GTWeb Updates

GTWeb Client for iOS (iPhone/iPad) - Version 1.0.25


- NEW - Single Tap Feature reviews now supported (long tap is still supported).

- NEW - Queries and Favorites can now be performed on the map page with the iPad (without leaving the map page).

- NEW - Query Results reformatted to more easily differentiate between different records.


GTWeb Client for Android - Version 1.0.51


- FIX - No longer assumes the Android Device has a GPS (like the Kindle Fire).

- NEW - GPS out of range errors are now sent to the Server's Log.

- NEW - Single Tap Feature reviews is reported (long tap is still supported).


GTWeb Server - Version 11.0.0.4 


- FIX - #6931 - The standard linestyles (1 to 7) were using the old style of creating dashes.  Updated to match current verisons of GTViewer.

- FIX - #6932 - All .aspx pages modified to explicitly turn caching off.

- NEW - # 6933 - ResetServer.aspx, UserTracking.aspx,  and GetServerVersion.aspx were modified to show the time when the call was made.

 - FIX - #6935 - Hatch Fills on Shapes will no longer obscure raster underneath.

- FIX - #6939 - Invalid Preset Id would cause GetElementsAtPoint to fail.

GTViewer version 11.0.0.10 is Available

GTViewer version 11.0.0.10 is available.

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11.00.00.10 - 01/30/12
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- FIX - #6956 - Updates to MSI Setup.

- FIX - #6940 - Problem with UDLS where the Text at Mid Point component is used.

- FIX - #6946 - Dynamic Graphics elements were picking up Style Rule definitions since the Feature Tooltip support was added.

- FIX - #6949 - Feature Counting was not preserving the Extended Style Id for linears split on the boundary, so elements converted to session graphics would not keep a UDLS.

- FIX - #6951 - The Used By Threshold values were not being displayed correctly in the Style Manager.

GTVx version 11.0.0.6 is Available

Version 11.0.0.6 of GTVx is available.

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11.00.00.06 - 01/30/11
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- FIX - #6936 - Hatch Fills on Shapes will no longer obscure raster underneath.

- FIX - #6941 - Print To Scale was not logging the correct view range in the logfile.

- NEW - #6942 - Additonal Logging added with PrintToScale event.

- FIX - #6945 - PrintViewToScale was not working.

- FIX - #6947 - Dynamic Graphics elemetn were picking up Style Rule definitions since the Feature Tooltip support was added.

- FIX - #6948 - Magnify mode should be disabled when the view is rotated.

- FIX - #6950 - Feature Counting was not preserving the Extended Style Id for linears split on the boundary, so elements converted to session graphics would not keep a UDLS.

DistribuTECH 2012

Demoing GTWeb at DistribuTECH.   

You can try it out as well, visit here.

Come see us at DistribuTECH 2012 in San Antonio!

GTI will be at DistribuTECH 2012 in San Antonio, Texas on January 24-26.

We are at booth 957 and will be showing GTWeb on the iPhone and iPad,  Android Phones and Tablets, and the new Browser Client.

We will also be showing the new Version 11 of GTViewer, GTField, and much more.

GTViewer 11.0.0.9 is Available

GTViewer version 11.0.0.9 is available.

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11.00.00.09 - 01/18/12
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- FIX - #6934 - Hatch Fills will no longer obscure raster underneath.

- FIX - #6937 - Double Arc and Double Ellipse elements were not working. Problem introduced in 11.0.0.8.

- NEW - #6938 - Toolbox support for Dynamic Graphics Actions: ToggleDGAction, DGActionOn, and DGActionOff.

GTWeb Demo on the iPhone

We have had several videos of GTWeb running on iOS devices including the iPad and the iPod Touch.   However, we did have a video showing it on an actual iPhone until now.   Here you go:



If you can't view the video above, try going directly to YouTube, or you can also try getting the .mp4 file here.

GTViewer version 11.0.0.8 is Available

GTViewer version 11.0.0.8 is available.

