netViz 3.0 Build History

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.01.05:

• The ODBC functionality has been enhanced to better support the Ingres database. In certain situations, a user could be told that the table(s) contained too many records for a database refresh to be performed properly, when in fact the table(s) did not have too many records.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.01.04:

• A bug that would cause netViz to crash while performing a save operation after various grouping and ungrouping operations has been corrected.
• A bug in the "Publish to Web Server" feature that would cause many temporary files to be left in the temporary files directory after a publishing operation completed has been corrected.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.01.03:

• A bug that prevented netViz from completely terminating after it was run by an OLE Automation controller has been corrected.
• The "Publish to Web Server" feature has been enhanced to better support Oracle and some other databases.
• The ODBC functionality has been enhanced to better support the MySQL database.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.01.02:

• A bug that would cause netViz to crash while importing certain projects has been corrected. The crash occurred in the following scenario:
  1. Assume that projects P1 and P2 are each based on catalog C, and have already been created.
  2. The user edits catalog C.
  3. The user opens project P1 and netViz resolves the changes made to the catalog since P1 was last open.
  4. The user then attempts to import project P2 into project P1.
• A problem in which certain snap-in module menu items were not displayed properly after a snap-in module was loaded has been corrected.
• A problem in which certain snap-in module menu items were not removed from the display after a snap-in module was unloaded has been corrected.
• A bug in the Viewer that prevented "drill down" into a node that had a label displayed on top has been corrected.
• In the "Publish to Web Server" feature, individual Inspector data fields are no longer limited to a length of 256 characters.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.01.01:

• A bug that would prevent certain WMF and NVM files from being read properly has been corrected.
• A bug that would prevent certain snap-in modules from loading has been corrected.
• A bug that would cause netViz to crash while performing a refresh from an ODBC database in which there were null reference objects has been corrected.
• A bug in which editing changes made to the fields of a reference object were discarded, i.e., not saved, has been corrected. This bug occurred when a diagram was displayed in table view.
• A bug that would cause netViz to crash when importing a CSV file has been corrected. The crash occurred when netViz was running on Windows NT and attempted to import a CSV file which contained links with invalid end points.
• Text that was missing from the Network Discovery dialog has been added.
• A problem with catalog editing in which an empty popup window was displayed over an empty list entry has been corrected.
• A bug in which the alias indicator state was not saved properly in the project file has been corrected.
• A bug in which the parent was not displayed correctly in the search results window has been corrected. This bug occurred when the parent was a container.
• The "Publish as HTML" feature has been re-added to the Standard Edition.
• A bug that would cause netViz to crash when the user selected an invalid WMF file as a node symbol has been corrected.
• A bug that would cause netViz to crash when the user attempted to insert an invalid WMF file into a project has been corrected.
• Palettes can no longer be dragged so far off the screen as to be invisible.
• A bug that would cause netViz to crash while the user scrolled through a node or link palette containing more than 1000 objects has been corrected.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.01.00:

• The netViz API has been added to the netViz Developer's Kit (nDK). Users can use the API to extend and augment netViz functionality by writing software modules that run as part of netViz.
• The "Locate|Selected Objects" menu command has been added to the Diagram menu.
• The ODBC functionality has been enhanced so that the user may now remap an already connected database connection.
• The "Display/Hide All Palettes" menu command has been added to the View menu.
• The "Align Connected Objects..." menu command has been added to the Object menu. This command allows the user to align all the objects that are connected to the selected objects. It is helpful when arranging connections to objects like a hub with multiple ports.
• Page margin settings can now be applied to all pages.
• Alias indicators can now be turned off in the Display dialog that is invoked from the Diagram menu.
• The user can now follow an inherited link by double-clicking on its end point. In response to the double-click, netViz will open the next sub-level and highlight and flash the inherited link.
• A bug that would cause a general protection fault to occur while scrolling a composite view that was too large to be displayed in its entirety has been corrected.
• A problem with program launch that caused a crash in the latest version of Office has been corrected.
• "Save As" now works properly when the file name has not changed.
• The main object of a group object will now show its launch options properly.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.00.06:

• A problem associated with importing data from a CSV file in which the unique key was greater than 32 characters in length has been corrected. When the key was greater than 32 characters in length, unpredictable results would occur, such as the creation of duplicate objects.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.00.05:

• A bug associated with list fields has been corrected. If the user had an override string in an object, and then edited the catalog and made modifications to any of the other fields in the corresponding type definition, then the override string would be lost.
• A bug associated with exporting a subdiagram has been corrected. If the subdiagram contains diagrams that are part of the composite views, the composite views are no longer exported.
• Two problems associated with ODBC database refresh have been corrected.
  • When a refresh involving a composite key was performed, netViz would create two objects in the diagram for each database record. The first object would contain only the first composite field containing data. The second object would contain all the data fields properly filled with data.
  • When a refresh was performed after a database table column had been renamed or removed, netViz would put data into the wrong fields in netViz objects.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.00.04:

