ASAP 2005 V2R3 (June 2006) Release Notes File
(c) 1982-2006 Breault Research Organization, Inc.  All rights reserved.

Late-breaking information about this release of ASAP™.

KERNEL
06PRD00000091 & 06PRD00000215
Enhancement
The behavior of 'SPOTS ... ATTRIBUTE n' has been changed to reduce the 
likelihood of user error affecting the interpretation of distribution files.  
The affected distribution file is updated for all allowed values of the 
ATTRIBUTE option n.  The overhead associated with this redundancy is typically 
negligible on modern systems and is justified by the reduced probability 
of misinterpretation.  The new behavior reinforces the importance of making 
a $COPY of the BRO009.DAT file, if the results will be required later, as 
subsequent commands may overwrite the BRO009.DAT file.  
See for example the topic, “Distribution Data Files Overview” in the online help.

06PRD00000116
Enhancement
Three options have been added to the SELECT command.  SELECT ADD … adds rays to 
the currently selected set.  SELECT REMOVE … removes rays from the currently 
selected set.  SELECT NONE unselects all rays and may occasionally be a convenient 
logical complement to SELECT ALL.  
For more information, please see USER DOCUMENTATION addenda below.

06PRD00000396
Fix
The EDGE… POINTS… OBJECT construct produced an object which would not reliably 
raytrace with ACCURACY HIGH (the default).  The most typical symptom was rays 
passing through the object.  Sometimes rays would intersect properly from one 
side but not from the other.  This defect was introduced in ASAP 8.0.5 with 
improved BPM accuracy.  The defect affected all raytracing with ACCURACY HIGH 
and not just BPM.

06PRD00000425 & 06PRD00000450
Fix
Total internal reflection (TIR) for all media was not completely reliable, as the 
result of a change made in ASAP 2005 V2R2 related to birefringent materials.  
Symptoms included premature ray-cessations and low-flux warnings.  Correct TIR 
behavior has been restored for isotropic materials.  Accurate TIR for 
birefringent materials, which has never been supported by ASAP, remains unsupported.

06PRD00000449
Enhancement
A large number of informational messages (which are neither errors nor warnings) 
could clutter the output console, particularly when reading IGES files or working 
with the Light Source Library.  Duplicate informational messages are now suppressed.
Additionally, informational messages can be suppressed entirely with $MSGS OFF.


USER INTERFACE
06PRD00000320
Fix – Light Source Library Wizard
Corrections have been made in the Light Source Library Wizard allowing correct 
rayset wavelength values when the underscore character (‘_’) is included in the 
rayset pathname.

06PRD00000446
Fix – Builder
Corrections have been made in the Builder allowing Perturb to run to completion 
when setting tolerance ranges.

USER DOCUMENTATION
Errata & Addenda – ASAP On Line Help Topic SPOTS

The following remark:

Normally, ASAP produces a distribution file of accumulated ray fluxes at each 
pixel location. The ATTRIBUTE option (other than SPOTS ATTRIBUTE 0) instructs 
ASAP not to create a distribution file and to print only a symbol where each 
ray strikes, as shown by the following:

is superseded by:

ASAP produces a distribution file of accumulated ray fluxes at each pixel location.  
The ATTRIBUTE option instructs ASAP to plot a symbol where each ray strikes, 
as shown by the following:

The following remark:

The spot diagram data also is placed into the BRO030.DAT (or filename.vcr) file, 
but only if the ATTRIBUTE i is less than one.

has been removed from this topic.

Addenda – ASAP On Line Help Topic SELECT

The following expanded syntax is now incorporated into this topic:

SELECT [ ALL ]
         ADD          [ entry entry' [ AND entry entry' ...
                                                   OR
         REMOVE  [ entry entry' [ AND entry entry' ...
                                                   OR
         ONLY        [ entry entry' [ AND entry entry' ...
                                                   OR
         EXCEPT    [ entry entry' [ AND entry entry' ...                  
         NONE


To support the expanded syntax, the following remarks were incorporated into 
this topic:

ADD and REMOVE add or remove rays matching a subsequent Boolean condition to or 
from, respectively, the set of currently selected rays.

NONE takes no Boolean conditional and makes the set of currently selected rays 
equivalent to the empty set. It is included for convenience.

Boolean conditions are specified by entering pairs of entries separated by a 
logical operator (AND/OR) according to the following table: