Graphiti "New and Noteworthy" for Indigo

Last revised February 01, 2011

This document describes the new development topics that were adressed during a milestone towards the release 0.8.0 within the Indigo release train.


M5


Globalization Graphiti now uses resource bundles for all its texts and is ready to be translated.

API Usages Graphiti now uses other projects only via their public APIs. Usages of GEF internal stuff has been removed.

Accessibility Graphiti now fully supports themes like the high contrast mode to enable Accessibility for disabled users. Some gaps in presenting selections and gradients were closed.

Prevent Multiple Popups When deleting more than one object a confirmation popup for each of the objects was presented to the user. This has been improved so that the user has the option "Yes for all" available.

Fixing of Bugs Some bugs especially in the area of the zoom animation, ContextButtonPadData and grid alignment were fixed.

M4


Indigo Release Train Graphiti declared its participation in the Indigo release train. All project metadata settings were done and the project update site is aggregated into the common Indigo milestones update site.

Vector Graphics Export Diagrams can now be exported also in vector graphics format (SVG). This is available from the save as dialog of a diagram editor besides the traditional save as JPG, BMP etc.

Filling of functional gaps Some functional gaps like missing services, automated resizing for combo boxes, creation of color constants from RGB string etc. were filled.

Fixing of bugs Some bugs (especially in the area of refreshing the diagram were fixed.