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Updates history
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| · | Professional version:
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| · | GIS section added:
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| · | Raster layer support (TIFF, JPEG)
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| · | ArcView Shape files support.
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| · | Tiff files support (georeferenced).
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| · | Full featured GIS editor (adding, editing, deleting shapes, snapping to layer, saving to *.shp files).
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| · | Layer (theme) legend.
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| · | Layer properties adjustment (colors, outlines, shapes, opacity, etc.)
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| · | Thematic maps.
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| · | SQL query for the shapes based on metadata.
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| · | Advanced label placement, overlap avoidance, multi-field, formatted, and support of practically any international language character set (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, etc.).
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| · | Connection to Taxa section (creating distribution maps)
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| · | Connection to Samples section (plotting samples on the map)
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| · | Map export to image (tiff, jpeg), automatically georeferences exported images (creates world files).
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| · | Taxa:
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| · | GIS subsection added.
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| · | Interactive swapping distribution maps on background vector (*.shp) and/or raster (TIFF, JPEG) background layers.
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| · | Samples:
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| · | GIS subsection added.
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| · | Interactive plotting of selected samples on the map.
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| · | Standard version
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| · | Printing
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| · | Web site creation
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| · | Adding deleting columns for samples
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| · | Labels design (user) and printing
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| · | Overall interface improvements
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| · | Bugs fixed:
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| · | Library: disabled buttons.
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| · | Bugs fixed:
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| · | Image library: Customize Button visibility.
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| · | Export Images: Export button disabled.
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| · | Import Images: Import button disabled.
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| · | Species list printing: authors position.
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| · | Bugs not yet fixed:
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| · | Printing of species list resulted in wrong Author names positioning. This option was Temporarily removed to provide with fixed and more advanced printing controls in the next update.
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| · | Bugs fixed (nothing big - you probably haven't even noticed):
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| · | Identification Builder: when characters folder is selected, numerical states panel was not hidden.
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| · | Identification Builder: Selected character changed its image.
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| · | Identification: character tree was not visible under certain conditions.
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| · | General:
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| · | customizing fields in the tables
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| · | selecting taxa in taxa table
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| · | copying selected taxa from table
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| · | faster taxa display and manipulation
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| · | enhanced taxa explorer
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| · | dropdown list with all authors for rapid taxa editing
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| · | drag and drop taxa in the Taxa Explorer
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| · | specimens editing (drop-down trees with taxa and locations)
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| · | New locations table structure (tree)
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| · | Lit table customize
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| · | Image copy to clipboard
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| · | redesigned ID Builder section
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| · | improved Image Lib table
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| · | enhanced menus
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| · | bugs
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| · | some view settings
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| · | data loss upon abnormal termination of TAXIS
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| · | import species list (authors and years not imported)
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| · | General:
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| · | Database splash. Window with selected image and database information is displayed when the database is opened.
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| · | Main menu, toolbars, and context menus are redesigned and are more convenient to use.
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| · | Accessory windows (e.g. displaying images) may now be integrated into the layout so that they always occupy all the space available. NOTE: you can now move these windows by their frame and resize them using their lower right corner.
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| · | Slide show (first version of it) displays taxa images full screen. The only settings you can control for now is displaying of the taxon name and the speed of the slide show.
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| · | Help files are updated accordingly. Read step-by-step example if you have difficulties starting with TAXIS.
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| · | Library (screen shot).
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| · | This is a new section which allows recording literature references and linking them to taxa and synonyms.
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| · | Taxa:
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| · | Taxa tree. Allows faster navigation through all taxa by representing them in a hierarchical order.
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| · | Taxa editing table can be hidden leaving just a tree to navigate.
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| · | Taxa library. Displays list of literature references attached to selected taxon and synonym.
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| · | Species list printing. Includes author, year, synonyms, library listing for both species and synonyms. It is possible to print all species in the database or only those which are under selected taxon. The order of species may be alphabetical or systematic.
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| · | Specifying systematic order.
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| · | Sorting taxa by systematic or alphabetical order.
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| · | Identification builder:
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| · | Characters can now be organized in a form of tree with free choice of tree levels. You can freely group the characters at any level by simply dragging it to the new location.
