now more reliable.
  • Printing
    • Nutritional Panel shape improvements.

4.8.0 – 12 September 2022

Improvements to file importing and data sync from agent.

New

• barxui
  • Sample labels and data now added to new organisations (#1165)

Fixed

• barxui
  • Data Manager
    • Re-importing a table will correctly add or remove columns
    • Imported tables will maintain original order by default
    • Adding a new row now pins the row to the top of the table until another row is selected
    • Importing Excel files will now include blank rows and does not expect the first column to have a value (#1175)
  • Designer
    • Replaced icon for EAN barcode AI editor (#1209)
    • Fixed incorrect “A newer version exists…” prompt when saving (#1218)
    • Fixed print failure with blank (null) values in table (#1219)

• barxui Agent
  • Improved logging of datasync activity, including from service
  • Fixed layout of data sync dialog
  • Changed selection of file watch setup
  • Fixed append mode for SQL data sources

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Datasource (table) selection now shows table name and query name to distinguished sources more clearly (#1220)

4.7.0 – 24 July 2022

Moving to app.barxui.com plus a few small fixes.

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New

• barxui
  • Added notification banner to barxui.com
  • Deployed barxui to app.barxui.com

Fixed

• barxui
  • Alignment of some buttons
  • Limits exceeded dialog popping up every hour

4.6.0 – 5 July 2022

Some small fixes

Fixed

• barxui
  • Improved editing of expression variables
  • Allow blank items in choice and query list prompted variables
  • Updated numeric format strings on datamanager
  • Updated designer shapes to only work with drag and drop
  • Fix editing of AI’s for EAN123 barcodes

4.5.0 – 26 June 2022

Printing status notification from PDF and Agent print.

• barxui Agent
  • When printing to an agent or PDF etc a notification popup will show status. This is useful when the printer is remote or for long running print jobs (#1130).

4.3.0 – 26 April 2022

Platform updates.

4.2.0 – 27 February 2022

Agent improvements including new user interface, simplified settings, pushing updates with silent installation and more.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Settings
    • Agents
      • Can now request printer update from barxui Agent list. Will send a request to selected Agent to refresh the printers list (#494).
      • Agents list links to filtered Printers list.
    • Printers
      • New Filter by Agent.
      • Link to Agents list when Agent clicked.
• barxui Agent
  • Update general appearance to be more consistent with barxui web UI (#1139).
  • Simplified settings page – far fewer options (#1142).
    • Service control now totally automatic.
    • Added disconnect button back to settings page (#1039).
    • Added connection restart button to settings page.
    • Update while using service now works silently.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Cancelling data variable setting on a shape could clear the settings (but not save it) (#1149).
• barxui Agent
  • Detailed logging not working from servce (#1150).
  • Service not restarting after an update (#1116).
  • Installation using new installation service for silent updates.
  • Uninstallation now correctly removes services.

4.1.0 – 19 January 2022

Small fixes for designer and Agent.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Line shape property dialog was missing some properties (#1097).
    • Drag and drop from toolbox was adding images for some shapes (#1123).
• barxui Agent
  • Internet glitches causing a disconnect would not automatically reconnect in all cases (#1103).
  • Improved logging of activity to more clearly show disconnections & reconnections (#1042)
  • Renewed code signing certificate (#597).

4.0.0 – 16 January 2022

Many user interface improvements and fixes.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Refresh of most pages. Updated icons, layouts of controls plus many small cosmetic improvements.
    • All dialogs now have close/cancel button and dont close when clicking outside the dialog. Can still press ESC to close (#1055).
    • All settings dialogs are now pages (#1089).
  • Designer
    • Property panel now groups properties with more consistent order (#211).
    • Fixed loss of focus when editing property values in property panel (#945).
    • Allow fractional font size, e.g. 9.5pt (#1061).
    • Improvement to positioning when adding new shapes and copy/pasting a group of shape etc. (#350).
    • Setting shape rotation now possible from shape context menu (right-click) (#1049).
    • Improved order in Media template list in label properties dialog (#1060).
    • When creating a new label with an existing label open, copy the media template settings (site etc) (#1074).
    • Auto zoom is now the default zoom setting but labels will remember the last zoom setting and open with this (#1096).
  • Data Manager
    • Can now copy multiple records the same way delete works (#1051).

