Manifold Community Site Area: Announcements

Manifold System 8.0.19

adamw — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:04:56 GMT

A new update for Manifold is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) The Manifold OGC WMS server no longer reports wrong coordinate boxes for systems other than lat/lon.
(Fix) Random number generators used by the query engine no longer share the same seed.
Maximum size of a table component can exceed 4 GB.
(Fix) Importing a HDF, HDF EOS or HDF SeaWiFS file no longer sometimes leaks memory.
(Fix) Reading data for a built-in coordinate system on Oracle no longer sometimes ignores measurement units for parameter values.
Maximum dimensions of an image or surface are increased.
The Link Manifold Image Server Data dialog includes means to set the extents of the linked image to whole Earth (this also is the default).
(Fix) Linking data from an OGC WMS server correctly handles relative service URLs in the capabilities document.
There are coordinate system presets for coordinate systems used in Poland and Romania.
The Link Manifold Image Server Data dialog includes a link to the Image Servers and Geocoding Servers page on the Manifold web site.
The installation packages no longer contain geocoding servers for Geocoder.US and Microsoft Virtual Earth.
Attempting to import or link an MDB or XLS file in 64-bit mode tries to use the 64-bit version of Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010.
Attempting to connect to a Jet data source in 64-bit mode no longer throws a "no 64-bit Jet" error message on failure.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.18

adamw — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:07:58 GMT

A new update for Manifold is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Rendering compressed images (imported or linked) at high zooms no longer produces wrong results in case the coordinate system used for rendering differs from the coordinate system of the image (a regression).
(Fix) The Manifold WMS server no longer sometimes reports wrong bounding box coordinates for coordinate systems other than lat/lon or that of the served component.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.17

adamw — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:59:42 GMT

A new update for Manifold is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Importing NetCDF files no longer sometimes incorrectly imports image or surface masks.
(Fix) Setting the MissingValue property of an ImportRawBinary object no longer sometimes loses precision.
The maximum allowed length of a formula entered in the Surface - Transform dialog has been increased to about 1 MB.
(Fix) Rendering an ECW or JPEG2000 image no longer inverses the alpha channel.
The scripting engine supports IronPython 2.6.1+.
The CUDA engine supports Fermi devices.
All CUDA kernels have been adjusted to work on devices with very low amounts of memory.
Importing a coordinate system from a PRJ file recognizes several new variations of German datum names.
Importing KML files preserves CDATA information.
(Fix) Exporting a coordinate system to a PRJ file no longer sometimes exports extra closing bracket.
(Fix) Attempting to select several components in the Project pane no longer fails to work on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7.
(Fix) Scanning a PostgreSQL table no longer sometimes mistakes a foreign key for a primary key.
(Fix) Computing a bearing no longer sometimes loses accuracy.
(Fix) The IntersectionPoint query function has been adjusted to never return multi-point geometry.
(Fix) The AspectHeight, SlopeHeight and HeightCurvXxx query functions no longer ignore planar scale of the underlying surface.
(Fix) The HeightXxx and similar query functions no longer sometimes take values from wrong pixels (offset by 1).
(Fix) Editing a rank column no longer sometimes crashes.
(Fix) Selecting records via More Like This commands in a table window no longer selects wrong records in case the table is sorted by values of one or more columns.
(Fix) The Surface - Contours dialog no longer fails to suggest contouring intervals for some cases of round height ranges (eg, 0 to 100).
(Fix) Inserting new objects into drawings via queries no longer fails to format them.
(Fix) The Surface - Transform dialog formulae can use the CurvGauss function.
Exporting a DBF file translates NULL values (eg, coming from a linked drawing or table) to blanks or zeros, according to column type, instead of throwing an error.
(Fix) The area adjacency check no longer fails to account for containment or equivalency.
(Fix) The area adjacency check no longer sometimes fails to work correctly for areas with multiple branches.
(Fix) The area containment check no longer sometimes fails to work correctly for areas with multiple branches.
The Rnd query function has been reworked to significantly increase entropy.
(Fix) Attempting to compute a drive-time zone via a script using centers and roads taken from different drawings no longer sometimes crashes.
(Fix) The ScaleXxx query functions no longer return NULL values for trivial scales (if a scaled object equals the original object).
(Fix) Resizing an image or surface no longer shifts pixel values to left and top.
(Fix) Attempting to access the Center or Box property of a GeomSet object no longer sometimes crashes.
(Fix) Reading the Box property of a Map object no longer fails in case a map does not have any drawing or theme layers.
(Fix) Rendering compressed images (imported or linked) at high zooms no longer produces blurry, shifted and incomplete results.
The GPGPU readout in the Help - About dialog indicates the presence of Fermi devices.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.16