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| · | "Move" button has to be pushed down to allow item dragging.
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| · | Characters can be grouped by folders which are similar to Windows directory structure.
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| · | The description can be assigned to any item of the character tree, even if it is not a character but a grouping folder.
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| · | Identification:
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| · | Last identification stage is saved and reopened automatically next time you start TAXIS.
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| · | Synonyms. TAXIS have not been allowing synonyms with the same names.
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| · | Taxa. TAXIS have not been allowing taxa with the same names under different higher taxa.
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| · | Identification builder. Assigning states to taxa.
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| · | Problems with accepting some numeric values.
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| · | Images export problem.
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| · | 25 March 2001
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| · | Taxa
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| · | synonyms (list of synonyms can be recorded to any taxon)
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| · | common names (the desired language can be set)
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| · | preview of all images of selected taxon (thumbnails)
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| · | possibility to add any category between genus and species and any sub specific category. That is, now you have no restrictions in creating or using category names and combining them with each other.
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| · | Export:
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| · | species list to tab separated text file (genus, species, author, year)
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| · | all taxa to a text file (to import to another TAXIS database)
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| · | all/selected images to files (jpeg)
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| · | Import:
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| · | all taxa from a text file (exported from another TAXIS database or created manually according to designated format)
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| · | species list from tab separated text file (genus, species, author, year)
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| · | all/selected images files (jpeg) from selected folder
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| · | Locations
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| · | Comments (text)
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| · | Coordinates (global, UTM, source)
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| · | Images
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| · | Save selected image to file (jpeg)
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| · | Export/import - selected and whole library
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| · | Database backup
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| · | Enhanced help (now included in TAXIS update file and installs automatically. Contains the actual database structure. )
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| · | Automatic installer for update file.
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| · | known and fixed in this version bugs
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| · | when loading image into image library - images appears deformed but when cursor is moved away and back to the record, image shoes normally.
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| · | help menu item reference wrong file in a help folder.
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| · | error message displayed when recording specimen with taxon name not previously recorded.
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| · | Taxa search didn't work from the main menu
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| · | in identification section (Identification control) when clearing a path the message of invalid index popup.
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| · | numeric states handling
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| · | identification
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| · | identification control window
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| · | all characters window
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| · | simultaneous display of all images of all states for selected character
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| · | selected taxon's image in separate window
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| · | selected state's image in separate window
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| · | list of used characters
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| · | remaining taxa (sorted in the order of increasing probability)
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| · | taxon deletion handling - all linked records are deleted
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| · | subspecific categories handling
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| · | statistics for taxa by categories
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| · | more functions available on the adjusting to context tool bar
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| · | switching on and off captions on the toolbar
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| · | minor bug fixes
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| · | Deletion trekking (maintaining integrity)
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| · | Password protection
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| · | Database properties (author, name, password)
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| · | Database summary (number of records)
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| · | Customizing view (fonts)
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| · | Addition of free-moving windows for displaying images, comments characters, etc.
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| · | Searching taxa
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| · | Characters of selected taxon (optionally: including lower taxa)
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| · | Location 'comments' field
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| · | 'Load from file' - disabled for taxa images
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| · | Number of images counter for taxa
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| · | Edit menu didn't work
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| · | In 'Character' section taxa table had wrong popup menu
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| · | Other bug fixes
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| · | Tool bar gets disabled after visiting sections under construction
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| · | Check of loading the existing image
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| · | Correct deletion of the image
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| · | Dialog appears twice when image is loaded directly into im. library
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| · | Table sort arrows
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| · | Pop-up menu at 'Locations' table
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| · | Faster appearance of specimens' table
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| · | 'Institution' field title in Specimens' table
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| · | Taxon status change (higher taxon appears empty)
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| · | Characters' section
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| · | Specimens of selected taxon
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| · | States table
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| · | Taxa tree
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| · | Image display
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| · | Lock button to prevent accidental editing
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| · | Full screen preview of any image
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| · | Rearrangement of image input
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| · | Status bar below image with navigation arrows and image info (author, number, etc)
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| · | Locations: Pop-up menu
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| · | Specimens: Pop-up menu
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| · | Taxa: specimens are displayed only for the selected taxon but not for its subitems
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