Fixed

• barxui
  • General
    • Subscription next due date was incorrect (#1081).
    • Settings menu could be blank (#1094).
    • Fix hiding of features for deactivated subscriptions (#977).
  • Designer
    • Toolbar was not always displayed – blank (#1085).
    • Label properties dialog error viewing preview of template (#1095).
    • Toolbox Data variable not refreshing correctly after selecting query for label (#1102).
    • Dragging a variable to the design surface would not create a shape (#1065).
    • Saving a draft could overwrite changes by another user without warning (#1072).
    • Nutritional panel colour selection was broken (#357).
    • Nutritional panel font sizing errors (#1090).
    • When dragging and dropping a ZIP file to import labels there was no indication the upload was working (#976).
  • Data Manager
    • Error displayed after deleting a table (#1083).
  • Printing
    • Images printed to PDF where not proportional when selected to be.
• barxui Agent
  • Agent would not always connect automatically when started (#1068).
  • Agent unresponsive when connecting at startup (#491).
  • Agent now uses port 443 rather than 8883 which is less problematic with firewalls (#1077).

3.19.0 – 21 December 2021

Upload PDF as Image.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Drag a PDF file to the designer to create an image (1^st page of PDF only) (#727).
    • Image properties opens when dropping image or PDF (#727).
    • Resize image to fill label (#727).

3.18.0 – 5 December 2021

A few small fixes.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Media Size selection now uses button to create new template (#1060).
    • New labels will use same template as currently open label or last selection (#1074).
• barxui Agent
  • Use port 443 instead of MQTT port 8883 which is often blocked (#1077).
  • Connection messages clarified. Reduced clutter on main window (#1068).

Fixed

• barxui
  • General
    • Fixed a few browser console warnings (1063).
  • Designer
    • Saving a label after saved by another user/session would not alway warn of overwriting (#1072).
    • Dragging a global variable to the designer did nothing (#1065).
• barxui Agent
  • Agent would not always auto connect at startup (#1068).

3.17.0 – 29 November 2021

Many fixes and enhancements.

New

• barxui
  • Designer
    • New standard Impact font added and increased boldness of font styles (#1054).

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Limits Exceeded nag dialog now far less annoying. Apart from the nag when starting barxui, an alert will display on the top toolbar and will disappear for a while after confirming the nag dialog (#1038).
  • Designer
    • Editing an image shape will display selection dialog when no image previously selected (#914, #928).
    • Shape properties dialogs are now more consistent and show formatting options better (#947, #949, #1012).
    • Pasting a group of copied shapes now selects all the pasted shapes so they can easily be moved (#963).
    • Display fill colors for more shapes in properties panel (#1044). Color selection in panel now possible.
  • Data Manager
    • Deleting multiple or all rows from a table now supported using check boxes to select rows (#653, #1048).
    • Tables refresh after uploading new data. New table selected after creation via upload (#946).
    • Hide tables from operators when they shouldn’t see them (#950).
• barxui Agent
  • Improved handling of dropped internet connections (#881).
  • Status messages a little clearer (#926).

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Setting rotation > 360 now corrects angle (#941).
    • Z Order (ie, shapes behind other shapes) was not reflected correctly in designer (951).
    • Image dialog validation errors not being displayed (#965). Also added more message to most other shape property dialogs.
  • Data Manager
    • Uploaded table columns not correctly named when automatically generated. A1… A9, B0… Should be B1… (#1027).
    • Filter strange non-visible charactes from CSV when uploading (#1029).
    • Default query was not always selected by default (#1052).
  • General
    • Signup dialog was not completely validating email addresses (#1019).
    • Password reset link in emails was broke (#956).
    • Subscription information was not correctly displayed for non-subscriber users (#1016).
• barxui Agent
  • Printing current Date/Time using UTC date (#1059).

3.16.0 – 14 November 2021

Platform optimisations. No new features or fixes.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Implement database sharding.
    • Migrate all orgs to new database.
    • Deactivate old database and NAT Gateway.

