Distance 1 Release 2 Release Notes

Interface

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  {16} General: Interface doesn't prevent user from making changes while items are running – e.g., changing the Data Filter or Model Definition while an analysis is running. If you do this, however, you will get errors.
  
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  {194} General: When upgrading from a Distance 3.5 project, and the destination folder for the D4 project is different from the source folder of the D35 project, under Windows 98 get an error that the new data file cannot be opened. This error doesn’t occur under Windows XP. [Len 5 Aug 02]
  
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  {195} General – properties windows. When you press F1, the help window that opens is always the same, regardless of which tab is showing. Ideally, the help window would be appropriate for the tab. [Len 12 Aug 02 – Cause: couldn’t get the Control Extender’s generic event to fire when late binding the properties controls – would like to have an event called HelpContextIDChanged that passes a new contextID each time a tab is shown in the properties controls. Perhaps to do with binary compatibility?]
  
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  {247} General – Details windows. On systems with extended character sets (e.g., Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language systems), the results of running analyses, surveys, etc. are not displayed. This occurs because the results are compressed in the project database and the decompression doesn’t work on these systems. Workaround: choose Tools | Preferences, and under the General tab, un-check the box “Store results in compressed format in project databases”. Now analyses you run should display fine. Note that you will have to re-run previous analyses for them to display. If you exchange projects with computers that do not have extended character systems, these computers will have to have the compress option switched off too. [LJT 28 Nov 2003]
  
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  {19} Analysis Components: "No item selected" message sometimes pops up when you try to delete a Data Filter or Model Definition, even if you know that one is selected. Workaround: Close the window and re-open it. [Internal note: Caused by bug in grid component where the grid is not binding tightly enough to the data control, and the record gets out of synch. Need to contact VideoSoft for fix or find a workaround.]
  
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  {21} Analysis Details, Results tab. When the results page titles are very long, the drop-down combo list gets resized so it is wider than the screen, and so the scroll bar disappears. (Note: Problem is in D4Util.ComboAdjustWidth – need to use an API routine to get the left pixel position of the drop-down and subtract this from the screen width.) [1 Dec 00]
  
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  {134} Analysis Details, Results tab. When results pages are very long, and you scroll down to the bottom of one page, then when you click on next you are taken to the bottom of the next page. Should take you to the top of each page as you enter it [26 Sept 01, LJT]
  
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  {226} Analysis Details, Results tab. When pasting a graph into another application that had been copied from CDS or MCDS results using “copy plot to clipboard”, one Windows ME system intermittently gave the error message “Distance has caused an error in MSCHRT20.ocx”. Workarounds – (1) seems to be less common if you leave the graph page showing while doing the paste (ie don’t close the Analysis Details window); (2) save the plot data to file in Model Definition | Detection function | Diagnostics, and use the macro on the Distance web site from Tim Gerrodette to reproduce the plot in Excel. Note – this is a problem with Microsoft’s chart control and we don’t expect to be able to fix it. Related to known problems on the Microsoft web site support page numbers 139577, 142793 and 179458. [Rob Williams 31 March 03].
  
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  {22} Browsers/Analysis Components: When you delete a Model Definition in the Analysis Components window, the IDs of the model definitions are not updated in the Analysis Browser table. [2 Nov 00] Also happens when you delete an analysis set using the Analysis Browser toolbar – the IDs of the new set shown are not updated. This causes an error in the mouse over event of the Analysis Browser when it doesn't recognize the ID – should error trap this, as well as fixing the source of the problem. [3 Nov 00]
  
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  {24} Browsers: Results pane (right hand side) – results with many 000s (either large or small) are not displaying in exponent format.
  
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  {25} Browsers: when you hit Enter after changing the name of an item, all items in that set become selected (only the one you were editing should be selected).
  
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  {26} Data Explorer: When you delete a data layer, any open design and survey details results windows that display maps go blank. [12 Jan 01]
  
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  {28} Data Explorer. Some data editing functions missing: when you hit tab in data entry mode you are not taken to the next cell; the up and down arrow keys move you along the edit string rather than up and down. Probably more issues here.
  
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  {29} Data Explorer: Operations that alter the structure of the data base (adding or deleting data layers, adding or deleting data fields, renaming fields or layers) cause an error if the data sheet is already locked by something else – for example if the layer is in a map that is open, or a design run. [Len: I need to go through the data sheet code putting in LockDataLayers method calls, and also need to enforce no editing of data while items are running.]
  
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  {31} Data Explorer: When you add a new field to an existing data layer, the values are blank and have no default. [I don't know what's a sensible thing to do here...]
  
