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V6.50 Release Notes
MicroImages is pleased to distribute V6.50 of
the TNT products, which is the 50th release of TNTmips. This is
the longest interval between the 50 releases but has produced many new major
features. A count of 163 new feature requests submitted by clients and
MicroImages’ staff were implemented in V6.50 processes. A summary of many of the
new features are listed below.
- TrueType Interface: The X server and
all the TNT interface components use any convenient TrueType font, size, and
styling available in your language.
- Virtual Desktop: Create a large X
workspace much bigger (for example 4000 by 4000 pixels) than the monitor’s
real view. Instantly move the real view to any area of the workspace with
positioning tools provided in the new small Workspace Overview window or by
using scroll bars.
- Large Display Windows: Open large 2D
or 3D display windows in the workspace (for example, 4000 by 3000 pixels) big
enough to hold the entire extent of a composite view at full resolution. Open
it to view at a specified scale such as 1:24,000. Instantly move real view to
see any area.
- 3D Polygons: Select polygons and
extrude them into solid shapes in 3D views. Control their height by a field,
even a computed field, in attached attributes. Control the fill of top and
sides by separate styles. Control shading by sun position.
- 3D Raised Symbols: Raise point
symbols on stalks above the surface and out of the clutter in a 3D view. Stalk
height and style are set by attached attributes.
- Edit Large Areas: Open a large 2D
display window for detailed editing over large areas of any composite view
(for example, over an entire LANDSAT image or an orthophoto quadrangle with
DLG overlays at full resolution).
- Save/Restart Edit Sessions: Save a
layout for an edit or display group. Load the group later to reopen the large
edit or display session with all its components and settings.
- Snap Between Layers: When lines are
created or edited, snap them to elements in any other vector layer.
- Redo: Reverse the last undo operation
on any layer used in the edit session.
- Multiple Buffer Zones: Create
multiple buffer zones in a single pass with correct topology. Specify equal
increment zones or enter a list of distances. New options for handling island
buffer zones are available.
- Merging Rasters: Merge multiple
rasters into a single raster object whose cells contain a unique value for
each combination of input cells. This process is equivalent to the Automatic
Raster Combination procedure in other products.
- Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Use
a GeoFormula Wizard to define a new raster that is a weighted combination of
several input rasters and vectors.
- Faster Object Creation/Selection:
Selecting objects or creating new objects in Project Files with 100s or 1000s
of objects is much faster.
- Label Along Curves: Position a label
above, on, or below a selected curved line element. The jagged line
inflections or their spline can be used as a base line.
- Save Sketches: Save field drawings,
tracings, image interpretations, GPS routes, … made for any layer in a free
TNTatlas can be saved as CAD objects for use in other TNT products.
- Inspect Files: Display the contents
of unknown geodata files to search for header, layout, problems, or other
characteristics.
- Protecting Atlas Content: Specify
during creation of an atlas which TNT products can use its contents. For
example, a TNTatlas can be distributed on CD that can only be used by
TNTatlas, that has no export features, thus protecting its contents.
- Dynamic Atlas Links: Use database
records to compose links from features in an atlas that start other non-TNT
applications via file names or access a specific web site’s content by URLs.
These links can be formed by computed fields. They can be dynamic locations
since the database can be changed by other software independently from the
atlas structure and elements.
- TNTatlas for Windows: TNTatlas/W is a
new native Windows application for distribution with and viewing of atlases.
It does not use the X server. It can be used with exactly the same atlas as
TNTatlas/X. It can be internationalized by translating the TNT resource files.
It supports some Windows features not available such as docking, quick
open,...
- Real-Time 3D Simulation: TNTsim is a
native Windows application that provides real time 3D simulations (15 to 60
frames per second). Input is from any Project File using a raster object for
relief (an elevation layer) while draping another raster object over it for
overlay (an image layer). Flight control is by joystick or keyboard.
- Legends: Use a new color scale range
legend for rasters in LegendView or layouts. Mix text fonts, styles, and sizes
in a legend. Add tabs for multiple column legends.
- MGRS: Select the Military Grid
Reference System for coordinates input to reposition a display view or for
readout of the cursor position.
- Movies: Use 30 new SML
functions/class methods to write scripts to generate MPEG or AVI movies
frame-by-frame with dynamic inputs and flight paths.
- TNTserver: TNTserver can now
evaluate, grade, and return results from fuzzy queries that have no exact
match. A client request for printing he atlas’s view can now return a
convenient HTML layout that can be printed, saved, and modified.
- HTML-based TNTclient: This client has
the same functionality as the java-based TNTclient. It is smaller and faster
for phone modem access. Its users can select from preprogrammed queries stored
with each atlas on the TNTserver. It uses HTML for easy construction of the
forms (windows) for user query input.
- TNTclient: All TNTclients now handle
the return from fuzzy queries, support printing via HTML layouts, and permit
theme selection.
- QuickGuides: 10 new QuickGuides are
available.
- Getting Started Booklets: 4 new
Getting Started Booklets are available.
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