3.15.0 – 7 November 2021

New AutoPrint AddOn plus some agent fixes.

New

• barxui
  • AddOns
    • New AutoPrint addon to automatically print records appened to a table. Used in conjunction with barxui Agent Data Sync.

Enhanced

- barxui
    * Redesigned AddOns dialog.



- barxui Agent
    * New Append mode for Data Sync to append records to existing table.

Fixed

- barxui Agent
    * Preload fonts at startup.

3.14.0 – 31 October 2021

General fixes and enhancements.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Added rotation options to context menu (#961).
  • Data Manager
    • Column order is now persisted with query.
  • General
    • Prompt for organisation name when registering (#958).

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Refresh media list after deleting a template (#923).
    • Position selection correctly in media dropdown (#989).
    • Send to back improved (#880)
    • Allow Operators to see label designer read-only (#943).
  • Data Manager
    • Export table column order now matches the current query (#1005).
    • Export table now include all rows, not just the first 200 (#980).

3.13.0 – 1 October 2021

Improved printing system and several small bug fixes.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Improved layout of label manager
    • Label properties now include a background colour to match the label paper. This is used in the designer but never actually printed.
    • Label properties now include a default printer to override the locally defined default printer. Default settings for any printer are defined in the Printers settings window.
  • General
    • New registration confirmation window improved to be less confusing.
    • Test mode print adds large X over output to distinguish it from normal output.
    • Add button to reset serial numbers.
    • Improve messaging for sign-up.
    • Allow reset of serial numbers.
• barxui Agent
  • Improved printing of images.
  • barxui Agent will now keep trying to reconnect to barxui if the internet/network connection is lost.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • New shapes initial position could be off the viewable area.
  • Data Manager
    • Table export option not visible.
  • General
    • Fix missing images on email messages (invites, password reminders etc).
    • Exhausted serial or sequence numbers preventing download of PDF.
• barxui Agent
  • barxui Agent could remove connection to barxui if internet/network connection was lost.
  • Sequence numbers not printing.
  • Test mode printing should not increment serial numbers.

3.12.0 – 8 August 2021

A few fixes and one or two new features.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Set the background colour of the label media. Show colour in designer to help makes designs more life-like.
    • Set default printer for a label.
  • Data Manager
    • Export a data table.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Media template not correct re-selected after customising.
• barxui Agent
  • Label size was not being correctly set when printing with windows drivers.
  • Agent could disconnect if internet connection lost. Will not retry to establish connection forever, or until manually stopped.

3.11.0 – 30 July 2021

Improved selection and printing of images, drag and drop images to designer & much more!

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Print dialog layout plus new options for print range.
    • Importing labels now adds required fonts to organisation settings.
    • Invoicing of subscriptions possible upon request.
  • Designer
    • Tarted up the design manager with new List mode and option to turn off previews.
    • Pasting images from clipboard now supported. Use Ctrl/Cmd + V on all browsers, some browsers also allow paste button and menu option.
    • Support for BMP image format.
    • Last open label will re-open when returning to designer.
  • Data Manager
    • Download a table to CSV. Handy to backup data or send to someone else (support etc).
    • Printing from data manager now requires explicit selection of records to print and more clearly indicates how many records will be printed.
• barxui Agent
  • Printing
    • Don’t print shapes when associated data values are null.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Auto zoom when opening a label improved. Should now default to as much of the label as possible will fill the window.
    • Image kept losing focus after updating properties.
    • Size to grid not always setting the correct shape size.
    • Inverting image colours not always working.
  • Data Manager
    • Validation errors for query names now displayed.
    • Occassionally prints all records in table rather than selected ones.
• barxui Agent
  • Printing
    • Improved image printing (images where being truncated).
    • Rotated shapes did not always match the designer.

3.10.0 – 11 June 2021

A fairly small release.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Impose limits when printing to file. Large files could kill the application.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Barcode scale of 62.5 was not remembered.
  • Data Manager
    • Table now correctly refreshing after changing query join or filters.

