Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Web Edition

Release 6.3.3

Overview

This release improves product quality.

New

• None

Fixes

• Fixed a potential infinite loop in the drawing canvas refresh in image map web applications
• Prevented session expiration from causing a licensing check exception in web applications
• Improved synchronization in the web view service to prevent a potential deadlock in multi-user scenarios
• Improved the drawing context in web applications to ensure that it is reentrant
• Improved exception handling around inactive sessions and view closure to ensure that memory is successfully freed
• Improved image clipping error handling to prevent passing invalid width and height values
• Fixed a potential exception in the label UI used in the Custom User Interface tutorial

Release 6.3.2

Overview

This release improves product quality and performance.

New

• None

Improvements

Drawings

• Reduced memory consumption in the UI Style map

Layout

• Improved balance of one-degree nodes around their neighbor in orthogonal layout
• Improved node label centering
• Improved connector label placement to be more regular
• Improved performance significantly in drawings with many disconnected nodes that have labels
• Improved disconnected node packing to be more compact and regular

System Requirements

• None

Fixes

• Fixed possible exceptions in one-line diagram layout
• Fixed possible exceptions in orthogonal layout
• Fixed overlaps in node labeling
• Fixed performance problems in orthogonal layout
• Fixed several global layout instabilities
• Fixed movable connector placement in orthogonal layout
• Fixed expanded node misplacement in nested hierarchical layout
• Fixed enlarged margins of a nested drawing

Issues

• None

Release 6.3.1

Overview

This release improves product quality.

New

• None

Fixes

• Fixed a Licensing Deployer issue that prevented desktop applications from deploying properly
• Fixed a selection synchronization issue in Google Map views

Release 6.3.0

Overview

Tom Sawyer Perspectives now supports Apple Retina display devices. Additionally, this release introduces a new approach to the orthogonal and one-line drawing styles that improves layout quality and introduces authentication support for the REST integrator. Further, this release improves product quality, features, and performance.

New

Technology

• Added JDK 8.0 support

Data Integration

• Added basic authentication support to the REST integrator
• Added support for changing the data source for the REST and Neo4j integrators in the Tom Sawyer Perspectives Previewer

Drawings

• Added support for Apple Retina display devices

Layout

• Introduced a new approach that reduces some crossings in the orthogonal drawing style
• Introduced a new approach to remove bends in the one-line drawing style

Examples

• Added a Family Tree example demonstrating RDF integrator capability

Documentation

• Added an option to improve documentation search speed by ignoring the API documentation

Improvements

Data Integration

• The text integrator is able to read values of 1 or 0 into a Boolean attribute

Web Applications

• Improved project session information management
• Improved client-side memory management
• Improved application management when the same application is open in more than one web browser tab

Designer

• Improved the user experience when loading web previews from the Designer

Views

• Improved synchronization between views by indicating whether action items cause model selection changes

Drawings

• Improved precise clipping to node image outlines
• Improved overview rendering
• Improved animation in desktop applications
• Improved rendering speed in desktop applications
• Added the ability to configure the rendering order of splitter UI element children
• Provided a JavaScript function to access the HTML canvas element for drawing views

Layout

• Improved bend removal for orthogonal drawings
• Improved rotated labeling quality
• Improved hierarchical layout performance for nested drawings by as much as eighty-five percent

Documentation

• Improved API documentation
• Improved REST integrator tutorial documentation

Examples

• Improved the look and feel of the World Cups example
• Improved the look and feel of the Governance example
• Improved the look and feel of the k-core example
• Improved the error and warning messages in the Cineasts example
• Improved the InfiniteGraph tutorial to support InfiniteGraph version 3.3

System Requirements

• Added support for Apple OS X 10.10
• Dropped support for Apple OS X 10.8
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Added support for Java 8
• Added support for Apple Safari 8.0
• Dropped support for Apple Safari 6.0 and 6.1

Fixes

• Font attribute editing and committing in desktop application table views works properly
• Fixed date attribute editing when initial date value is not specified in web application table and inspector views
• Database integrator cancel works properly
• Fixed problem when copying and pasting multiple schema entries in the Tom Sawyer Perspectives Designer
• Fixed the image loading issue in the Governance example
• The Print Setup dialog box properly validates zoom level settings in web applications
• Database integrators with filters on Boolean attributes read data successfully
• Table view sorting now behaves consistently

Issues

• In Microsoft Windows 8.1, there is a minor overview flash when using Firefox 33 with Apple Retina display devices