Tom Sawyer Visualization, ActiveX Edition

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Release 8.0.0

DateSeptember 10, 2009
Status  General

Overview

This release adds support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 64-bit computers. New drawing fitting options fit the drawing to the drawing canvas or the printed page, and the symmetric layout style is significantly faster.

New

System
  • Support for 64-bit computers
User Interactions
  • Magnified Select tool
Printing and Exporting
  • PNG export
Layout
  • Drawing Fitting optimizes use of the drawing canvas or printed page
Documentation
  • Reference page of available resources
  • Guides for development setup and deployment setup

Improvements

Layout
  • Significantly faster symmetric layout style
Demonstration Application
  • Redesigned graphical UI and icons
  • Reorganized toolbars and menus
Documentation
  • Reorganized Home page
  • Enhanced Developer's Guide

Requirements

  • Added support for applications that target 64-bit systems
  • These operating systems have been added:
    • Microsoft Windows 7
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
    • Microsoft Windows Vista
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3
  • These operating systems have been dropped:
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
  • Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
  • Dropped support for these development environments:
    • Borland C#Builder 2005
    • Borland Delphi 2005
    • Microsoft Visual Studio 2003
    • Sybase PowerBuilder, Version 10.0 or later

Fixes

  • None

Issues

  • The installation process for Tom Sawyer Visualization can cause a program compatibility warning message to appear when installing with Microsoft Windows 7 or 2008 server. This warning can be safely ignored.


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