3.9.0 – 30 May 2021

Printing enhancements and global system variables.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Variables can now be defined on the organisation and used globally for all labels. Label variables and override these.
    • New fixed/static variable type.
  • Designer
    • Editing of EAN128 barcodes, AI properties can now be from variables.

Fixed

• barxui
  • General
    • Printing is now much more wysiwig with teh designer. Font sizing and alignment fixed.
  • Designer
    • Properties panel improvements.
    • Nutritional Panel editing improvements.
    • Can now have fixed font size text boxes.
    • Borders on text boxes.
    • Colour setting on various shapes.

3.8.0 – 16 May 2021

New pricing for Australian currency.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Designer
    • ‘Designs’ are now correctly called ‘Labels’.
    • Drag and Drop of data field and variables.
    • New colour picker with fixed list.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • More zoom tweaks.
    • Prevent drag and drop off canvas.
    • Image borders off by default.
    • Fix drag drop of images to canvas.
    • Price shape improvements.

3.7.0 – 3 May 2021

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Inproved meta data for better Google & social results.
  • Designer
    • Shapes are now dragged from toolbox.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Fixed wonky zooming, labels getting truncated at max zoom.
• barxui Agent
  • Auto update fixed.

3.6.0 – 28 April 2021

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Much improved layout on smaller devices (phones, tablets) →

3.5.0 – 27 April 2021

Internal release only.
HEXCOM.com updated.

3.4.0 – 18 April 2021

First public beta release!

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Simplified pricing and subscription selection.
    • Added yearly subscription option.
  • Designer
    • More consistant appearance in designer and design manager toolbars and panels.
    • Use more of the screen!
    • Maximized the canvas size in designer.
    • Reopen the last design when navigating back to the designer.
    • Nutrional Panel shapes now allow data expressions for item columns.
  • AddOns
    • Xero – Changed default print options for invoices.
• barxui Agent
  • Installation
    • New service installation process
  • Data Sync
    • Add option to upload files when changed.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Barcode expression propeties updated.
    • Fixed blank line removal in text shapes.
  • Data Manager
    • Table is selected after import.
    • 1^st table is selected after deleting a table.
    • Tooltips for ID columns display faster.
• barxui Agent
  • Installation
    • More reliable service installation process.

3.3.0 – 25 March 2021

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • Improved layout on smaller screens.
  • Designer
    • Improved layout to use more available screen.

Fixed

• barxui
  • AddOns
    • Xero AddOn creating duplicate tables.
    • Cannot remove Xero AddOn if no labels set.
• barxui Agent
  • Agent will not start after install.

3.2.0 – 14 March 2021

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • New home page and signup/signin page styling. Much pretty!
    • Site logo not displaying correctly. Converted to PNG file.
  • Designer
    • Can now drag and drop and image directly to the canvas.
  • Data Manager
    • Join 2 queries. Super useful for extending data from addons, e.g. extend Xero Invoices with related data in a custom table.

Fixed

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Prompted questions using Query List not displaying list of queries.
• barxui Agent
  • Printers not updated when connecting, requires manual printer update.

3.1.0 – 28 February 2021

Xero AddOn! Connect to Xero for data importand automatic printing of contact or invoice details.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • Addons
    • Improved connection to Xero.
    • Improved configuration of AddOns.
    • Better integration with Data Manager.
  • Designer
    • Add fonts directly rather than via settings.

3.0.0 – 14 February 2021

New authentication server and many fixes for design and Agent.

Enhanced

• barxui
  • General
    • New home page.
    • Condensed printer list to fit more.
    • New signin, signup, password pages.
    • Improved error logging.
  • Designer
    • Many improvements for Nutrition Information Panel shape.
    • Update label properties dialog layout.
    • Improve layout of form for serial and sequence numbers.
  • Console
    • New Console : Item Print Console
• barxui Agent
  • General
    • Rearrange settings connection page for clarity.
• barxui Authentication
  • Back End
    • New authentication server for signin, signup, password reset etc

Fixes

• barxui
  • Designer
    • Loading of fonts fixed when no fonts selected.
    • Replaced OCRB font.
  • Printing
    • Fix label scaling issue.
• barxui Agent
  • General
    • Remove task bar icon when closed.