LXEdge 1.1.x Release Notes
Question Last Updated on: 6/10/2025
LXEdge 1.1.8.2
Released: April 9, 2025
Minor Updates
- Completely removed the “Center All” button and function. It had been inadvertently re-enabled while running charts starting in version 1.1.5.66.
Bug Fixes
- When reviewing in a later version a chart that had been created in version before 1.1.6.23, questions and other annotations would be missing from chart after time of a “Center All”.
LXEdge 1.1.7.5
Released: April 1, 2025
Minor Updates
- Add check for missing media (audio and video) files when PF is opened. Previously this check was done when navigating to charts.
- Add time zone information to the Chart Info.
- Prevent closing LXEdge while a PF is open.
Bug Fixes
- Audio would not play back for charts reviewed on computer set to different time zone than the computer the charts were recorded on.
- Charts could be displayed in unexpected order on scoresheets.
- Message from replay system about incomplete attachment could occur when navigating among items in the PF while recording was in progress.
- When the “Very Low” audio setting is used, the “_initial” file was not being converted and deleted if the PF was closed while audio was still being recorded.
- Through rare circumstances, the last minute or so of sensor data were not being displayed for all 3 charts in a PF.
LXEdge 1.1.6.23
Released: March 14, 2025
Major Updates
- Significant refinement to printing
- Add the ability to split a printed chart into multiple pages. Setting determines whether to split or to shrink chart to fit on one page.
- Include a header with details of contents on every page.
- Improve overall formatting and appearance.
- Add ability to print questions asked, in the order they were asked, for each chart.
- Removed button that would print only the currently displayed chart.
- Print process creates a PDF that is placed in the PF?s attachments folder.
- Improvements to user-experience related to enabling RLE and PPG Pulse Amplitude tools
- Tools can now be enabled on Sensors tab in settings where they should stay as set.
- Tools (and all other sensors) can (and should) be enabled and positioned by going to Chart tab with no PF open. Changes here impact new PFs going forward but will not stay set retroactively.
- If tools are enabled, they will appear right away when reviewing a chart.
- Modified color scheme for the RLE and PPG tools. For a recommended score of ?1, the dot will be red with a red border and red font. For a recommended score of +1, the dot will be green with a green border and green font. For a recommended score of zero, the dot will be white with a blue border in the PPG tool. For the RLE tool, a recommended score of zero will have a white dot with a blue boarder and blue font if the R/C ratio is less than 1.2:1, or gray with a blue border and blue font if the R/C ratio is greater than 1.6:1.
- Related to Audio/Video settings
- Added "Very Low" audio quality option. Creates files with sizes of about 0.2 MB / minute. Implemented using ffmpeg to shrink audio files after recording is complete.
- Show the audio quality options when capture mode is set to Audio for a camera.
- Resolved some issues with audio quality settings not being handled correctly.
Minor Updates
- Removed the Pneumo Line Length sensors.
- Change the "Review Video" function to "Review Media" and allow playback when only audio files are present.
- Create the file association between .lxw files and LXEdge as part of the installation process. Previously an association was created the first time LXEdge was started.
- Related to templates
- In user-defined question set templates, only show "New Folder" dialog when right clicking on a folder
- Prevent dragging folders in user-defined question set templates
- Improve handling of attempting to access templates and folders that were deleted using File Explorer
- Improve handling of some rare scenarios related to template naming and selection
- Removed the "Clear Search" hotkey
- Related to PF Tools
- Change term "zip" to "archive".
- Changed the algorithm used to create checksums used in detecting changes to attachments and media files. The previous algorithm could be blocked in more secure environments.
- Reorder actions that happen when pressing the spacebar to mitigate potential delays.
Bug Fixes
- When attempting to open a chart with audio/video, error message could incorrectly appear indicating the recording could not be used because it had been modified since attaching. Was related to closing a PF without stopping recording.
- While running or previewing a chart with more than 5 minutes of chart visible, the traces would not reach to the right edge of the chart. This was observed both when using a high resolution 4k monitor and when stretching LXEdge across two monitors.
- EDA and Cardio details would sometimes be missing in the "Chart Info" associated with a chart.
- When editing a question set template, changes to Id induced by changing Question Type were not immediately reflected in Sequences.
- Attempting to add a new question set template folder would fail when LXEdge Directory was set to a location on OneDrive.
- When opening a PF, the item selected would not always match the item displayed.
