Tom Sawyer Visualization now supports Apple Retina display devices. This release introduces an option to rotate edge labels so that they run parallel to their associated edge segments. Additionally, we provide users with smoother transitions after global layout, incremental layout, or complexity management operations. Layout and rendering are significantly faster, particularly with large data sets.
Further, this release improves product quality and performance, and updates the supported operating systems.
New
Technology
Added JDK 8.0 support
Drawings
Added support for Apple Retina display devices
Introduced smooth viewport transitioning from an initial configuration to a final configuration during complex operations
Layout
Added edge bend removal for better orthogonal drawings
Added ability to rotate edge labels
Introduced a new approach that reduces crossings in the orthogonal drawing style
Examples
Added a new example demonstrating rotated labels using World Cups data
Demonstration Application
Added menu options to select labels of different types
Documentation
Added an option to improve documentation search speed by ignoring the API documentation
Improvements
Drawings
Improved character positioning in text strings
Improved text rendering performance
Improved precise shape clipping calculation
Improved interaction with expanded nodes
Improved precise clipping to node image outlines
Improved rendering of the overview
Improved animation
Improved rendering speed
Layout
Improved the performance of layout, labeling, and routing
Improved inside node connector and labeling placement in all layout styles
Improved node labeling to avoid possible overlaps
Improved node inside label positioning
Improved connector label placement
Improved movable connector positioning
Improved node packing to eliminate node overlaps after incremental layout
Improved disconnected node packing in the circular layout style
Improved hierarchical layout performance for nested drawings by as much as eighty-five percent
Improved nested hierarchical layout to have fewer crossings
Improved disconnected node placement in hierarchical layout
Improved node placement in hierarchical layout for nested drawings
Improved node packing in nested drawings with a hierarchical layout style
Improved edge-length control with labels in symmetric and orthogonal layout
Licensing
Licensing setup web proxy information can be set through System properties
Demonstration
Improved memory release process after closing drawings
Documentation
Various improvements in all areas of the documentation, including additions to Javadoc
System Requirements
These operating systems have been added:
Apple OS X 10.10
Apple OS X 10.11
Microsoft Windows 10
Oracle Linux 6.6
Oracle Linux 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
These operating systems have been dropped:
Apple OS X 10.9
Apple OS X 10.8
Microsoft Windows 8
Oracle Linux 6.0
Oracle Linux 5.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
These browsers have been added:
Apple Safari 9.1
Apple Safari 8.0
Microsoft Edge
Opera
These browsers have been dropped:
Apple Safari 7.0
Apple Safari 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Added support for Java 8
Dropped support for Java 6
Added support for applets in the Opera browser
Fixes
Drawings
Nested node size no longer changes on node selection
The Overview updates properly when the main drawing canvas is updated
Fixed a potential exception in curved edge hit-testing
Mouse wheel + Shift key events work correctly on Linux
Layout
Fixed a performance issue in disconnected node layout
Edge routing no longer ignores fixed node position and size
Fixed disconnected node placement in hierarchical layout
Fixed various issues in nested drawings with fixed connectors
Fixed overlaps between fixed and movable connectors
Fixed enlarged margins of a nested drawing
Fixed overlaps in node labeling
Fixed expanded node misplacement in nested hierarchical layout
Fixed possible exceptions in orthogonal layout
Fixed performance problems in orthogonal layout
Fixed movable connector placement in orthogonal layout
Fixed non-orthogonal edges in orthogonal drawings
Issues
None
Release 9.5.1
Date
March 20, 2014
Status
General
Overview
This release introduces a new Web Proxy Configuration application to help with license management for direct enterprise deployments. This release also addresses issues with applets and includes updated documentation on how to better deploy applets.
New
Build and Distribution
Web Proxy Configuration application to enable access to the license server from different environments
Improvements
Demonstration
Improved the Tom Sawyer Visualization demonstration applet
Documentation
Added information about deploying and running applets
System Requirements
None
Fixes
Applets running in the Java security sandbox are now supported
Corrected the node and edge drop-down toolbar behavior in applets
Resolved a minor layout issue that occurred when calling orthogonal layout from deep within a nesting hierarchy
Issues
None
Release 9.5.0
Date
January 9, 2014
Status
General
Overview
This release improves product quality, features, and performance.
