----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.2.2 [Release on 04/05/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance has been increased and again some important bug fixes. The main changes are in the file import; local art can now be imported and all file importers can now also perform an online search. [Fixed] - Incorrect font used for the module settings. - Incorrect image displayed in the list view. - Table view, new item tab, does not preserve the images. The image gets unloaded when it is added to the view. Also its status is erased. - Incorrect icon for the login dialog. - Removing rows from the new item tab fails (sometimes). - Incorrect normalization; when searching for "Stargate the Ark of Truth" it is normalized to "Stargateark of Truth". - Operations on the tree panel were performed multiple times (performance bug). - QuaQua look and feel does not work with the Data Crow layout. This look and feel has been removed. - Movie synchronizer does not work. - Right click does not select the item in the view. [New] - Platform change: on database initialization columns lengths are now checked against the module definition and changed accordingly. (Text fields only). - Experience modes: Data Crow now features a beginner and an expert user level. This allows new users to start of with a fewer option allowing them to focus on the basics of Data Crow. On startup you will be requested to select your own experience level. At any time you can switch to an alternate user mode (no restart required). [Changed] - Rewrote the code for the Tree Panel (TreePanel). It was overly complex and the initial build of the tree was too slow. The new tree is about 90% faster which shortens the startup time for Data Crow. - Improved grouping; it is now possible to group on more then 2 fields (levels), creating a multilevel overview of your items. Any field can now be selected. - Maximum length for Description fields (and other long text fields) has been increased to hold an (almost) unlimited amount of characters. - You can define the maximum text length for each field displayed in the quick view. - Better handling of text in the quick view. Enters are now preserved. - Improved the handling of MKV files (Matroska) for the movie file import. - The music file import had the ability to perform an online search during the import. The other importers, such as the movie file import, did not have this ability. All file importers now allow to use the directory information and are capable of performing an online search. - File import now uses the art present in the import folder. Using a settings dialog you can specify if to import local art and which keywords the art files should contain. (Art means local JPG or PNG files which come with downloaded movies, mps's and software). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.2.1.2 [Release on 29/04/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to mjgraf, m.bowwarrior and cascadeprincipes for getting me the nitty gritty details I needed to fix the following bugs: [Fixed] - [1952703] Help does not show when using the menu option 'Help'. - [1952705] Grouping Pane issue, empty list. Grouping pane looses items after an undo. - Could not log in on non Windows platforms. Login dialog would not show and Data Crow would not start. - A warning is shown each time the image editor is opened on non Windows platforms. - Administrator did not have the ability to reset / change the password of existing or new users. An option "set password" is now available from the right-click menu (User module > select user in view > right-click > select "set password"). - Disabled user fields for new installations (can be enabled via field settings and should always be disabled for new installations). - [1929426] Empty audio CD report and no error shown in log / on screen No error shown when report creation is unsuccessful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.2.1.1 [Release on 25/04/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Fixed] - Error while trying to open a newly imported movie item from the table view. - Incorrect sorting of numeric values. - NullpointerException when not defining all the fields in the migration tool. - More then two fields not being mapped in the migration tool gives a warning about duplicate mappings. - The migration tool always treated the input file as UTF-8 which is for some cases incorrect. An option has been added to the dialog by which you can specify the character set. The option is remembered for later runs. - The migration tool could not be canceled. A cancel button has been placed on the form. - The cover search for amazon did not pass the artist name; for most music albums no cover could be found because of this. - Cover search for the MusicBrainz server did not work due to an recently no longer supported cover search integration with Amazon. - Image for new items not always shown. - List view shows the incorrect image (performance, larger image is shown as necessary) - ConcurrentModificationException when trying to delete a newly added music album / audio CD. - Corrected spelling errors in the messages and labels. [Changed] - Added a search mode selection to the Mass Update to narrow the search. - Mass update for Software no longer uses the platform in its comparison. - Improved the string comparison mechanism; improved Mass Update and Music File import ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.2.1 [Release on 20/04/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Fixed] - Quick filter tool bar was unusable after selecting the rating field. - Incorrect help shown. - Loan fields not displayed (available, etc) for non-admin users - Permission fields like edit and view could be edited using the table view. These fields should not be edited using this view. Also they displayed as text (true/false). - It was possible to add a new (invalid/meaningless) permission from the table view. - The login name field is now validated for valid input [a-z, A-Z] - Icons could not be selected for new categories and genres - Login dialog is displayed but the user cannot login. Currently the login dialog is always shown, even when the login credentials are correct but another error occurred when trying to log on to the database. Now, the availability of the database is checked first. - Movies could not be updated using the online search. - Errors after a restore (due to the newly introduced user management) [Changed] - You can now sort on genres, actors, etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.2.0.2 [Release on 30/03/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 3.2 release introduced some very serious bugs. This release resolves these issues. The changes from the 3.2.0.1 patch are also included in this patch. [Fixed] - Picture fields and references fields were always disabled. - Quick filter tool bar was unusable. - Loan fields are not shown in the quick view and in the view. - Field enabling / disabling was broken. - Newly created administrator cannot delete items. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.2 [Release on 24/03/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The first startup on an existing database will take longer then usual. The script format is changed. The conversion is, silently, done on startup. After the first startup Data Crow will run as fast as normal. [New] - Users can now create plugins. These will be available from the plugins menu and from the view popup menu. Plugin should be stored in the 'plugins' folder of the Data Crow installation. A plugin must extend the 'net.datacrow.core.plugin.Plugin' class. The package name should start with 'plugins' (as the plugins folder is the base package). Additional jar files should also be copied to the plugins folder (or in any sub-folder of this folder). These will be loaded automatically. Documentation will be created for this feature. - Security. Users can be created and assigned specific rights. Among these rights are field access (read/write), module access and plugin access. - New online Spanish book search: MCU (http://www.mcu.es). - New online German movie search: OFDB (http://www.ofdb.de). [Changed] - Code review: cleanup of online search classes. Removed code duplication. Moved utility methods to the Utility class. - Improved the performance for online searching. The HTML to Plain text conversion has been optimized. [Fixed] - [1894832] Cannot disable Contact Person module. - [1896917] Quick Filter Field not enabled - [1903029] Removing leading space in title not recognized as change. - [1894851] ISBN search Barnes & Noble not working for ISBN 10. - [1894839] Description window text partially covered by scroll bar. (Unconfirmed). - [1879348] Online Search second ISBN hit uses results first ISBN hit (Re-opened bug report) - Module changes for contact person are discarded after a restart. - Exception when saving a massive amount of music albums or audio CDs (CuncurrentModificationException). - On closing an unmodified image a message is displayed stating the item has changed while in fact it has not. This only occurs with imported images. - After an image import there are some items which do not have an image displayed in the insert tab of the card view. After saving the image shows up in the item tab. - Connection was not correctly closed by the amazon cover search. (unknown side-effects as these connections get closed automatically after a timeout). - Small memory leak for the image retrieval done by the online search. - Errors in log (non-fatal) 'Error while applying settings to column null for field definition x' when the contact person module is disabled. - No message displayed when nothing was found during an online search. This only occurs when there are already items present in the online search window from previous searches. - Strange characters in IMDB movie search for actor names. [Known issues] - Saving of new users takes a long time. This will be resolved in one of the next versions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.1.30 [Release on 12/02/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The product is slowly recovering from the high impact changes of the 3.1 version. This version again contains crucial fixes. Data Crow is slowly but surely maturing. I have again chosen to create an in between release (this is the 3.1.30 version instead of the 3.2 version) as I want you to benefit as soon as possible from these bug fixes. There are also a few changes and new functionality to be found in this version. The File Renaming functionality is the biggest addition and is the first tool which manipulates data outside of Data Crow. NOTE: 1 This version contains a database upgrade. 