Release Notes
What is new ?
- Compatibilty Changes
- The NC has been published under the terms of the GPLv3+
- at least Java 6 is required, Java 7 or later is recommended
- For the online help an external browser is required
- Core Functionalty
- 5200+ Units (more than 1900 are new)
- 93 Categories (10 are new)
- New Categories
- Fuel Efficiency (l/100 km, mpg, etc.)
- Time in Words (colloquial, official, military and by audio)
- Fractions (including periodic determination)
- Geographic Coordinates (Latitude/Longitue, UTM, etc.)
- Date and Timeformats (Unix time, ISO 8601, etc.)
- Calendar Systems (Gregorian Calendar, Maya, etc.)
- Slope (in % and Angle in °)
- Prüfsummen (powered by Jacksum) mit 61 Algorithmen und 10
verschiedenen Ausgabeformen
- Catalytic Activity (katal, mol/s, etc.)
- Concentration of Substance (mol/l, mol/m³, etc.)
- New Modules
- Exact calculation of time differences, even location dependent
timestamps
- Calculation of interest rates, seven common international methods
are supported
- Time zones including information of the time delta and the
distance in km
- Random Numbers
- You can throw up to 512 virtual dices, each dice colored if you
like, including the option to save the results
- Flexible, generic random generator with sort function
and optional avoidance of duplicate numbers
- Updated Modules
- The NC uses the holiday definitions of the sub-project called
xml-holidays 1.0, it supports more than 800 holidays from 31
countries for historic, current and future years
- In addition to flexible holidays like Easter or Advent
calculation, really complex dates like the Oktoberfest, Equinox
or Solstice are supported as well
- In addition to the formats dtcm, Outlook and vCalendar there is
also support for the formats called iCalendar (RFC 2445) and
XML-iCalendar (xcal) for the export to different programs like
Mozilla Sunbird oder Lightning
- Exchange Rates
- Direct download of exchange rates
- The parser has been improved and is now state of the art
- The Regular Expression Library has been replaced by the Java
Standard Regex API
- Updated all existing exchange rate filters
- 15 new exchange rate
filters
- New currency symbols (AON, AYM, CHW, CSD, COU, RON, RSD, SRD, MGA,
MZN, TRY, VEF, ZWL)
- Updated descriptions of all exchange rate filters with important
hints for Internet Explorer users
- Reformatted all filters for better readibility with the Windows
Look and Feel
- Spoken Numbers
- From now on, input can be interpreted as digits or as a number
- Syllables for audio output of numerals are available not only for
English and German but also for French (France, Switzerland and
Belgium), Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Schwedish, Dutch, Hungarian,
Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Hindi, Tamil, Esperanto, Russian,
Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)
- Support for French extended from 1 digit to 96 digits
- French is distiguished between French in France, Switzerland and
Belgium
- Support for Italian extended from 1 digit to 3 digits
- Support for Dutch up to 9 digits (new)
- Support for Hungarian extended from 1 digit to 24 digits
- Support for Hindi extended from 1 digit to 2 digits (not only
Transliteration but also written in Devanagari)
- Support for Tongan up to 100 digits (new)
- Support for phone dial sounds (new)
- Phonetic Alphabets also for both Austria and Switzerland
- Graphical User Interface
- Kategoriegruppen lassen sich nun bequem von der Hauptoberfläche
auswählen
- Neue Kategoriegruppenfilter
- Die Konfiguration der gesamten Oberfläche ist nun übersichtlich
in einem Dialog zusammengefasst
- Einheiten lassen sich nun auch über einen Dialog bearbeiten
- Bookmarks/Favorites is non-modal now for more flexibility
- Navigation menu contains all navigation related items now
- Verbesserungen bei der Bedienung des Wechselkursupdates
- Alphabetische Sortierung der Ausgabe bei der Auswahl von
Hilfe/Support
- visual improvements
- Support for country specific decimal point separators
- Distinction between decimal precision and significant numbers
- Popup of combo boxes get more space if necessary
- A finer font is used by default for both the Swing LnF and the
Ocean LnF
- A new splash screen immediately after the start
- "live resize" has been enabled
- Removed country flags in the language selection menu for being
politically correct
- Standard Look and Feel menu has been sorted alphabetically
- Support for the Squareness Look and Feel Theme Package
- Swing-layout (LGPL) has been used,
https://swing-layout.dev.java.net/
- User interface also in turkish
- Source Code
- group-files can contain comments
- build.xml has been updated, at least NetBeans 6 is recommended
- Many deprecated Java methods have been replaced
- New Libraries
- NimrodLnF 1.2, patched by jonelo
- Dice, patched by jonelo
- Jcoord 1.1-b, patched by jonelo
- Jacksum 1.7.0
- hvjavacal.jar 0.13
- Updated Libraries
- JCalendar, version 1.4
- Squareness LnF, version 2.3.0
- Kunststoff LnF, 2.0.3, patched by jonelo
- Metouia LnF 0.91, patched by jonelo
- Replaced Libraries
- Ostermiller Browser (replaced by Java Standard API)
- Regular Expression Library (replaced by Java Standard API)
- JavaHelp (replaced by native Browser)
- Java Look and feel Graphics Repository (replaced by free icons)
- Help
- The Program Help has been updated
- The "Java Help"-System has been replaced by the standard
browser
- Installers
- Native installers are available (.exe, .bin, .deb, .rpm) in order to
install the software correctly into your operating system
- A mobile solution is available in order to run the software 100 %
from a mobile device without any traces on the host operating system
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