spatix v024.002 (2023-02-07, techsupport till 2025-06-30)
New feature: "Clean re-install" option at the Welcome page of Spatix installer will remove and rewrite all previous user-settings by the modern default user settings, if checked
New feature: Spatix shortcuts are now available from terra-application windows as well
New feature: More user-friendly errors reporting on SPX-file save operations (no disk space, write to read-only media, overwrite locked, not enough rights, etc.)
New feature: Raster-refs Manager will show file read errors while locating attached rasters as texts inside raster rectangle (note that some previews may still be present in Spatix cache)
New feature: Lock X, Lock Y and Lock Z now are three separate buttons. Appropriate spaccels are lock axis x, lock axis y and lock axis z
New feature: Grid Lock now acts together with other active locks
New feature: WMS Manager and Raster-ref Manager can now work with geographic CRS. Geographic CRS can be chosen in the "Edit › CAD File Settings › CRS" dialog box.
New feature: Support for wkbPolyhedralSurface, wkbTIN and wkbTriangle layer types in GDAL Import
New feature: Element Information Tool and Choose Elements Tool now allow to iterate through the set of located elements by mouse Reset click
New feature: You can now enable scrollbars in View windows via new "Edit › Preferences › Interface" checkbox
New feature: State of sdubtoolbars shall be saved and restored upon Spatix restart
New feature: DXF Export. The ability to select the INSUNITS value from the command dialog is implemented. Value of primary SPX-file units is used by default.
New feature: DXF Import. Implemented units conversion from DXF to primary SPX-file units.
Refactor: Cursor shape preferences were extracted and moved to a separate "Cursor" section in the "Edit › Preferences" dialog box
Refactor: Huge rasters attach as reference performance significantly improved
Refactor: Disable change active layer by double-click in the Layers Manager layers table (since bad user experience). Use context menu on mouse right-click to set active layer.
Fix: "3D cursor mode" setings is now saved between Spatix sessions
Fix: spatix.com website did not open from the About dialog
Fix: View background color is updated immediately from "Edit › Preferences › Views". Spatix restart no longer required.
Fix: Some Tool Windows had irrelevant captions
Fix: Last used Text height is now preserved in Place Text Tool
Fix: Margins and sizes of Text Tools Toolsettings Windows were harmonized
Fix: Tab-key switch through GUI elements was broken, now is fixed
Fix: Color of the missing fastfont glyphs was always white. Now it is correctly taken from the text element
Fix: Locked SPX-files will now open in Spatix in read-only mode without errors
Fix: Appropriate tab-page of the Raster/WMS/Layers/Presets manager will be activated in the docking area upon the relevant Manager is triggered from toolbar or menue
Fix: Inverted background color is now used as a grid color. Grid dots were now visible on brights view backgrounds earlier.
Fix: Import Export Tools now save/recall the last used path
Fix: Better layer 2D/3D type detection on GDAL Export (Z coordinate was lost on export into SHP-file)
Fix: "Soon expire" message box had wrong-formatted message
Fix: Visualization, highlighting and proper location of imageref elements in reference files
Fix: Several Spatix crash reasons were addressed based on crash-reports analysis
Exception on Spatix start-up in certain cases
Exception on GDAL Export when wrong layerId is given
NPE in OpenGLBackEnd::setRenderingSettings() in case no Z-buffer is enabled
Huge memory leak for recursively constructed Figures that might already have elements appended and stored in the SPX file, while whose geometry is re-expanded from the relevant Figure definition elements
Exception when Spatix is closing
NPE in SColorPicker
NPE in WndMainMenuRemoveItem()
NPE in GdalSpxExporter::assignAttributes()
Fix: Restored the ability to select elements by rectangle in "Individual" mode of Choose Elements Tool
Fix: Highlighted elements at the end of the Element Information Command are properly cleaned
Fix: More predictable visualization of elements intersection point for Snap to Intersection snap mode
Fix: PhotoTools installation path is set to be the latest Spatix installation path (not the first one)
Fix: Photo-pairs are now properly saved in PhotoTools
Fix: Perpendicular to view plane lines were not visible, now are drawn as dots of appropriate linewidth
Fix: Allow opening of DGN v7 with missing EOF marker
Fix: Modify/Insert/Delete Vertex Tools, more precise definition of pick point, limit element types available for operation to only linear elements
Fix: Delete Vertex, ELM_LINE type handling was broken
Fix: Processing of DXF handles on DXF import as uint64 values
Fix: Improve view update performance in case view command clicks that do not really cause sceen modification
Fix: Modify Element tool crashed on location of the ellipse/circle for modification
API changes
New feature: Unicode versions of CFace functions that start commands: StateCmdW(), StateCmdExW(), StateCmdModifyW(), StateCmdViewW()
New feature: Spatix -based IxApps licensing based on API-key logic was implemented
<ixapp_name>; <ixapp_contract> new info was added into telemetry-collected data
IxAppStub example of how to use the new API-key licensing functionality was added into SDK package
CMake -based build instructions were added into SDK package
New feature:SScannableList::GetLastElmdInfo() returns additional info about last scanned element
New feature: Doxygen -built API documentation is now added into released SDK package
Refactor: Rename all remaining "MiniApp" to "IxApp" appearances: in code, in comments, in file names, etc. (with one exception: INI file sections and settings names)
include/SMiniApp.h was renamed into include/IxApp.h in SDK
CFace/miniapp_typ.h was renamed into CFace/ixapp_typ.h in SDK
CFace/miniapp_fdf.h was renamed into CFace/ixapp_fdf.h in SDK
SMiniApp::ActiveMiniapp() was renamed into SIxApp::me()
Refactor: Remove sorid (String or ID) concept from source-codes
Refactor: Remove output string parameter from isSnapModeAvailable() hooks
Refactor: Rearrange SDK header files so that to remove redundant and unnecessary stuff from SDK include folder
Refactor: Remove unused tokenizer.h and userpref_fdf.h from SDK
