Acedb Newsletters for Year 2001

January

• General News
• File Chooser and selecting a directory
• New Features
• Acedb on windows
• Better information for signals
• "Preserve" behaviour restored
• Articles
• Rearrangements to acedb downloads
• Bugs Fixed
• Drawing performance bug
• Objects missing from active keyset after rename
• Log entries in database/log.wrm

February

• New Features
• Merging of "Supported mRNA" and "Supported CDS" objects for fmap
• Improved format for server log
• Interactive control of DNA mismatch reporting in xace
• Bugs Fixed
• Tree Display menu
• Catching SIGABRT
• Print bug
• Tablemaker bug
• Two URL bugs
• Dumping bug
• Future Plans
• AceDB and gapped alignments
• AceDB and XML Schema

March

• New Features
• exporting of cDNA from non-CDS objects
• log switching
• "No_display" tag in ?Method objects for F-map display
• Porting acedb to latest HP machines, including new IA-64 based machines.
• Undocumented/hidden features in Acedb
• 1) Adding 'arrows' to sequence displays
• 2) Adding more text information to sequence displays
• Bugs Fixed
• Problem with printer list in print window
• cDNA objects no longer silently created in the database
• fmap window title did not get refreshed correctly from tree window
• Help crashes
• Setting size for gif maps crashed acedb sometimes.
• GIF creation caused acedb to swallow memory.

April

• General News
• AceDB 4_9
• Summary
• What's available/not available
• Porting to MS Windows, and beyond...
• Education
• New Features
• Improved Newsletter pages
• New TITLE keyword for databases
• BLIXEM improvements including gapped alignments
• General display improvements
• Display of gapped alignments in Blixem
• Socket Server working directory
• The new CDS code for fmap
• Bugs Fixed
• Old, old table maker bug

May

• General News
• Education
• New Features
• Last Modified command line interface
• New format 'status' display
• Translation of non-CDS Sequence objects now possible.
• Articles
• Non-numeric tags
• Yet more on CDS tags
• Bugs Fixed
• DNA command misnamed files
• Asking for coordinates off the end of clone crashed giface.
• Underlining of features for printing.
• Build of "Static" executables failed.
• Some AQL queries could cause AceDB to crash.

June

• General News
• AceDB 4_9b released
• First HP, now IBM
• New Features
• More on Tag Names
• How do I know which monthly build version I am using ?
• Inheritance of some parent tags when creating new "temp_genes"
• An end to the endless "OK"/"Continue" button ?
• Latest Version of AcePython
• Articles
• Exporting sequence feature information from AceDB using the GFF format
• Bugs Fixed
• fmap bug in last months build.
• gmap bug
• List of Printers not displayed in print window for NIS defined printers.
• Other Printer bugs fixed.
• Database corruptions and blockN.wrm permissions
• Compiling saceserver on more recent Compaq-Alpha machines
• Developers Corner
• NULL_GRAPH
• AceDB preferences

July

• New Features
• Oh NO, I meant to click "View as text"
• New Grid display options
• Articles
• Sequences that point to themselves
• Warning about stack size and very big databases
• Bugs Fixed
• "Graph Not Found" bug
• Tree window not redrawn properly
• DNA dumping bug
• Signal catching menu
• Support for the WWW_location tag broken
• Socket server fixed on HP
• Symbolic link missing in source code download file
• Misleading Stack size message

August

• General News
• WARNING about for ULCC ftp users.
• New Features
• New "-tsuser" command line option for tace.
• New fmap option to efetch homols.
• Articles
• Xace, "core" dumps and Signal Catching.
• A change to the way AQL searches for locators
• Bugs Fixed
• Bug in graphUpdateEditors()
• Multiline messages in Message window.
• Signal Catching menu/window item.
• WWWdisplay() function
• Peptide translation
• Blixem Toolbar bug

September

• General News
• First HP, now IBM
• No more telnet access to Sanger
• New Features
• Once more unto the process limits
• Reading in a set of dumpfiles
• Dumping CDS's from a keyset
• saceclient, scripts, userids and passwords
• Read only databases and saceserver
• Bugs Fixed
• File chooser bug
• Fmap scrolling bugs
• Reverse strand display in Blixem
• Developers Corner
• Small additions to filsubs
• GNU getopt code added
• aceOutPrint() bug again

October

• New Features
• Running Blixem from xace: new options
• Dumping CDS from the Keyset window
• Fmap cursor coordinates
• Bugs Fixed
• Dotter bug fixed
• Developers Corner
• New routines for the aceTmp package
• Some comments about the use of bIndexFind()

November

• Articles
• Introduction and then removal of smap-based dna retrieval
• Ignoring errors while parsing files in xace
• Some more points about running an external Blixem
• Bugs Fixed
• Main window "text overflow"
• Bug in CDS display
• Bug in call to external blixem
• Developers Corner
• New aceTmp call
• Those damned implicit declarations
• New "string to integer" conversion routines
• User preferences now include strings

December

• General News
• Downloading acedb
• New Features
• New "-silent" command line for Socket Server
• Articles
• The Socket Server and port numbers.
• Change in behaviour when acedb crashes.
• Bugs Fixed
• Greyramp speed improved.
• The last of the aceOutPrint() bugs ?
• Dotter bug.
• Serious alias bug
• Developers Corner
• libgif.a renamed to libgd.a