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Cross-Platform OpenGL Driver Support
Data Tags Export and Import
Boolean Transformations
SList transformation
Object Dimming and Highlighting
Semi-Transparent Shadows
CustomDraw Callback
Trace2 Callback
Paste Clone Type
Qt and Gnome integration
New Process Control and Dial Widgets
Text Outline
Label Layout Negotiation
Elevation Display and Query
Tree Tiling of Image Layers
Shapefile Support
Image Type Auto-Detection
Threshold Tables with String Input
Dynamic Attribute Conditions in Layer String
Aliases for Sets of Layer Names
Tile Outlines to Assist Diagnostics
Thresholds for FontName and MinZoom/MaxZoom attributes
Custom Icons
Redirect File for Updating of Quickly Changing Datasets
Custom Grid Labeling
Option to Allow Missing Tiles
GVF Info Utility
Splitting Vector Data Based on Attribute Conditions
Global Number of Tiles Limit to Control Memory Footprint
Performance Improvements
GetCapabilities, XML and OpenGIS WMS standard v. 1.3 support
The new
features of the OpenGL renderer include:By using double values
in its rendering pipeline, the OpenGL
renderer also takes care of the wrap-around problem that happened in
the native GDI driver under high zoom factors due to the coordinate
values overflow.
The OpenGL support is completely
transparent, and the application developer does not need to know
the OpenGL intrinsics in order to benefit from it. The Toolkit handles
all low-level details of the OpenGL renderer, providing the developer
with the cross-platform access to the OpenGL renderer's capabilities.
The application automatically switches
to the native GDI renderer if the OpenGL renderer is not available. For
example, if an application is displayed on a remote display that does
not have the GLX extension, the application will still run using the
native X/GDI renderer to
display the graphics.
Existing GLG applications can benefit from OpenGL hardware acceleration
by simply rebuilding them with the GLG libraries from the new release,
with no source code changes required. The OpenGL libraries are loaded
by the Toolkit dynamically if they are available on the system, which avoids OpenGL dependencies in the
applications.
At run-time, the Toolkit auto-detects
the presence of the OpenGL driver on the system and uses the
OpenGL renderer if possible. If the system does not support OpenGL, the
conventional windowing system driver is used. The OpenGL renderer may
be disabled or enabled at run time as required, and the same executable
may be run in either OpenGL or native GDI rendering mode.
New object attributes and configuration parameters are provided for
finer control of the OpenGL renderer. The OpenGL renderer may be
enabled on per-viewport basis, allowing the application to intermix windows that use the OpenGL and
native GDI renderers. The OpenGL renderer may be enabled only
for windows that may benefit from it.
The new data tags export
and import features have been added to
assist the users in changing data connectivity tags. All tags in the
drawing may be exported into a text file, edited and imported back,
replacing the tags in the drawing with the new values.
Options to support the tag export and import feature have been added to
both the Graphics Builder menus and the gconvert utility. The
Programming API methods for exporting and importing tags have been
added to all programming environments supported by the toolkit as well.
Boolean transformations
have been introduced to simplify
construction of drawings with elaborate dependencies between objects. A
choice of logical operations, such as AND, OR and NOT in various
combinations, is supported for Boolean transformations.
SList transformation has
been added to support strings as data input
that controls the output value. The transformation provides a list of
strings and a list of corresponding data values for each string. An
input string is compared to each string in the list, and a
corresponding data value is selected as the output value if the strings
match. The output value may be of any data type.
This is similar to a list transformation, except that a string is
allowed as an input instead of the numerical value that controls the
list transformation. The string is self-documented as compared to a
numerical value, which may be better suited for some applications. The
string may also be constructed by concatenating several symbols to
implement complex logic.
New object dimming and
highlighting features may be used to increase
or decrease the brightness of all object colors. It provides a
convenient way to implement a visual feedback for object activation or
deactivation. Negative values of the Visibility
attribute activate this feature.
The new shadow
transparency feature enables semi-transparent object
shadows. The Z component of the Shadow
Offset is now handled as shadow transparency.
CustomDraw callback has
been added to enable direct rendering of graphical primitives without
the object overhead.
New Trace2 callback has
been added in addition to the Trace
callback. Trace2 is invoked after processing native events, while Trace
callback is invoked prior to processing native events.
Paste Clone Type Builder
option has been added for finer control of
attribute constraints during the Paste operation.
Qt4, GTK and GTKMM integration files are now included in the release.
Process Control widgets
have been updated with the gradient
rendering and timer animations.
New dial and meter
widgets have been added to the Controls widget
set.
Support for drawing an outline around
text's characters has been added to the map server. The text outline
improves label visibility on top of a background of a similar color
without obscuring the map behind the label as shown in the picture.