## Release Notes (historic)

Version 2.0.0

- see also Release Notes (what is new ?)

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)

- The NC supports

- More than 3200 units in 82 categories and 10 exchange rate filters
- This is more than 900 new units and 4 new categories
- The graphical user interface has been localized in 7 languages

- New modules/categories

- Convert timezones from all over the wold, the calculation take the summer time as well as date and time into account
- 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)
- The category "Screen resolutions" is new
- The category "Performance of the FPU" is new
- The category "Calendar (year)" is new and it is aware of more then 90 international holidays from the US, Germany and Switzerland
- The category "Calendar (date)" is aware of the sun signs and the "age in days"
- The category "Color" has been expanded to the HSB-colormodel
- The category "Unicode" is able to take strings
- It speaks numbers in "Morsecode" literally and via audio
- For all Star Trek fans: klingon spoken numbers (up to 1030-1)

- New features

- The graphical user interface has been optimized for faster navigation
- Additional language support for greek and hebrew
- English has been separated into US and UK english
- The country descriptions (ISO-3166) are not only available in english and german, but also in french, portuguese and hebrew
- The currency descriptions (ISO-4217) are not only available in english, but also in german and hebrew
- You can bookmark favorites for a faster navigation
- You can filter categories
- If you filter categories the GUI shows an appropriate icon
- Category filter are stored in flat files and it is easy to create your own
- You can search for units and categories
- All available international holidays can be exported to dtcm, Outlook or any vCalendar-compatible application
- 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.
- If you select the category spoken numbers, calendar or color, the GUI shows additional buttons for an appropriate context
- Undo- and redo-functions are available for the inputs
- The build-in editor can save text in ISO-8855-1
- 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)
- The configuration items has been joined into one menu
- The navigation items has been joined into one menu
- You can disable tooltips
- The feature "native or java decorated windows" (introduced in NC 1.5) can be enabled or disabled with the GUI
- You can set both default unit and defalut value
- If you restart the application you will be informed that the window will disappear for a while
- Tables and help have been separated
- A few nicer images

- New tables

- NOAA-Scales

- Bugs fixed

- Improved internationalization
- The function "cut" copies the content before
- Too many "and" at the english spoken number module (already in Patch nc-1.5.1-patch-20040126.zip)
- There is no "and" if you just use integer values - bug at the US english spoken number moule
- All exchange rate filters have been updated
- updated ISO-3166 list (AX:Åland Islands und CS:Serbia and Montenegro are new)

- Latest modules and libraries

- JavaHelp 2.0_01 (already in Patch nc-1.5.1-patch-20040126.zip)
- Sugar 1.2.0

Version 1.5.1 (20-Jul-2003)

- bugs fixed

- NC does not start with JRE 1.3
- NC does not start if locale is not english, german, french, spanish or portuguese
- NC does not play sounds

- minor features

- Mac OS X support: implemented some of the Apple Human interface guidelines, so the NC looks like a native application on Mac
- System look and feel is pickable
- Logfiles (standard in and standard out) can be created on demand (-logfile)
- User properties can be deleted on demand (-reset)
- Online help updated
- Tested successfully with 1.4.2

- latest modules and libraries

- Sugar 1.1.0

Version 1.5.0 (01-Jun-2003)

- now NC provides 2300 units in 78 categories, 10 exchange rate filters

- more than 700 new units and 3 new categories

- new modules

- Calendar module (day of week, week of month, etc.)
- International dial codes (both directions)
- Alphanumeric phone numbers
- Spanish spoken number module (up to 1^30-1)
- Esperanto spoken number module (up to 999)
- Latin spoken number module (up to 99)
- Russian spoken number module (up to 99)
- Japanese spoken number module (up to 99)

- new features

- Scientific notation support
- Spanish language support
- NC is now able to speak numbers in a language (a soundcard is required, currently german is supported)
- Window size, window location, Look and Feel and the selected theme will be stored
- Unicode is supported in config files and the build-in editor
(for displaying special characters like Ohm, special currency symbols or cyrillic chars)
- Build-in editor can save text as UTF-8, UTF-16le, UTF-16be and HTML
- Build-in editor can load text as UTF-8, UTF-16le, UTF-16be and ISO5589-1
- Font size can be set for the build-in editor for presentation purposes
- Source and target can be set to a default index
- Extended exchange rate filter specification for making bloomberg filter working correctly
- Special effect: exit animation (edit $HOME/.nc.properties)
- Some nicer images

