Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Release 5.1.0

DateJune 5, 2013
StatusGeneral

Overview

This release improves product quality, features, and documentation, with faster HTML5 rendering. The Designer supports many new application preferences. The documentation has been expanded with additional tutorials for customization and programming.

New

Designer

  • Folders for action grouping
  • Set highlight color
  • Enable or disable hover
  • Set hover color
  • Set link hover width
  • Show navigation control on open
  • Set navigation control corner
  • Set embedded Overview position
  • Set minimum zoom level percentage
  • Set maximum zoom level percentage
  • Set tooltip delay and duration
  • Register view initialization listeners in extensions

Views

  • Drawings
    • Support for toolbar button drop down lists
    • Enabled mouse wheel zoom and scroll
    • Made mouse wheel behavior reversible
    • Added hover support in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8
    • Handler support for Eclipse SWT applications
  • Trees
    • Added tree view toolbar support

Analysis

  • Added m-slice algorithm

Examples

  • International flight maps
  • Domestic flight maps
  • Bridge detection
  • m-slice analysis

Documentation

  • Custom UI action registered through mouse action on UI element
  • Floatable external toolbar

Improvements

Drawings

  • Faster HTML5 rendering
  • Refined tight fitting text rendering

Layout

  • Improved one-line diagram layout

Industry Examples

  • Improved one-line diagram

Documentation

  • Added views in User Data Model
  • Expanded Drawing View Custom Operations
  • Added WebSocket Push tutorial
  • Added drawing evaluation functions in references
  • Improved description of TSPBuilder classes

Fixes

Technology

  • Improved web server memory management

Drawings

  • Expressions return correct model index value
  • Meta-edges may attach to connectors

Layout

  • Orthogonal layout respects connected component and disconnected node spacing options

Trees

  • Double-click actions supported