Zoom + and Zoom - tools support zoom animation preferences
Refined node in-place text editing
Layout
All layout
Five percent faster performance than prior version
Improved drawing fitting with nested drawings
Improved edge distribution at node sides
Enhanced packing of connected components and disconnected nodes
Exposed fixed drawing option
Exposed embedded node option
Exposed embedded edge option
Hierarchical
Improved orthogonal edge routing to align horizontal and
vertical edge segments
Orthogonal
Refined integrated labeling
Improved incremental layout results
Symmetric
Improved node placement in the presence of moveable connectors
Labeling
Reduced label overlap in dense drawings
Reduced label position ambiguity
Routing
Improved interdrawing edge routing to connectors
Respects arrowhead width
Documentation
Dynamic content loading
Improved API documentation
System Requirements
Added support for these operating systems:
Apple OS X 10.8
Apple OS X 10.9
Oracle Linux 5
Oracle Linux 6
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 8.1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Dropped support for these operating systems:
Apple OS X 10.6
Apple OS X 10.7
Microsoft Windows Vista
Fixes
Drawings
Meta-edges may attach to connectors
Layout
Orthogonal layout respects connected component and disconnected node spacing options
Fixed node label overlaps
Fixed interdrawing edge label overlaps
Issues
None
Release 9.3.1
Date
March 14, 2013
Status
General
Overview
This release updates the supported operating systems to allow easier installation on Microsoft Windows 8.New
None
Improvements
None
System Requirements
Added support for Microsoft Windows 8
Added support for JDK 7.0 on Apple Mac OS X
Fixes
None
Issues
None
Release 9.3.0
Date
March 30, 2012
Status
General
Overview
Tom Sawyer Visualization introduces new hover, select, and highlight metaphors. New precise shape clipping improves drawing resolution.
This release offers markedly improved layout performance for large drawings with thousands of nodes. Additionally, labeling is much more precise.
New
Technology
Added Apple Mac OS X Lion Launchpad support
Added JDK 7.0 support
Drawings
Added precise shape clipping
Added rounded rectangle UI element
Graphics
New hover, select, and highlighting graphics
Improvements
Installers
Refined installers
Drawings
Faster performance for large, heavily nested drawings
Graphics
Easier to define level of detail in scene-based graphics
Improved tooltip rendering
Layout
Circular layout
Enhanced rotation of disconnected components
Multi-edge spacing option
Hierarchical layout
Faster performance with constraints and nesting
Enhanced integrated labeling with orthogonal routing
Integrated orthogonal routing across nesting levels
Polyline routing refinements
Orthogonal layout
Twenty percent performance improvement
Enhanced integrated labeling
Integrated orthogonal routing across nesting levels
Directed multi-edge bundling refinements
Symmetric layout
Thirty-five percent performance improvement
Enhanced rotation of disconnected components
Multi-edge spacing option
Labeling
Improved labeling precision
Respects edge thickness
Respects arrowheads
System Requirements
Added support for these operating systems:
Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Dropped support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Added support for JDK 7.0
Dropped support for JDK 5.0
Fixes
Unselected edge labels remain fixed during edge routing
Multi-edge spacing respected
Labels with simple UIs are updated correctly after batch processing
Issues
None
Release 9.2.0
Date
April 13, 2011
Status
General
Overview
This release provides all of the documentation in HTML format, with global search capability. Additionally, this release addresses the needs of several of our large network management customers.
New
Technology
Added batch processing APIs for improved drawing creation performance
Layout
All layout
Enabled treating certain child drawings as fixed during nested drawing layout
Documentation
Added search capability across all documentation
Improvements
Visualization
Added new Switch UI element
Added option to preserve owner node position during nested drawing changes
Layout
All layout
Enhanced node and edge embedding during incremental layout
Enhanced moveable connector placement when multiple edges are attached
Circular layout
Improved cluster spacing
Improved node spacing within clusters
Refined drawing fitting
Symmetric layout
Refined drawing fitting
Documentation
Improved API documentation
Converted all documentation to HTML format
Demonstration
Enabled Apple Mac OS X global menu support
System Requirements
Dropped support for Apple Mac OS X 10.5
Fixes
Drawing manager meta-edge APIs return consistent results when meta-edges are not viewable
Drawing fitting is respected when arranging connected components in the orthogonal layout style
Layout calculates optimal expanded node size when fixed connector labels are present
Drawing canvas displays correctly in Apple Mac OS X
Nesting border displays correctly at all zoom levels
Top-justified text displays correctly at all zoom levels
Rotation UI element behaves correctly when drawing object bounds are not set
Layout properties margin spacing aligns correctly in Apple Mac OS X
The demonstration application running as an Applet displays the Overview correctly
Option enables exporting non-standard Type 1 fonts into PDF
Issues
Every Java applet currently has serious issues with Google Chrome 10 and Firefox 4. These issues are expected to be addressed in a Java update.
