Astrocalc 6.2 Change Log

Legend:
+ Improvement/amendment
* Bug fix

6.2.0.45 - 20 Feb 2012
+ Major improvement of the Data Entry form. The Search & Select has been moved in to and replace the old Name field in Chart Details, and now has all functions of Name, Search and Select at one place.
+ Made editing and saving a chart a distinct action, allowing for several charts to be added without need to do anything else, just save them to the database of charts. Except for the Charts name, all values can still be changed and used in a temporary fashion.
+ Improved the search function so its results will now display in the dropdown list with enough details to distinguage between similar charts.
+ When searching for a Place and more than one is found the list now drops unconditionally displaying detailed result data to select from, if only 1 hit the place is loaded automatically. The option to prevent this has been removed as it didn't make sense.
+ The concept of a Default Group was added to optionally be used from start for New charts.
+ (Behaviour Change) When you click any of the Now/Clock buttons a Wheel is now loaded instantly and the input fields in Chart Details is updated on return from the Wheel.
+ (Behaviour Change) Search parameters on the Synastry form Atlas panel are no longer saved on change, only read to be set when form loads.
+ Added the option "Search World" to the Atlas panel to allow for worlswide searches without the need to blank the Country field first. That option still works though.
+ Moved, yet again, the Huber options switch to what should be it's final distination, at least as long as Data Entry has this format.
* Fixed a crash situation in Single Harmonics
* Buttons to control Now and Clock charts on the Wheel was misaligned and didn't show in some cases.
* Fixed Horary Planetary Hours where the planet order (Chaldean) was wrong and probably been since the introduction. Also general improvements to Horary including the function to enter new orbs.
* It's now possible (again) to delete the chart automatically loaded on program start, that was saved as the last one used from previous session.


6.2.0.44 - 14 Dec 2011
+ GUI improvements to Chinese Astrology and extended the years table to include 2024/2025
* Opening the Table of Houses module caused am error preventing it from working properly.
* Clicking the Next button on the utility Sunrise/Sunset and Moonrise/Moonset caused am error preventing it from working properly.
* Some non english text files contained text garbage, not effecting functinality but made them unnecessar large.

6.2.0.43 - 30 Nov 2011
+ Implemented Unicode 3.0 support, mostly in preparation for the future and the addition of new languages as Czech, but also for display and storage of non ANSI characters.
+ On most forms you can now show help by simply hovering with the mouse over an area or control, without the need to actually select it. This feature can be switched On/Off from the Help menu.
+ Improved the Research File Setup form so files can no be given a readable name and are selectable from a list. Changed the header format to use 0/1 instead of Y/N, conversion is automatic.
+ Further improvement to and slight reorganization of Chart Design form. In relation to fixing a Huber print issue, it also got its own space for settings.
+ Updated Atlas to cover latest changes to daylight saving time schedules or time zone data, concerns Samoa, Brazil, Cuba, Newfoundland, Moldava, Belarus and Ukraine.
+ Some further improvements to the Chart Design form.
+ The following forms can now be accessed from the Wheel as well as the Data Entry: Aspect Orbs, Alternate Symbols, Edit Interpretation Text and Fixed Stars
+ Some restructoring and improvement to documentation, as well as various internal optimizations and clean up of code.
* Directly after start, trying to delete the chart reloaded from last run crashed Astrocalc.
* Fixed an issue related to adding a new place and not selecting time zone.
* Fixed an issue with printing of the Huber wheel where the header was wrong and a mixup of some settings shared by both type of wheels caused the bottom part of the Huber wheel to print blank. Huber now has its own settings in Chart Design as mentioned above.
* Fixed a bug in Research data storage when data was stored as plain numbers.
* On the Chart Design form, changing printer setting for Single wheel aspect circle, instead changed it for bi-/tri wheels.
* Fixed several instances where a space was missing between 2 words were at least 1 was varibly inserted.
* In a scenario most common with Returns, if you changed the input related to Place/Country and didn't save the changes when asked, the program would later crash when closing the Wheel.

