Winteracter Version 7.10

May 22nd 2006

Winteracter v7.10 is now available. Upgrades are available from any previous release see Price List. Upgrades from v7.0 consist of a v7.10 CD. Upgrades from earlier releases consist of a v7.10 CD and a hardcopy v7 Programming Guide.

• 3D modelling
• Database interrogation
• Graphics primitives
• Editor windows
• Grids
• Bitmaps
• Resource editor
• WED
• WiDE
• Help editor
• Troubleshooter editor
• Documentation
• Compilers
• General

3D modelling

• 3D models can be split into parts. Allows partial model manipulation without full model recreation:
  • Apply transformation matrix to a part to move or rescale it.
  • Change material of a given part (e.g. to highlight it).
  • Set part visibility, allowing objects to be hidden.
  • Names can be assigned to parts, to simplify end-user part identification.
• 3D DXF support upgraded:
  • Number of vertices and facets can be interrogated.
  • Faster loading when the "shared vertices" option is specified.
  • Parts recognised in DXF files.
• Substantially expanded model interrogation. Virtually all model information can now be retrieved, including vertex co-ordinates.
• Material of each facet can be set individually.
• 3Dview model viewer tool upgraded to support parts in both W3D and DXF files. A separate "Parts view" uses a split window to display a parts list and a model view highlighting the selected part.

Database Interrogation

• Interrogate data in third-party data sources, via ODBC.
• ODBC database access supported on all of Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
• Retrieve data as strings, integer, real or double precision values.
• Access single fields or arrays of values (latter is more efficient).
• Interrogate number of database records.

Graphics primitives

• Co-ordinate system rotation:
  • Single subroutine call allows entire co-ordinate system to be rotated by 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
  • Rotation affects all graphics output, including presentation graphics.
• Graphics text blocks:
  • Write multi-line text within a formatting rectangle.
  • Text can be justified or l/c/r aligned.
  • Option to auto adjust font size to ensure text fits.
  • Control over line spacing.
  • Line breaks can be forced.
  • Text block length interrogation function.
  Arrow head width control.
• Limits on polyline/polygon size eliminated.
• Palette interrogation: Get nearest 8-bit palette index, given a 24-bit RGB value.

Editor windows

• Editor window printing can be invoked under program control, in addition to user invocation.
• Program control over both program-invoked and user-invoked editor printing options.
• Set editor selection.

Grids

• Control over print options for user-invoked grid-window printing.
• Optionally save grid column/row labels in CSV files.

Bitmaps

• Faster bitmap rotation on Windows NT/2000/XP (approx 10 times quicker).
• Faster and better quality image resizing on Windows.
• More memory bitmaps allowed (max=50).
• X Windows versions now support same range of BMP/PCX sub-formats as Windows versions. Adds support for compressed BMP, 16-bit BMP and mono/16-colour PCX.

Resource editor

• Improved field resizing in dialog editor.
• Export current button in toolbar editor.
• Bigger images in image editor (max=100x100).

WED

• HTML tag insertion options:
  • Insert : Picture, hypertext link, table, list, anchor point, horizontal line or line break.
  • Text style formatting : Bold, italic, font size, super/sub-script, monospaced.
  • Paragraph formatting : Normal/heading/pre-formatted and paragraph alignment.
• Direct access to full Subroutine Reference via summary Subroutine Info dialog.
• Subroutine Info dialog now shows each argument's intent.
• Hex colour code insertion.

WiDE

• Line ending conversion tool eases source file exchange between Windows and Linux/Mac OS X.
• Improved front-end to Fortran source reformatter.
• Simplified code output from Application Wizard.

Help editor

• HTML tag insertion options when editing help files in HTML source form:
  • Insert : Table, list, anchor point, horizontal line or line break.
  • Text style formatting : Bold, italic, font size, super/sub-script, monospaced.
  • Paragraph formatting : Normal/heading/pre-formatted and paragraph alignment.
• Substantially expanded topic editor documentation.
• Advanced Search option when generating HTML Help (CHM) files.
• Access to Microsoft's HTML Tag Reference (where installed).

Troubleshooter editor

• Same HTML tag insertion options as WED (see above).
• Several additional help options, including access to Microsoft's HTML Tag Reference (where installed).

Documentation

• Advanced search options under Windows:
  • Boolean operators.
  • Previous search string history.
  • Restrict search to previous results and/or topic titles.
  • Sort results by title, location or rank.
  • Accessible via the Search tab in the HTML Help viewer window.
• New wsearch tool on Linux and Mac OS X provides similar documentation search capabilities:
  • Previous search string history.
  • Restrict search to previous results and/or topic titles.
  • Sort results by title or location.
  • Search can be invoked from the command prompt or the Help menu in WiDE.
• Improved index.
• Section name on every page.

Compilers

• Support for the forthcoming version of Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran running on Linux/x86_64 (AMD64/EM64T) platforms.
• Absoft Pro Fortran support on Linux upgraded to v10. (Note: v10 is now the required version.)
• New Win64 version for Absoft Pro Fortran v10 on AMD64/EM64T Windows.

General

• Display EMF metafiles from the program resource in a dialog field under Windows.
• Sort routine extended to optionally report new array order.
• WHelpfile accepts "ms-its:" filename syntax allowing access to a specific HTML file inside a HTML HELP (CHM) file.

Customers who purchased v7.0 on or after 24/April/2006 will normally be entitled to receive a free v7.10 update. Qualification for free updates from 7.0 is based on the date of shipment from I.S.S. or a recognised I.S.S. reseller and in any event is at the sole discretion of I.S.S. Ltd. Free updates are normally shipped automatically and do not need to be requested.