- Bugs related to Spanish version
- The expand button in the PF template editor was not visible
- Text in header on settings page was not updated right away
- Bugs related to Combining charts
- Crash would occur when attempting to Combine Charts when no charts were present
- LXEdge would attempt to display video associated with Combined Charts
- Playback of text-to-speech would fail intermittently on some systems.
- Media playback would sometimes fail to start or stop when expected.
- Duplicate warning messages would appear when navigating away from a chart with unsaved changes to questions.
- Related to PF Tools
- Deleting a PF using PF Tools would occasionally fail if user had previously played media associated with the PF
- Crashes would sometimes occur when using PF tools to e-mail a PF
- When editing a Personal History or Series template, clicking on "Close" or "Save" with an empty option present in a dropdown list field would cause the field to be completely deleted.
- Multiple "_temp" and/or "_moving" files would sometime be present inside a PF and/or its subfolders.
- On the Audio/Video tab, the Record checkbox would not be visible for microphones with very long names.
- Crash could occur when quickly navigating away after ending a chart. Resolved by preventing navigation until chart was finalized.
LXEdge 1.1.5.70
Released: February 4, 2025
Major Updates
- Changes related to "LXEdge Directory" setting
- Setting now applies to all users of a computer instead of just the current user.
- Default is still set to user's "Documents" folder, but LXEdge now properly accounts for file migration if user later enables OneDrive.
- Setting can now only be changed using the folder-selection dialogue
Minor Updates
- Deleted PFs and templates are now placed in Recycle Bin instead of being completely removed from computer.
- Added file association between PF template (.lxw) and LXEdge. This allows double-clicking on the .lxw file inside a PF to open the PF in LXEdge.
- Simplify steps for creating Archive in PF Tools by removing "Destination Location" textbox. Minor changes to text on PF tools.
- Clear search button (blue "X") is always shown in the Search bar.
Bug Fixes
- Resolve issue that "LXEdge Directory" setting would revert to default value when installing a new version of LXEdge.
- Resolve issue that enabling OneDrive could make it appear like templates and PFs were missing.
- Resolve issue that playback of text-to-speech in charts with Speech Synthesis "Record to file" setting enabled would fail.
- Resolve issue that running charts out of order would lead to inability to open charts because of chart internal inconsistency error.
- Resolve issues related to combining charts:
- When combining charts created in earlier versions of LXEdge, the labels for all charts would be "Series 0".
- Rarely, traces could appear unusual near beginning of a chart. This was primarily an issue with charts recorded using simulator data.
- Resolve issues related to template search:
- When using the "Change" buttons while editing a PF Template, the information displayed would not update as expected.
- On Home Page, amount of information displayed in PF Template preview could change when navigating to different tab and back.
- Template list was not being updated as expected when deleting or renaming a template.
- Resolve issues related to combining charts:
- Search would not clear when navigating from one template tab to another. This could make it appear that templates were missing.
- Search would not work as expected after clearing a search that had only shown a single result
- Resolve unexpected confirm dialogue and potential crash when deleting PF internally from the Navigation bar.
LXEdge 1.1.5.66
Released: January 15, 2025
Major Updates
- PF Tools tab has been added
- PFs can be copied or moved to alternate location
- PFs can be deleted and emailed
- PFs can be archived into a zip file and restored from said format
- Data stripping options have been clarified and are now located on this tab instead of in system settings
- Voices available in the "Time & language -> Speech" settings in Windows settings can now be used for speech synthesis in LXEdge
- Video recorded outside of chart times can now be reviewed in a Multimedia reviewer window inside LXEdge
- Behind-the-scenes overhaul of chart-related code
Minor Updates
- Chart Info tab now provides more information
- Starting/Stopping Cardio cuff pressure
- Starting/Stopping/Average EDA resistance
- Chart end time
- Re-enable ability to combine charts
- Allow editing of Personal History and Series information unless PF has been locked. Editing was previously prevented once a chart had been run.