6.2.0.42 - 9 Oct 2011
+ Atlas 2.0: The item United Kingdom in country list was split up in respectively countrys as England, Scotland, Wales etc.
+ The setting 'Chart Aspect Ratio' was renamed to 'Roundness of Circle" and at the same time it was moved from being a menu setting to the Chart Design form.
+ Further adjustments to improve the scaling of the wheel, especially or larger and odd resolutions.
+ The Chart Design form is now also available from the Wheel.
+ Updates to the German translation.
+ Several improvements and minor adjustments to the GUI (Graphical User Interface).
* Some parts of documentation was outdated and was fixes.
* Fixed a regression in Synastry module causing it to crash the program.

6.2.0.41 - 30 Sep 2011
+ New Atlas component with a manager to that makes the atlas more useful, among other things:
+ When adding a place now also allows to set time zone (if country has more than one) and ensure changes survive an update, same for co-ordinate changes of original places.
+ The ability to store up to 10 places for fast access at data entry of charts.
+ The ability to create and use aliases for country names.
+ Current Location function replaced by Default Place, which equals the the first of ten slots used for fast access of places.

+ Restored the function to quickly return to Natal mode from none-natal routines, by click of a button.
+ Now Chart: Default Place only used if setting is set.
+ Improved the default wheel circle size for a varity of screen resolutions, including but not limited to odd ones often seen on notebooks.
+ Included all 8 languages available in old version 5 of Astrocalc. Even if some aren't complete or 100% accurate, it makes sense for users not that comfortable with English and should make the program more usable to them.
* Corrected a naming issue where the Equatorial Ascendant wrongly was named East Point.
* Various internal improvements and small external tweaks to improve the user experience.

6.2.0.40 - 27 June 2011
* Fixed an overflow error that could happen when trying to select a chart from an empty group.
* Changes to co-ordinates without changing the Place name didn't trigger the Save Changes dialogue. Fixed.
+ Further amendments and adjustments of time zone data in accordance with latest changes, mainly concerning Russia, Egypt and Samoa.

6.2.0.39 - 6 June 2011
* Starting with this release, the program executable as well as the Setup package is now signed with a digital certificate.
* Fixed a glitch with Atlas and Time zone data to provide known time zone data, according to current rules world wide.

6.2.0.38 - 29 Sep 2010
+ Improved the way interpretation text files are handled, especially in connection with upgrades and updates, including a menu option to manually verify existing and add orphan files to the configuration.
* Corrected a display issue in Ascara Evolution where planets wasn't properly aligned.
* Corrected a display issue in Midpoints Trees where where items attached to the tree with the |= symbol wasn't properly coloured. An other issue dating back to the version 5 days finally solved!

6.2.0.37 - 11 Sep 2010
+ Improved the selection and data entry procedure for Derived Composite in the Synastry module.
+ Improved how the Atlas interact with Chart details.
* Some Non-Natal routines used Equal Houses unless a Natal Wheel was displayed first.
* The options dialog used with Transits and some other places didn't have the support for Windows Styles properly implemented.
* Minor adjustments and improvements.

6.2.0.36 - 20 Aug 2010
* When opening the menu for interpretation in Synastry form the program could crash.
* The usage implementation of purchased interpretation text didn't work properly for Non English text.

6.2.0.35
+ Added basic support for Windows Styles.
+ Made the Chart Design settings screen more user friendly.
* Solved an issue with the Atlas which potentially could cause file permission problems on Windows Vista/7

(6.2.0.26 - 6.2.0.34 - Where never relased publically)

6.2.0.25
* Added the possibility to import the Famous chart set from Input menu.
* A Major overhaul of the retaining of files and data when old version is present on Installation. It's now all automatic.
* Improvements in the handling and configuration of interpretation text files.

6.2.0.24
* Fix an index out of sync for some text file subroutines.

6.2.0.23
* Fixed a bug in the initialization of Synasty and Midpoints text files
* Fixed an Out of Subscript error in Zodiac Calendar.
* Minor optimizations and tweaks.

6.2.0.22
Initial release