November, 2004 RIVIX, LLC -------------------------------------------------------------- RiverTools 3.0, Service Pack 2 Release Notes -------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction: We very much appreciate receiving information from our customers regarding bugs and requests for new features. If you think you have discovered a bug, please send e-mail to support@rivix.com and describe the problem in as much detail as possible. Service Packs with fixed bugs and new features are released periodically on our Downloads page at www.rivix.com. --------------------------------------------------------------- New Features: (1) Added "Fit Curve to Profile" to the Options menu of the Channel Profile tool window. This opens a dialog that allows you to find the best-fit parameters for various longitudinal profile curve shapes such as logarithmic, exponential and power-law. Parameters are printed to the log window. (2) Added "Use Upstream Profile" to the Options menu of the Channel Profile tool window. This option generates a longitudinal profile from the selected pixel to the watershed divide by following the upstream path of pixels that have the largest contributing area. (3) Added "Start Downstream Profile" and "Start Upstream Profile" to the Options menu of the Vector Zoom tool window. This allows precise selection of which pixel to use as the start of a channel profile and then launches the Channel Profile tool. (4) Implemented much faster algorithm for creating shapefiles with the File > Export Vectors dialogs (for channels and boundaries). Also added the "Min. pixels per RTM cell" text box to the File > Export Vector > Boundaries dialog. This option can be used to exclude basins smaller than some threshold size from the exported shapefile. (5) Added Extract > Derived Grid > RTM as Grid dialog. This routine reads mask IDs from a RiverTools Mask (RTM) file, "embeds" them in a mask grid, and then saves the new grid as a RiverTools Grid (RTG) file with a data type of LONG. (6) Added ability to sort the columns in a Shapefile Attribute Table by clicking on the column heading. These tables are generated with the "View Attr. Table" button at the bottom of the Display > ESRI Shapefile dialog. (7) Added "All Colors Each Frame" to the Options menu of the Display > Grid Sequence dialog. If this option is turned off, then the color table is stretched between the min and max values of the entire grid sequence rather than the min and max values of the current frame. Also added the display of min and max values for each frame. (8) Updated the "Stretch" options in the Options menu of the Density Zoom tool with check boxes. Also updated the Density zoom tool to honor current nodata and NaN colors. (9) Added "Max. contour value" to Display > Contour Plot. --------------------------------------------------------------- Fixed Bugs: (1) Fixed a bug so that window resizing is now more precise. (2) Fixed a bug with Prepare > Patch RTG DEMs when mosaicking or subsetting very small DEMs. (3) Fixed a small bug with the functionality of the Find button in the File > View Text File dialog. (4) Fixed a bug in the Prepare > Convert Flow Grid routine and added creation of HDR files for the ARC grid output option. (5) Fixed a bug that affected the ability to print Multi-layer plots to PostScript files. (6) Fixed bug with "Blue flats?" option to Display > Shaded Relief when there aren't any flats. (7) Fixed a bug in the Extract > Mask > Subbasin Mask dialog that affected creation of order 4 basin masks when "All basins draining to edge" option was selected. (8) Fixed a bug that caused a new detached log window to be created every time the File > Set Preferences dialog was opened when the "Detached Log?" setting in the "Main Window" preference panel was active. (9) Fixed a bug that caused some display windows not to be redrawn when resized when the "Scrolling master window" preference was active.