- Data stripping options are now available when emailing/archiving within a PF
- Prevent annotations from being added outside of chart runtime
- Language setting has been moved to Settings -> System
- Bulk import of LXSoftware Question Sets now maintains the imported folder structure
- Improved functionality of use of question set templates imported from LXSoftware
- Add more details to error messages related to Upload button and opening charts
- When opening a chart for review, select the first Relevant Question
- All Series can now be expanded at once with the "Expand All" button
- Archived PFs are no longer locked
- For Acquaintance tests, add "Key" to list of valid question IDs
- Removed "Prompt to start recording at chart start" setting
Bug Fixes
- Resolve issue that software could crash when opening blank question set within PF
- Resolve issue that PF created from a blank PF template would not open correctly
- Resolve issue that "Open Folder" button on attachments tab would open incorrect folder when nothing had been attached
- Resolve some issues related to chart playback and recording
- Resolve issue that chart preview would appear when clicking on chart tab immediately after creating/opening a PF
- Data Stripping issues have been resolved
- Resolve crash that could occur when dragging items in Series Template editor
- Spanish translation of certain strings has been fixed
- Resolve issue that Chart tab would be highlighted when opening a template for editing
- Resolve some issues related to filtering templates
- Resolve issues with sequence navigation that could occur when one or more sequences within the question set had been deleted
- Errors when attempting to navigate from a running chart have been resolved
- Errors when using Change button while in Template editor have been resolved
- Fixed issues related to usages of Upload button when PF contains media files
- Resolve issue that expected voice might not be used when testing speech synthesis inside question set editor
- Resolve issue that "Stopping A/V Recording" would always appear when navigating to Home Page, even when recording was not in progress
LXEdge 1.1.4.31
Released: November 1, 2024
Major Updates
- Added Spanish language support
- Related to scoring and scoresheet
- Add setting of which scorer (Examiner, Reviewer, Reviewer Two) should be selected when scoring a PF for first time
- While within PF, always return to most recently selected scorer
- Shorten scorer labels to save space
- While reviewing chart, selecting question at bottom of chart now updates selected question in scoresheet
- Add button to show/hide the scoresheet inside the chart; the scoresheet will no longer be translucent
- Hide the "Show Report" button in the Compare Scoresheets view
Minor Updates
- Limit number of characters in question labels to 8
- Remove the "Audit Log" tab
- Refinements to appearance and behavior related to selecting and editing templates
- Add vertical scrollbar to About page
- Make it easier to activate tooltips associated with tab items in left menu
- Remove Cardio Thumb sensor from LXEdge
- Remove redundant toggles to enable/disable that appear at top of sensor
- settings
- Hide the option to combine charts until some issues have been resolved
Bug Fixes
- Line length traces would not appear while previewing or recording chart
- Re-enable PF integrity checks that verify that charts have not been swapped or removed
- Selecting a question near the end could adjust zoom while reviewing chart
- Extra blank window would appear when starting LXEdge or LX Recorder in Windows 10
- When adding item to template, unexpected behavior could occur when clicking "Close" without selecting item
- When submitting an item to Contact Support, double submission would occasionally occur
LXEdge 1.1.2.72
Released: August 21, 2024
Major Updates
- Update Charting package to latest version
- Overhaul of AV and Chart recording and playback to resolve significant issues
- Add ability to import NCCA ASCII files
- Combining Charts
- Allow users to combine multiple charts within a PF for cross reference and comparison
- Applies to multiple charts in either the same or different series
- Combined charts are shown in a separate window for navigation
- Each chart in the Combined Charts view has a separator for easier distinction between charts
- Chart questions are marked at the bottom of the Combined Charts view
- Chart Zoom
- Display current zoom level while viewing a chart
- Allow for a quick/easy return to 100% zoom level after zooming in or out
- ESS Report Updates
- ESS Reports now require a new field, "Exam Type" which specifies either a Single Issue or Multiple Issue exam
- The "Decision Rule" dropdown has been updated, now allowing only Grand Total Rule, Two Stage Rule, Subtotal Score Rule, and Federal Zone Rule as selection options
- Both "Exam Type" and "Decision Rule" must be selected before the ability to create an ESS Report is allowed
- "Decision Rule" can no longer be found in the Settings and can only be accessed when updating scoresheets
Minor Updates
- Chart questions can now be navigated using keyboard arrows
- Removed the "Reset" button at the top of the chart
- When opening a PF from a .lxw file, the PF is no longer moved to "My LXEdge" folder
- PFs will be locked when opened from an "Upload Without Stripping" file
- Gray vertical line no longer appears on chart when Center All is selected
