GE Smallworld version 4.2 has already been released, and it comes with new functionalities that allow users to work more easily.
The main new features in Smallworld 4.2 are:
Authorization
Enhancements to authorization settings including control over translation of authorization predicates.
Conflict management
When changes are made to the same object in different alternatives, non-conflicting changes can be identified and a new window has been added for automatic conflict resolution.
The utilities provided by the List of Affected Objects dialog box have been merged into an updated version of the Conflict Viewer dialog box.
Changes in Case Data Model and Case Tool
With the addition of heterogeneous relationships, it is now possible to define a relationship that can include multiple object classes at both ends of this relationship. When querying a combined field on an object you can return an object or a collection of objects, from several different tables.
The Case Tool is now available in the Smallworld application window. The graphical user interface for the Case Tool has been reimplemented using an application window with the appropriate plugins.
Upgrade of data base
The management of database updates is reinforced and improved. A data model tools dialog box allows the database administrator to control the application updates in a local database, and to manage the merging of data model changes for all updateable alternatives.
Datastore changes
Improvements in swmfs and ds_transfer.
Development tools
Some new tools, What do you have running and what not?, Are available in the development tools application
Geometry improvements
The Geometry manipulation plugin offers a Geometry Operations toolbar. Additionally, copying objects from the database using the transform mechanism has been improved.
Graphic representation of styles
A new graphical representation of styles provides better graphics quality for Windows systems using anti-aliasing and alpha blending for cleaner lines to smooth fills and transparency effects. This is supported by the improved representation of transient data, such as trace and highlighted geometry.
Job server
The task server has been extended and improved in this version and is now included as part of Smallworld Core. The Task Server and Viewer Server are available for activation in the Administration (Extended) application and available help topics.
Professional applications and their plugins
There is a wide range of improvements and changes in this area. In particular, raster enhancements to any of the color compressed bitmap formats: JPEG, GeoTiff, and TIFF (compressed and uncompressed). There are also improvements to print layouts.
Spatial Queries and Database Worlds
The ability to perform spatial queries across database worlds has been improved.
Enumerated fields
The assigned value of an enumerated field can be a unit value, and in addition, catalog-limited fields can now support units.
Management Module
The smallworld_product class is extended to support multiple versions of the same product. Resources from different versions of the same module can be accessed.
Configuration installation
The setup application is now part of the swaf.msf image and, at startup, is displayed in the Application Manager dialog box, along with the CASE tool. The setup application also contains Smallworld Module Manager and a new tool for building images.
Supported platforms
Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are also supported in this version. Support has been removed for
Windows 2000 and UNIX Tru64.
ZEHPlot
The compatible version of ZEHPlot ® is now 1.5.3.