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Winteracter Version 7.10
May 22nd 2006
Winteracter v7.10 is now available. Upgrades are available from any previous release see Price List. Upgrades from v7.0 consist of a v7.10 CD. Upgrades from earlier releases consist of a v7.10 CD and a hardcopy v7 Programming Guide.
3D modelling
- 3D models can be split into parts. Allows partial model manipulation without full model recreation:
- Apply transformation matrix to a part to move or rescale it.
- Change material of a given part (e.g. to highlight it).
- Set part visibility, allowing objects to be hidden.
- Names can be assigned to parts, to simplify end-user part identification.
- 3D DXF support upgraded:
- Number of vertices and facets can be interrogated.
- Faster loading when the "shared vertices" option is specified.
- Parts recognised in DXF files.
- Substantially expanded model interrogation. Virtually all model information can now be retrieved, including vertex co-ordinates.
- Material of each facet can be set individually.
- 3Dview model viewer tool upgraded to support parts in both W3D and DXF files. A separate "Parts view" uses a split window to display a parts list and a model view highlighting the selected part.
Database Interrogation
- Interrogate data in third-party data sources, via ODBC.
- ODBC database access supported on all of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
- Retrieve data as strings, integer, real or double precision values.
- Access single fields or arrays of values (latter is more efficient).
- Interrogate number of database records.
Graphics primitives
- Co-ordinate system rotation:
- Single subroutine call allows entire co-ordinate system to be rotated by 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
- Rotation affects all graphics output, including presentation graphics.
- Graphics text blocks:
- Write multi-line text within a formatting rectangle.
- Text can be justified or l/c/r aligned.
- Option to auto adjust font size to ensure text fits.
- Control over line spacing.
- Line breaks can be forced.
- Text block length interrogation function.
Arrow head width control.
- Limits on polyline/polygon size eliminated.
- Palette interrogation: Get nearest 8-bit palette index, given a 24-bit RGB value.
Editor windows
- Editor window printing can be invoked under program control, in addition to user invocation.
- Program control over both program-invoked and user-invoked editor printing options.
- Set editor selection.
Grids
- Control over print options for user-invoked grid-window printing.
- Optionally save grid column/row labels in CSV files.
Bitmaps
- Faster bitmap rotation on Windows NT/2000/XP (approx 10 times quicker).
- Faster and better quality image resizing on Windows.
- More memory bitmaps allowed (max=50).
- X Windows versions now support same range of BMP/PCX sub-formats as Windows versions. Adds support for compressed BMP, 16-bit BMP and mono/16-colour PCX.
Resource editor
- Improved field resizing in dialog editor.
- Export current button in toolbar editor.
- Bigger images in image editor (max=100x100).
WED
- HTML tag insertion options:
- Insert : Picture, hypertext link, table, list, anchor point, horizontal line or line break.
- Text style formatting : Bold, italic, font size, super/sub-script, monospaced.
- Paragraph formatting : Normal/heading/pre-formatted and paragraph alignment.
- Direct access to full Subroutine Reference via summary Subroutine Info dialog.
- Subroutine Info dialog now shows each argument's intent.
- Hex colour code insertion.
WiDE
- Line ending conversion tool eases source file exchange between Windows and Linux/Mac OS X.
- Improved front-end to Fortran source reformatter.
- Simplified code output from Application Wizard.
Help editor
- HTML tag insertion options when editing help files in HTML source form:
- Insert : Table, list, anchor point, horizontal line or line break.
- Text style formatting : Bold, italic, font size, super/sub-script, monospaced.
- Paragraph formatting : Normal/heading/pre-formatted and paragraph alignment.
- Substantially expanded topic editor documentation.
- Advanced Search option when generating HTML Help (CHM) files.
- Access to Microsoft's HTML Tag Reference (where installed).
Troubleshooter editor
- Same HTML tag insertion options as WED (see above).
- Several additional help options, including access to Microsoft's HTML Tag Reference (where installed).
Documentation
- Advanced search options under Windows:
- Boolean operators.
- Previous search string history.
- Restrict search to previous results and/or topic titles.
- Sort results by title, location or rank.
- Accessible via the Search tab in the HTML Help viewer window.
- New wsearch tool on Linux and Mac OS X provides similar documentation search capabilities:
- Previous search string history.
- Restrict search to previous results and/or topic titles.
- Sort results by title or location.
- Search can be invoked from the command prompt or the Help menu in WiDE.
- Improved index.
- Section name on every page.
Compilers
- Support for the forthcoming version of Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran running on Linux/x86_64 (AMD64/EM64T) platforms.
- Absoft Pro Fortran support on Linux upgraded to v10. (Note: v10 is now the required version.)
- New Win64 version for Absoft Pro Fortran v10 on AMD64/EM64T Windows.
General
- Display EMF metafiles from the program resource in a dialog field under Windows.
- Sort routine extended to optionally report new array order.
WHelpfile accepts "ms-its:" filename syntax allowing access to a specific HTML file inside a HTML HELP (CHM) file.
Customers who purchased v7.0 on or after 24/April/2006 will normally be entitled to receive a free v7.10 update. Qualification for free updates from 7.0 is based on the date of shipment from I.S.S. or a recognised I.S.S. reseller and in any event is at the sole discretion of I.S.S. Ltd. Free updates are normally shipped automatically and do not need to be requested.
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