Here you will find a log of all "official" releases of Figure Composer and its predecessor, Phyplot, since development work began in Dec 2003. Included in this history are FC-related Matlab tools described in Loading Data.
The first useful release of Phyplot was version 1.0, and it was replaced by the Figure Composer app in version 3.0. The full release history is maintained primarily for the developer's reference; users will likely be interested only in the most recent releases. Posts are in reverse chronological order.
Figure Composer was originally part of a larger application suite called DataNav. The other components of the suite were geared toward the development of a distributed application that would implement a data sharing "portal" for the Lisberger lab. Those other components were: DataNav Builder (Java app), DataNav Viewer (a Javascript +HTML web client), and DataNav Server (Java enterprise app). Since the portal concept relied heavily on the FypML figure model, all components in the application suite were affected in any new release, and all shared the same version number. A single web site served as an online user's guide for all of the applications in DataNav, including FC.
As of Version 5.1.0, Figure Composer has been completely separated from the portal development effort. This online guide is now solely dedicated to Figure Composer; however, you will see many references in this version history to DataNav and its portal-related applications. Some more recent entries in the version history (prior to 5.1.0) indicated which suite components were affected by the code changes for the release: FC = Figure Composer, DN = DataNav Portal Apps. [NOTE: Older releases referred to a previous incarnation of the portal apps, referred to as Portal Builder (PB), Portal Server (PS), and Portal Viewer (PV).]