Release 9.1.1
Date
October 8, 2010
Status
General
Overview
This release provides a number of improvements including enhanced layout animation of nested drawings, improved rendering precision, and refined automated drawing fitting.
New
Added annotated image UI element class
Improvements
Licensing
Simplified access to hosted licensing through a web proxy
Technology
Enhanced support for Apple keyboards
Visualization
Drawing Representation
Meta-edge compression can now disregard interdrawing edge direction
User Interactions
Accelerated dragging speed for collapsed nodes
Layout
All layout
Enhanced layout animation for nested graphs
Circular layout
Improved Drawing Fitting
Improved placement of movable connectors
Symmetric layout
Improved Drawing Fitting
Improved placement of movable connectors
System Requirements
No changes
Fixes
Properties Inspector behaves correctly when set to read-only
UI elements display correctly at all zoom levels in Print Preview and as exported images
Enhanced redraw accuracy
Issues
None
Release 9.1.0
Date
May 20, 2010
Status
General
Overview
In this release, the visualization and layout architectures have been optimized to improve performance. Layout speed has improved by twenty to sixty percent.
This release also introduces improved support for multi-threaded applications, an Overview window that responds dynamically, accelerated selection, and revamped documentation.
New
Refined layout animation
Dynamic Overview response
New Eclipse SWT tutorial
Improvements
Installation
Improved installation program
Improved licensing setup
Technology
Enhanced support for multi-threaded applications
Improved support for the Apple Mac OS X user interface
Improved support for Eclipse SWT applications
Accelerated XML reading and writing
Visualization
Drawing Representation
Text UI elements now support a maximum width
Data driven graphic examples show structural zooming
User Interactions
Accelerated selection
Improved layout command usability
Layout
All layout
Increased layout speed by twenty to sixty percent
Circular layout
Improved edge labeling with dense drawings
Enhanced clustering quality
Refined clustering options
Hierarchical layout
Improved edge labeling with polyline and orthogonal routing
Orthogonal layout
Refined labeling
Enhanced group constraint quality
Symmetric layout
Improved edge labeling with dense drawings
Enhanced handling of fixed point constraints
Routing
Reduced edge crossings
Significantly enhanced routing with connectors
Labeling
Increased quality
Documentation
Revamped documentation
System Requirements
Added support for JDK 6.0
Added support for these operating systems:
Apple Mac OS X 10.6
Microsoft Windows 7
Sun Solaris 10
Fixes
Tutorials run more smoothly
All layout options can be applied deeply
Dialog boxes disable automatically during threaded layout
Compressed SVG files now load by URL
Issues
None
Release 9.0.0
Date
December 15, 2008
Status
General
Overview
This release introduces a new data-driven, scene-based graphics system with integrated expression language support. The new graphics system simplifies the creation of drawings with advanced graphics and behavior.
This release also introduces several improvements to the graphical user interface components. It introduces a layout progress indicator and provides a layout cancel facility. It introduces fade transitions, animation, and multi-threaded execution for the layout, routing, and labeling operations. Formatting options fit the drawing to the drawing canvas or the printed page. Further, this release contains many additional layout, labeling, and routing refinements.
