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Wed Oct 19 08:56:47 2005 UTC (19 years, 4 months ago) by bernhard
Original Path: trunk/thuban/NEWS
File size: 8022 byte(s)
* Thuban/UI/about.py: remove unused import of getdefaultlocale.
Added display of internal encoding to the about dialog text.

* Extensions/svgexport/__init__.py: changed version to "1.0.0+cvs".

Started to update the NEWS file.

1 bernhard 2674 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0+CVS
2     ===========================
3    
4     - Startup improved: We fail right away if the internal encoding could
5     not be determined. In this case, try to set the LANGUAGE variable to
6     one value and use no colon.
7     If we startup you can see the internal encoding in the about dialog now.
8    
9     - Improved extensions:
10    
11     - Improved svxexport extension 1.0.0+cvs (Bernhard Reiter)
12    
13     + Fixed ARC layer writing: No filling is done.
14     You could actually get polylines with filling in between,
15     when the classification for the lines had a fill color.
16     E.g. this happens when you generate a classification from a ramp.
17    
18     + Fixed label export.
19    
20 bh 2649 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0
21     =======================
22    
23     - Thuban rembers directories in file selection dialogs during a thuban
24     session
25    
26     - Add some support for wxPython 2.5 and 2.6. Thuban is still
27     compatible with wxPython 2.4.
28    
29     - Change the way thuban deals with non-ascii text. The internal
30     representation is now the user's default encoding. Thuban works a
31     bit better with a unicode build of wxPython but there are still
32     problems. (Bernhard Herzog)
33    
34     - Various raster data improvements. Among other things, translucent
35     images are now supported on a sufficiently recent wxWidgets (2.6).
36     Also, only the part of the window actually covered by the image is
37     drawn. (Jonathan Coles)
38    
39     - Improved PostGIS support (Bernhard Herzog):
40    
41     - support tables with multiple geometry columns. The user can
42     select which one to use
43    
44     - support tables with srids
45    
46     - tables don't have to have a column named "gid" anymore. The user
47     can select the column to use for ids
48    
49     - PostgreSQL views are supported too
50    
51     - support LINESTRING geometries
52    
53     - support more PostgreSQL versions. 7.4 works now.
54    
55     - Added support for sizable points (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
56    
57     - When loading a (moved) session where shapefiles cannot be found, ask
58     the user (Frank Koormann)
59    
60     - The middle mouse button can be used for panning now (Russell Nelson)
61    
62     - Give a warning when the projection selected for a layer is probably
63     wrong (Russell Nelson)
64    
65     - Updated shapelib
66    
67     - New or improved extensions:
68    
69     - A new extension which exports a map as SVG
70     (Markus Rechtien, Bernhard Reiter)
71    
72     - Improved WMS extension (Martin Schulze)
73    
74     - New Extension to dump bounding boxes of all shapes of the selected
75     layer (Frank Koormann)
76    
77     - New extension: umn_mapserver (Jan Schüngel)
78    
79     - New extension: OGR (Nina Hüffmeyer)
80    
81     - New Extension: mouseposition. Tool to collect mouse click positions
82     (map coordinates) in a dialog. (Frank Koormann)
83    
84     - Documentation:
85    
86     - Add some documentation of the internals of Thuban.
87     See Doc/technotes/
88    
89     - The thuban manual has been partly translated to German
90     (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
91    
92     - Updated translations:
93     Russian (Alex Shevlakov)
94    
95     - New translations:
96     Brazilian Portuguese (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)xb
97     Hungarian (Norbert Solymosi)
98    
99    
100 bh 2043 Changes in Thuban 1.0.0
101     =======================
102    
103     - Updated translations:
104    
105     Italian by Maurizio Napolitano
106     Spanish and French by Daniel Calvelo Aros
107     Russian by Alex Shevlakov
108    
109     - some minor bug fixes
110    
111    
112 bh 1997 Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1
113     ========================
114    
115     - Redering improvements
116    
117     Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban
118     completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated
119     regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window
120     and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet
121    
122     The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when
123     doing classifictions.
124    
125     The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined
126     in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an
127     example)
128    
129     - Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them
130 bh 2006 are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages
131     might not contain all of these extensions.
132 bh 1997
133     - gns2shp
134    
135     Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See
136     Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information
137    
138     - wms
139    
140     Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more
141     information
142    
143     - importAPR
144    
145     Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.
146    
147     - profiling
148    
149     For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code.
150     See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.
151    
152     - drawshape
153    
154     This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension
155     to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to
156     data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README
157    
158     - A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when
159     given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It
160     only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files.
161     This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using
162     it.
163    
164     - EPSG projections
165    
166     Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections
167     (epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These
168     projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under
169     "Show EPSG".
170    
171     - Context menu in the legend window
172    
173     The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer
174     commands
175    
176     - Localization updates
177    
178     The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and
179     thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and
180     the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows
181     .mo files are installed
182    
183     Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel
184     Calvelo. Updated German translation
185    
186     - PostGIS improvements
187    
188     - Quote table and columns names properly.
189    
190     - The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to
191     create a new connection when there already is a connection for the
192     same database)
193    
194     - Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by
195     the unix version. The other way round was already possible.
196    
197     - The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10
198    
199     - Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.
200    
201    
202 bh 1700 Changes in Thuban 0.9
203     =====================
204    
205     - An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
206     XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
207     binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
208     online version is available at
209     http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html
210    
211     - New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
212     Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
213     date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
214     translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
215    
216     - PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
217     point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
218     7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
219     versions probably also work.
220    
221     The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
222     select permissions on any table to show and also on the
223     geometry_columns table.
224    
225     Known Issues:
226    
227     - Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
228     MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
229    
230     - Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
231     integer which uniquely identifies the row.
232    
233     - It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
234     the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
235     especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
236     column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
237     versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
238    
239     - Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
240     can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.
241    
242    
243     More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.

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