Acedb Newsletters for Year2002

January

• General News
• New Features
• Smap is coming
• Articles
• Irritating dialogs
• Using pfetch to get EMBL entries for homologies in fmap
• A new "-reopen" option for acedb log files
• Reinitialising the Database
• Developers Corner
• Another banal file pathname function

February

• General News
• New Features
• SGI builds of acedb
• New/old acedb tool - ace2line & line2ace utilities
• Articles
• File permissions for wscripts scripts
• AceDB changes its license
• Bugs Fixed
• Tablemake bug in batch mode.
• Bug in flags to "dna" command in tace.
• Crash in gene finder.
• Grim CYGWIN bug.

March

• General News
• New Features
• AceConn a C package for accessing the Socket Server.
• A useful new Java package for accessing the socket server.
• Bugs Fixed
• No "read models" in client/server interface.
• Missing test for "wspec/database.wrm" at initialisation.
• Fixed hard to reproduce bug in print dialog
• Old bug in fmap dna display.

April

• General News
• New Features
• New "Save" and "WriteAccess" commands/options
• New options for giface commands to give more power to xremote
• Articles
• Gene Finder changes
• Bugs Fixed
• Inappropriate "Show As" actions
• Buglet in restriction dialog for Fmap
• Bad bug in the GFF dumper.
• Developers Corner
• Replacing bIndexFind() with bIndexTag()

May

• General News
• New Features
• Killing the AceDB server with SIGTERM
• Some FMap changes
• Articles
• Acedb, MAC OSX and "Darwin"
• Bugs Fixed
• Blixem and efetch/pfetch
• Ancient freeread() bug
• Ancient acediff bug
• AQL obscure bug

June

• General News
• New Features
• New Blixem Preference
• Display of Homologies and EST read pairs in FMap
• Bugs Fixed
• Small bug in "Model" command
• Write access to database.map
• Show_in_reverse_orientation bug
• Developers Corner
• Some messubs changes
• Graph package changes
• SMap changes

July

• General News
• New Features
• New -tsuser command line option
• New "Nosave" command
• New giface "smap" command
• Articles
• Removal of Match_Table support
• Bugs Fixed
• Bug in GFF dumper
• Bug in Confirmed Intron code
• Bug in CDS positioning
• Bug in blixem call to pfetch sequence
• Bug in CDS drawing code
• Bugs in Temp Gene
• Developers Corner

August

• General News
• Rob Clack joins us
• New Features
• Empty Strings in Tree Display.
• New Server PID file
• Bugs Fixed
• aceInKeyMatch() and exact matches
• Nosave option and write lock file
• Logging stops after saving from tace
• Query Fixes
• Fmap redraw bug
• Developers Corner
• Aquila work

September

• General News
• New Features
• AceConn Interface Change
• Forced initialisation of tace/giface
• New "dna" command options
• Query/TableMaker number interpretation
• Articles
• SMap Model clarification
• Dotter and Blixem binaries
• Bugs Fixed
• Dumping dna for genes on reverse strand
• Bug in signal handler
• max_reply in acedb server
• Developers Corner
• Subdirectories in whelp/ and wdoc/
• Some new CVS stuff
• Alpha OSF v5 make

October

• New Features
• Improvements to "gif smap" command
• Improvements to column overlap mode in xace
• Changes to the EMBL dumping code within AceDB
• Articles
• Socket server performance improvements
• A Change to smap design
• Bugs Fixed
• Fix xremote problems with driving FMap
• Developers Corner
• Improvements to AceIn/AceOut package
• Monthly build not available.

November

• New Features
• First round of keyboard shortcuts
• Splash window preference
• Articles
• Changes to Sanger Centre binaries
• Bugs Fixed
• Preference bug
• Smap and one base long features
• Some blixem fixes
• ACEDB.wrm should not be writeable
• Minor bug in query language arithmetic
• Developers Corner
• Code changes for shortcuts
• Change to the way the prefs package is initialised.
• Aquila changes

December

• Articles
• Better FMap and Tree display interactions
• Bugs Fixed
• EMBL file bugs
• GTK file chooser
• Tablemaker output bug
• Developers Corner
• New aceOutPrintStr() function
• qsort/msort routines
• New version of dict
• SMap "area"