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Henry News

Welcome to the Henry web site. The purpose of this site is to keep you better informed of the changes we will be making in Henry and to allow you to give us feedback on your experiences using Henry.

28 July 2011 Henry 6.4.0.8 released

Improvements

• Improved support for importing GeoTIFF files, Tiff + ESRI aux and Tiff + ESRI aux.xml as both Raster and Continuous Raster charts.
• Improved parsing of a geographic position when pasted into a position control. Henry is now more likely to understand any lat / lon text you give it.
• Raster and S57 views now have a "Track Selection" setting on the context menu. When enabled, the view will automatically scroll to the best chart available for the currently selected object.
• Settings for Shapefiles are now persisted.
• New toolbar button to "Indicate updated areas" on raster charts.
• User defined Mercator grids are now supported.
• More datum codes are now recognised. In particular CGS for China.
• CHANGE: Requests for Attention (RAT) sounds settings are now stored per computer instead of per user. Existing RAT sound settings will need to be re-configured using View | Options | System | "Requests for Attention".
• There have also been several bug fixes.

Download demonstrator. Release history.

(Note: there was no Henry 6.3 release)

31 April 2011 Henry 6.2.0.97 released

Improvements

• Improved ‘Go To’ functionality for ENC cells.
• Improved Properties at Point for ENC charts.
• Improvement to allow import of shape files that cover the whole world.
• More outline styles for boundaries
• New toolbar buttons to temporarily hide recent ARCS and S57 chart updates
• There have also been several bug fixes.

16 November 2010 Henry 6.1.0.10 released

Very minor update of 6.1.0.1 that only affects users of the separate chart management applications, ManageX.msi

5 November 2010 Henry 6.1.0.1 released

New features

• Rhumb line boundaries can now contain arcs as well as straight lines.
• In environments where multiple applications use the CherSoft Chart databases, the Chart management applications are now available as a separate installer. This helps system manangers ensure that the versions of the Chart Management Applications used are suitable for all the client applications.

Improvements

• Typing geographic positions into a position control. has been made easier. A wider range of punctuation characters are accepted.
• An error where the S-57 Properties at Point was for a slightly wrong position (8 pixels offset from the tip of the pointer) has been fixed.
• S-57 chart drawing has been improved for certain cells which contain data that is at a much higher density that is normal for the cell's compilation scale.
• S-57 alarms for point LNDARE features hav ebeen improved. And chart clutter has been reduced by making the point LNDARE symbol slightly smaller.
• Workspaces now support Continous Raster properly. Previously the location of the Continuous Raster chart database was not stored in the workspace.
• Various other minor corrections have been implemented.

Henry Demo

You can try Henry for as long as you like by downloading the demonstration edition. This edition of Henry can be used to view demonstration ARCS charts and our World Vector Shoreline. There is no time limit and you can freely create and distribute all overlays.

Its only limitations are that S57 and ARCS data cannot be installed. However when you decide to purchase Henry you will receive a dongle which will allow you to install commercial charts.

Japanese Henry

We have just completed Henry testing to use Japanese ENC data. It is possible to install and view this data, however current Henry users will need to do the following in order to install and update Japanese cells.

1. Copy all files and folders from your Japanese Base or Update CD to a suitable folder on your hard drive.
2. Using Notepad, open the SERIAL.ENC file which you should find in the top level of the data you have copied.
3. The first two characters in the file should be JP. Change them to 7C. So for example:
   JPWK02-07   20070112BASE      01.00Copyright JAPAN COAST GUARD, 2007
   should be changed to:
   7CWK02-07   20070112BASE      01.00Copyright JAPAN COAST GUARD, 2007
4. Save the modified file.
5. Start ManageENC from Henry and install certificates and permits as normal.
6. When installing/updating cells make sure you install from the folder on your hard drive.

Henry releases with version 4.6 and above have this fix in place.