About Service Pack 4.21

Thomas Guide DigitialEdition 4.21 is available for users who do not wish to update to version 5. It is recommended that users upgrade to version 5 instead.

You can determine your current version by starting your DigitalEdition, and selection "About Thomas Guide" from the "Help" menu. If your version number is earlier than 4.01, it cannot be upgraded and you must purchase a new copy of the Digital Edition in order to get the new features.

When you begin the download of Sp421.exe, save it to a temporary folder or your desktop, then double-click on the file icon to start the Service Pack installation.

Download Service Pack 4.21 (19 Mb)

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.21

• Improved Address Lookup and Geocoding
  • Address lookups would often list the wrong city or zip code. Now if you specify a city or zip code in your input, the results shown are limited within these parameters.
• Proper Uninstall for Windows XP.
  • When uninstalling on a Windows XP system, not all TGDE files were removed. This has been fixed. (Note that any file the user has modified will never be uninstalled, such as the User Point.mdb file and downloaded internet maps.)

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.12

• Page Number Correction
  • For California 2001 only, the page numbers found in TGDE did not match those printed in the Central Valley Cities guides. They now match.
• Help Topics improved
  • Several additions and clarifications have been made to the Help Topics.
• Compatible with 4.13 versions of ToolBox, Enterprise Pack, and Mapcontrol

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.12

• Windows 2000 Installer no longer requests CD-Rom
  • The MS Windows® Installer will no longer request the MS Office 2000® Cd-Rom when running the Digital Edition.
• Address Lookup Dialog Enhancement
  • The Address Lookup form has better examples and the Assistant Dialogs now list the address you are searching for.

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.11

• Toolbox Compatibility
  • Custom maps created with the TGDE Toolbox can be viewed in version 4.11.
• Legend Printing.
  • TGDE will print a list of the User Points that are displayed on the map. Users of the 1.0 version missed this feature, which has been restored.

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.10

• Printer lockups fixed
  • If a printer did not have enough memory to print a Map, sometimes the entire computer would lock up, forcing you to reboot. This error is now fixed and in general printing is more robust.
• Zoom Bar
  • On the lower-right of the window a Zoom Bar appears. Slide the tab or click on the slider bar to quickly Zoom In or Zoom Out.
• Toolbar Customization
  • You can add a toolbar and customize it by selecting Toolbars from the View menu.
• New Opening Screen and Wizard
  • The opening dialog has additional features. It can also be accessed at any time by selecting the Wizard button from the main toolbar.
• Cross Street Lookup
  • In the Address Lookup form, you can look up by cross street.
• Hourglass during draw processes
  • When the map is redrawing, and hourglass will appear telling you when it is drawing. You are still able to pan or zoom while it is redrawing.
• New Query/Select Icon
  • The Query/Select icon now has an Arrow with a Question mark, so the user can more easily see when the program is in Query/Select mode.

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.05

• Access Violations no longer occur.
  • TGDE 4.04 produced access violation error messages on some PCs. This has been fixed.
• Panning to "Empty" Areas of the Map
  • In TGDE 4.04, if you panned or zoomed to an area of the map which contained no features (outside the map coverage area), the gray background would fill the map window. In V4.05, if you zoom/pan to such an area, the bell rings and the view reverts to the previous view.

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.04

• New Opening Screen
  • A new opening screen has been added to quickly take you to the most popular features of TGDE: Find, My Points, Address Lookup and Key Map.
• Removal of 25 User Points Limitation
  • You can now create an unlimited number of User Points.

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.03

• New File Format Uses Less Memory
  • The Washington DC data is delivered in a format that allows this version of Thomas Guide Digital Edition™ to use less memory than V4.01/4.02. If you have previously installed the Clark County, NV dataset, it will automatically be converted to the new format the first time you open that dataset. If you cancel the conversion or if the conversion does not complete for any other reason, the program will use the existing files and re-attempt the conversion the next time you run the program.
• Updated Find Utility - The POI page in the Find Utility now displays progress to the user as it loads the data table.  In addition, the Find text-box now intelligently searches as the user types text.
• When you select multiple points to Go To in the Organize Points dialog, Thomas Guide DE now puts all of the points into the query window.
• Windows NT Crashes in 256-Color Mode - This has been fixed.
• Now displays colors better when running in 256-color mode.
• Some printing problems have been fixed.
• Some problems in address lookup have been fixed.
• Previously, when viewing an Internet map, the new layer would be shown at the location viewed when Thomas Guide DE was first started. Now it shows the new layer at the current viewing location.
• Copy to clipboard now works from the query window in all cases.
• Previously, when switching between two data sets, the wrong location would be displayed. This has been fixed.
• If only one data set is installed, no longer asks user to choose a data set at startup.
• In the overview window, sometimes the hand pan cursor would be displayed when the resizing arrow cursor should be displayed (and vice-versa).
• In the main window, when the mouse was in the surround area, the cursor would only show the NE/SE/NW/SW arrows if it was exactly in the corner. This has been fixed so that the cursor displayed now correctly reflects the direction that the map will be panned.
• If the CD-ROM is not present, don't offer Retry and Cancel buttons. Just show message box asking user to insert CD-ROM and exit. When you insert the CD-ROM, AUTORUN will automatically start a new instance of the application.

Fixes and Enhancements in Version 4.02

• Occasionally an access violation occurs at program startup.
• Sometimes maps fail to download from the Internet.
• Typing a page number in the Find Page tool and pressing the Go To Map button does not display the page.
• A progress indicator is now displayed to show the status of Internet downloads.
• Improved performance on Internet downloads.
• Many additional Internet map layers are available for download from the Thomas Bros. Map Exchange.

If you have any questions or problems with this upgrade, contact tgde@thomas.com for assistance.

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