FlowDesigner is a data flow-oriented development environment. It can be used to build complex applications by combining small, reusable building blocks. In some ways, it is similar to both Simulink and LabView, but is hardly a clone of either.
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specificInitialize() has been renamed to initialize(). This affects those who write their own nodes. There is some new documentation. Cancelling a program with the "stop" button has less chance of causing a crash. CAllPole was renamed to IIR, making it more clear what the node is doing. There are various GUI improvements, many bugfixes, real-time clock (/dev/rtc) support for timing/waiting, and user-defined struct-like types through the use of the MakeComposite and GetComposite nodes.
Many improvements to the gnome GUI (copy/paste, tooltips, bugfixes, etc.), improved C++ code generation (generated code can now be compiled on Win32), basic networking support, improved debugging, speed improvements (including auto-detection of 3DNow! and SSE), overflow "shell scripts" (#! files), and bugfixes were added. Code was cleaned up and simplified.
A major bug was fixed in the GMM code. The first working version of the Fuzzy
Logic toolkit was added. It is now safe to install overflow with --prefix=/usr.
The core of Overflow (not the GUI) was ported to Win32. The first working
version of the C++ code generator was added. Instead of saving into a XML file,
C++ code is generated and can be built to produce stand-alone applications
using dynamically loaded toolboxes.
New features include binary I/O (serialization/unserialization) of objects,
major improvements to object ASCII I/O (mostly with the Vector type), the
ability to pass any object type as a parameter from the GUI, gcc 2.96-RH
support, performance improvements, fixes for Piper
(http://bioinformatics.org/piper/) compatibility, and several new nodes. A
default FFT implementation is now used when FFTW is not available.
