New Features for Compaq Array Visualizer Version 1.5 and 1.5A

New features added to Compaq Array Visualizer (Array Visualizer) Version 1.5 and 1.5A (since Array Visualizer Version 1.1) and its free viewer Array Viewer include the following:

• The Array Viewer now has a File menu option to load a data file from an Internet URL.
  
  
• Changes have been made to the Avis2D and AvisGrid ActiveX controls to enable them to be used inside HTML pages.
  
  
• A resource leak in Array Viewer that occurred on Windows 95 and 98 systems has been fixed.
  
  
• The Array Viewer (and Avis2D ActiveX control) now use software based OpenGL rendering as the default. Compaq has found that many graphics adapters do not support OpenGL correctly, resulting in rendering artifacts or crashes. If your adapter does support OpenGL acceleration and is reliable, you can enable it by checking the Checkbox in the Array Viewer Options dialog and restarting Array Viewer.
  
  
• Printing from Array Viewer has been improved.
  
  
• Axis tickmark labels now always have fixed increments.
  
  
• HDF release 4.1r3 is now used by Array Viewer to display HDF files.
  
  
• The graph view in Array Viewer (and the Avis2D control) now changes the cursor to indicate when the view is being changed.
  
  
• The Array Viewer Options dialog, now has a checkbox that can be used to turn off OpenGL hardware acceleration and use the generic GDI OpenGL drivers instead.
  
  
• COMINITIALIZE is no longer required for QuickWin programs that use the AView library.
  
  
• The Palette Editor now allows spline curves to be used when editing palette colors.
  
  
• Height Plot graphs now use 1D textures by default.
  
  
• Barchart style for Height Plot graphs has been enhanced and a problem with printing has been fixed.
  
  
• Logical and Complex arrays can now be viewed with Array Viewer from the Visual Fortran debugger and can also used as arguments to faglStartWatch, faglShow, etc.
  
  
• The HDF libraries are no longer provided on the Array Visualizer CD. The latest version of the HDF libraries can be downloaded from: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/.
  
  
• A problem in the 1.1 release prevented Vector Graphs from being displayed as a series of connected line segments. This was fixed in 1.1A. Use the Vector Graph Settings dialog in Array Viewer to switch between point style and line style.
  
  
• In the Array Viewer Settings menu, the ROI Settings dialog now allows values greater than 64K.
  
  
• There are new Array Visualizer sample programs (see the Samples.htm file in Program Files\ArrayVisualizer\Samples) as well as improvements to the Array Viewer online help (Array Viewer Help menu) and online Array Visualizer HTML Help documentation.
  
  
• For additional details, see the online release notes (relnotes.txt), installed in Program Files\ArrayVisualizer.