DENIM - Support

DENIM 1.1 Release Notes

What's New since 1.0

• Performance has been greatly improved. Sketching, dragging, panning, and zooming are all now faster, especially for large scale designs.
• There is now a Radar View that allows you to see a thumbnail of your design. It is similar to the Navigator palette in Adobe Photoshop. You can show or hide it through the View slice of the Pie Menu.
• We have made some changes to better support the Tablet PC, including stroke-and-hold selection and a "dot" cursor rather than the pencil.
• Arrows between pages can now represent more types of interactions than just left-clicking. You can now create transitions for rollovers, timeouts, double-clicking, and right-clicking (See the details in the Manual).
• Some minimal print functionality has been added (one web page per printed page, no sitemap).
• Lots of bugs fixed.

Known Issues

1. A few Windows 2000/XP computers experience the blue screen of death when DENIM starts. This seems to be an interaction between Java 1.4.1_01 and some display drivers, related to Java's use of Windows' DirectDraw and Direct3D libraries. We believe this is fixed in Java 1.4.1_02, which is the recommended version and is included with the DENIM downloads. The best fix is probably to install Java version 1.4.1_02. You might also try updating your video drivers.
   
   As a workaround or quick test, you can try DENIM in Safe Mode, which will disable use of DirectDraw and Direct3D, by clicking on the DENIM Safe Mode icon in Start Menu->DENIM.
   
   For the full gory technical details, see the Java 2 SE version 1.4.1 Release Notes on Sun's web site. In particular, Bug #4749817 can cause a system "blue screen death," particularly on ATI adapters.
2. There are still a few rare refresh problems associated with our rendering speedups. If a piece of a page becomes invisible, try panning the canvas a little.
3. You can drag ink from one page to another, and from a page to the canvas, but not from the canvas into a page. Use cut and paste instead.
4. There can be problems when you drag objects which are the source of a hyperlink, and they end up on a different page or on the canvas. It may be necessary to delete the link and then re-add it.
5. If you sketch a page label at one zoom level and then add ink to it at a different zoom level, the added ink comes out smaller or larger than expected.
6. On the rare occasion that a Java runtime exception occurs, DENIM will become mostly non-functional. It is often still possible to save your work; then exit the program and re-start it.