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Like last month, this month has been a month of bug fixes in preparation for the release of Acedb 4_9.
The following improvements have been made to the Install
process:
Coming soon - at the Acedb web site, a document on how to make windows packages, databases, cds, for acedb.
URLs in objects now work correctly in the MS-Windows version of acedb, the URL will be displayed by whichever program is registered with MS-Windows to deal with URLs (this might be Internet Explorer or maybe Netscape).
A problem with Unix vs. MS-Windows is that they signal the end of a line of text in a different way. This matters if you edit one of acedbs text files (e.g. models.wrm) on Windows and then try to edit again on a Unix machine. Acedb expects ".wrm" text files to use the Unix way of representing an end-of-line, but the MS-Windows version will also cope with the MS-Windows way of doing this. This means that Acedb will continue to work if you have editted your models.wrm file on an MS-Windows machine.
acedb 4_8 had a bug whereby "%" signs within data in the database
e.g. "GC content 48%" would not be dumped correctly because the "%"
was read as a formatting instruction. This is now fixed.
Error messages in tace could get tangled with the "acedb>" prompt
which was confusing. This has now been fixed.
Sometimes when acedb popped up messages (warnings, information etc.), this could lead to the acedb losing the keyboard focus, i.e. any typing by the user would be lost. This is now fixed.
Unfortunately, due to system problems at the Sanger Centre a monthly build has not been possible for September.