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PCAN-Explorer 7 & Add-ins Version History

2026-04-28 - Version 7.0.6

Improvements:

  • If no more seats are available when trying to access a network floating license, a better error message is displayed in the License Error dialog.
  • The "Data Length" property of a symbol or multiplexer selected in the Properties window now displays "All" instead of "8" if the element was defined to be valid for all data lengths.
  • New Standard Macro error codes 1043 ("Unknown database") and 1054 ("Database not assigned to bus").
  • In all Standard Macro instructions that accept symbol names (Send, SendXL, WaitId, WaitRTR, WaitData, SetSignal, DecSignal, IncSignal), a database name can now be specified before a symbol name to avoid wrong symbol assignments if the same symbol name is used in more than one database assigned to a connection.
  • When sending a symbol in a Standard Macro that was valid for all data lengths, the symbol was always sent with 8 data bytes. Now the data length to be sent can be explicitly specified in the Send instruction.
  • The color of the grid lines in Receive/Transmit windows can now be customized.
  • Highlighting of changed data bytes and signal values now fades automatically without the need to receive messages or set signal values. The behavior can be customized in the Options dialog under Receive/Transmit > Highlight Data Changes > Update Mode.

Bug fixes:

  • If a value of a mapped signal was set that did not have a multiple of 8 bits, the signal value was not correctly inserted into the auto-transmitted message.
  • Selecting File > Save or File > Save As while the Receive/Transmit window was focused did not prompt for a file name for the Transmit list, but saved the Transmit list under the next unoccupied file name.
  • Pressing the right mouse button in a message list only left the single message under the mouse cursor selected.
  • Enabling a connection did not also start transmission of cyclic messages belonging to the connection.
  • When the About page was open in PCAN-Explorer, it could happen that a prompt was shown that asked about reloading the file "About_...html".
  • If a symbol name was specified in a Standard Macro instruction and a connection had more than one database assigned to it, the error "Unknown symbol" was triggered.
  • Application crashed when a Trace file was opened that had a comment in the last line.
  • If the comment of a transmit message was empty, the cell in the grid was merged with the cell immediately preceding it.
  • Clicking on the Open File... entry in the Recent Files list of the Start Page had no effect.
  • Selecting Open Project from the context menu of the Recent Projects list on the Start Page had no effect.
  • Changed values of virtual signals in the Watch window were not highlighted.
  • The Comment field in the Trace window could appear at the wrong position separating the header from the Trace list.
  • After changing the time format in the Options dialog, the time values shown in the "Time" column of Receive/Transmit lists were not updated accordingly.
  • When executing the File > Save Project As command, the displayed Save dialog was not correctly configured to be part of the application. The resulting effects include:
    • the Save dialog could move behind the main application window
    • after closing the Save dialog, the main application window could be moved to the background behind other applications.
  • Changing a signal value in the Edit Message dialog could trigger an Access Violation.
  • If the option to show ordinal values of enum values was enabled in the Edit Message dialog, selecting an enum value from the drop-down list did not update the data bytes of the message being edited.
  • Multiple macros with the same name but different macro languages could lead to unexpected behavior.
  • The "Project" menu was initially visible after starting the application even when no project was loaded yet.
  • Possible Access Violation when processing received extended multiplexing signals.
  • Availability of Add-in licenses was not checked again after the main license could no longer be accessed and another one had been accessed, e.g. after the connection to a network license server was lost and a different LAN or local license was used instead that had a different set of Add-ins unlocked.
  • When trying to export signals from trace data based on extended multiplexing symbols (Symbols file format 7), no signals were found the trace.
  • When exporting messages (*.log/*.csv) from a tracer that contained trace data based on extended multiplexing symbols, symbol names were always exported as qualified names ignoring the setting in the Trace Export dialog.
  • Event entries in trace files with only a single word as comment could not be interpreted and showed an error "Too few line parameters".
  • German Umlauts in event entries in trace files were not correctly shown in the Trace window; event entries are now always written in English into the trace file.
  • After a Trace window was closed, the last selected trace entry was still visible in the Properties window.
  • If the main application window was initially shown in maximized state and then brought back to normal state, the background of the MDI client area was not erased or repainted while moving windows around.
  • Trace playback did not pause at a breakpoint set for the first playable message in the trace when the "Repeat" option was enabled and playback started from the beginning.
  • After all keyboard shortcuts were reset in the Options dialog, the Quick Access window could no longer be opened using the default keyboard shortcut Ctrl+.
  • Some other minor other improvements and bug fixes.