2 Create a backup before you install this version! Use the 'backup & restore' tool from your old version. [New] - [1729965] File Renamer. Allows you to rename files (and even move them) of a module based on information entered in Data Crow. This tool can also be used to move files into a different directory structure (convenient for music files). The renaming is based on a 'pattern' which can be created using the GUI. A preview is shown first before the actual renaming starts. he help has been updated to include this tool. [Changed] - [1886230] The rating system has been changed from a 5-based rating to a 10-based rating. All existing ratings will be converted to the new system; each rating is multiplied by 2. Online Searches have been updated accordingly. - [1885034] The File Import will no longer display a message box when a single file cannot be parsed. Instead it will just log the error and continue with the next file. - Added ratings to the MobyGames search result(s). - Table headers are now styled after the selected Look and Feel. [Fixed] - Help does not show when the focus is on a (text) field. - Entered text in the 'Text Dialog' (opened by double clicking on a large text field) is not saved. A NullPointerException is shown in the log. - Query errors in the log while saving imported Music Albums (no impact or data loss): "Attempt to insert null into a non-nullable column: column: ID table: MUSICTRACK in statement [INSERT INTO musictrack (AlbumID) VALUES (?)]" - Children are incorrectly added to the table insert view by both the Online Search and File Import functionality (all to one album). - Mass update and the online search part of the Music Album Importer did not set the image(s). - Uniqueness check for items was broken. - Picture disappears when a newly added item is updated. The image was not deleted as it reappears after a restart. - NullPointerException when opening item from the menubar while no item has been selected. - Creating a new item from within the media module fails. - Removing / Deleting an item from the media module uses the view of the 'actual module' instead of the current, media module, view. This causes another item to be deleted. - Audio CD is not removed from the tree when deleted. A refresh of the view fixes this. - Incorrect message being displayed when saving the selected audio CD from the table view (save > 'Do you want to save changes' > 'Yes' > Twice the message 'Changes saved'). - [1891575] Existing book won't update and can't close book window - 99% CPU usage after performing an online search. Occurs only with the MusicBrainz online search and is hard to reproduce. - Changes to the font are not applied on the menubar and the toolbar(s). Switching between modules does update the font. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.1.25 [Release on 29/01/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an early release as the 3.1 version contained a couple of fundamental problems which could not be fixed by releasing a patch. This release also contains new functionality. A brand new tool, the Drive Manager, and two new online searches have been added, Alapage (a french book search) and Barnes & Nobles (an american book search). I planned to add more features and online searches, but, unfortunately, stabilizing and maturing the product needed more priority. These will be added to one of the future releases. NOTE: 1 This version contains multiple database upgrades. 2 Create a backup before you install this version! Use the 'backup & restore' tool from your old version. See the readme.txt file for upgrade paths for versions older then 3.0. [Fixed] - [1879348] Online search second isbn hit uses results first isbn hit - [1878712] Software module is shown twice, Book module not selectable - [1878652] Cannot close Data Crow - [1855123] Wrong year when adding CD from MusicBrainz - [1880118] NullPointer exception on startup - [1876104] Updating bug - Incorrect storage of cross table values for music artist and music genre. All mappings are saved to the Audio CD crosstables. A conversion is performed after installing and starting this version. You will not loose any data by doing this upgrade. - Error while saving a child record (no impact). - Exception on startup (no impact). - Data Crow window is too large by default, causing it to go off screen in some situation (low resolution of the desktop and, for some reason, on the Mac OS X). - The software module is duplicated; it is saved both in upper and lower case (software.jar and Software.jar). Added a check for other modules as well. - Loan panel / form now has the correct layout. - In the table view edited tracks (child records) are not stored when pressing "save". - Random hang of the application (changed invokeAndWait to invokeLater). - Quick Filter toolbar and Filter Dialog show disabled fields. - When an update causes the item to be put in a new node of the tree, this new node is not selected. Same thing when it is moved to another existing node in the tree. - Audio Track module had lost its genres field. Re-added and removed the duplicated artists field. - Line numbers are missing for error stack traces. - Filtering on children does not work correctly (example: 'Audio Track Artists contains 'Abba' would never return all Audio CD's with tracks from 'Abba'). - 'Undo grouping' from the grouping panel clears the grouping AND the view. After performing a search the view is filled correctly. View should not be cleared. - Double clicking on one of