Release Notes (historic)
Version 2.0.0
Version 1.6.0, patch 2 (25-Feb-2007)
- Bugs fixed
- Two mass per time values are wrong
- Restart or changing the language can hang the GUI (sf #1601343)
- Minor Updates:
- Slowenia has got the Euro in 2007
- DST rules for the holiday calendar are now provided exclusively by the Java Runtime Environment
Version 1.6.0, patch 1 (01-Nov-2006)
- Bugs fixed
- Five frequency values are wrong
- GUI freezes if both Metouia Look and Feel and JRE 5.0 are used
- If JRE 5 is used, scientific format can be applied, even if the user has not selected the sci format
- Favorites are not always found
- Descriptions of the hardness of water values are confusing
- Minor Updates:
- Exchange rates filters have been updated where possible
- Spanish language resources have been updated
- Support for the "at"-character in the Morse code
Version 1.6.0 (16-May-2004)
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The NC supports
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More than 3200 units in 82 categories and 10 exchange rate filters
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This is more than 900 new units and 4 new categories
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The graphical user interface has been localized in 7 languages
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New modules/categories
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Convert timezones from all over the wold, the calculation take the summer
time as well as date and time into account
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19 interactive phonetic alphabets are supported (international, morse,
NATO/ICAO, american and british english, french, spanish, german, italian,
portuguese, danish, dutch, swedish, hebrew and a few historic alphabets)
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The category "Screen resolutions" is new
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The category "Performance of the FPU" is new
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The category "Calendar (year)" is new and it is aware of more then 90 international
holidays from the US, Germany and Switzerland
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The category "Calendar (date)" is aware of the sun signs and the "age in
days"
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The category "Color" has been expanded to the HSB-colormodel
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The category "Unicode" is able to take strings
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It speaks numbers in "Morsecode" literally and via audio
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For all Star Trek fans: klingon spoken numbers (up to 1030-1)
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New features
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The graphical user interface has been optimized for faster navigation
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Additional language support for greek and hebrew
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English has been separated into US and UK english
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The country descriptions (ISO-3166) are not only available in english and
german, but also in french, portuguese and hebrew
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The currency descriptions (ISO-4217) are not only available in english,
but also in german and hebrew
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You can bookmark favorites for a faster navigation
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You can filter categories
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If you filter categories the GUI shows an appropriate icon
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Category filter are stored in flat files and it is easy to create your
own
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You can search for units and categories
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All available international holidays can be exported to dtcm, Outlook or
any vCalendar-compatible application
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You can easily select a date with the date picker dialog, you can select
the week of the year or just add or subract days or weeks to find the date
you want.
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If you select the category spoken numbers, calendar or color, the GUI shows
additional buttons for an appropriate context
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Undo- and redo-functions are available for the inputs
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The build-in editor can save text in ISO-8855-1
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if available, more Look&Feel-Standards are choosable (Aqua on Mac OS
X, GTK+ 2.0, plastic, squareness and Ocean which comes with J2SE 1.5)
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The configuration items has been joined into one menu
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The navigation items has been joined into one menu
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You can disable tooltips
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The feature "native or java decorated windows" (introduced in NC 1.5) can
be enabled or disabled with the GUI
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You can set both default unit and defalut value
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If you restart the application you will be informed that the window will
disappear for a while
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Tables and help have been separated
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A few nicer images
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New tables
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Bugs fixed
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Improved internationalization
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The function "cut" copies the content before
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Too many "and" at the english spoken number module (already in Patch nc-1.5.1-patch-20040126.zip)
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There is no "and" if you just use integer values - bug at the US english
spoken number moule
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All exchange rate filters have been updated
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updated ISO-3166 list (AX:Åland Islands und CS:Serbia and Montenegro
are new)
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Latest modules and libraries
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JavaHelp 2.0_01 (already in Patch nc-1.5.1-patch-20040126.zip)
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Sugar 1.2.0
Version 1.5.1 (20-Jul-2003)
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bugs fixed
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NC does not start with JRE 1.3
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NC does not start if locale is not english, german, french, spanish or
portuguese
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NC does not play sounds
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minor features
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Mac OS X support: implemented some of the Apple Human interface guidelines,
so the NC looks like a native application on Mac
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System look and feel is pickable
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Logfiles (standard in and standard out) can be created on demand (-logfile)
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User properties can be deleted on demand (-reset)
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Online help updated
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Tested successfully with 1.4.2
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latest modules and libraries
Version 1.5.0 (01-Jun-2003)
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now NC provides 2300 units in 78 categories, 10 exchange rate filters
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more than 700 new units and 3 new categories
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new modules
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Calendar module (day of week, week of month, etc.)
