Release notes for 2.2.x releases

• January 15th 2000 Marvin 2.2. New:
  • In addition to the applets, a new application and JavaBeans were born:
    • MarvinSketch: the structure drawing program
    • Marvin Beans: components for software development
  • Keyboard! If you missed it so far, now you will find much more than you have ever expected. Marvin's keyboard shortcuts are very intuitive and easy to recall.
    • Shortcuts for all the elements. Accessing Caesium (C-S) have never been so easy!
    • Shortcuts for 8 bond types, templates, erase mode, undo, redo, etc.
  • Pop-up menus in both the AWT and the Swing version of MarvinSketch.
  • Recent structures. MarvinSketch remembers the last 20 structures used, including templates, atoms, copy/pasted parts. The recently used 5 molecule parts are just a right click away! This new unique feature of Marvin speeds up the creation of many similar molecules.
  • New query bond types: "single or double", "single or aromatic", "double or aromatic".
  • Bond topology (chain and ring query bonds in molfiles).
  • "Heteroatom" type for query structures.
  • Wait cursor at module loading.
  Fixed: missing "any atom"; charge problem with atom alias; MSWindows end of line problem in the Molecule File window; invisible atoms with Sun's JVM for MSWindows; molfile lines exceeding column 80 for structure with 9 or more charged atoms; etc.

  From now on, Marvin Installer installs the Marvin Java classes only in packaged forms: marvin.jar and marvin.zip. See the reasons and the consequences on the Changes page.