adamw — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:49:44 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Importing an ERDAS Imagine file sets offset and scale of the created image even if there is no other projection information.
(Fix) The InStrRev() query function no longer sometimes returns incorrect data.
(Fix) The definition of the Dutch Grid (Rijksdriehoekstelsel) projection and the Amersfoort datum have been updated with correct values.
(Fix) Printing a geom value to WKT no longer sometimes loses precision.
(Fix) The Virtual Earth geocoder module has been updated for the current version of Virtual Earth.
(Fix) The PostgreSQL storage driver has been updated for PostGIS 1.4 / 1.5.
(Fix) The Spline transform no longer sometimes produces incorrect results.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.15 (merged with 8.0.14)

adamw — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:15:44 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Registering the Manifold ODBC driver no longer sometimes crashes.
(Fix) Running a query with a join and a HAVING clause no longer sometimes produces incorrect results.
(Fix) Importing a TAB file no longer sometimes produces wrong results unless all fields are selected.
Getting an activation key via the Web displays a confirmation dialog.
(Fix) Attempting to print a theme component from a theme window no longer prints the parent drawing.
(Fix) Reading a coordinate system from a MIF or TAB file no longer fails to scale false easting and false northing values to the specified units.
(Fix) Reading a coordinate system of an Oracle or PostgreSQL drawing or loading a coordinate system from a WKT value no longer maps certain south american datums to WGS84.
(Fix) Reading and writing 64-bit integer values from and to remote databases no longer sometimes throws an error.
(Fix) Retrieving properties of a DB2 drawing no longer fails to detect version triggers.
(Fix) Reading data in a rectangular window in a DB2 drawing no longer reads all data.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

(For those curious about 8.0.14, that build was never released for public consumption. As we were preparing to release it, we discovered a potential crash in the registration routine for the ODBC driver and held off the build in order to fix that bug.)

Manifold System 8.0.13

adamw — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:02:31 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Database Console and other tools no longer sometimes fail to work with SDE geodatabases on Oracle.
(Fix) Importing KML files no longer fails to correctly parse metric without Z coordinates.
(Fix) Importing VMAP data no longer sometimes misses areas made out of lines with multiple branches.
(Fix) Importing TAIF data no longer sometimes uses incorrect metric for areas with multiple branches.
(Fix) Importing BNA files no longer sometimes uses incorrect metric for objects with multiple branches.
(Fix) Creating contours on a surface with invalid pixel values no longer creates objects with invalid metric.
Error and status messages used by the geocoding engine have been made more descriptive.
(Fix) Detection of read-only tables on OLE DB data sources no longer sometimes marks certain SQL Server tables as read-only.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.12

adamw — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:06:43 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) The Spline transform no longer sometimes produces jumps due to lack of normalization.
(Fix) Parsing an Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY value no longer crashes on a multi-point entity with exactly one point.
(Fix) Creating new table with fields via a script no longer sometimes creates an invalid table if the fields were taken from another table object.
(Fix) Searching for the topmost modal dialog via user interface scripting correctly ignores the help window.
(Fix) Parsing a coordinate system from a WKT no longer fails to recognize some coordinate systems found in DB2 installations.
(Fix) Interpolating a surface from contours using DEST no longer sometimes fails to complete or produces erroneous results.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

London User Conference -- need IMS presenters

atlasalive — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:06:15 GMT

As a part of the London conference we're putting together an extended IMS session. The plan is for several technical presentations representing different techniques, approaches, platforms, and/or solutions. We will then follow it up with a roundtable discussion.