• A problem in which projects could not be written on the local drives of IBM Thinkpads has been corrected.
• The Publish As HTML feature now writes all files with lower case names, and refers to these files with lower case names in the HTML code, so as to better support Unix environments.
• A problem with project printing has been corrected. The problem occurred when a diagram based on an alias was exported from a project and then subsequently opened as the root of a new project.
• A minor fix was made to NetWare discovery to help with NDS environments. If you are logged into the NDS tree, netViz will now properly authenticate the server you are discovering.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.00.03:

• The Viewer now displays any changes that were made to the catalog after the project was created. It displays the changes in a manner similar to that of the Professional and Standard Editions. The Viewer automatically applies the changes to the project for viewing and then discards them upon exit (since the Viewer will not allow you to save changes).
• A problem with Locate Sub-Diagrams has been corrected. A GPF would occur if a node which "can change shape," such as the network segment object, had children.
• Problems associated with the large font display and presentation of the inspector in the catalog have been corrected.
• A bug in Web Publishing has been corrected. Inspector data fields are now always displayed in the same order in both the published project and in netViz.
• A problem with copy & paste has been corrected. Now backgrounds are included with the "select all" function if group objects are present.
• A problem in which a .$$$ temp file could not be written has been corrected. The problem occurred on local or networked drives which had more than 2 GB of free space when a user attempted to "save as" or open a project in which the catalog had changed.
• A problem with "Diagram|Save As Graphic" under Windows NT 4.0 has been corrected.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.00.02:

• CTL3DV2.DLL has been added to the 16-bit Viewer distribution. The Viewer copies this file to the Windows system directory if necessary.
• A problem with the attributes that are displayed when 2.5a files are converted to 3.0 files has been corrected.
• The "Erase Node's Links" menu option under Composite View is now grayed if you are not viewing a composite view diagram.
• An import project bug has been corrected. This bug would cause the import to fail when more than one alias object was present in the project to be imported.
• "Display" dialog replaces "Hide Components": node labels, link labels, subnet indicator.
• The following new project menu options have been added:
  • "Diagram | Background | Hide"
  • "Diagram | Display..."
  • "Diagram | Hide | Reference nodes"
  • "Diagram | Hide | Interdiagram links"
  • "Diagram | Hide | Single diagram links"
• The new catalog menu option "Object | New Linenode" has been added.
• The menu accelerator has been removed.
• The "Diagram | Display" dialog has been changed to have an "Apply To All" checkbox.
• A hierarchy browser-related bug has been corrected. This bug would cause netViz to crash after the following series of events:
  1. A lower level diagram or view that is missing reference objects is loaded via the hierarchy browser.
  2. A summary is created.
  3. A "Save And Compact" or "Import Project" operation is executed.
• The toggle style operation now displays the proper text in the undo menu. It was "Undo Operation" but is now "Undo Toggle Style".
• A bug in Composite View, in which very large page sizes were not added to the Composite View, has been corrected.
• The example file name has been changed from "Global Network.net" to "Global.net" to accommodate systems in which the CD-ROM drives are not properly reading long file names.
• The demo will no longer allow you to replace the catalog of a new project.
• The viewer (16- & 32-bit) will by default make a read-only copy of the .net file. To override this behavior, you must pass the new option "/vnc" on the command line. The "/vnc" option stands for "viewer no copy." This option may be desirable for customers who place very large .net files in a read-only directory, while the author or administrator of the .net file has access to a private copy in another directory.

enhancements and bug fixes implemented in version 3.00.01:

• The text of some of the replace catalog and merge catalog messages has been changed.
• Data export has been enhanced so that it always searches for objects in memory before reading a temporary instance from disk. The problem was detected when a link that had an alias as an end point was being exported.
• A problem with Compact Project and Composite Views has been corrected. The problem would cause the object count to be inaccurate when exporting, but it did not affect the integrity of the data.
• A bug related to replace catalog has been corrected. This bug would cause netViz to crash after the following series of events:
  1. The first instance of object type X is added to a diagram.
  2. The catalog is replaced by a catalog that does not contain object type X.
  3. The F3 key is pressed to edit the catalog.
  4. The F3 key is pressed to switch back to the project.
• The Viewer help menu no longer contains the "netViz on the Web" menu option.
• Several problems related to the Uniform Naming Conventions (UNC) syntax and operations have been corrected so that you can now open netViz files and associated databases without having drive mappings available for specific paths.
• A bug related to the settings in "snap to grid" has been corrected. This bug caused netViz to crash.
• NVOLES32.DLL has been added to the Standard Edition distribution. This file enables the OLE Automation interface.
• A bug that caused netViz to crash when an array of objects was resized back to 1 x 1 has been corrected.
• The field palettes used to view objects in the catalog have been enhanced.
• A bug that would cause some data import operations to crash in the Windows NT environment has been corrected.
• For server installations, netviz.ini is now automatically copied to the workstation's Windows directory. This avoids the problem of not having the "proper" .ini file on the workstation, and ensures access to graphic filters.
• A problem with "previewing a reference to an alias node" has been corrected.
• A problem with the "Launch" command, in which the first character of the parameter string was truncated, has been corrected.
• A bug that would cause the Standard Edition to crash has been corrected. The crash occurred when the Standard Edition was used to view a project that had been created by the Professional Edition, and then the key field drop down list box was selected.