Thuban 1.1.0

[Bernhard Herzog]

Hi all,

we finally found some time to make a development release of Thuban.
This is the first since 1.0, so it's version 1.1.0.  So far only a
tarball and a zip file is available from
http://ftp.intevation.de/thuban/

This is a development release so while it has seen some more testing and
preparation than a simple CVS snapshot, it does contain many new
features in various stages of maturity.  So take some care when using
this release.

Changes since 1.0.0:


 - Thuban rembers directories in file selection dialogs during a thuban
   session

 - Add some support for wxPython 2.5 and 2.6.  Thuban is still
   compatible with wxPython 2.4.

 - Change the way thuban deals with non-ascii text.  The internal
   representation is now the user's default encoding.  Thuban works a
   bit better with a unicode build of wxPython but there are still
   problems.  (Bernhard Herzog)

 - Various raster data improvements.  Among other things, translucent
   images are now supported on a sufficiently recent wxWidgets (2.6).
   Also, only the part of the window actually covered by the image is
   drawn.  (Jonathan Coles)

 - Improved PostGIS support (Bernhard Herzog):

    - support tables with multiple geometry columns.  The user can
      select which one to use

    - support tables with srids

    - tables don't have to have a column named "gid" anymore.  The user
      can select the column to use for ids

    - PostgreSQL views are supported too

    - support LINESTRING geometries

    - support more PostgreSQL versions.  7.4 works now.

 - Added support for sizable points (Jan-Oliver Wagner)

 - When loading a (moved) session where shapefiles cannot be found, ask
   the user (Frank Koormann)

 - The middle mouse button can be used for panning now (Russell Nelson)

 - Give a warning when the projection selected for a layer is probably
   wrong (Russell Nelson)

 - Updated shapelib

 - New or improved extensions:

    - A new extension which exports a map as SVG 
      (Markus Rechtien, Bernhard Reiter)

    - Improved WMS extension (Martin Schulze)

    - New Extension to dump bounding boxes of all shapes of the selected
      layer (Frank Koormann)

    - New extension: umn_mapserver (Jan Schüngel)

    - New extension: OGR (Nina Hüffmeyer)

    - New Extension: mouseposition. Tool to collect mouse click positions
      (map coordinates) in a dialog.  (Frank Koormann)

 - Documentation:

    - Add some documentation of the internals of Thuban.
      See Doc/technotes/

    - The thuban manual has been partly translated to German 
      (Jan-Oliver Wagner)

 - Updated translations: 
       Russian (Alex Shevlakov)

 - New translations:
       Brazilian Portuguese (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)xb
       Hungarian (Norbert Solymosi)



 Bernhard


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