To that end, we need a couple more IMS presentations to round it out. I'll be presenting a Flash-based approach. Dominik Mikiewicz, who many of you might remember his Bat Distribution Viewer application, will be presenting some of his work. We need a couple more presentations to fill it out.

If you're interested and can attend the conference, please contact Patrick or myself (at the address below).

For more information about the conference, you can go to this thread: London User Conference

Atlasalive News and Holiday Sale extended through January

atlasalive — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:08:57 GMT

We heard from a lot of you who were interested in the Holiday Sale but simply couldn't make the decision with all their end-of-year activities. As a result, we're extending the sale through the end of January. Our pricing can be found here:AtlasAlive Pricing.pdf (111.73 kb)

We've also been busy and have added/improved some new features in December including an integrated wiki, system message broadcasting, and a message acceptance framework so that administrators can publish messages such as Terms and Conditions that users need to accept to view maps. We've also improved our map/file upload mechanism significantly. Its a lot more stable and the administrator has a lot more control of their file libraries.

Look for some new screenscasts and some demo maps in January. AtlasAlive On Demand is also proceeding smoothly. Look for some exciting announcements in that arena in January.

DGS offices are closed from December 24 through January 4. Staff will be checking their email sporadically during that time, but you may not hear back from us until after the New Year.

Manifold System 8.0.11

adamw — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:38:24 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

There are coordinate system presets for Finnish EUREF coordinate systems.
(Fix) Querying field names and text data values via the Manifold ODBC driver no longer sometimes crashes.
(Fix) Using the InterpolateRow function in the Surface - Transform dialog no longer crashes on certain configurations of invisible pixels.
(Fix) Attempting to display the area of a component covered by a layout bound to it no longer crashes if the layout does not contain the body element for the component.
(Fix) Attempting to use certain flavors of JPEG2K files such as those generated by NAIP no longer sometimes crashes.
(Fix) Switching between components no longer sometimes produces screen garbage.
(Fix) Layout windows no longer disable the File - Print command for blank layouts.
(Fix) Scale escape sequences used in text layout elements correctly truncate scale values to the desired number of decimal digits.
(Fix) Degree-minute-second lat/lon escape sequences used in text layout elements no longer display decimal minutes.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold 8.0.10

adamw — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:03:53 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

The GPS console is more tolerant to GPS receivers that are slow to respond.
(Fix) Pasting Unicode text into comments, query and script windows no longer fails.
(Fix) Geocoding data against a geocoding extension file with the 'Address' field no longer sometimes returns incorrect results.
(Fix) Importing a CADRG data set using a script no longer sometimes creates multiple instances of the same component.
(Fix) Using the Variables pane when debugging a script no longer sometimes crashes.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.9

adamw — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:43:30 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

Reading and writing GEOGRAPHY values on SQL Server 2008 uses XY coordinate order, according to changes in the final release version of SQL Server 2008.
(Fix) Reading and writing text data from / to PostgreSQL no longer loses national characters (a regression).
Reading several common variations of malformed ECW files no longer sometimes hangs.
(Fix) Updating values of the "Selection (I)" field in drawings no longer overwrites masks for saved selections.
(Fix) Invoking a command which directly or indirectly closes a component window via a script no longer sometimes crashes.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page