New
Drawing Representation
Data-driven, scene-based, drawing element user interface (UI) framework:
Drawing element scene hierarchies provide rich UI decoration
Runtime drawing element construction and manipulation
Expression language enables dynamic control of UI representation
XML representation of drawing element UIs
Predefined drawing element UIs:
Industry standard shapes for Networking and UML diagrams
Expanded node UI displays a small summary of the collapsed node UI
Varying level of detail based on zoom level
Graphical badges enable drill-down, expand, and collapse actions
Display Components
Interpolation and fade transition animation
XML-driven drawing element palette
XML-driven preferences dialog box
Layout
Non-blocking layout threads
Layout progress and cancel
Drawing Fitting optimizes use of the drawing canvas or printed page
Open and closed group constraints
Documentation
Additional tutorials
Reference page of available resources
Improvements
Layout
Reduced number of edge crossings for inter-drawing edges when laying out nested drawings
Refined options for minimum and maximum number of clusters for disconnected drawings with more than one component in the circular layout style
Reduced number of edge crossings in the hierarchical layout style
Reduced local edge crossings in the orthogonal layout style
Improved node placement when fixed connectors are present in both symmetric and orthogonal layout styles
Enhanced multiedge routing in both symmetric and circular layout styles
Increased labeling quality
Demonstration Application
Reorganized toolbars and menus
Redesigned graphical UI and icons
Documentation
Enhanced Developer's Guide
System Requirements
Dropped support for JDK 1.4
These operating systems have been added:
Apple Mac OS X 10.5
IBM AIX 5.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5*
Ubuntu Linux 8.0*
These operating systems have been dropped:
Apple Mac OS X 10.3
HP-UX 11
IBM AIX 4
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Sun Solaris 9
*The 32-bit compatibility layer is required for 64-bit Linux systems.
Issues
Layout
The layout command option to invoke the layout operation in the current thread is missing. A workaround is available.
Release 8.0.2
Date
June 5, 2009
Status
General
Overview
This release addresses a license verification issue for users with limited access privileges.
New
None
Improvements
None
System Requirements
No changes
Fixes
This release enables Tom Sawyer license verification in Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows
Vista when users have restricted access to their system.
Issues
None
Release 8.0.1
Date
May 10, 2009
Status
General
Overview
This release improves support for internationalization.
New
None
Improvements
Improved internationalization support for Tom Sawyer Visualization dialog boxes.
System Requirements
No changes
Fixes
Removed an unnecessary warning message in applets that use the Tom Sawyer Visualization deployment libraries.
Issues
None
Release 8.0.0
Date
May 1, 2007
Status
General
Overview
This release introduces several user interaction refinements and layout improvements, in particular when working with large drawings. Hit-testing sensitivity at low zoom levels is improved, enabling users to select and locate specific nodes and edges more easily. Connectors can now be dragged to new locations, and export to GIF format is supported.
Further, this release introduces a new symmetric layout algorithm and improvements to each layout style. New tutorials demonstrate how to create a visualization application and add interactive features.
New
System
Software licensing server and administration client
Drawing Representation
Node shape selection from the Object Properties Inspector
Dragable connectors
Printing and Exporting
GIF export
Layout
Symmetric layout style algorithm dramatically enhances performance with large drawings
Documentation
Comprehensive tutorials for developers
Improvements
System
Enhanced support for Apple Macintosh computers
User Interactions
Enhanced hit-testing sensitivity for improved selection at low zoom levels
Several link navigation speeds
Layout
Reduced edge crossings in the circular layout style
Enhanced polyline routing in the hierarchical layout style
Improved orthogonal routing performance in the hierarchical layout style
Refined edge routing with connectors in the orthogonal layout style
Improved performance in the orthogonal layout style
Improved performance with large graphs in the symmetric layout style
Reorganized constraints
Enabled constraint sharing among different layout styles
Improved routing performance
Documentation
Enhanced Developer's Guide
System Requirements
Added support for JDK 1.6
Dropped support for JDK 1.3
These operating systems have been added:
Microsoft Windows Vista
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
These operating systems have been dropped:
Silicon Graphics IRIX
Sun Solaris 7 and 8
Fixes
None
Issues
None
Release 7.0.0
Date
May 13, 2005
Status
General
Overview
This release introduces the circular layout style in pure Java. It also includes various improvements in layout algorithms, offering significant enhancements in layout quality and layout speed.
New
Rendering
SVG image as drawing background
Text anti-aliasing
User Interactions
Enabled node drag and drop across nested drawings
Pluggable interactive tool sets
Secondary visual components can be shared by several canvases
Layout
Option for placing labels over edges
Improvements
Display Components
Improved memory usage for UI images
Added options for customizing graphical badges
Layout
Integrated nested layout
Circular layout
Accelerated performance
Enhanced clustering and node placement
Enabled group constraints
Automated labeling
Enhanced incremental layout
Added flexible spacing control
Hierarchical layout
Integrated labeling during layout with orthogonal routing
Orthogonal layout
Increased speed in draft mode
Enhanced constraint-based layout
Integrated labeling during orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Dramatically accelerated performance
Documentation
Expanded content and source code examples
System Requirements
Added support for JDK 1.5
Added support for integration with Eclipse SWT 3.0 or later