the items in the online search step of the item wizard adds the item to the 'new items' tab instead of continuing to the next step. - Random unhandled exception: "java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException". This is due to removing and adding components in an not threadsafe way. (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4241014). - In the view edited information is not correctly used by the item form (on saving). It shows the values correctly however on saving the old values are stored instead of the new values. - Error when returning an item; status is not correctly updated in the view. A restart fixes this. - Wrong regions are shown for the selected server for both the music file import and the Mass Update dialogs. - Incorrect label for 'new item' menu item when templates are present. - Error when updating a template. The template is saved, but the item form cannot be closed (NullPointer Exception). [New] - File hash is stored to uniquely identify the file on the system. - New tool: Drive Manager. Manages drives on the system and makes sure Data Crow items containing file information remain up to date with the file system. (see the help for detailed information). Note that the selectable drives are depending on the platform Data Crow is running on; in some cases only the "/" drive will be available. - Alapage.com book search. - Barnes & Nobles book search. - Opening an item from the 'Media' module does not diplay the items pictures and shows an incorrect message 'there are unsaved changes' when closing the form. [Changed] - Modules now include a version number for upgrading purposes. - Converted the current file size information (kilo bytes) to bytes. - Added a sepecial file size field (showing the value in bytes). - Add a property to modules: isFileBacked. When present, the system will add a filehash, filesize and a filename field to the module automatically. The module will also be used by the new Drive Manager functionality. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.1 [Release on 21/01/2008] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This latest production version is a major overhaul of the internal system of Data Crow. These will not be immediately apparent to the average user however it has caused noticeable positive side effects: increased startup performance, lower memory usage, better performing views. Note: Java 1.4 and lower versions are no longer supported. CHANGES SINCE LAST BETA (3.1 Beta 2): [Fixed] - Incorrect information shown when selecting the Discogs.com online server. - Removing an item from the "new item" tab fails. - The 'Delete Module Wizard' does not show any modules which can be deleted. The 'Delete Module Wizard' has been renamed to 'Delete Custom Module Wizard' and is only enabled when custom modules are available. - Hang on startup (rare occurence). - [1869780] Installer not working on Windows Vista. Created a Windows distribution. (This is the normal installer, wrapped as an exe file using JSmooth). - Help doesn't start. - Unnecessary byte loading for images when opening item form. CHANGES SINCE LAST PRODUCTION VERSION (3.0): [New] - New look and feel (JTattoo): http://www.jtattoo.net/ - Mac OS X look an feel (QuaQua): https://quaqua.dev.java.net/ - Added 'Undo current Filter' action to the filter menu. (CTRL-X) - [144128] Add image by URL. A picture can be added by entering an URL (see the file menu of the picture) - New field available for the module designer: decimal field. - Module delete wizard. [Changed] - Minimum Java version has been increased to 1.5. As of this version 1.4 is no longer supported. - Logging has been changed to Log4j. Not only is this more reliable and a proven concept but it also allows easier integration with other products using Log4J. - Added counts to the chart panel. - Update All can now assign any kind of value. The dialog uses the same layout as an item form. - Less restrictive field mapping for the migration tool; not all fields have to be mapped. - Grouping panel: top most panel now holds all items instead of none. - When restoring a backup you can now specify what you want to restore (modules, database, reports or all). (Refactored) - View (class) structure has been changed (*) - Removed unneeded toString() calls. - Changed value comparison code (used when checking if a save is needed). - Removed unneeded clone() call from the item form (unnecessary object creation). - Changed picture comparison in the item form (unneeded costly byte code comparison). - Introduced Java generics to coding (Java 1.5+). - Introduced annotations (Java 1.5+). - Image object creation has been reduced by 50%. (Picture class change). - Grouping pane is now shared among views for the same module; no waiting time when switching between views, lower memory usage. - Menu actions instances reduced from 1600 to 32; replaced specific menu action creation with a single generic menu action. - Changed renderer object creation; limiting the amount of instances. - Replaced empty catch blocks. Improved logging/reporting of errors and warnings. - Byte arrays are no longer used to render images. Picture class will only have a byte array assigned for newly assigned images. (reduced disk access & improved performance) - Removed 3rd party code from the Data Crow library (datacrow.jar). These are now provided as separate libraries. - Updated ImageJ to use Swing instead