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A new Bio7 version is available for Window (x64), Linux (x64) and MacOSX (x64 and aarch64!).

I released a Bio7 update for MacoOSX to fix Retina display problems!

A new version of Bio7 is available.
For an overview of the new features please consult the Bio7 website:

http://bio7.org

A new Linux version of Bio7 is available for download.
This release adds new features and improvements for the Linux platform.
For an overview please consult the Bio7 website:
http://bio7.org

A new version of Bio7 for Windows is available. For an overview of the new features please visit the Bio7 website: http://bio7.org.

A new version of Bio7 for Windows is available. For an overview of the new features please visit the Bio7 website: http://bio7.org.

A beta release of Bio7 1.5 for MacOSX (64-bit) is available!

New Flash Tutorials available for the latest Bio7 release. Please visit the website of Bio7 for the tutorials.

Bio7 1.5 released! For more details about this release please consult the Bio7 website which will be updated in the next days and weeks.

Today Bio7 1.4 for Linux was released.
For a first overview consult the new flash tutorials for 1.4
on the Bio7 website.
The release notes will be available on the Bio7 forum.

Today Bio7 1.4 for Windows was released.
For a first overview consult the new flash tutorials for 1.4
on the Bio7 website. During the week more information about
this release will be available on the Bio7 forum.
For a first installation follow the installation description for 1.3 available
on the Bio7 forum.

http://www.nabble.com/First-try-with-MacOSX-ts25684546.html

In the next Bio7 release some new features are
planned or are already implemented.
Already implemented for example is a spreadsheet component which will ease the import and export of data.
Furthermore a Mac OS X version is planned for this year.

Release notes:

http://www.nabble.com/Bio7-1.3-Linux-released!-to20360723.html

For the changes please read:

http://www.nabble.com/Bio7-1.3-released!-to20306634.html

and see:

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/biologie/Oekosystembiologie/bio7app/flashindex/index.html

In the next release of Bio7
several improvements will be
available:

An improved OpenOffice API (will accept empty spreadsheet cells as NA's and Strings, too).

An improved and very fast image transfer API for R and ImageJ
(Greyscale images up to 16000*16000 pixels can be transfered in one shot!).

Improved scripts for the Gis features.

Use of the new Rserve client API.

Furthermore some new useful features will be available, too.... read more

Some extra notes for the Linux platform:

If the R shell is opened from the R menu a path with a load command for the workspace is copied
to the clipboard. If you want to work with you favourite GUI you can then simply paste
the command from the clipboard to work with the stored workspace.

The Space view fullscreen comand didn't work on my platform with the latest JRE but with
the beta version of Java 1.6.10. If you have this problem, too simply rename the shipped
JRE and copy the 1.6.10 version to that folder and rename it to “jre” (not necessary if
this version is on your system path as default!)... read more

Finally a Linux version of Bio7 1.2 has been released. It comes with all the new features of
the Windows version.
Please install R correctly with all the dependencies to use the new features.
This version is shipped with Java 1.6.07
For an installation simply unzip the file.

Please select the "Always run in background" option to hide the dialogs
if a job is running.
Additionally adjust the paths to R (Rserve package
is expected!)and to OpenOffice for a full functional Bio7.
For the new import scripts the "rgdal" package has
to be installed, too.
The scripts are able to import different grid
types (arcgrid, *.hgt etc.) and shapefiles
which are loaded in R and visualized (grids!)in ImageJ.
For the new image methods with R i added a new tab
in the R shell with examples to demonstrate how to work efficiently with big (image) matrices.... read more

A Linux version of Bio7 1.2 will be released soon with an improved and stable ImageJ version.

Today i released Bio7 1.2 for Windows:

Important to know:

Because Windows Vista is very sensitive to user rights etc. i reorganized the package installation
for installable add-on packages inside of Bio7. The default add-on packages location is now Rhome/site-library.
At this location inside Bio7 the packages will be installed by default (if not changed).

When starting the Rgui by means of Bio7 the default path to available packages is determined over the registry (Rhome with the Rhome/etc/.Rprofile file).
To synchronize the package location (Bio7 and Rgui) please start Bio7 with the enabled „Install path at startup“ once to set the registry path to the bundled R location.
By default this option is disabled (Not to harm an existing user installation!).... read more

Today i uploaded three new Flash tutorials
on the main site of Bio7 which demonstrate
some of the new features of Bio7 1.2.
Finally after some delay i hope to release Bio7 1.2
the next week.

The planned 1.2 release of Bio7
needs a few weeks more work. The release
is now scheduled for April.

Reasons:
The new features have to be tested and
improved for a reliable platform and more
examples have to be
created.

With the new release of Java 1.6.04 the Swing panels
are drawn without the disturbing flickerings on Linux. Install the new Java version if you want to see the difference.
Simply rename the embedded jre folder of the Bio7 release to start Bio7 with the new Java Runtime.

The next release of Bio7 will come with some
new features and also some improvements.

Improvements to come:

On Windows the embedded R editor will be more stable
if the interpreted source hasn't
got the right syntax and also prints errors
to the Bio7 console without the need to open
the OS console (The Rserve app. will not crash!).
Additionally the print() method will work too
(output to the Bio7 console).... read more