New features in 4.5 SR1 (since initial 4.5 release)
Metamodeling
- New: New intuitive UI for Metamodeling Tools, with toolbars and menu bars
- New: Graph Tool satellite windows integrated as tabs in Graph Tool
- New: Icon Editor to give types custom icons to override default scaled symbol
- Correction: Consistent sort order for bindings improves version comparisons
Generators
- New: Iterate over variables and strings: do $var, do 'foo bar'%spaces
- New: Specify encoding for files: filename...encoding...write/read
- New: Short syntax for simple variable assignments, $abc='foo'
- New: Better parse error reporting for regex, and math and translate streams
- New: Generator Editor remembers graph to run on
API
- New: Command-line argument document:into: to document metamodel
- New: Command-line argument stopAPI
Modeling
- New: Diagram Editor intelligently updates whole view after operations
- New: Roots Browser operations moved to Startup Launcher
- New: Show type symbols in binding creation list dialog, Help | Graph Type etc.
Multi-user
- New: Multi-user server runs as a service
- New: Server administration UI integrated in MetaEdit+ clients
- New: SOAP interface to automate server administration
- New: Run servers for multiple repositories simultaneously from one installation
- New: Significant speed improvements on Windows XP SP2
System
- New: Support for multiple monitors is now handled automatically
- New: Cope with screen depth changes and timezone changes on the fly
For more details, please see the full change list