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  {32} Data Explorer, Shape Properties. When you input an invalid shape (e.g., only one vertex of a polygon) you get no warning messge – the shape is simply not saved.
  
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  {133} Data Explorer - there is no way to delete cell values. Pressing Del should turn the value into a Null - useful, for example, if you want to represent missing data in the data sheet (e.g., missing covariate values). [26 Sept 01, Len]
  
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  {138} Data Explorer, Data Import, etc. Currently, there is no check that a field name is valid (e.g., in renaming fields, in importing new fields, etc). [1 Oct 01, Len]
  
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  {36} Data Filter Properties, Units tab. When you specify units other than "Same as...", you can get warning messages about overwriting the defaults when you run the analysis.
  
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  {129} Data Filter Properties, Units tab. Angle is automatically specified as Degrees here, but unless you also specify some valid angle units in the Data Explorer, you get an error message when running the analysis: "The angle field 'Angle' has no units associated with it." This message is unclear - should say where you need to specify the units. [10 Sept 01, Len]
  
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  {37} Design Browser and Details: When you run a design to generate a coverage probability grid, if you say OK to overwrite an existing field, if it fails, it leaves the data layer in a poor state (the field name is deleted from DataFields but the field is still in the data table).
  
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  {38} Design Details: There is no "Stop" button once you press run. [12 Jan 01]
  
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  {39} Design Details: You can change the Type Of Design for designs that have been run, or that have Surveys attached to them, without Distance noticing and prompting you to agree to reset the Design and Surveys. [14 Jan 01]
  
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  {42} Details Windows: Too much refreshing and flickering of combo boxes when new items selected. Particularly bad in Analysis Details.
  
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  {45} Details Log Windows: Clicking on an error in the bottom window doesn’t scroll you to that line in the top window.
  
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  {211} Import Data Wizard: “Error 3433: Invalid setting in Excel key of the Engines section of the Windows Registry” on some machines, when you click Next to go from the Data Destination step to the Data File Format step. This is not a bug in Distance; another program on the affected system has changed a part of the windows registry to a state that isn’t valid. The solution is to edit the windows registry to correct the problem. To start the registry editor program, click Start and then Run. In the Open box, type Regedit.exe. In the registry editor, expand the following key: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\3.5\Engines\Text”. Under the Format key, you should see the following value: Delimited(). From the menu choose Edit and then Modify and change the value to CSVDelimited. This should fix the problem. If not, or the value was already CSVDelimited, then you have a different problem. [DLB 14 Jan 03; Solution LJT 15 Jan 03]
  
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  {222} Import Data Wizard: Importing large datasets is very slow. [20 March 03]
  
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  {46} Main Window: If you stop a design simulation mid-way through (by pressing Stop on the toolbar), the progress % indicator on the main toolbar still says Progress x% - this should be cleared. Perhaps the design is not halted correctly or completely? [12 Jan 01]
  
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  {47} Map Browser: Doesn't allow you to hit enter in the name field in browser grids while editing.
  
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  {48} Map Browser: Sometimes when you try to delete a stored map, it claims that "No map selected" when you can see that one is [Internal note: this is a problem with the data control not being on the same record as the flexgrid – see CCtlMapBrowser.DeleteMap]
  
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  {184} Map Window: If you use map tips, then when you try to close a project, get a message that it could not compact the project as DB still in use. Possible reference leak in map tips? Message goes away once you’ve exited Distance. [25 June 2002, LJT]
  
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  {49} Model Definition Properties: CDS and MCDS – Multipliers tabs. If you select the CueRate box for any other than the first line in Multipliers, Distance will put them on the first line next time you open the properties
  
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  {125} Model Definition Properties: MCDS. You can get to the position when it thinks cluster size has been added as a covariate when it hasn’t. To get there: add a covariate, tick the cluster size box, then remove the covariate. Clicking on the first tab, shows it thinks cluster size is a covar. [LJT 19 July 2001]
  
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  {50} Properties: When you click on OK, the contents of the current tab are not validated before the contents are saved [7 Dec 00]
  
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  {51} Preferences: Changing options do not seem to have any affect until you restart (e.g., changing default open path; changing timestamp and echo data options for analysis).
  
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  {52} Survey Properties, Data Fields tab. Not updating properly when survey methods options chosen. (For example, change from line transect to point transect, the perp distance field is still white and the radial distance field greyed out, rather than visa versa).
  
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  {53} Survey Properties: When you change the properties of a survey that has status run, the status is not reset or results deleted [12 Jan 01]