Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition
Releases
Release 5.2.1
| Date | December 5, 2013 |
| Status | General |
Overview
This release addressees issues with highlighting synchronization in both table and tree views, and addresses a critical problem found in Microsoft Internet Explorer web applications.
Improvements
Table Views
- Table views use the text font consistently in web applications
- Toolbar buttons in table views update properly to reflect the current state
Tree Views
- Tree items use consistent text font in web applications
Documentation
- Enhanced the descriptions on Set Log Level
- Improved the instructions for deployment configuration
Examples
- Improved the Network Editor example data set
- Improved the license check code in the Basic GWT tutorial
System Requirements
- Added support for Jena 2.11.0
Fixes
- Web applications render properly in Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Fixed meta-edge selection and highlighting in image-map web applications
- Inspector view cells correctly display inspector view row data
- Table view highlighting refreshes properly after deletion and undo
- Fixed the Perspectives core resource bundle path for desktop applications
Release 5.2.0
| Date | November 7, 2013 |
| Status | General |
Overview
Web table view rendering uses a new incremental data loading approach in order to improve application response time and scalability for very large data models. Product documentation has been redesigned and improved. API documentation is more complete. The documentation adds new tutorials for customization and programming.
New
Designer
- Added cut, copy, and paste keyboard support
- Added separate properties for left, top, right, and bottom for both the margin spacing and the nested margin spacing
Views
- Drawings
- Support for running analysis on nested drawings
- Support for undirected meta-edge compression
- Tables
- Added table row incremental loading in web applications
- Set maximum width and height specifications for images in table cells
- Inspectors
- Set maximum width and height specifications for images in inspector cells
Examples
- New example demonstrates the usage of XSLT with XML integrators
- New tutorial accesses external database configurations
Improvements
General
- Use extensions.xml file in the project directory if the path to it is not specified in the project file
Designer
- Reorganized drawing template attributes into more logical groupings
- Renamed drawing template attributes to more closely align with node template attribute names
- Removed creation of temporary files during web preview
- Improved error handling when opening an invalid .tsp file
Integrators
- Added facility to improve database and RDF integrator query performance
Search
- Search field updates model selection if the search results do not change for two hundred milliseconds
Views
- All
- Allow removal of an icon from a Menu Toolbar Item and display text instead
- Drawings
- Improved print and print preview margin spacing in web applications
- Improved font rendering in desktop and image-map applications
- Improved font rendering in exported images
- Enhanced precise shape clipping when node shapes change at various zoom levels
- Maps
- Improved marker image rendering when images are loaded from URLs
- Enhanced conditional marker display
- Improved fit to objects rendering preference behavior
- Trees
- Enabled expressions for tree node icons in web applications
Layout
- Hierarchical
- Improved orthogonal edge routing to align horizontal and vertical edge segments properly
- Orthogonal
- Improved incremental layout results
Web Applications
- Improved session serialization
- Improved project closing when a session expires
Examples
- Improved the Network Editor example data set
Documentation
- Improved class descriptions in the API References guide
- Enhanced content for the Overview, Strategies, Development Setup, Upgrading, and Deployment Setup guides
- Improved Push tutorial
- Improved User Data Model tutorial
System Requirements
- Added support for Dojo 1.9.1
- These operating systems have been added:
- Apple OS X 10.9
- Microsoft Windows 8.1
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Apple OS X 10.6
- Apple OS X 10.7
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- IBM WebSphere 8.0
- Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.1
Fixes
System
- Ensured compatibility with Apple OS X AppNap
Designer
- Fixed error reporting for the expression editor lookup function
- Fixed drop-down lists that incorrectly listed model attributes with element attributes
- Drawing template preview reflects template attribute value settings
- Enabled using expressions for font values
- The web previewer works with more than one map view
- Fixes to item selection and scrolling when using the Move Up and Move Down buttons:
- The visible area now scrolls with the moved tree view item when using the Move Up and Move Down buttons or when a new item is created
- Item selection now works on undo and redo
- Filter condition paste button is enabled only if a subcondition can be added to selected condition node
- Disabled condition drag and drop on a root condition node
Search
- Fixed exception in Microsoft Internet Explorer during canvas resize
- Removed the Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 default Clear Field button from the search field
- Search result drop-down list closes properly if the window loses focus
- Maintain focus on search field after canvas resize
Views
- All
- Desktop applications work properly after running an Undo action
- Drawings
- New views can be created at runtime in a web client
- Actions disable correctly during animation in HTML5 views
- Fixed highlighting for collapsed nodes
- Marquee selection in web views now includes all drawing element types
- Trees
- The web tree view image renderer scales images
- Fixed highlighting artifacts when a tree node is selected
- Tables
- The correct cell editor is used for editable web table view cells
- The highlight color is respected in the web table view
- Maintains highlighting after sorting in the desktop table view
- Inspectors
- Fixed CSS inconsistencies in web inspector view editors
Layout
- Label association options are respected