- Removed "To Live" button from the top of charts during recording
- Moved the "Speak Text" buttons that are shown when editing Question Sets
- Previously shown after the "Media File" field and is now located between the "Text" and "Expected Response" columns
- Allow limited editing of questions between charts in a series
- Streamlined Question Set Template editing process
- The "Type" field can no longer be changed after it has been selected in Question Set creation
- Similarly, the "Type" field is no longer accessible when editing a Question Set Template
- Allow for trace movement independent of the trace arrow
- This can be achieved by hovering over a trace arrow with the mouse, holding Ctrl + scrolling the mouse wheel
- Multiple file attachments can be uploaded at the same time to a PF
- Allow for greater precision when adjusting the gain at smaller amounts
- Add option to store spoken text to speech to files
- Advancing to a question in scoresheet now centers that question on the chart
- Remove "Use Alternative Fill Source" setting as it is no longer necessary after update to Charting package
Bug Fixes
- Resolve many issues with AV and chart playback
- Traces can no longer be dragged below the bottom of the chart view
- Fixed some instances where the X-Axis Visible Range of a chart displayed incorrectly
- Fixed a default answer in Utah CQT 3RQ Question Template
- Previously, the Expected Answer to the Sacrifice Relevant question in this template was set to "No" when it should have been "Yes"
- Fixed chart jitter when onsetting or offsetting questions
- NCCA Export improvements
- NCCA Export folder location has been fixed to be directly under the PF folder
- NCCA output file names have been fixed to properly number each chart uniquely by series and chart number
- Fixed instances where the Add Question button wasn?t working for a newly created Question Set
- Resolve issues with playback of videos using a specific audio codec by converting the videos before playback
LXEdge 1.1.1.32
Major Updates
- Allow question text to be edited in between charts within a series. Edits will be used in subsequent charts run in the series.
- Remove ability to remove charts within a PF that have not been run.
- Chart creation
- Adjust so the time-axis scaling matches paper charts (0.5” / 5 seconds)
- Do not allow zooming of the time axis
- Do not allow panning of the time axis
- Chart review
- Open chart to the standard time-axis scaling
- Allow scroll-wheel zooming of time-axis
- Allow time axis to be panned
- Clicking on a question centers that question in the view.
- Chart replay
- Made it so that questions now advance automatically during replay.
- Audio/Video Settings
- Added ability to select audio quality for microphones. Resolves issue that audio file sizes were very large.
- Cameras and microphones now keep their settings after being unplugged and plugged back in.
- When plugged in, cameras and microphones appear without needing to navigate away and back to the settings.
- Added ability to delete a previously added Network Camera.
- Modified the resolution for the “Medium” video setting.
Minor Updates
- Settings
- Made it more clear that the top item in Data Stripping settings enables/disables stripping completely.
- Changed the minimum allowed Question Timer setting from 18 seconds to 0 seconds.
- Removed the “Display Grid at 5 Second Divisions” setting.
- Removed the “Use Application Settings” setting.
- Removed the “Maximum Data Display Rate (Hz)” setting.
- While running a chart, repeated questions will show in the question bar.
- While running a chart, when a question is completed, the program will move to the first unasked question.
- Adjust default sensor vertical positions to match positions for a typical examiner.
- Added button to show the “Release Notes” on the web.
- Do not allow user to close LXEdge while running a chart.
- Now disables “Center All” button while running a chart.
- On the question template editor, ensure that the question boxes in the sequences are always wide enough to contain the entire Question ID.
- Prevent LXCAT users from selecting a different question set or modifying questions while inside PF.
- Hotkeys
- “F10” now appears instead of “System” for the hotkey associated with Unexpected Behavior.
- Ignore “Ctrl” key when setting hotkeys.
- Removed the “Question Completion” and “Question Set Editor” hotkeys.
- Removed the Save button from the Personal History and Series entry views.
- Converted the Default PF template to the new PF format.
- Changes to Preview PF template view
- Show the name of the selected Personal History.
- Added Scoresheet and Report.
- Standardized font and margin.
Bug Fixes
- Largely eliminated sluggish behavior that could occur after extended usage of LXEdge.
- Resolved issue that taking a picture with the LXEdge Recorder would mark the current tab complete, even if it was not the Photo tab.
- Resolved issue in Question Template selector that clicking “New Folder” repeatedly would appear to create multiple folders called “New Folder”.
- Resolved issue that search function didn’t work for question set templates.
- Resolved issue that under certain scenarios, chart/media playback would revert to beginning instead of continuing from current spot.
- Resolved issue that prevented LXEdge from updating the firmware on older LX6 hardware. This was preventing usage of that hardware with LXEdge.
- Resolved issue that prevented old LXCAT PF’s from being loaded.
- Resolved issue that pressing “Alt” key would impute an annotation on the chart.
- Edits to last edited field in Personal History could be lost when navigating to Series.
- Related to PF Template
- Resolved issue that following certain steps, changes to a PF template would not be reflected in a PF immediately created from the template.
- Resolved issue that a message related to missing question set would be incorrectly shown when creating PF from PF template that included a question set from a folder.
- Resolved issue that PF created from edited Default PF template would not contain Scoresheet or Report.
- Resolved issues that series could be numbered out of order following deletion or reordering.
- Resolved issue that the Annotation (F1-F12) hotkeys would be ignored under a very specific situation.
Known Issues
- While running a chart, a slight jump sometimes occurs at question onset or offset, response, and selecting another question.
- The ESS Scoresheet Auto Select function is not working as examiners would expect it to. We will be adjusting the drop down menus in the future to Scoring Types: ESS, 3-position, 7-position; Exam Type: Single-Issue (Non-Independent), Multiple-Issue (Independent); Decision Rules: Two Stage Rules, Subtotal Score Rules, Federal Zone Rules, Grand Total Rules. Examiners should manually select the correct Scoring Type and Decision Rules in the meantime.
LXEdge 1.1.0.20
Major Updates
- Overhaul of Question Set Template Selector
- Question Set templates can now be organized into folders
- Templates can be dragged from one folder to another folder
- Default Question Set templates are now organized into folders (Lafayette, AIIP, APA)
- Known issue: Search function does not work
- Overhaul of Question Set Editor
- Efficiently make use of available space
- Added button for speak the text
- Sequence-related changes
- Sequences are always visible
- Moved to top of page
- Selecting a Sequence changes questions in list below
- Dragging reorders the questions; new order is reflected in list below
- Removed the "Reorder Questions" button; no longer relevant with the added ability to reorder sequences through drag and drop
- Overhaul of PF Structure (impacts both PF templates and running PFs)
- Scoresheets and Reports are now subsets of a Series; Series within a PF are no longer required to all have the same Scoresheet and/or Report items
- PF Templates created in previous versions of LXEdge will be converted to the new format.
- PFs created in previous versions of LXEdge will be converted to the new format. Before conversion, a copy of the PF is placed in "My LXEdge/Legacy PFs".
- Important Note: PF Templates and PFs created starting with the latest version (1.1.0) of LXEdge will not open in earlier versions of LXEdge (1.0.1 and earlier)
- Changes to PF Template Editor
- Scoresheet and Report have been moved from the "Add Item" button located outside the Series to the "Add Item" button located inside the Series
- Changes while running a PF
- User has options of:
- Starting with a custom PF template with Series that contain all the desired Charts, Scoresheets, and Reports
- Adding all Series, Charts, Scoresheets, and Reports as needed; previously Scoresheets and Reports were not able to be added while running PF
- Some combination of these two options
- "Add Chart" button has been removed from bottom of the navigation bar (was located above "AddSeries")
- A new "+" button has been added to the Series. This allows adding a Chart, Scoresheet, or Report while running a PF; previously the user had no easy way to do so if item was not already in PF template.
- Added ability to save a Question Set from a Chart as either a "Template" or a "PF Template"
- To Access, click the "Edit Questions" (pencil) button in lower left corner and then "Save As" in upper right corner
- "Save as a Template?" brings up dialog for specifying folder and name for storing the template. This template can then be used in any future PF.
- "Save as PF Question Set?" brings up dialog for specifying name. The template will be stored inside the "Question Sets" folder within the PF and is available for use in later series within this PF.
- After adding a new Series, the PF Question Set Templates appear in a list near the bottom of the control for picking the template.
Minor Updates
- Changed default camera setting from "Video" to "Audio/Video"
- The name of the Question Set and Sequence number now appear in the lower left corner of the chart
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the logic used to check if firmware updates are needed for DAS or other hardware. Include the latest LX6 and LXCAT firmware versions.
- Fixed typo in the default Report Template. (changed Examiner to Examinee in one place)
- Resolved issues related to chart review and media replay
- When clicking on a question, chart now scrolls so that the question's onset appears on the right edge of the chart instead of centering the question in middle of chart
- Resolved issue that chart replay would restart from beginning when pressing play after clicking on a question
- Known issue: Questions do not automatically advance during replay
Known Issue
- After extensive single session use, LXEdge may exhibit sluggish behavior. Restarting LXEdge when possible will restore performance.