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International dial codes (both directions)
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Alphanumeric phone numbers
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Spanish spoken number module (up to 1^30-1)
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Esperanto spoken number module (up to 999)
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Latin spoken number module (up to 99)
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Russian spoken number module (up to 99)
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Japanese spoken number module (up to 99)
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new features
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Scientific notation support
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Spanish language support
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NC is now able to speak numbers in a language (a soundcard is required,
currently german is supported)
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Window size, window location, Look and Feel and the selected theme will
be stored
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Unicode is supported in config files and the build-in editor
(for displaying special characters like Ohm, special currency symbols
or cyrillic chars)
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Build-in editor can save text as UTF-8, UTF-16le, UTF-16be and HTML
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Build-in editor can load text as UTF-8, UTF-16le, UTF-16be and ISO5589-1
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Font size can be set for the build-in editor for presentation purposes
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Source and target can be set to a default index
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Extended exchange rate filter specification for making bloomberg filter
working correctly
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Special effect: exit animation (edit $HOME/.nc.properties)
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Some nicer images
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Java 1.4+
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the NC takes full advantace of the most cool Java 1.4 features
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Mouse wheel support
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Full Unicode 3.0 support
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Native or Java decorated window (edit $HOME/.nc.properties)
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Tested successfully with Java 1.4.2 beta
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new tables
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Buchformate (german only)
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ISIN (german only)
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Earthquake intensity scale (german and english)
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HTTP status codes (german and english)
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Engl. paper sizes (german and english)
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bugs fixed
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updated exchange rate filters which were not working anymore
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desktop file for UNIX (missing working directory for Gnome and KDE)
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fixed localization typos
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latest modules and libraries
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JavaHelp 2.0 release candidate
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IzPack 3.0.8a
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Sugar 1.0.2
Version 1.4.0 (02-Dec-2002)
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now NC provides 1607 units in 75 categories, 10 exchange rate filters
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new modules
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colorcode module
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Romanian spoken number module
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Unicode module
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new features
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now friendly to multi-user platforms
(user properties will be stored in the user homedirectory while system
properties remain in the installation folder)
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2 new exchange rate filters (ECB and ExchangeRate.com)
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a step controlled unit list can be generated for one or all targets
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format of notice can be set
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you can save notices
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color chooser for the colorcode module
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reload feature for units
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maximum view
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improved ant script (tested with Ant 1.5)
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added Mohs Scratch Hardness (only german help file)
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added some DIN norms (only german help file)
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a lot of nicer images
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installer creates shortcuts under Windows
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png and xpm files for UNIX desktops
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desktop file for GNOME
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bugs fixed
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updated exchange rate filters which were not working anymore
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updated ISO configuration data
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fixed some bugs in the help file
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fixed typos in lang/categories_de.list
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fixed typos in the installer
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latest modules and libraries
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JavaHelp library 1.3.1
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Metouia LnF 1.0 beta
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IzPack 3.1.0 cvs
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Sugar 1.0.1
Version 1.3.0 (01-May-2002)
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now NC provides 1201 units in 73 categories
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new features
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faster program start
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count units and categories with one click
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french language support
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portuguese language support
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new portuguese and brazil spoken number modules (up to 1e36-1)
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extended UK, US and german spoken number modules (up to 1e96-1)
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Themes-support also for Kunststoff LnF and Metouia LnF
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improved themes and new themes
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providing Ant-script for developers
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very powerful exchange rate modules
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now it supports _all_ currencies defined in ISO 4217
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providing country flags for 236 countries
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new exchange rate filters (Bloomberg, iccfx.com, United Nations, Reisebank
and Oanda)
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shows currencies and their corresponding country flag
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improved exchange rates update dialog
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updating exchange rates also at the command line for cronjobs
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better performance for exchange rates update process
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you can cancel exchange rate update process
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your preferred exchange rates filter will be stored
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bugs fixed
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repaint problem under Solaris fixed
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resource bundle will be loaded only if it differs from the previous selected
one
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latest modules and libraries
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IzPack 2.12.0 (with a few modifications)
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Kunststoff LnF 2.0.1
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Metouia LnF alpha
Version 1.2.0 (30-Nov-2001)
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Kunststoff Look&Feel Rendering Bug fixed
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more country flags
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Update of exchangerates with the GUI (2 filters are supported)
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Language selection with the GUI
Version 1.1.0 (28-Oct-2001):
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Internationalization (GUI and help)
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English and german available
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Frame and components are resizable
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New About-Dialog
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On-Line-Help available
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Standard Look&Feels are supported
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Metal-Themes are supported
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Kunststoff-Look&Feel are supported
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using Forte for Java CE 3.0
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using IzPack 2.9.0
Version 1.0.0a (23-Sep-2001):
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no changes on Java sources, it's still 1.0.0
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bug fixed in the UNIX nc100 script
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register.txt now supported in german and english
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using IzPack 2.6.0
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recompiled with Sun's J2SDK 1.3.1
Version 1.0.0 (19-Sep-2001):
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first published application version
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1051 units and 68 categories
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register.txt only in german
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using IzPack 2.5.0
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compiled with Sun's J2SDK 1.3.0
a long time ago...
- When I was very young, my Dad was able to enthuse me for different units from all over the world - thank you Dad.
- My
first implementation of a unit-converter happend in the year 1992,
and it was written in Pascal (well, I never published it since it was
more a test software in order to learn Pascal)
- Since none of
the existing unit converters matched my wishlist for a unit
converter, I decided to write my own unit converter software. It should
contain all features that I have had in mind, it should be free,
open source and it should run not only on Windows
- In 1996 I published a little applet at the university of applied sciences
in Landshut, it was based on Java 1.1 and it provided already some conversions. I called the applet NumberConverter.
- On
Sep 19, 2001, one week after the terrible terror attack on the
World Trace Center in New York, I decided to release the first public
release of the NumericalChameleon under the GPL, because in my
humble opinion freedom is the only logical answer for the future