05.02.2010 BALL 1.3.2 (Changes since BALL 1.3.1):

• Buildsystem:
  • Fix some issues with CMake
• Core:
  • Fix a bug in the SES generator
  • Add a safeguard to StructureMapper in order to avoid numeric instabilities
• Python:
  • Fix compilation with Sip 4.10

Changes Since Version 1.3 (26.11.09):

• General:
  • Added a CMake based buildsystem
• Core:
  • Dramatic speed up of SES triangulation
• Python:
  • Fixed the StringHashMap? bindings
  • Added some missing classes
  • Fix compilation with Sip 4.9
• BALLView:
  • Minor fixes all over the place

Changes Since Version 1.2 (05.08.09):

• Improved stereo capabilities 3D StereoSettings:
  • New stereo mode: "Side-by-side on different displays" (allows the use of an additional operator window for live presentations)
  • Introduced a dialog for fine tuning/computing the stereo settings (adapt screen sizes, user distance, etc.)
• Separation of renderers from scene data:
  • Multiple render windows are possible
  • Other renderers than OpenGL are possible
• Input Devices (experimental):
  • Spacenavigator plugin
• Optionally write binary Project files
• Introduced thread locking into the gui to prevent race situations
• Customizable shortcuts
• Add an option to load all models from a PDB file (e.g. PDB files generated from NMR data can be coped with)
• Add VRML export for further editing or 3D printing
• Improved handling of lightsources
• Editable materials for the 3D structures
• Start to work on more consistency in the gui
• Accelerate working with representations
• Line smoothing can now be disabled. This makes the line representation look less cluttered.
• Added a switch for changing between perspective and orthographic projection
• Fixes to the OpenGL visualization in BALLView
• Fixed the POVRay Exporter
• Changing the PDB download URL works again
• Made offscreen rendering work better than ever
• Reworked some icons to play better with dark colorthemes
• Improved the SpaceNavigatorPlugin (MacOS support)
• Fixes to the Stereo mode
• Added a nice splash screen :-)
• Splitted the 3D toolbar

Changes Since Version 1.1.1 (14.11.07):

• Integrated molecule editor
• Volume rendering for electrostaticsm, projection onto planes, field lines
• Improved cartoon and ribbon models, non-photorealistic shading (toon shader)
• Off-screen rendering
• Toolbars for quick access to important functionality
• Numerous improvements to the interface
• Merck Molecular Force Field (MMFF 94)
• Automated download of structures from PDB and PubChem

Changes Since Version 1.1 (21.06.05):

• Support for Python under Windows
• Python support for further classes
• Support for creating animations and movies per Python script
• Further Python example scripts
• Support for SD files in BALLView
• Some sensible Hotkeys for Python Scripts in BALLView
• Context sensitive HTML documentation in BALLView
• BALLView again has a fourth drawing precision "ultra" for real fast graphics accelerator cards
• Amber charges and radii values for nucleotides
• Picking support for bonds
• Coloring by molecule

• BALL and BALLView libraries are now built as DLLs under Windows
• Both libraries are now compiled with optimization under Windows
• Visual improvements of the DNA cartoon model
• Renamed Mesh::colorList to Mesh::colors
• Exception::InvalidRange now has a float value
• Bond::TooManyBonds moved to Exception namespace
• A standard BALLView Python startup script will be executed in any case. It can be found in BALL/data/startup.py. Users can choose an additional startup script, that will run afterwards.
• PyInterpreter and PyWidget report the reason if the Python module can not be loaded
• Removed Notification and changed the way to register for Log access
• Removed GLQuadricObject. This functionality is available through GLRenderer
• Improved PreferenceEntry class and reading/storing code for preferences
• Coloring of surfaces by grid: the way autoscale works and the default colors
• Renamed ColorTable to ColorMap
• Cleanup of the Scene code for move, rotate, zoom: Now cleaner, smaller and faster code.
• Adapted DownloadPDBDialog to new rcsb.org website

• Problems with POSIX compliance of socket classes
• Crash while reading PDB files with too many bonds
• Crash while wrongly using malformed boolean expression "residueID(...)"
• Crash in CalculateSecondaryStructureProcessor, when one SS is part of another
• Crash while running an MDS with trajectory if the DCD file could not be written
• Crash with representations for two different systems
• Crash with mouse movements while animation is running
• NMRViewer and underlying widgets did not compile
• Problems in persistence with g++ 4.x series
• Hangup in socket interface with g++ 4.x series
• Mouse sensitivity changed in Rotate mode when focusing on small structures
• Memory issues with Python objects (e.g. inserting GeometricObjects into Representations)
• Lighting, especially for directional lights
• Saving and loading of BALLView project files
• Accelerators for menu entries didn't always work
• Splitting of surfaces for given distance: computed incorrect surfaces
• POVRay export: degenerated objects (with a length of 0) and meshes with only one color
• Missing assignment operator in RotamerLibrary
• Browse button didn't work in Molecular Dynamics Simulation dialog
• Incorrect bond orders and GLN amide group planarity in fragment database
• PeptideBuilder: Naming of peptides; enabled support for paste in Dialog
• Opening of files in current directory per command line with BALLView
• Rendering of Fog
• Update of Representations after changing Selection color
• Problems with rendering Labels on Windows and MacOS
• Problems with Directory and Sysinfo on Windows
• Problems with ATI graphics cards: Line Models and Polygon Smoothing
• Minor problems with the clipping planes
• Minor problems with dashed bonds in the Ball-and-Stick model