Neuromantic V1.6.2 now available!

OK, I have uploaded Neuromantic V1.6.2 to the site - I've made sure the ZIP file works this time, also ;)

V1.6.2 mainly adds some bug fixes and minor features over V1.6.1, and I'm quietly confident that I've finally squashed the horribly annoying byzantine error that I've been trying to track down for several releases.

I've altered the selectable bounding boxes on compartments so that they're now the entire width of the compartment, rather than always 10 pixels either side. Lone nodes (with parent nor child) also display their radius now in the form of a circle around the midpoint, and it should be easier to select/drag around the root soma point of a tree that's surrounded by child compartments.

Another handy addition is the ability to press Ctrl+W and cycle through all the currently selected segments. This could be useful when correcting trifurcations or similar.

In terms of semi-automatic reconstruction, a median radius filter operation has been added that helps compensate for radius estimation errors. The radius of each compartment is simply calculated as the median of the estimated radii of a 3 compartment neighbourhood along the neurite.

It's also now possible to Autoselect overlapping points i.e. points that have exactly the same coordinates as another point in the tree. It was primarily added for Duncan Donohue, who's currently administrating the NeuroMorpho archive, and shouldn't be needed in the standard course of a reconstruction. In the case of overlapping identical subtrees, it will currently just select one of the subtrees arbitrarily (depending on ordering in the list). I believe that it should select entire overlapping subtrees due to the way the tree sorting algorithms work, but it's conceivable that in some circumstances it will select some from both - let me know if this happens.

Neuromantic V1.5.5 now released (and general update)

The new release is a little later than I originally intended (as always), but V1.5.5
fixes quite a few bugs and implements quite a bit more functionality.

* Fixed minor bugs associated with statistics calculations from tree -
the area and volume calculations were badly rounded due to storage as
an integer rather than a float (bad Nathan!)
* Implemented statistical testing properly - in V1.5.4 this didn't
really work at all. I blame the testing department. Wait a minute, I don't have one.
* Speeded up stack rotation and other bitmap operations significantly
through avoiding use of standard Windows TBitmaps.
* Fixed bug associated with stack rotation on certain sized stacks
* 3D stack visualisation now supports standard colourisations such as
JET and HSV, and has generally still been jazzed up. I still need to
cause the stack to be subsampled when it's too large, though, as this
can still bring the applications to its knees, so be careful.
* Implemented ability to drag multiple selected segments in both 2D
and 3D windows, as requested originally by Duncan and more recently by
Kerry. I'll try and implement similar functionality for radius
editing soon.

On a similar note, I'll try and make time to create some video tutorials with CamStudio, which is a very handy utility that allows you to make videos of your desktop and record audio over it. In this way it should be ten times easier to demonstrate the usage of Neuromantic than attempt to describe its use in the manual.

If you find any bugs, please report them to the Neuromantic User Group (which is linked to in the application from the About menu) and I shall attempt to squash them for the next release.