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11.00.00.08 - 12/30/11
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- FIX - #6926 - Custom Line Styles (dash patterns) were not correctly scaled for printing and they looked solid.

- FIX - #6927 - The Line Syle property in the Style Rule section of the Element tab of the Attribute Info dialog will now say Using Dash Pattern instead of 10.

GTVx version 11.0.0.5 is Available

Version 11.0.0.5 of GTVx is available.

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11.00.00.05 - 12/30/11
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- FIX - #6928 - Custom Line Styles (dash patterns) were not correctly scaled for printing and they looked solid.

- FIX - #6930 - The Line Syle property in the Style Rule section of the Element tab of the Attribute Info dialog will now say Using Dash Pattern instead of 10.

GTWeb Updates

4 Updates are available for GTWeb

- GTWeb Server - Version 11.0.0.2 - This update includes fixes to improve performance and reliability with many simultaneous requests.

- GTWeb Browser - Version  1.0.15 - New wait indicator added that works across all browsers, fix for presets not being remembered correctly when switching between projects, keyboad panning problem in IE9 has been resolved, and toggling the raster when no raster is available will now give an appropriate alert.   Go check it out here.  User: demo   Password:  demo

- GTWeb for iOS -  Version 1.0.24 - Simple Note functionality added (to match and share with the Android and Browser versions), indicator added after long press to show where the select point was, and fix for the long press context menu in the query results.

- GTWeb for Android - Version 1.0.49 - support for Google TV.



This update pack includes a variety of different fixes and new functionality.  The iPhone/iPad version of the GTWeb Client is now pretty much on par with the Android version (with the addition of notes and the long touch indicator).   The Browser version had several fixes and some polishing, but the most unusual new feature is the support for Google TV in the Android version.  Will GTWeb be running on a lot of Google TVs?  Probably not, but if what Eric Schmidt said about Google TV being on 'majority' of new TVs by summer of 2012, then there will be a large base of devices out there that can run the full featured GTWeb Client.   Update:  It looks like there is more truth to what Eric Schmidt said than I previously thought:  Google TV Boldly Tells World It Will Survive.

Google TV currently runs a flavor of Honeycomb (Android for the tablet), but it does have a few differences.   In regard to GTWeb, the differences that affect the application are not having a touch screen and the mouse track pad not having multi-touch support.  To compensate, GTWeb for Android now supports a few keys strokes for zoom in and out  (double tap still works and panning can be done the with the mouse track pad).  Other than that, it look gorgeous on a giant screen.   It also has a full keyboard remote making it very easy to query and do anything else that requires typing.

GTVx version 11.0.0.4 is Available

Version 11.0.0.4 of GTVx is available.

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11.00.00.04 - 12/2/11
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- NEW - #6903 - BGMasks now support Fill Styles.

- NEW - #6904 - BGMaskDisplayFlag now supported with Get/SetDataProperty.

- FIX - #6906 - The Highlighted BGMask elements were using the last BGMask fill style used instead of the element's fill style. Also changed from always drawing a solid fill highlight to the element's fill style.

- FIX - #6915 - Complex Shape and Complex Shape with Holes elements could render the wrong linestyle.

- FIX - #6922 - BigButtonFlag now supports two more sizes (2 and 3).

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11.00.00.03 - 11/11/11
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- NEW - #6902 - Documentation updates.


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11.00.00.02 - 11/07/11
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- FIX - #6892 - Export to Shapefile was not converting Arc Elements correctly.

- CHG - #6895 - The GIS: tags in the filter file descriptions will no longer use the colon (:) as a delimiter.

- NEW - #6898 - New Method: GetFilterListFromFeatureString

- NEW - #6900 - The Name() tag is now supported by the filter and feature string descriptions to search for Filter Name, Feature Name, Feature Num, Component Name, Component Num, and Style Name by wildcarded strings when selecting filter ids.