Manifold System 8.0.8

adamw — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:52 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Updating the notes of a currently active component no longer fails to redraw the Notes pane.
The error message displayed by the query engine in case of code page mismatch in a pair of text fields (eg, used with a comparison operator) is made more descriptive.
(Fix) Attempting to use the Document or Component property of the event arguments object passed to the WindowActivated event handler of an add-in pane no longer fails.
(Fix) Launching a complex action which opens a dialog via UI scripting no longer sometimes misfires due to appearances of the progress dialog.
The IntersectLine query function can split a line using a point or point set.
(Fix) Selecting or deselecting a layout element using a script no longer fails to redraw layout windows showing the altered layout.
(Fix) Importing a coordinate system from a PRJ file correctly recognizes several cases of the single-parallel variant of the Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
(Fix) Attempting to manipulate the Go To dialog and several other dialogs using a script no longer sometimes fails due to timing problems.
(Fix) Importing a drawing from a DWG file no longer creates two copies of each intrinsic field.
Connecting to PostgreSQL data sources forces client encoding to UTF8 whenever possible, to avoid misinterpreting text data with non-English characters.
(Fix) Reading WKB values with Z and M data no longer sometimes fails.
(Fix) Altering data in a table or drawing using a script with UI scripting objects no longer sometimes fails.
(Fix) Converting geometry values to WKB correctly handles branched lines.
Exporting geometry values to an Oracle data source converts values with too many coordinates to NULLs.
(Fix) Reconnecting to a PostgreSQL data source no longer sometimes produces duplicates in the list of available drawings.
Reading and writing data from PostgreSQL and native Oracle data sources caches types of complex fields, reducing the number of queries issued against the data source.
(Fix) Importing 16-bit contiguous TIFF files no longer sometimes produces garbled results.
(Fix) Exporting data to a E00, MFD, MIF, SDTS or SHP file using a script no longer requires specifying names of exported fields in case-sensitive manner.
(Fix) Setting properties of a table field using UI scripting no longer sometimes fails to work.
(Fix) Selecting pixels using the Select Touch tool in palette images no longer produces incorrect results.
The Custom toolbar used for add-in commands preserves docking state between different sessions of Manifold.
(Fix) The IN query operator no longer sometimes produces incorrect results.
(Fix) Exporting a layout to an AI file no longer fails to correctly clip rotated data.
(Fix) Exporting a layout to an AI file no longer fails to correctly rotate text elements.
(Fix) Exporting a layout to an AI file no longer sometimes fails to correctly render area patterns.
Geocoding incomplete addresses works better.
(Fix) Geocoding data using MapPoint Europe no longer reports success even if there are no matches with usable lat/lon coordinates.
(Fix) Importing Z values for a 3D entity in a DXF file no longer produces wrong data for coordinates with Z values inherited from the entity.
(Fix) Attempting to use the ConvertForward and ConvertInverse methods of the CoordinateSystem object no longer sometimes fails.
(Fix) Using the Diversity, DiversityIndex, MeanValue and similar functions with CUDA on large surfaces no longer sometimes crashes.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.7

adamw — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:16:23 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Using an Oracle table with no columns whose type can be recognized by Manifold (eg, all columns being set to use a user-defined type) no longer hangs.
(Fix) Capturing a modal dialog for UI scripting no longer considers dialogs launched outside the Manifold process.
(Fix) Changing formatting of a theme no longer fails to repaing layouts displaying that theme. (First reported by John Mechalas.)
(Fix) Importing a DXF file from a script no longer fails.
(Fix) Importing a spline from a DGN file no longer sometimes joins coordinates in incorrect order.
(Fix) Importing a NITF file no longer sometimes fails.
Writing metadata to Oracle 9i no longer sometimes fails (a workaround for a problem in Oracle code). (First reported by James Rutter.)
(Fix) Using CUDA no longer sometimes fails after a few successful runs (a regression). (First reported by Arthur Lembo.)