of AWT components (needed for L&F compatibility). - Caching of string representation of the DcObject items for improved sorting performance. - Packages structure renamed from 'net.sf.dc' to 'net.datacrow'. - Antialiasing code has been moved from each individual class to the DcSwingUtilities class. - Removed DcEditEventQueue; thread-lockup problems, unnecessary overhead, adds extra complexicity, exception hiding. Replaced with a specific mouse listener for specific component implementations. - Removed inner action class; implementation shifted to parent. [Fixed] - [1851130] Asking for help in quick view settings breaks help system. - [1848040] Slow online search on non Windows platforms. - [1846754] Limit of 10 hours and 59 minutes for playlength. - [1864728] Report xsl fixes needed - Expensive cleaner task made the application seem to 'hang' for several seconds. - Very slow title rewriting on large data sets. - Slow retrieval of images. A slight performance increase has been achieved. - Mass update of audio cd's was not functioning. - Mass update of music albums was not functioning; artist was set to an invalid value. - Double loading of images on opening the item form. - Memory leak in list view. List elements are now correctly removed from its parent; the renderer held a reference even after the element had been removed from the list (JList). - Slow performing updates on the Grouping Panel. Speed increase; from as slow as 9000ms to 300ms (for a tree made of 2000 nodes each containing on average 20 child nodes). - ASIN field of both the software and movie module were of an incorrect type. - Cell editing was not applied (but canceled) before saving in the table view. - Multi reference fields cannot be selected for migration. - Service URL and Service field not editable in the item form (correct) but editable in the table view (incorrect). - Text export/report: incorrect tabulation. - Text export/report: incorrect progress indication. - String reader not closed (HTML panels). - File resources not closed (settings). - On startup; view is filled before the UI is shown. After the UI has been build the view is refilled. Removed the first; improved startup performance. - Potential class cast exception in the wizards. - After a restore the application hangs. The restore was successful however the UI was not updated correctly. - Flickering of screen when selecting an item. - [1846609] Datacrow on MAC 10.4.11 becomes unresponsive. - Slow performance IMDB search using multiple windows. - Slow overall performance of online search on Ubuntu. - Possible error when starting Data Crow after using the module wizards. Modules were loaded in an incorrect sequence, causing a nullpointer. (low occurence) - Incorrect columnname was possible for fields created using the module wizard causing Data Crow to fail on startup. (low occurence) - Data Crow fails to start after using the module wizard as the loan module was not yet present. (low occurence) (*) View structures: Old view structure New view structure (complex and poor code re-use) (clear structure, optimal code re-use) View View / \ (IViewComponent*) TableBaseView ListBaseView | (DcTable*) (DcObjectList*) CachedChildView / \ / \ insert update insert update view view view view | cached childview * A view uses a view component to actually display its items. In the old situation a new view component type meant having to add at least 3 new classes to talk to this component. In the new situation only the view component itself has to be created, by implementing the IViewComponent interface. The, generic, View class can talk to any component implementing the IViewComponent interface. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.1.0 beta 2 [Release on 13/01/2008] [testing: moderate] [target: BETA] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first beta was compiled against the wrong Java version. It also contained one serious bug which caused Data Crow to lockup after performing a second search. [Fixed] - Data Crow hangs on a second search. (introduced by beta 1) - Data Crow does not run on Java 1.5. (introduced by beta 1) - [1869780] 3.1 installation on Vista failed ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.1.0 beta 1 [Release on 11/01/2008] [testing: moderate] [target: BETA] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently there have been complaints of poor performance and lockups. As I am unable to reproduce these kinds of errors, both on Windows Xp, 98 and Ubuntu 7.10, I urge people having experienced these errors to help me test this beta release. This release consist for the most parts of platform changes; new Java features have been implemented, the internal view structure has undergone major changes and the old logging mechanism has been replaced with Log4j. Feature requests not yet implemented will be added to one of the next releases. [Remarks] I have had several users asking me why the online search is slower compared to using a web browser and search yourself: Performance of IMDB search (and other online searched) is slower then when you would go to the imdb website and search yourself. There are multiple reasons for this, the most obvious is that Data Crow needs to transform the webpage into something that can be saved to the database. Another point is that Data Crow retrieves a larger image, a more detailed description, etc, from other locations. This takes more time. Other