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11.00.00.01 - 10/29/11
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- FIX - #6852 - The Current View Filter on the the Display Filter Dialog was allowing you to change the status of filter ids that were
thresholded off. You shouldn't be able to change these and if you turned them off, it would be confusing since they would disappear at the threshold they should be displayed at.

- NEW - #6853 - Current View Filter will now show the Min and Max thresholds for each filter id.

- NEW - #6864 - Support for embedded data with Dynamic Graphics.

- FIX - #6869 - Complex Linestring would not render the standard linestyle correctly when specified in a style rule.

- NEW - #6884 - Style Definition/Mapping info is now stored in the session, if it is changed.

- NEW - #6885 - Feature Tooltips will now support Dynamic Graphics items.

- NEW - #6886 - New Methods: HighlightSetLinkageInfo and HighlightClearLinkageInfo.

- NEW - #6887 - The Attribute Info dialog will now show Feature Tooltip and Dynamic Graphics info on the Element Tab.

- FIX - #6888 - The GetGisInfoFromFilterId method was not returning the correct information.

- FIX - #6889 - GetDisplayFilterString will now longer return filter ids for group entries.

GTViewer version 11.0.0.7

GTViewer version 11.0.0.7 is available.

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11.00.00.07 - 12/1/11
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- FIX - #6920 - Better handling of mouse events for some tablets.

- NEW - #6921 - BigButtonFlag now supports two more sizes (2 and 3).

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11.00.00.06 - 11/23/11
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- NEW - #6911 - The -Register_App command-line option has been added so that the GTViewer automation server can be registered without bringing up the app.

- FIX - #6914 - Complex Shape and Complex Shape with Holes elements could render the wrong linestyle.

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11.00.00.05 - 11/11/11
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- NEW - #6900 - Documentation Updates.

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11.00.00.04 - 11/07/11
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- NEW - #6890 - The Keys Ctrl-Alt-R will toggle the View Rotation settings.

- FIX - #6891 - Export to Shapefile was not converting Arc Elements correctly.

- CHG - #6894 - The GIS: tags in the filter file descriptions will no longer use the colon (:) as a delimiter.

- NEW - #6896 - The Filter String parsing now supports a N() and Name() to select filter ids by filter name (with wildcards).

- NEW - #6897 - New Method: GetFilterListFromFeatureString - NEW - #6899 - The Name() tag is now supported by the filter and feature string descriptions to search for Filter Name, Feature Name, Feature Num, Component Name, Component Num, and Style Name by wildcarded strings when selecting filter ids.

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11.00.00.03 - 10/29/11
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- FIX - #6870 - Installation was showing the wrong splash screen.

- NEW - #6879 - Style Definition/Mapping info is now stored in the session, if it is changed.

- NEW - #6880 - Feature Tooltips will now support Dynamic Graphics items.

- NEW - #6881 - New Methods: HighlightSetLinkageInfo and HighlightClearLinkageInfo

- NEW - #6882 - The Attribute Info dialog will now show Feature Tooltip and Dynamic Graphics info on the Element Tab.

- NEW - #6883 - The Properties Dialog (File/Properties) and Post Status Dialog have been updated to include a copy line feature (double click) and copy all (Copy button) to get information to the Windows Clipboard. The dialogs are now resizable and use a grid style display.

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11.00.00.02 - 10/18/11
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- NEW - #6863 - Support for embedded data with Dynamic Graphics. - FIX

- #6868 - Complex Linestring would not render the standard linestyle correctly when specified in a style rule.

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11.00.00.01 - 10/15/11
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- FIX- #6850 - The Current View Filter on the the Display Filter Dialog was allowing you to change the status of filter ids that were thresholded off. You shouldn't be able to change these and if you turned them off, it would be confusing since they would disappear at the threshold they should be displayed at.

- NEW- #6851 - Current View Filter will now show the Min and Max thresholds for each filter id.

