Revision History

v1.08 (in progress)

• added support for generating high-resolution images
• fixed issue that was causing OpenGL rendering to be performed in software under Windows Vista/7
• added functionality for creating bar charts
• abundance information specified in sequence files can now be used to create quantitative pie or bar charts
• continuous colours assigned to location sites can now be propagated onto an attached tree
• labels (which are slow to render) are now automatically hidden when interacting with the viewport in order to improve responsiveness
• visual properties of trees have been improved by adding support for thick branches, optional borders, and independent control over the size of leaf and internal nodes
• added support for optional border around location markers
• all properties dialogs have been changed to a modeless, stay-on-top style in order to facilitate interactively changing properties
• font used to render labels can now be set in the Settings->Font Settings dialog
• double clicking on a chart now bring up the Locations Properties Dialog instead of the Location Set Properties dialog
• minor UI design improvements to the majority of the layer dialog boxes

v1.07

• changed licensing from Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 3.0 to GPL 3.0 or later
• initial interface to MOA database
• Locations tab now shows a legend indicating the marker assigned to each location site
• location site labels can now be set to either 'billboard' or 'dynamic' style
• added View->Widgets menu items to show or hide all widgets
• modified layer names are now reflected in the layer tree control
• removed menu items associated with creating and saving studies (this functionality is now scheduled for v2.0)
• added functionality to remove custom labels (right-click popup menu)
• layers can now only be hidden through the check boxes in the layer tree control (this ensures that the visibility of a layer is allows indicated by the check box)
• fixed bug introduced in v1.06 that prevented moving labels
• fixed bug causing location site labels to transition from a 'billboard' to 'dynamic' style when moved

v1.06

• added support for 3 or 4-channel GeoTIFF images
• improved handling of OpenGL textures to support high-resolution GeoTIFF images
• significant improvements to rendering speed under Microsoft Windows Vista and 7 (and possibly XP and OSX although these rendered quickly before)
• changed default projection to plate carrée (equirectangular) projection as it can properly handle all maps
• more efficient handling of main memory and GPU memory
• fixed visual artifacts in compass widget under Microsoft Windows Vista and 7
• fixed (hopefully!) bug which occasionally caused a map to fail to appear when loaded
• modified handling of log file so it works under Microsoft Windows Vista and 7
• added additional log statements to help in debugging end users
• fixed bug in Map Properties dialog which was preventing modification to a map's colour map

v1.05

• major bug fixes to OSX version:
  • sequences can now be loaded
  • layers can now be selected/unselected
  • map level-of-detail is now set properly
  • numerous cosmetic improvements
• implemented dialog which allows user to specify which sequences are active
• update dataHelper class to provide functions for placing sequences in the active set
• added tree popup menu item to allow the order of points to be reversed
• minor bug fixes to tree projection code
• various minor bug fixes

v1.04

• modified colour pickers to improve their visual appearance under OSX
• extended GenGIS Python API to allow modification of phylogenetic trees
• added functionality to project trees onto a subset of taxa

v1.03

• added general purpose, user labels
• Several extensions to the GenGIS Python API:
  • functions to obtain the width and height of the OpenGL Viewport.
  • functions for manipulating pie charts
  • functions for drawing markers, lines, and labels
  • several minor additions
• trees of high dimensionality (> 9) can not be optimally laid out for computational reasons, so a heuristic layout is used
• fixed memory leak related to incorrect use of Font class
• shape maps now save any user modifications
• various minor bug fixes

v1.02

• background colour of GenGIS Viewport can be set by user in Study Properties Dialog
• improved rendering quality of labels
• labels associated with location sites can now be interactively positioned
• the contents of the GenGIS Viewport can now be saved as a PNG file using File->Save image as...
• added Python function convertGeoCoord() which allows geographic coordinates to be converted into GenGIS Viewport coordinates
• added Python function addLine() which allows a user defined line to be rendered in the GenGIS Viewport
• added Python function openTree() which allows tree files to be loaded
• extended movieHelper.py to include setCameraParam() function
• added warning message regarding optimization of leaf nodes for trees with degree > 9
• various minor bug fixes

v1.01

• updated all Python scripts
• various minor bug fixes