Changes:

  • The keyword "AnyBus" is no longer allowed as the name of a connection, since it is a reserved word in Standard Macros that is used in place of a bus number or connection name to specify that a send or wait instruction is to be performed on all connections.
  • No more right-aligned columns in Receive/Transmit windows.
  • Update check is only done if the currently used license is not a trial license.

Instruments Panel Add-in

Improvements:

  • New option in the Panel Properties to control whether a panel is rendered using Direct 2D or classical GDI, to resolve possible performance issues.

Bug fixes:

  • If the corner radius of a control was set to 0 it was neither stored in the *.ipf file nor did it persist after a copy-paste operation.
  • The Corner Radius property was configurable even for controls that do not have a corner radius, like BitmapList, SvgList, LED, ToggleSwitch, or RockerSwitch.
  • Access Violation when an object was dragged with the mouse onto the panel.
  • If an SVG was used as a background image, the graphic was sometimes not scaled/aligned correctly, especially if the background image alignment of a scene was set to Stretch and then the Image Transparent property was toggled.
  • If the PCAN-Explorer was located on a monitor with a scaling factor <> 100%, moving selected panel controls with the mouse displayed a wrongly positioned and wrongly scaled drag image.
  • After switching to Run mode, it was not possible to return to Design mode using the command in the toolbar.

Plotter Add-in

Bug fixes:

  • The the Properties dialog was not setting its initial page when if was opened from the context menu of any plotter object by selecting the Properties command.

J1939 Add-in

Bug fixes:

  • A maximum of 4 non-FD BAM and 8 RTS/CTS write sessions could be started, then the error "Already sending" occurred in PCAN-Explorer for each subsequent sending attempt.
  • J1939 multipacket symbols were not correctly decoded if the data length of a message did not exactly match the length defined for the symbol.

CANdb-Import Add-in

Bug fixes:

  • Error "Interface not supported" if an open CANdb file, which was not part of a project yet, was applied and then the option "Copy and add to project" was selected.

AUTOSAR XML-Import Add-in

Improvements:

  • New "Apply" button in the Add-in form. There is no context menu, and the only option to apply the file was via the file commands in the PCAN-Explorer toolbar.
  • Some other visual improvements of the Add-in window.

Bug fixes:

  • Buttons in Import dialog were too wide so that they overlapped when the dialog was opened for the first time.
  • Style/skin of Add-in window was not set.
  • Error "Interface not supported" if an open ARXML file, which was not part of a project yet, was applied and then the option "Copy and add to project" was selected.

PCAN-Symbol Editor

Improvements:

  • In the About dialog, the license information for the available Add-ins "Bus Descriptions" and "J1939" is displayed.
  • When searching for available PCAN-Explorer Add-in licenses, perpetual licenses now have a higher priority than trial licenses.
  • New Advanced option to specify the license search order.
  • In the Options dialog, the list items were not displayed correctly under certain circumstances, e.g. when the dialog was displayed with a screen scaling of more than 100%.

Bug fixes:

  • After the software was launched once without a valid J1939 Add-in license, the J1939 PG symbol type was no longer usable, even if a valid license was subsequently available.

Setup

  • The file type extension .pym (Python Macro) was not registered in Windows as a file type to be opened by PCAN-Explorer by default.
  • When the Visual C++ Runtime prerequisite was installed on Windows 11 ARM64, a message "Warning 4154: Visual C++ Redistributable... was not correctly installed" popped up though the Redistributable had been installed correctly.

Samples

  • Fixed wrong PECallbackEvents type library reference in VS2019 C# Add-in example.
  • Small fix/optimization in code of the NewClientSend() VBS macro example.
  • In the .NET Add-in example the example window could not be opened.

License Manager - Version 2.0.4

Improvements:

  • Display start, stop, and crash events from the CodeMeter Runtime Server.
  • Added a notification for CodeMeter service crashes and startups.
  • Notifications include timestamps.
  • Added a button to manually check the connection to the PEAK activation server.
  • Improved license selection to allow only one license of the same type to be selected.
  • Added a notification when the PEAK activation server is under maintenance.
  • Improved error reporting.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when generating containers during the offline process.
  • Reworked container generation for activation in the offline process.
  • Notifications now close when clicking outside the notification area.

Changes:

  • Removed unnecessary time specification from the maintenance date.
  • Removed the local license view, as the network view is required even when only local licenses are displayed.