- NEW- #6854 - Additional Custom Coordinate Conversion Support. - NEW- #6859 - The SW: tag will now recognize an optional 3rd parameter for the style name.

- FIX- #6862 - To better support Windows 7, the location of the GpsInfo.ini file created by the GPS Dialog has been changed to the User's AppData directory under \Graphics Technologies Inc\GTViewer.

GTWeb now supports HTML5 Browsers

In addition to Android, Apple iOS, and Blackberry, GTWeb now supports HTML5 capable browsers. The screencast below shows a variety of features provided by GTWeb on an HTML5 Browser including queries, panning, zooming, attribute info, and favorites.



Here is a larger version of the video.



The following screencast shows GTWeb running on various HTML5 Browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Internet Explorer).



Here is a larger version of the video.

On 11/11/11, GTViewer Version 11 is Released!

What’s New in GTViewer 11

There are many new features in GTViewer 11. Some of these features, like View Rotation, have been available in GTViewer 10 updates, but there are a variety of new features that haven’t been seen before. The list below shows the major new features:

Rotated View Capabilities - This new functionality has been added to meet the requests of several customers who wanted support for rotated prints and orienting the map to the GPS heading.

Rotate View

• Ctrl-Alt-R - enable or disable View Rotation
• Alt-Left Arrow - Rotate Left
• Alt-Right Arrow - Rotate Right
• Alt-Up Arrow or Esc- Resets View Rotation
• Alt-Down Arrow - Rotate View to 180 degrees
• See it in Action.

Rotate Prints

• With the Standard Print Command
• With the Print to Scale Command

GPS

• New Indicator Mode: Orient to Heading
• See it in Action.

Dynamic Graphics Upgrades –The Dynamic Graphics functionality provides a powerful visualization tool for analyzing data, creating more informative or alternate views of data, and giving the user the ability to explore various decision making aspects of the data. A year after being introduced, the Dynamic Graphics has been enhanced using customer feedback to make it even more powerful:

• Feature Tooltips will now support Dynamic Highlights and Labels.
• Dynamic Graphics can now use Embedded Data in the Criteria and Label Expressions.
• Shape, Circle, and Ellipse elements can now use their geometric area in Criteria and Label Expressions (with DG.GTI_AREA).
• Any closed shaped can now be used with Polygon Labels as well as shapes, circles, and ellipses.
• Point Labels now support a Keep Rotation option so alternate symbols can be created with the original feature’s rotation.
• Dynamic Labels now support a Remove Partial option to hide labels that are partially out of the view.
• Action items can now be interactively reordered to control the order they are drawn.
• Highlight and Simple Highlight now support a Fill Option to fill or not fill shapes, ellipses, and circles. This option allows fillable elements to be filled or not filled as part of their highlighting regardless of the original element’s fill status.
• Two versions of the Dynamic Graphics interface are now available: Administrator Mode and User Mode. Administrator mode is the original interface introduced in GTViewer 10; User Mode is a scaled down interface that allows the user to toggle the display of Actions and change the Action drawing order, but it prevents modifying, importing, and exporting Action items.
• Administrator Mode now has a collapsible dialog (making it optionally smaller like User Mode).
• Pretty() function added to Expressions to Clean up strings (Capitalize first letter, change underscores and dashes to spaces).

Attribute Info

• The Element Tab now shows Dynamic Graphics information for selected features including all Actions that affect the feature.
• The Element Tab now shows Feature Tooltip information for selected feature.

Style Manager

• Changes made with the Style Manger are now stored in the session.
  

Coordinate Systems

• Additional Coordinate System support has been added to greatly increase the number of coordinate systems available to the GPS, Coordinate Readout, and Locate by Latitude and Longitude functionality.
  

Queries

• Multi-Category support has been added for basic Query Types. A single query can now span features across multiple categories.

Fonts

• The GTViewer Font Format (.dfn) now supports Shape with Hole elements as a primitive font stroke. These new elements can provide better looking symbols in many circumstances.

GTVx version 11 is Released!

