Manifold Community Site Area: Announcements

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!

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