File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 2.0c
Notes: NRDB Pro is a GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to provide people in developing countries with a powerful yet simple tool to assist in the managing of their own resources. The Natural Resources Database was originally developed for the Bohol Environment Management Office, through the assistance of Voluntary Service Overseas. This was supported through the Skills for Community-based Resource Utilization and Management (SCRUM) program, part funded by the European Union and the British Embassy. The NRDB project was extended to the Sustainable Development Foundation, Thailand, under a VSO regional programme SPARK (Sharing and Promotion of Awareness and Regional Knowledge). The development of NRDB Pro has been partly supported by Conservation International, Philippines through their Palawan Corridor Strategy Development Project. Promotion and training for NRDB Pro has been supported by the PEP- Network as part of their Community Based Monitoring System Installation ----------- To install the software, unzip the download file and run setup.exe. NRDB Pro runs on Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2K or XP and requires that Microsoft Data Access Components, Microsoft Jet Database Engine, Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat Reader are installed on your computer. Rebuilding the source code -------------------------- The source code for NRDB Pro includes the makefiles for rebuilding the software with Visual C++ 6.0. NRDB Pro is dependent on the additional libraries: NRDBAPI.DLL, JPGLIB32.DLL, LIBPNG13.DLL and ZLIB.DLL. The release versions of these libraries are distributed with the NRDB Pro installation. Links to the source code for rebuilding the debug versions of these libraries are found on the NRDB website. Support -------- The NRDB website (www.nrdb.co.uk) includes FAQs, news, articles and links etc. relating to the NRDB software. Please use the NRDB Users' Forum (nrdb.mypalawan.info) to obtain assistance with the NRDB Pro software and to assist others. Promotion --------- Please help to promote the NRDB Project by linking to http://www.nrdb.co.uk/ from your project web site. Credits ------- This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. This relates to the code used for retrieving JPEG images for the overlaying on maps and for georeferencing of images. The library used for handling PNG images is libpng version 1.2.5, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Glenn Randers-Pehrson, this makes use of the ZLIB compression library. The set-up program for NRDB Pro 2 uses Inno Setup 4.1, Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Jordan Russell.
Changes: Edit Data Dictionary: When deleting a link attribute the relation is now removed correctly. View Map: For multi-part polygons labels now always correctly associated with largest polygon. Add Overlay: Now handles long file names and long path names correctly. View Map: When adding a new layer to a map with no default extent now correctly prompts user to set up extent. View Map: Hit test now works correctly for polylines and coordinates. NRDB API: When encoding polylines/polygons to stored in the database to length of the compressed data is now stored. NRDB API: When encoding maplines from the database the estimated compressed size is pre-allocated. Setup: Frequently Asked Questions now included in installation.
