What's new in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0222
Sep 29, 2014
- Users may smooth zoom the base map with middle mouse button.
- Add support for GRIB data files that use non-lonlat cartographic projections (e.g. polar stereographic).
- Add the feature to quit full screen mode by pressing ESC key.
- Add support for HDF5 data files that use data compression.
- Add support for HDF4 data files.
- Add program argument that specifies data files to open when MeteoExplorer launches.
- Fix the bug that zoom-to-area works incorrectly in image export mode.
- Add the English translation of user guide. Depend on the selected UI language, MeteoExplorer will open Chinese or English version of user guide.
- Other improvements and bug fixes.
New in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0174 (Aug 27, 2013)
- Add the option to customize map grid interval
- Add county border data for 61 countries and territories.
- Fix the bug that the universal model graphics is not re-projected after projection parameters are changed by users.
- Other bug fixes.
New in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0153 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Improve usability of graphics layer manipulations. Use the checkbox beside the layer title to show/hide the layer. Right click the layer title brings out the context menu, in which common single layer manipulations are provided via menu items.
- Add county border display in base map.
- Add support to read GrADS file with size larger than 2GB.
- Fix the bug that a couple of weather symbols are drawn incorrectly.
New in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0132 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Update map data including world continent border, administrative areas of 76 countries and regions;
- Add support for ESRI shapefile;
- Add support for RADAR mosaic data;
- Other bug fixes.
New in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0108 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Add the feature of graphics layer navigation with user specified time interval;
- Add isotachs analysis to surface and upper-air plot data;
- Other bug fixes.
New in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0101 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Usability enhancement: Users can open layer properties dialogs by double-clicking the layer title in the graphics layer management window. The “Apply” button is added to all layer properties dialogs so that changes are made into effect without closing the dialog
- Improve isoline analysis algorithm to fix the analysis error in case of small closed regions.
New in MeteoExplorer 1.3 Build 1.3.0083 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Add page layout functionality. In addition to the classic browse view, a new image export view is added.
- Add page layout settings dialog, in which users can adjust position and size of canvas, title, and legend region; set title content, legend style, and legend unit.
- Fix the bug the station positions are incorrectly drawn.
- Add 185 world city data.
- Implement configuration file to remember user’s preferences.
- Add the feature to restore last session after the application crashes.
- Improve isoline analysis quality for high-resolution grid field data.
- Add smoothing functionality before isoline analysis.
- Add the feature of modifying display properties of weather symbols in synoptic chart graphics layer.
- Many other bug fixes.