factors play a role as well; internet connection speed, firewall, virus scanner, etc. [New] - New look and feel (JTattoo): http://www.jtattoo.net/ - Mac OS X look an feel (QuaQua): https://quaqua.dev.java.net/ (not tested) - Added 'Undo current Filter' action to the filter menu. (CTRL-X) - [144128] Add image by URL. A picture can be added by entering an URL (see the file menu of the picture) - New field available for the module designer: decimal field. - Module delete wizard. [Changed] - Minimum Java version has been increased to 1.5. As of this version 1.4 is no longer supported. - Logging has been changed to Log4j. Not only is this more reliable and a proven concept but it also allows easier integration with other products using Log4J. - Added counts to the chart panel. - Update All can now assign any kind of value. The dialog uses the same layout as an item form. - Less restrictive field mapping for the migration tool; not all fields have to be mapped. - Grouping panel: top most panel now holds all items instead of none. - When restoring a backup you can now specify what you want to restore (modules, database, reports or all). (Refactored) - View (class) structure has been changed (*) - Removed unneeded toString() calls. - Changed value comparison code (used when checking if a save is needed). - Removed unneeded clone() call from the item form (unnecessary object creation). - Changed picture comparison in the item form (unneeded costly byte code comparison). - Introduced Java generics to coding (Java 1.5+). - Introduced annotations (Java 1.5+). - Image object creation has been reduced by 50%. (Picture class change). - Grouping pane is now shared among views for the same module; no waiting time when switching between views, lower memory usage. - Menu actions instances reduced from 1600 to 32; replaced specific menu action creation with a single generic menu action. - Changed renderer object creation; limiting the amount of instances. - Replaced empty catch blocks. Improved logging/reporting of errors and warnings. - Byte arrays are no longer used to render images. Picture class will only have a byte array assigned for newly assigned images. (reduced disk access & improved performance) - Removed 3rd party code from the Data Crow library (datacrow.jar). These are now provided as separate libraries. - Updated ImageJ to use Swing instead of AWT components (needed for L&F compatibility). - Caching of string representation of the DcObject items for improved sorting performance. - Packages structure renamed from 'net.sf.dc' to 'net.datacrow'. - Antialiasing code has been moved from each individual class to the DcSwingUtilities class. - Removed DcEditEventQueue; thread-lockup problems, unnecessary overhead, adds extra complexicity, exception hiding. Replaced with a specific mouse listener for specific component implementations. - Removed inner action class; implementation shifted to parent. [Fixed] - [1851130] Asking for help in quick view settings breaks help system. - [1848040] Slow online search on non Windows platforms. - [1846754] Limit of 10 hours and 59 minutes for playlength. - [1864728] Report xsl fixes needed - Expensive cleaner task made the application seem to 'hang' for several seconds. - Very slow title rewriting on large data sets. - Slow retrieval of images. A slight performance increase has been achieved. - Mass update of audio cd's was not functioning. - Mass update of music albums was not functioning; artist was set to an invalid value. - Double loading of images on opening the item form. - Memory leak in list view. List elements are now correctly removed from its parent; the renderer held a reference even after the element had been removed from the list (JList). - Slow performing updates on the Grouping Panel. Speed increase; from as slow as 9000ms to 300ms (for a tree made of 2000 nodes each containing on average 20 child nodes). - ASIN field of both the software and movie module were of an incorrect type. - Cell editing was not applied (but canceled) before saving in the table view. - Multi reference fields cannot be selected for migration. - Service URL and Service field not editable in the item form (correct) but editable in the table view (incorrect). - Text export/report: incorrect tabulation. - Text export/report: incorrect progress indication. - String reader not closed (HTML panels). - File resources not closed (settings). - On startup; view is filled before the UI is shown. After the UI has been build the view is refilled. Removed the first; improved startup performance. - Potential class cast exception in the wizards. - After a restore the application hangs. The restore was successful however the UI was not updated correctly. - Flickering of screen when selecting an item. (Unconfirmed) - [1846609] Datacrow on MAC 10.4.11 becomes unresponsive. - Slow performance IMDB search using multiple windows. - Slow overall performance of online search on Ubuntu. (*) View structures: Old view structure New view structure (complex and poor code re-use) (clear structure, optimal code re-use) View View / \ (IViewComponent*) TableBaseView ListBaseView | (DcTable*) (DcObjectList*) CachedChildView / \ / \ insert update insert update view view view view | cached childview * A view uses a view component to actually display its items. In the old situation a new view component type meant having to add at least 3 new classes to talk to this component. In the new situation only the view component itself has to be created, by implementing the IViewComponent interface. The, generic, View class can talk to any component implementing the IViewComponent interface. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Crow 3.0.0 [Release on 02/11/2007] [testing: high] [target: production] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the end result of the developments for Data Crow 3 which started at the end of June this year. To summarize this release contains the module creation functionality, advanced filtering, image editing using ImageJ and persons and companies such as actors and publishers now reside in their own, fully functional, modules. ! Upgrading: please upgrade to 2.9.5 or higher before upgrading to this version. All Data Crow 3 alpha version and beta versions can safely upgrade to this version ! Make a backup before upgrading to this version. [License Change] The License for this software has changed from LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) to GPL (GNU General Public License). For more information on the GPL license I refer you to the following website: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. As a normal user of Data Crow this will not effect you in any way. [Fixed] - 'Update all' clears values which should not be cleared. - Chart does not work for genres; selecting genres and pressing the button does not generate the chart. No message is shown. - The user is not informed when a chart cannot be created. - Data Crow allows users to exit without warning about unsaved changes. - [1820972] Filename cleared when pressing cancel on browse - Searching for empty (category) from quick filter does not retrieve empty values. - Image quality of the module icons reduced after making changes to the module. - Content of comboboxes not anti-aliased. - Online search does not add tracks to existing items (item form > update). - Grouping is case-sensitive. - Slow building of the grouping pane. - Text partially hidden by the scrollbar in the quick view pane. - Data Crow does not start after creating a reference field. Incorrect module references can no longer be created. - Low quality icons for actors, directors, .. [Changed] - The criteria for fields on which can be grouped has been altered. - The fields in the dropdown from the grouping pane is now shown ordered alphabetically. - Field type names in the 'define field' dialog have been changed. - For item forms the icon of the selected item type (module) is shown instead of the default Data Crow icon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below follows a compilation of all the changes and additions done after the 2.12 version. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [New] - [1767488] Statistics. The note-tab has been replaced by a 'Chart Tab' - [1782401] Massive Import of e-books. A simple e-book file importer has been created - [1767490] Add file info after a record was created - Plugable module support. Modules are packed as jar files and placed in the modules folder. - A new menu can be found in the menu bar called 'modules'. This new menu contains the wizards for creating, modifying and relating modules. - Users can defined advanced new modules using the new "create module wizard" - Users can alter existing modules (extend with fields or remove fields) - Users can relate modules to create parent child relationships between their newly created modules (audio CD <> tracks) - Added a settings panel for the quick view. This allows you to set the field order, the shown fields and there direction. - Programmers can easily add additional functionality to new modules (online search, synchronizers, import, ..) - Implementation of module upgrade while respecting changes made by the user - Help is now also available from the help directory of Data Crow (/help). - Added Bol.com as a Dutch book online service. - Added discogs.com as a audio CD / music album online service. - Pictures can now be saved to a file from the picture menu. Attaching file information to an existing item. If you have registered a movie, music file, image, etc, you can easily attach the file information. - Image editor. Data Crow has integrated ImageJ. A very successful and reliable project; check it out at http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ - Online Artists search (MusicBrainz). - Detailed information on developers and publishers is retrieved. [Changed] - [1751690] Store update source per record. Selected server, search mode and region are now stored in the database per record. - [1758367] Use of Enter, Esc- & Del-Hotkeys. Escape now closes the form / dialog. Delete removes items in views. - [1773009] Template Rating change. You can now define which values (fields) should be retrieved when searching online for new items. - [1777293] Add RGB fields for color picker. New color chooser in the settings dialog (default Java color chooser). - [1782398] Can't update the cover of an album with web services. - [1767489] Actors/actresses/etc links - [1751690] Store update source per record - Modules are defined in XML instead of being hard coded - Additional field setting: descriptive y/n. This settings overrules the default way an item is described (such as in the list view). - Support for Java 1.4. Multiple persons indicated they could not use Data Crow because of the missing Java 1.4 support. - Movie