Version 11.0.0.03 of GTVx is available.

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11.00.00.03 - 11/11/11
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- NEW - #6902 - Documentation updates.

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11.00.00.02 - 11/07/11
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- FIX - #6892 - Export to Shapefile was not converting Arc Elements correctly.

- CHG - #6895 - The GIS: tags in the filter file descriptions will no longer use the colon (:) as a delimiter.

- NEW - #6898 - New Method: GetFilterListFromFeatureString

- NEW - #6900 - The Name() tag is now supported by the filter and feature string descriptions to search for Filter Name, Feature Name, Feature Num, Component Name, Component Num, and Style Name by wildcarded strings when selecting filter ids.

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11.00.00.01 - 10/29/11
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- FIX - #6852 - The Current View Filter on the the Display Filter Dialog was allowing you to change the status of filter ids that were
thresholded off. You shouldn't be able to change these and if you turned them off, it would be confusing since they would disappear at the threshold they should be displayed at.

- NEW - #6853 - Current View Filter will now show the Min and Max thresholds for each filter id.

- NEW - #6864 - Support for embedded data with Dynamic Graphics.

- FIX - #6869 - Complex Linestring would not render the standard linestyle correctly when specified in a style rule.

- NEW - #6884 - Style Definition/Mapping info is now stored in the session, if it is changed.

- NEW - #6885 - Feature Tooltips will now support Dynamic Graphics items.

- NEW - #6886 - New Methods: HighlightSetLinkageInfo and HighlightClearLinkageInfo.

- NEW - #6887 - The Attribute Info dialog will now show Feature Tooltip and Dynamic Graphics info on the Element Tab.

- FIX - #6888 - The GetGisInfoFromFilterId method was not returning the correct information.

- FIX - #6889 - GetDisplayFilterString will now longer return filter ids for group entries.

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10.00.00.12 - 9/22/11
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- NEW - #6838 - Additional Logging added to QueryInitialize.

- NEW - #6842 - Multi-Category Support for basic Query Types.

- FIX - #6845 - When opening a .gtx file, the style id in the style definitions could be ignored in certain situations.

GTData version 11 is Released!

GTData version 11.0.0.1 is available.

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- CHG - #6768 - GTConfig - Global operation no longer uses a space for a delimiter allowing attribute names with spaces to be specified. You can still use pipe, semicolon, or comma.

- NEW - #6818 - GTFontEdit - Support for Polygon with Holes. Create Polygon with Holes and Break Polygon with Holes commands added to toolbar.

- NEW - #6834 - GTConfig - A Ctrl-double click on a row on the Attribute Page will now apply the Pretty 2 function to the attribute name. A regular double click will still iterate through the display options.

- NEW - #6840 - GTFont - Support for ShapeWithHolesElement type has been added.

- NEW - #6841 - GTQuery - Multi-Category Support for basic Query Types.

- FIX - #6893 - GT2Shape - Export to Shapefile was not converting Arc Elements correctly.

Middle Tennessee Forum on Geographic Information Systems

Come see us today at the 10th Annual Middle Tennessee Forum on Geographic Information Systems.

BGMasks in the GTV .NET Control

GTViewer and GTVx have had Background Masks (BGMask) for sometime, but they are new to the GTV .NET Control. BGMasks are a cleaver way to highlight an area in the view without covering up anything on the map. They highlight from the bottom instead of the top, so the features in the map are drawn on top of the highlighted area instead of being covered up; similar to drawing a transparent area on top of your features but with the benefit of not washing out the features with.

The BGMask are better to show than to talk about, so here are some screenshots of a demo app. Demo source code is available upon request:

GTV .NET Control verison 9.0.0.21 is Available

The GTViewer .NET Control for Windows version 9.0.0.21 is Available.

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09.00.00.21 - 10/22/11
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- NEW - #6777 - Vertex Move mode for Line and Area redlines.

- NEW - #6779 - VertexSelectionTolerance property added.

