BALL 1.1.1 released

BALL 1.1.1 solves some of the problems BALL 1.1 had on some platforms (SuSE Linux, Windows, g++4 support) and improves the usability and look-and-feel of BALLView in a number of places. The change log below gives some ideas of the changes:

Added:

• Support for Python under Windows
• Python support for further classes
• Support for creating animations and movies from Python scripts
• Further Python example scripts
• Some useful hotkeys for Python Scripts in BALLView
• Support for SD files in BALLView
• Context sensitive HTML documentation in BALLView
• BALLView again has a fourth drawing precision "ultra" for real fast graphics accelerator cards
• Amber charges and radii for nucleotides
• Picking support for bonds
• Coloring by molecule

Changed:

• BALL and BALLView libraries are now built as DLLs under Windows
• Both libraries are now compiled with optimization under Windows
• Improved useability of the DisplayProperties Dialog
• Visual improvements for the cartoon model, e.g. for DNA and Strands
• Renamed Mesh::colorList to Mesh::colors
• Exception::InvalidRange now has a float value
• Bond::TooManyBonds moved to Exception namespace
• A standard BALLView Python startup script will be executed in any case. It can be found in BALL/data/startup.py. Users can choose an additional startup script, that will be run afterwards.
• PyInterpreter and PyWidget report the reason if the Python module cannot be loaded
• Removed Notification and changed the way to register for Log access
• Removed GLQuadricObject. This functionality is available through GLRenderer
• Improved PreferenceEntry class and reading/storing code for preferences
• Coloring of surfaces by grid: the way autoscale works and the default colors
• Renamed ColorTable to ColorMap
• Cleanup of the Scene code for move, rotate, zoom: Now cleaner, smaller and faster code.
• Adapted DownloadPDBDialog to new rcsb.org website

Fixed:

• Crash while reading PDB files with too many bonds
• Crash while wrongly using malformed boolean expression "residueID(...)"
• Crash in CalculateSecondaryStructureProcessor, when one SS is part of another
• Crash while running an MDS with trajectory if the DCD file could not be written
• Crash with representations for two different systems
• Crash with mouse movements while animation is running
• Memory issues with Python objects (e.g. inserting GeometricObjects into Representations)
• FragmentDB entries for H-atoms in nucleotides
• NMRViewer und underlying widgets did not compile
• Problems in persistence with g++ 4.x series
• Hangup in socket interface with g++ 4.x series
• Problems with POSIX compliance of socket classes
• Mouse sensitivity changed in Rotate mode when focusing on small structures
• Lighting, especialy for directional lights
• Saving and loading of BALLView project files
• Accelerators for menu entries didnt always work
• Splitting of surfaces for given distance: computed incorrect surfaces
• POVRay export: degenerated objects (with a length of 0) and meshes with only one color
• Browse button didnt work in Molecular Dynamics Simulation dialog
• Incorrect bond orders and GLN amide group planarity in fragment database
• PeptideBuilder: Naming of peptides; enabled support for paste in Dialog
• Opening of files in current directory per command line with BALLView
• Update of Representations after changing Selection color
• Problems with rendering Labels on Windows and MacOS
• Problems with Directory and Sysinfo on Windows
• Problems with ATI graphics cards: Line Models and Polygon Smoothing
• Minor problems with the clipping planes
• Minor problems with dashed bonds in the Ball-and-Stick model
• Missing assignment operator in RotamerLibrary