Software Update: Data Crow 3.8

Data Crow is written in Java and allows you to maintain a database containing information about CDs, DVDs, software, books, and music files. In this way it is possible to run a database in which your own collections can be found. Data Crow automatically pulls additional data from the Internet, such as track listings, descriptions, and the names of the artists and authors. In addition, it is possible to adjust the appearance of the program and to print your collection. The developers quickly released Data Crow 3.8 with the following announcement and list of changes:

Data Crow 3.8 has been released

For the most part a bugfix upon the 3.7 version but contains new online services as well. The 3.7 version contained errors which were not noticed while the 3.7 was in its beta stage. This release fixes ‘all’ of these issues. Note that this version has only be tested moderately.

New:

• Metacritic game and movie online service. An excellent resource for game and movie reviews.
• FreeBookSpot online service. A site from which eBooks can be downloaded.
• Added sourceforge.net as an online service. Sourceforge.net hosts open source projects like Data Crow and many others.

Changed:

• Invalid auto numberers are now automatically removed on startup. They can become invalid due to removal of the field from the module.
• Added additional checks to see if an item was destroyed. Picture objects are now also internally recycled.
• The drive scanner and drive poller (part of the Drive Manager) can now be configured (from within the Drive Manager dialog) to run on startup.
• The category field of the software module has been changed to a multi-reference field.
• Items can no longer be deleted when referenced by other items.

Fixed:

• Reserved keywords could be used as module and field names causing all kinds of startup errors. Data Crow now actively checks whether the name is allowed.
• NullPointerExceptions when starting Data Crow and while working with items in the views.
• Grouping pane looses its grouping.
• Picture disappears when updating a newly added item.
• Strange images being written to HTML reports.
• NullPointerException when creating a report.