Igor Pro® 8 Highlights

Igor Pro® 8 contains hundreds of improvements, including 20 new operations, 5 new functions, and a new NetCDF XOP. Some of these changes are highlighted below. The "What's New in Igor Pro 8.ihf" help file that is installed with Igor Pro 8 describes the changes in more detail.

All Igor Pro 7 English licenses (new and upgrades) sold on or after November 1, 2017, will be eligible for a free upgrade to Igor Pro 8 when it's released.


General

Long object names

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Object names are now limited to 255 bytes, versus 31 bytes in Igor Pro 7 and before. Go ahead and

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Igor won't object!

 

User Interface

Window Browser

Use the new Window Browser to see all your windows at once, or filter by type, name, and/or wave to find that one special graph among a sea of great data.

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Toolbar

The new toolbar provides easier access to frequently used features.

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Procedure Browser

The redesigned Procedure Browser allows you to quickly find and filter symbols (functions, macros, etc.).

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Graphics

New Box Plot and Violin Plot graph types make it easy to show the distribution of values within a data set.

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Programming

Command Completion

Procedure windows and the command line now suggest options to complete the current command.

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Go Back/Forward

New Back and Forward buttons in procedure and notebook windows allow you to quickly navigate in these window types.

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Data Analysis

Transformations

  • New Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) operation
  • Added seven new dialogs for transformation operations

Curve Fitting

  • New built-in Voigt and dblexp_peak fit functions
  • ODR fitting is now thread safe and has built-in parallelization
 

Igor Filter Design Laboratory

Igor Filter Design Laboratory (IFDL), which was previously a separate paid product, is now part of Igor Pro 8. IFDL is a sophisticated and flexible environment for interactive design, evaluation, and application of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) digital filters.

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Performance Improvements

  • Greatly improved the speed of creating and looking up waves by name when there are many similarly-named waves in a data folder.
  • Drawing speed of graph traces on High-DPI displays under some specific circumstances is dramatically improved.
  • Improved speed of displaying notebooks, help windows, and procedure windows.

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