- NEW - #6872 - Background Mask functionality added: BGMaskAddArea, BGMaskAddFeature, BGMaskClear, BGMaskDelete, BGMaskSetProperty, BGMaskGetProperty, BGMaskMoveToFront, BGMaskMoveToBack, BGMaskGetRange, BGMaskGetList, BGMaskClearHighlight, BGMaskSetHighlight, BGMaskGetPointList.

- NEW - #6873 - Support for Fill Styles.

- NEW - #6874 - The Point_with_Zoom and Point_with_Confirmation_And_Zoom captures mode will now support the CaptureModeMouseMoveEvent.

- NEW - #6875 - Mode 8 added to GetFeatureGeometry method to. Same as mode 1 (all points), except that it only returns the primary shape for Shape with Holes elements and the first sub-element in a group.

- NEW - #6876 - Data Methods added: DataGetDataId, DataGetTableId, DataGetTableAttrPos, DataInitializeFetch, DataInitializeFetchAll, DataFetchRecord.

GTVx version 10.0.0.11 is Available

Version 10.0.0.11 of GTVx is available.

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10.00.00.11 - 9/16/11
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- NEW - #6783 - New Methods: GetComputedCoordinate, GetSystemX, GetSystemY.

- FIX - #6785 - Setup was naming the shortcut to the documentation as Documentation instead of GTVx Documentation.

- NEW - #6820 - Support for Polygon with Holes in .DFN fonts.

- FIX - #6823 - If a DashPattern has 0 for all of the gaps, then it should be treated as a solid line.

- NEW - #6826 - Support for Feature Tooltips on embedded data to match GTViewer.

- NEW - #6828 - ActivateSelectedElementMoveEx method added so that when a single text element is selected, its style origin will be used.

- FIX - #6830 - DGN Export was not applying filter mappings to the sub-elements of a Group Element.
- FIX - #6832 - Snapping was not working with selected element moves.

- NEW - #6833 - Change to snapping so that if a text element with a style origin is used, the style origin will be used instead of the element's real origin.

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10.00.00.10 - 06/23/11
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- NEW - #6754 - RestrictPresetExport added as Data Property and to Additional Properties section of the .GTM.

- NEW - #6755 - New Data Properties: MeasureFactor, MeasureDegreeFactor, MeasurePrecision, MeasureUnitLabel

- NEW - #6756 - Print to Scale will now support the Shift-Plus and Shift-Minus not increase or decrease the scale by 5%.

- NEW - #6757 - New methods added: BGMaskChangeBorderWeight, BGMaskChangeBorderStyle, BGMaskChangeBorderColor, BGMaskChangeFillColor, BGMaskChangeFillStyle.

- NEW - #6758 - New method added: DGFit

- NEW - #6762 - If a RasterFileList entry is defined along with a RasterPath entry in a Raster Category section of the .GTM and multiple RasterPath items are specified (delimited by semicolons), each file in the list will be search for in each of the RasterPath directories until it is found.

- FIX - #6765 - Support Added to Feature Tooltip expression for multiple record occurrences.

- FIX - #6766 - Added FT and FT_Pre entries to the Additional Properties section of the .GTM to support Feature Tooltip entries that contain long entries. The FeatureTooltip and FeatureTooltip_Pre entries can only support 200 character per property.

- FIX - #6769 - The DG.GTI_Area variable for the Dynamic Graphics expressions will now compute the area for a Shape with hole element using only the primary shape.

- CHG - #6771 - Thresholds for Highlighted elements behaved differently than thresholds for Filters, Styles, and Dynamic Graphics. They have been changed to match.

- FIX - #6774 - Problem when selecting elements and moving large distances. Element ranges would sometimes get correct because of roundoff error.

- NEW - #6782 - New methods: HighlightedListSave, HilightedListClear, HighlightedListGetItem, HighlightedListSetTag, HilightedListHighlightByTag, HighlightedListGetItemCount.