Nieuwland Automatisering has released version 4.1 of Theme Browser. Theme Browser is an "ArcCatalog-like" extension for ArcView 3.x, and includes many advanced search and metadata options.
New features in version 4.1: - Geodatabase Browser and Theme Browser now use Microsoft's .NET framework 1.1 or higher for XML metadata parsing, dramatically improving search speed (probably close to a factor of 10). Theme Browser now processes five hundred to a thousand metadata files per minute on modern 3.0 GHz machines, allowing you to process medium sized metadata repositories (1000 - 5000 metadata records) with ease. - Geodatabase Browser now supports keyword metadata searches against ArcSDE geodatabases, including searches based on "spatial extent" and "publication date". No "ESRI Metadata Server" is necessary to support this, Geodatabase Browser will directly read the XML files in the geodatabase. A new search dialog has been added to facilitate this. - The new search functionality supports "cross-database" querying, allowing you to search more than one database connection at a time and showing results for all of them. - Connection parameters (server name & database username) are now being saved for later usage, allowing a faster login. - Theme Browser 4.1 adds support for NOAA's nautical charts in digital BSB (*.kap) format (requires the NOAA's Chartviewer extension as well, see http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/chartview/index.html) - Geodatabase Browser no longer sets the "Maximum number of rows in a keyset table" parameter of the Database Tables Preferences to a value of 0. Setting it to 0 allowed selectable, so called "keyset", tables for any size of database theme attribute table (e.g. 1 million records). However, due to limitations in ArcView and Database Access, this would generally lead to "lock-ups" of ArcView when attempting to create an attribute selection using the attribute selection dialog. Users can instead use the alternative method of opening the Theme Properties for a database theme, and then modifying the "SQL Where" clause of the theme, for performing attribute selections. This will work even if the attribute table is not a selectable "keyset" table. - Other minor improvements.
