Changes Since Version 1.0 (02.06.04):
1.1 mostly features changes related to the Python support, some bugfixes and
a large numer of prominent fixes and improvements in BALLView.
Most of these improvements are related to an improved user interface and some
new models and animation possibilities.
Added:
- Python support: added more classes to the Python SIP interface
- new application: DCD2PNG to create series of PNG-images from a DCD trajectory file
- Documentation for BALLView in the folder BALL/doc/BALLView
- new models for rendering nucleic acids and for visualizing forces
- calculation of Ramachandran plots for proteins
- improved ball and stick model now renders double-, triple- and aromatic bonds
- ability to create animations, either as on-screen presentations or for movies
- OpenGL rendering now allows for depth cueing, material paramters may be adjusted
- Stereo display using side-by-side mode or shutter glasses
- Clipping planes
- storing and loading of BALLView project files
- support for drag and drop of molecular files
- possibility to highlight the selected molecular items
- new move mode for (partial) structures
- Esc key now switches to last used mode in Scene
- Python scripting:
- Hotkey support for starting any (BALL-)Python command from BALLView
- support to quit program from Python interpreter
- support for starting Python script from command line
- Benchmark scripts for BALLView
Fixed:
- CygWin support was temporarily broken
- fixed the Python support to work with an official SIP release (4.1.1)
- selection in MolecularControl with CTRL and SHIFT modifier
- several problems in Cartoon model
- creation of models for several selected items
- overall cleanup of RegularDataWidgets
- export of PNGs could result in strange problems e.g. with empty images
- its now possible to create transparent wireframe and dot models
- PeptideDialog: deletion of sequence in entry field
- increased performance of SnapShot visualisation, especially for large numbers of SnapShots
- A click on the "default" button in Preferences now only works on currently selected page
- multiple loading of the same file will create enumerated names for the Systems
- it was not possible to reset the by-element coloring scheme to the default values
- issue with restoring window geometry on X11
- MDS dialog: toggling export to trajectory file was broken
- now show the correct number of bonds added when building bonds for a structure
- ResidueIndexColorProcessor now no longer considers water residues
- visualization of contour surfaces had sometimes incorrect normals
- several core dumps related to missing mutex locks
- memory management under Windows
Changed:
- improved focus camera on molecular structures
- general improvements in the user interface
- inside of surfaces is now correctly drawn
- improved the code for the BALLView termination process
- removed the old Move-Dialog
- .BALLView config files are now always stored in the users homedir
- changed Coloring or Model settings are now visible after pressing apply
- disabled Server in BALLView by default
- cleanup for storing of settings from dialogs
- ~ModularWidget now calls MainControl::removeModularWidget, so
from ModularWidget derived classes no longer have to deregister themselves
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