This is a patched version of the official 4.7 release, which incorporates some comments from users
about our official 4_7b release.
Changes in this release in respect to RELEASE-4_7b are as follows :
- Fixed an initialisation bug, which caused ghost directories called '
(null)readlocks/'
to be created if an acedb program was started with a wrong database directory. On solaris it would have
crashed totally. (by fw, mieg)
- The gifaceserver in 4_7b failed to correctly return parsing errors to the
socket connection. The error messages were sent to an imaginary dialog box
(but in giface there is no interactive user to answer them) and the error messages
therefor didn't show up in the output file.
This has been fixed in the 4_7d patch. (by lstein, mieg)
- The menu item 'Show translation' in the menu that comes up over a gene box behaved in a slightly
illogical way. It now acts as a toggle (the item name changes from 'Show' to 'Hide' and back).
It also remebers which trabslation is alraedy displayed and controld the 'Up gene' and 'Down Gene'
columns accordingly. (by fw)
- A few users had commented on the change in the logic for displaying menus. The logic was restored to
the method where the background menu comes up for all boxes and buttons unless they have a special menu.
Some users found it confusing having to navigate the cursor into a white background area to bring up
the windows background menu. (by fw)
- The layout of the controls in the 'new style' main window has changed slightly as a result of the above
modification. Control buttons with a special menu hanging off them now have '..' in their name of the
button. The buttons 'Help', 'Exit' and 'Clean up' have the background menu disabled to avoid confusion.
(by fw)
- The session control window (available from the 'Admin..' menu of the 'new-style' main window)
now has a help document, which explains Acedb sessions and how readlocks are handled.
Recommened reading ... (by fw)