- Java 1.4+

- the NC takes full advantace of the most cool Java 1.4 features
- Mouse wheel support
- Full Unicode 3.0 support
- Native or Java decorated window (edit $HOME/.nc.properties)
- Tested successfully with Java 1.4.2 beta

- new tables

- Buchformate (german only)
- ISIN (german only)
- Earthquake intensity scale (german and english)
- HTTP status codes (german and english)
- Engl. paper sizes (german and english)

- bugs fixed

- updated exchange rate filters which were not working anymore
- desktop file for UNIX (missing working directory for Gnome and KDE)
- fixed localization typos

- latest modules and libraries

- JavaHelp 2.0 release candidate
- IzPack 3.0.8a
- Sugar 1.0.2

Version 1.4.0 (02-Dec-2002)

- now NC provides 1607 units in 75 categories, 10 exchange rate filters
- new modules

- colorcode module
- Romanian spoken number module
- Unicode module

- new features

- now friendly to multi-user platforms
(user properties will be stored in the user homedirectory while system properties remain in the installation folder)
- 2 new exchange rate filters (ECB and ExchangeRate.com)
- a step controlled unit list can be generated for one or all targets
- format of notice can be set
- you can save notices
- color chooser for the colorcode module
- reload feature for units
- maximum view
- improved ant script (tested with Ant 1.5)
- added Mohs Scratch Hardness (only german help file)
- added some DIN norms (only german help file)
- a lot of nicer images
- installer creates shortcuts under Windows
- png and xpm files for UNIX desktops
- desktop file for GNOME

- bugs fixed

- updated exchange rate filters which were not working anymore
- updated ISO configuration data
- fixed some bugs in the help file
- fixed typos in lang/categories_de.list
- fixed typos in the installer

- latest modules and libraries

- JavaHelp library 1.3.1
- Metouia LnF 1.0 beta
- IzPack 3.1.0 cvs
- Sugar 1.0.1

Version 1.3.0 (01-May-2002)

- now NC provides 1201 units in 73 categories
- new features

- faster program start
- count units and categories with one click
- french language support
- portuguese language support
- new portuguese and brazil spoken number modules (up to 1e36-1)
- extended UK, US and german spoken number modules (up to 1e96-1)
- Themes-support also for Kunststoff LnF and Metouia LnF
- improved themes and new themes
- providing Ant-script for developers

- very powerful exchange rate modules

- now it supports _all_ currencies defined in ISO 4217
- providing country flags for 236 countries
- new exchange rate filters (Bloomberg, iccfx.com, United Nations, Reisebank and Oanda)
- shows currencies and their corresponding country flag
- improved exchange rates update dialog
- updating exchange rates also at the command line for cronjobs
- better performance for exchange rates update process
- you can cancel exchange rate update process
- your preferred exchange rates filter will be stored

- bugs fixed

- repaint problem under Solaris fixed
- resource bundle will be loaded only if it differs from the previous selected one

- latest modules and libraries

- IzPack 2.12.0 (with a few modifications)
- Kunststoff LnF 2.0.1
- Metouia LnF alpha

Version 1.2.0 (30-Nov-2001)

- Kunststoff Look&Feel Rendering Bug fixed
- more country flags
- Update of exchangerates with the GUI (2 filters are supported)
- Language selection with the GUI

Version 1.1.0 (28-Oct-2001):

- Internationalization (GUI and help)
- English and german available
- Frame and components are resizable
- New About-Dialog
- On-Line-Help available
- Standard Look&Feels are supported
- Metal-Themes are supported
- Kunststoff-Look&Feel are supported
- using Forte for Java CE 3.0
- using IzPack 2.9.0

Version 1.0.0a (23-Sep-2001):

- no changes on Java sources, it's still 1.0.0
- bug fixed in the UNIX nc100 script
- register.txt now supported in german and english
- using IzPack 2.6.0
- recompiled with Sun's J2SDK 1.3.1

Version 1.0.0 (19-Sep-2001):

- first published application version
- 1051 units and 68 categories
- register.txt only in german
- using IzPack 2.5.0
- 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