Release notes for FinchTV 1.3.0

New Features in FinchTV:


Reverse Complement:

- View the reverse complement of your trace by choosing Reverse Complement from the "View" menu or by using the toolbar button.

- You can edit, manipulate, and print the reverse complement of the trace just as you can the forward orientation.

- The trace can be exported into FASTA format in the reverse direction, although it is always saved out as a trace file in the forward (native) orientation.


Raw Data:

- View the raw unprocessed signal data from ABI files (not SCF) by invoking the "Raw Data" choice from the "View" menu.


BLAST (Windows and Mac only):

- Selected bases or the entire sequence can be sent to your choice of 4 NCBI BLAST pages.

- This feature is accessible from the View menu or the context menu in the trace window.


Feature changes from v.1.2.0:

- Files exported to Fasta have 50 characters per line, instead of the entire sequence being on one line.
- Undoing inserts now selects the base selected when the insert was applied.


Bug fixes from v.1.2.1

- In Mac, many dialogs displayed text in a pale color.


Bug fixes from v.1.2.0:

- In 1.2.0, editing and saving an ABI file from a machine earlier than a 3700 can cause a crash.  This is fixed.
- Fasta exported files no longer contain delete underscores.
- SCF files of version 3.0 with sample size of 1 did not previously display correctly in FinchTV.


Other Features in v.1.2.0:

- 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
- Write out your current file to another location.
- Save your edits and share your file with other researchers.
- Search for a given sequence in the base calls of the trace.
- Search string accepts regular expressions.
- Open SCF, ABI and gzipped chromatogram files
- View in standard or wrapped mode
- Scale the trace horizontally and vertically
- Printing 
- Set Print Options
- 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
- Show and hide Trace View toolbar
- 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:

- Security warning pops up upon launch in WindowsXP Service Pack 2.
- 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.


