The following are user-visible changes to the behavior of Vflo and the associated Inundation Animator software in the version 6.1 release. A few of these changes have been available previously as part of maintenance releases in the 6.0 version line.
Changes to Vflo in version 6.1
- Adds support for Level III Digital Precipitation Rate (DPR) files.
- Corrects issue when loading ‘lumped’ .RRP rainfall files.
- Displays time and location information during rainfall load process. Prevents load of rainfall data from mismatched locations.
- Enhanced support for Level III Reflectivity files.
- Adds support for version 7 Level II files.
- All available character sets and locales are now included in the Vflo distribution.
- New option to render only channels cells’ flow direction.
- Improves progress monitoring during DEM processing steps of AutoBOP domain creation.
- Restores missing error text during domain creation from mismatched ASCII files.
- Restores text missing from Analysis Options panel in 6.1 preview versions.
- More resilient online license request process.
- Tagging and checking of version number in .BOPX domain files.
- All sub-windows size and location is now saved between sessions.
- Fixes results dialog opening behind main window.
- Prevents crash when zooming to infinitesimally small areas on graphs.
- Enhances domain coordinate system dialog.
- Avoids crash due to incompletely installed accessibility technology.
- Resolves crash when removing data points from curve editor dialogs.
- Corrects doubly applied units conversion on peak flow display.
- Automatically checks for updates to license and modules.
- Enables loading .BOPX domain files with non-ASCII file names (previously available in maintenance release 6.0.17).
- Adds domain shapefile export feature.
- Corrects empty “success” message after watch point shapefile export.
- Prevents partial import of malformed rating curve and cross section files.
- Corrects issue when solving reservoir cell using version 6 solver (previously available in maintenance release 6.0.14).
- Corrects editable nature of meta-data display on Network Analysis dialog.
- Prevents .BOPX domain file corruption when simultaneously saving and loading new file (previously available in maintenance release 6.0.12).
- Corrects display of Base Cells on cell parameter histogram display (previously available in maintenance release 6.0.13).
- Removes unused menu items.
- New support for ‘BAT’ datum in PRJ.ADF files.
- Resolves progress dialog staying visible after certain short tasks.
- Exported rating curve and cross section files now include unit information.
- Numerous ‘under the hood’ improvements that should increase performance, including solving and loading of large raster datasets.
Changes to Inundation Animator in version 6.1
- Adds display of mean, maximum and other statistics to main window.
- Adds contour line display and export.
- Images may now be exported with optional world files and .PRJ projection files, for GIS referencing.
- Adds time series display of data points.
- Formalizes date/time interchange between Inundation Animator and the main Vflo program.
- Adds Time Zone support for importing and exporting data.
- Fixes color shift when exporting .JPG images files.
- Saves window size and position between sessions.
- Saves recently used files.
- Removes unit conversion of no-data flag values in ASCII export (previously available in maintenance release 6.0.19).
- Resolves lack of view re-centering when loading new domains (previously available in maintenance release 6.0.18).