Dear Swiss-PdbViewer users,


I am glad to announce the availibility of version 3.7b2
Only minor fixes were performed (see list below).
However some menues items were moved to improve the user interface
consistency.
I apologize to the persons who maintain manuals, or courses.
On the long run you will find it more coherent though.
We are currently reshaping the user guide, and while
doing it we noticed some inconsistencies that were fixed.
The new Manual, in synch with version 3.7 should be released
early February.

Thank you for your feedback.

Have fun,
Nicolas, Torsten & Alexander.

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Comments about this release.
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Mac, PC, SGI, Linux
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-Some more menus were moved to improve the user interface.
 namely:
 calc RMS:                       from Tools to Fit
 Set Std Dev. into Bfactor:      from Tools to Fit
 Check Nomenclature:             from Tools to Edit
 ResetAlignment:                 from Edit to Fit
 CompressGaps:                   from Edit to Fit
 
-Enabled the red/blue "cheap stereo" even in the non GL mode.

-On PC, the emulation of the middle mouse button (zoom)
 is now mapped on LEFT+RIGHT mouse buttons.

-clicking on a line of the text energy report no longer
 centered the view on the corresponding residue. Fixed
 
-increased precision in surface Pov-Ray output for vertices;
 most of the degenerated triangles removed.
 
-Undefined coordinates (NaN) were occasionnally written 
 for some surface triangle vertices during Pov-Ray output.
 This has been fixed.

-Save and load surface did not support large surfaces. Fixed.

-Select close to other chain was kind of always acting on all layers
 (ignoring the checkbox) Fixed.

-Show Hide HOH from the layer info was not working properly when 
 the show sidechain even when backbone hidden was enabled. Fixed
 
-A progress bar window appears as soon as a network connection
 is waiting to be established. The progress bar does not blink
 yet, so be patient and belie that something is hapenning.
 
-Color by energy was presenting an energy report even when
 not desired. Fixed.
 
-Single Atoms residues (HOH for ex) were not displayed in
 openGL when not in solid rendering mode.

-CA trace rendering in Pov-Ray had an alternance of blue and
 white bonds when no specific colors were assigned to the backbone.
 Fixed.

-Text Windows that contain long text (for example resutls from
 keyword search from the remote SPDBV server now have horizontal
 scrollbar).


Mac, SGI, Linux
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-Save surface dialog had garbage text as default filename. Fixed.
-Load spdbv surface or potential was crashing. Fixed.


Note: as the potential file format is still preliminary, potential maps
      saved on Intel Hardware (PC Linux) cannot be read on Mac or SGI
	 and vice versa. The byte swapping is not yet implemented for this.
	 
	 The surface format is also preliminary and is subject to change
	 in future versions.
	 
SGI, Linux
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-Changing the color preference when no structure loaded crashed. Fixed
