MDT Professional Edition 2.0

Changes to previous version

User's interface changes

• the content of user’s help has been updated

• properties

  • saving Magik project properties has been improved

Views changes

• Product Explorer

  • displaying GIS session associated with project has been improved

• Sessions

  • displaying imported sessions in Runtimes has been improved

• Hierarchy

  • NullPointerException error generated while changing status of GIS session has been fixed

Wizard changes

• Runtime

  • NullPointerException error generated while attempting to create a Runtime on not supported GIS version has been fixed

• Export sessions

  • Wizard’s pages description has been changed

Editors changes

• Magik

  • displaying error annotations of code transmission has been improved

• Session

  • errors generated while attempting to open non-existing session have been fixed

  • displaying context menu in editor tabs has been corrected

  • displaying login parameters to database in Launcher tab has been corrected

• Session Link

  • errors generated while attempting to open non-existing session have been fixed

  • displaying context menu in editor tabs has been corrected

  • checking correctness of editor content has been improved

• Command Line Session

  • errors generated while attempting to open non-existing session have been fixed

  • displaying context menu in editor tabs has been corrected

• Runtime

  • displaying context menu in editor tabs has been corrected

GIS sessions changes

• running sessions

  • transferring login parameters to the database has been fixed

Other changes

• actualization of problem markers after changing MSG file name has been improved

• actualization of problem markers after changing Magik file name has been improved

• actualization of problem markers after changing load list file name has been improved

New functionalities

User's interface innovations

• other

  • compatibility with Smallworld™ CST 4.2

  • compatibility with Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)

  • possibility of comparing directories from Project Dependency has been added

Views innovations

• Sessions

  • Refresh button has been added

Editors innovations

• new message files editor has been added

• Magik

  • displaying errors in Project Dependencies files has been added

GIS sessions innovations

• the possibility of starting environment instead of Emacs has been added

• runtime set of settings has been changed

• Session Link set of settings and the way of running it has been changed

• the possibility of using environmental variables in paths of all types of sessions has been added

• mechanism of collecting environmental variables from running session has been implemented

Known issues

• after setting up a breakpoint in method its public comment is not restored in Method Finder

• GIS session hangs when during long code loading user tries to set a breakpoint

• sometimes a breakpoint cannot be set in a method in line with chevron

• in particular methods a breakpoint cannot be set

• dynamic variables have wrong values

• it is impossible to suspend multiple threads on the same breakpoint. After first thread, every other thread is resumed and a warning is displayed: "Error: a sw:mdt_debug_thread_helper BPT already has active thread. Thread (...) will be resumed."

• disabling/enabling breakpoints after suspending program execution may not work properly

• after importing projects (without copying them) the content of Product Explorer view must be refreshed

• Open Declaration dialog sometimes displays duplicated entries

• Hierarchy view content may sometimes be improper

• inserting pragmas or comments using Generate Element Pragma/Comment commands may sometimes cause NullPointerException error

• a command executed in the console sometimes may be not stored in command’s history

• sometimes during transmitting methods to GIS session, the source code is trimmed and transmission ends with an error

• rapid stopping of session running in Debug mode can cause unexpected effects

• Correct Indentation command can block edition of Magik file

• Refresh command in Product Explorer view can cause creation of unnecessary zero-bytes files