The new downloads are here:
IDE for Mac: http://dbentrance.com/test/dbentrance_1_6.dmg
IDE for Win: http://dbentrance.com/test/entrancew.zip
IDE for Linux/Un*x/Solaris: http://dbentrance.com/test/entrance.zip
Community: http://dbentrance.com/test/entranceCommunity.zip
Src: http://dbentrance.com/test/srcCommunity.zip
Release notes are attached below. Error reporting on the desktop is
smoother, and servlet errors are reported by drawing text on the PNG
image it returns (which means web authors can see errors in place on
their pages, instead of a broken link)
There are also additions to the PLOT scripting language:
SEND [TO] [DELETE IF EXISTS] {TEMPORARY | "(filename)"}
This new command makes it possible to use the image generated by once
PLOT command as the background for another. We can combine charts
this way, e.g. to make trellis displays. Other chart types, e.g. for
network visualization, are possible too. There are examples on
http://dbentrance.com/candyland/.
If you are batching multiple Entrance scripts from the command line,
e.g. to update chart PNG files in a cron script, this makes it
possible to write a single Entrance script from the desktop. It also
saves the JVM startup time for the extra scripts.
STARTX, STARTY, ENDX, ENDY
These new chart series in for scatter charts make it possible to plot
line segments mixed with other scatter chart series for drawing
markers and labels. They will be useful for drawing things like wind
vector plots or network visualziations.
I'll have examples shortly...
- Tod
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RELEASE NOTES
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RELEASE NOTES
Entrance Version 1.7
-- DRAWING LINE SEGMENTS
It is now possible to draw line segments on a ScatterChart by
specifying
endpoints. The new series types are FIRSTX, FIRSTY, SECONDX, and
SECONDY, correpsonding to the first and second endpoint.
-- SENDING OUTPUT TO FILES
This version includes support for writing chart images to files:
SEND [TO] [DELETE IF EXISTS] "(filename)"
writes a chart image to (filename).
-- CHAINING PLOT SCRIPTS
You can now "chain" scripts together, using the output of one PLOT
command as the background for another in a single script. Save a
chart
image using:
SEND [TO} TEMPORARY
in the first script, and use
PAGEBITMAP TEMPORARY
to make it the background image for the second. Chaining has a
number
of neat applcations. It can be used to combine multiple charts
into a single image to make Entrance-style "trellis" displays, and we
now have way to do network visualizations:
http://dbentrance.com/candyland/.
More to come on this.
-- LOGGING
The logging system has been rewritten. You should notice
improvements in the way error messages are reported in the desktop
version. The servlet now uses PNGLog to write error messages into
the PNG image. (which means you can debug Entrance PLOT scripts from
web
pages without reading server logs)
-- SELECT THESE
"Select these...", a feature of the Entrance IDE version, has been
rewritten and improved. Table values where a data point is outside
the box are left blank, but column headings are always displayed.
'SKIPPED" series type columns are included in the display.
-- TRANSLATIONS
The PLOT syntax document is now available in Japanese, French and
Russian translations. To make one of the translated versions your
default,
edit HelpMenu.menu which you will find in the Entrance system
directory.
(The system directory is ~/Library/Application Support/Entrance on
Macintosh computers and ~/.entrance on all others) Replace "en" with
"fr" or "ru" in the URL for the PLOT syntax document:
http://dbentrance.com/newdocs/en/plotsyntax.html
Incidentally, most items in the HelpMenu.menu are links to web pages,
and you can edit them to point to other pages. For example, you might
replace the links to the English language documentaion for MySQL(r)
with
links to French versions. (HelpMenu links are opened using the
browser
stringyou specify on the Misc tab of the Prefereces Dialog)
Please let us know if you can help with other translations!
-- JAVA API
This is a major release, and several changes may affect you if you are
working with the Entrance Java API. The logging system (based on
EntranceLog) has been rewrriten and simplified. The way axes and
series
are associated internally has changed.
Also, some public methods in the Entrance class library have been
deprecated. Those documented on "Entrance API" aige re unchanged. If
you
have trouble finding the replacment methods, post to the Community
page,
and we can get you going.
-- WEB APPLICATION (WAR) BUILD IN TEST
There is now a separate build for the Entrance web application,
entrance.war. If you are interested in trying it or working on the
project, please email supp...@dbentrance.com.
BUG FIXES
// #84 cryptic error message when missing SELECT
// #443 output file not updated in Export dialog
// #438 null for order pie in "Make a Pie Chart"
// #431 RadarChart with no data points hangs
// #429 "Select these" shows not attached to axis
// #42l case where NOT ZEROBASED is zero-based
// #416 ticks do not show on a rotated bar chart
// #398 need error message for rotated bar
// #389 need panning on compare.sql
// #360 select these gives error message
// #359 select these gives error message (again)
// #357 bar chart panning is broken
// #353 select these on a rotated bar chart
// #350 select these problem
// #340 dot in wrong palce on datetime-y
// #338 can't zoom in reeatedly:w
// #84 cryptic error message when missing SELECT
// #443 output file not updated in Export dialog
// #438 null for order pie in "Make a Pie Chart"
// #431 RadarChart with no data points hangs
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Previous release notes:
http://dbentrance.com/newdocs/releasenotes_1_5.html
http://dbentrance.com/newdocs/releasenotes_1_5.html
This file:
http://dbentrance.com/newdocs/releasenotes.html
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