Release notes for FinchTV 1.4.0


Features added since v.1.3.1:

- Allows you to print with custom scaling.

- Added the ability to read files from the Finch Server and check edits back in.

- Save your edited Finch Server data to your desktop as SCF files.

- Displays vector masking and quality trimming from Finch Server files on the screen and in printouts, and allows you to export bases annotated in this way as Ns or Xs in your FASTA file.

- Installers on Windows and Macintosh are provided so that the application in placed in the appropriate location (and is registered and put in the Start menu on Windows).


Bug Fixes from 1.3.1:

- Dates from AB1 format files were stored and displayed incorrectly.

- Single comments from SCF files were not read properly.

- Fixed OS X 10.4 (Tiger) GUI problems.

- On Windows XP with Service Pack 2, a security warning is no longer displayed when FinchTV is launched.

- Some performance problems with moving your selection with the arrow key have been solved.

Other Features in v.1.4.0:

- View, edit, export, and print the reverse complement of the trace just as you can the forward orientation.
- View the raw unprocessed signal data from ABI files (not SCF) by invoking the "Raw Data" choice from the "View" menu.
- Selected bases or the entire sequence can be sent to your choice of 4 NCBI BLAST pages.
- Select a single base or range of bases and copy the base calls for use in another application.
- Allows changing base calls, inserting new bases and deleting bases.
- Commands allow you to change a range of bases to upper or lowercase, or convert them to N's or X's.
- Save your edits and share your file with other researchers.
- Search for a given sequence in the base calls of the trace (accepts regular expressions)
- Open SCF, ABI and gzipped chromatogram files.
- View in standard or wrapped mode.
- Scale the trace horizontally and vertically.
- Use different options for printing your trace.
- Export DNA sequence to FASTA text file.
- Open files by dropping the icon onto FinchTV window.
- Show and hide base calls, base numbers and quality values.
- View Chromatogram Info details.
- Jump to the Geospiza website and help documentation.

Note: FinchTV on Solaris requires libCstd.so.1.  
All Solaris 8 installs include this library except for the minimum installation cluster.
The 108434 and 108435 patches will install libCstd.so.1 if SUNWlibC is 
installed.


Known issues in release version:

- Automatic browser launch does not work on some Linux and on Solaris systems.
- Some menu flashing can occur during Full Screen switching on OSX.
- Trace Drag N Drop doesn't work after Full Screen invoked on Mac OSX.
- Switching views loses focus on the trace.
- Using maximize and full screen can disable window resize handle.
- Mouse wheel doesn't work fully in standard view.
- A blank space can be created at the bottom of the Chromatogram Info sequence page by resizing the dialog.