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold System 8.0.6

adamw — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:48:38 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Exporting a drawing to a MIF file converts '-' in field names to '_'.
(Fix) Importing a drawing from a TAB file no longer converts fixed-length text fields to variable-length ones.
(Fix) Attempting to interpolate a surface from a set of points with constant Z using Kriging no longer hangs. (First reported by Ketch Lorne.)
(Fix) Geocoding data to a zip code centroid no longer returns incorrect data due to a problem in the Manifold Geocoding Data set. (First reported by Tanya Unangst.)
(Fix) Importing an image from a Northwood GRC / GRD file no longer shifts the image half-pixel up and right. (First reported by John Gilmer.)
(Fix) Exporting a drawing to a MIF / MID file pair writes variable-length text fields as 254-character ones, not 255-character.
(Fix) Importing or exporting a coordinate system from or to a PRJ file correctly handles Greek coordinate systems. (First reported by Alexandros Malounis.)
(Fix) Adding a coordinate to a segment of a drawing object in a map window no longer uses wrong coordinate values if the coordinate system of the drawing differs from that of the map. (First reported by Asko Kontinen.)
Importing an image or surface from an ERDAS IMG file performs significantly faster. (First reported by Dan Borman.)
(Fix) Importing an image or surface from an ERDAS IMG file no longer sometimes fails to correctly uncompress tiles. (First reported by Dan Borman.)
(Fix) Editing a drawing linked from SQL Server 2008 using versions no longer fails.
(Fix) The Value() function in the Surface - Transform dialog no longer fails to work.
(Fix) Performing a transform on a linked drawing no longer fails to stop with an error if it can not write data to the drawing during the metric normalization phase.
(Fix) The report of the number of coordinates in the surface interpolation dialog is no longer misleading. (Thanks to Colin Driscoll.)
Components linked from the same PostgreSQL data source shared the same database connection.
(Fix) Using data on a PostgreSQL data source no longer sometimes leaks a database connection.
(Fix) Attempting to delete a running script (eg, while it is stopped on a breakpoint) no longer succeeds. (First reported by Klaus Engelberg.)
(Fix) Using CUDA on a large surface no longer sometimes runs out of resources due to module leaks. (First reported by Ben Sigrist and Kevin Ross.)

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Manifold Spatial Extender for SQL Server 1.0.1

adamw — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:45:25 GMT

An update for Manifold Spatial Extender for SQL Server is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) Attempting to delete an object from a spatial index no longer sometimes fails.

Download link for the installation package (includes the extender module, an install / uninstall utility, and a readme file with installation instructions): manifold-sqlserver-spatial-1.0.1.

For other Manifold downloads, see the Product Downloads page.

Manifold System 8.0.5

adamw — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:38:34 GMT

A new update for Manifold 8 is now available.

Changes since previous update:

(Fix) The ActiveX control no longer sometimes fails to display properties in a property sheet.
(Fix) Shutting down an external process hosting Manifold code (eg, a worker process spawned by a web server [W3WP for IIS 6] or an external application using Manifold via the object model) no longer sometimes crashes due to the incorrect shutdown sequence.
Closing a MAP file saving changes no longer refreshes linked components.
(Fix) Exporting a grayscale image with invisible pixels as a PNG file no longer inverses the alpha channel.
(Fix) Coalesce and NullIf query functions handle empty strings as NULLs, similarly to the IS NULL operator.
(Fix) Attempting to set the value of a Decimals or Indent property of the ColumnFormat object to 0 no longer fails.
(Fix) Using spatial data with Oracle 9 no longer fails to correctly handle coordinate systems.
(Fix) Using an Oracle view with spatial data no longer sometimes fails to detect spatial index.
(Fix) Query parser no longer fails to parse identifiers starting with the underscore character.
(Fix) Capturing a modal dialog via user interface scripting no longer sometimes fails to work in the presence of tooltips.
Virtual Earth geocoding server is updated to use the new URLs.
(Fix) Importing data from a malformed ADF, DGN, DWG or GRD file no longer has a potential to crash Manifold.
(Fix) The RemoveDuplicates method of the Analyzer object no longer fails to work.
(Fix) Geocoding data against a geocoding extension MAP file no longer sometimes fails when working with a street segment with the house number range consisting of a single house number.
(Fix) Opening a MAP file created by a very old version of Manifold (5.5 or earlier!) no longer sometimes fails.
(Fix) Script window no longer fails to update location information in the status bar upon startup.

The update is available for Manifold 8 editions and Manifold 8 x64 editions.

For instructions on installing and using updates, see the Manifold System Updates page.

Welcome!

adamw — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:06:47 GMT

Welcome to the new announcements forum area!

We are planning to use this area to keep you up to date on all major news related to Manifold System. This includes news on updates for the currently shipping version of Manifold as well as news on the availability of new versions of Manifold.

If you are using web feeds, you might want to subscribe to the web feed for this area using this link.

To ask questions and otherwise discuss announcements, use the General forum area.