Main Changes With Respect to the Previous Release
Overview
This is a major release for DBE, as it can be noticed by the
number of fixed issues. Here is a brief list of major changes that
may affect the user's experience:
- The DBE's stability is greatly improved. Several causes of
failure have been identified and fixed;
- There have been performance improvements in loading time,
especially when the RDB is used as a data source;
- Command line options have been slightly modified (use the -h
switch to have additional details);
- Fixed several editing issues related to specific data types;
- Improved error message reporting;
- Graphical changes:
- Cells in the table view trim long text; user can now modify
both row's height and width in order to better adapt the
cell's size to its content;
- In the table view, vertical headers are now reporting the
UID of the database objects. This allows an easier horizontal
scrolling, with the object's UID always visible.
Double-clicking on the object's UID cell opens, as usual, the
object's editor widget;
- Now objects can be dragged from the tree view and dropped to
the object editor (i.e., for instance a Rack
object can now be filled taking dragging & dropping Computer
objects from the tree);
- The "include file" widget allows now to include multiple
files in a single action (proper inclusion order is left to
the user);
- Objects in the tree are shown differently whether they are
modifiable or not;
- A new widget editor is available for string-type attributes,
allowing easy insertion of long strings.
List of relevant Jira issues for bugs and features patched into
the previous release or introduced with the current release