Xmarc Fire 7.1:
Release Notes
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New in this Release
Important: Please note that in this release the
Fire Version 7.1 is not available for Unix architectures (i.e. Solaris
and Linux). The release sets for Unix architectures will include Fire Version
6.1 until further notice.
This means that any new language features specific to Version 7.1 will not work
on Unix versions.
Fire Version 7 for Windows makes use of the Microsoft GDI+ library with anti-aliasing
and other advanced graphic features. For this reason display settings should
be set to True Color. It will not run properly on a 256-color setting.
All other applications are available on all architectures, subject to the product
availability matrix below.
Product Availability Matrix
|
Class |
ES Product Component |
Sun4 Solaris 8+ |
i386
Windows 2000/XP/9x/NT |
i386
Linux Red Hat |
|
Fire Base |
Fire Engine |
- |
|
- |
|
Database Interfaces |
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Oracle 8i (fx8i, fx9i, fx10g)
|
|
|
|
|
|
ODBC (fxodbc) |
- |
|
- |
|
|
Informix (fxinformix) |
|
|
|
|
|
ESRI Arc/SDE (fxsde) |
- |
|
- |
|
|
MySQL (fxmysql) |
- |
|
- |
|
Data Translators |
|
|
|
|
|
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Intergraph (fxigds) |
|
|
|
|
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ARC/INFO (fxarc) |
|
|
|
|
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ESRI Shape (fxshape) |
|
|
|
|
|
VPF (fxvpf) |
|
|
|
|
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AutoCAD (fxacad) |
|
|
|
|
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Mapinfo (fxmif) |
|
|
|
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Web Deploy Options |
All with Sun Java Plugin
|
|
|
|
|
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MS Internet Explorer (6+) |
- |
|
- |
|
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Netscape (6+) |
- |
|
- |
|
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Firefox (3+)
|
- |
|
- |
|
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Opera (6+) |
- |
|
- |
|
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Safari (4+) |
- |
|
- |
|
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Google Chrome (3+) |
- |
|
- |
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Available in this release.
Platform specific information
For those of you new to Fire, the default behavior on all platforms after a new install is
for Fire to start without a visible monitor window. This is a setting in the
fire configuration file (fire.ini). The available settings are 0 (initially iconic),
-1 (initially invisible) and 1 (initially visible).
Oracle Support
This release contains support for Oracle 8i (8.1.x), 9i and 10g. The Fire/Oracle
interface program requires the Oracle client shared library oci.dll
on Windows platforms. The relevant library must be made available at run time.
On Windows, the equivalent library should be made available via your %PATH%
environment variable. See your Oracle Installation Guide for information about
generating this shared library if it does not already exist.
To use the Oracle 8i/9i/10g interface - Object model spatial data - (fx8i,fx9i,fx10g),
the configuration file fire.ini should contain one of the following
dbif records:
dbif oracle/8i fx8i fx
dbif oracle/9i fx9i fx
dbif oracle/10g fx10g fx
The programs fx8i, fx9i are functionally equivalent and differ only in
the run-time Oracle libraries which they use. fx10g contains additional support for some new Oracle
object types not previously supported.
For versions of Oracle previous to 8.1.7, development has been discontinued.
The old interfaces fxoracle7, fxoracle8 and fxoracle8i have therefore been
dropped from the release. If you wish to continue using these, the executables
from the V5 installation may be used within a V6 environment.
Informix Support
This release contains support for IBM's Informix Dynamic Server (9.2x, 9.3x). The Fire/Informix interface
program requires the Informix Client SDK be intalled on the same platform that the interface will be
running. Make sure that the environment variables INFORMIXDIR and INFORMIXSERVER are set correctly and that the Informix libraries are
accessible (via %PATH% variable on Windows; via $LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Unix).
To use the Informix IDS interface, the configuration file fire.ini should
contain the following dbif record:
dbif informix fxinformix fx
See the Informix Client-SDK documentation for information relating to earlier Informix database version support.
ODBC support
Support for ODBC drivers is included in this release. To use this interface, the
configuration file, fire.ini, should contain a dbif record:
dbif odbc fxodbc fx
MySQL support
Support for MySQL is included in this release. To use this interface, the
configuration file, fire.ini, should contain a dbif record:
dbif mysql fxmysql fx
Ingres support
Development was discontinued for Ingres databases in ES 5.2, although access
is provided on Windows machines via ODBC. For details of continued legacy
availability, contact Xmarc support.
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End of Life Statements
Since versions 7.0, some Fire features have been changed. These are documented in
Fire 7.0 changes
and Fire 7.1 changes
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