module: actors and directors are now items instead of text values - Audio CD module: artists are items instead of text values - Audio Track module: artists are items instead of text values - Music Album module: artists are items instead of text values - Music Track module: artists are items instead of text values - Book module: authors and publishers are items instead of text values - Software module: developers and publishers are items instead of text values - Reference field & multiple reference field now allow references to other modules beside the properties. - Improved the design and functioning of the 'references' editor - Imdb actor / director search - Renewed filter dialog. The old one has been discarded and replaced with a clean looking and intuitive dialog. - Filter conditions such as 'contains', 'less then', 'is filled', 'less then', etc. - Sorting dialog has been changed / updated. Allows multiple levels of sorting (more then 2). - The parameters for data crow have changed: to specify a different database: -db: to indicate the installation directory (fix for bug): -dir: (spaces allowed) - FreeDB support has been canceled. The discid reading is unstable and can no longer be supported. The addition of discogs (new) and musicbrainz should soften the pain. - Filter dialog: changed the multi-reference field to a normal drop-down / combo box. - Filter dialog: allow multiple conditions per field. - Cleaner implementation of most online search task classes. - Text report (export) now mentions the picture filename instead of 'Yes' or 'No'. - Smaller legend for the chart panel. Music Album now also benefits from the online search functionality. - Added module metadata upgrade functionality. - Package structure has completely changed for most of the code tree. - Improved the technical implementation of the importers (allow single files to be parsed). - Logger has been rewritten (DcLog instead of DcMessages and DcMessagesWriter). - More flexible implementation of the implementation classes (importers, online search, synchronizers). - Selected server, search mode and region are correctly remembered. In the old situation only the server name was remembered for a next run. - When updating an record (online search) the stored server, region and mode are pre-selected. - Integer definitions have changed to long values. - The image fields in the item form are now easily edited & deleted. It also gained a lot of new functionality (see the new section). - Improved the online search for updating existing items. The actual link from which the item was found (if applicable) is stored and used to re-parse the item. - Selected field in the quick filter bar is remembered. - Added 'does not contains' operator for filtering. - When pressing "edit" to edit a saved filter the corresponding tab is opened. - A double-click on an image field now either opens the browse dialog (when no image has been defined as yet) or the new edit dialog (ImageJ) for existing images. - Refactoring of the online search. The implementation was scattered over several classes and packages. The functionality is now structured to make it maintainable and easier to expand. - The URL field has gained launch button. - The database layer implementation has changed. To comply with future plans, the SQL is created using the prepared statements provide by Java. - Renamed 'Program Definitions' to 'File Associations' in the settings menu - Lowered the amount of I/O (disk) operations when dealing with images in views. - Removed the "save current" button from the settings view. - When searching for new items online you can now specify which values should be retrieved. - Persons and companies are now "associates" instead of (all) "persons". - Changed the name of the "odd row color" and "even row color" to "odd color" and "even color". - Card view uses the even and odd color - The date field has gained a date picker (calendar). - In the wizard the button "finish & restart" has been renamed to "finish & new" as this was confusing for most users in case of the module wizard(s). - Minor modules (actors and such) are no longer available from the modules menu in the menu bar. - For the online search a new option has been introduced to also search online for items like actors, developers, etc. This option is turned off by default as the decrease in speed is significant. However when turned on, more detailed information is retrieved, such as a description and a photo. Existing items are of course re-used (as in the old situation). Turning this off will just create the item (if it does not exist yet) having only the name filled in. You can use the mass update or the online update later on on these items. - Books have gained new fields: storage medium (for e-books) and file size . - 'Generic Objects' module has its name changed to 'Media' - Improved Amazon search - Sub-items like categories and authors are now only added to the database if the item to which these belong is saved. This prevents polution of the database after doing an online search. - Reports have been polished (a little). - It is now possible to point a report to a stylesheet from the properties file. This stylesheet is copied to the directory of the generated report. For now this is used for the HTML reports. The stylesheets themselves can be found in "/report/_stylesheets". - The logo has been updated / altered as well as the program icons.