========================= SOLAR FIRE GOLD - UPDATES ========================= Listed in Reverse Chronological Order ---------------------------- Version 7.0.6 - 16 June 2008 ---------------------------- * Added, Chart Art, added 12 new page designs, the Sun in each house, for Solar Returns. The background graphic of each of the pages has a brief text interpretation for the Sun in that house * Added, Chart Art, added 2 new Chart Art designs for Children * Added, Eris Glyph, set the Eris glyph to the new standard and added an option to select the original glyph used in Solar Fire Gold in the Preferences > Edit Settings > Misc. tab. NOTE: The new font files will need to be manually installed as per instructions on the website * Fixed, Reports menu, Vulcan (Baker) locking up program when in View Chart and the Reports button clicked * Fixed, Reports menu, Vulcan (Baker) locking up program when Reports button clicked and Tabulations selected * Fixed, Charts menu, if there are no charts on the Calculated Charts list then clicking on Chart > Rising/Setting or Chart > Lunar Phase items caused a runtime error of the program * Fixed, Stellarium v0.9.1 giving wrong years. The format of the date and time strings changed in this version of Stellarium. * Fixed, Dynamic Events, OK button was not fully showing on the Interps screen for a line entry in Dynamic Events list when it was double-clicked * Improved, Tabulations, extended the Vedic Dasas layout so that it displays the full 120-year set of Dasas/Bhuktis * Improved, Check for Updates on Web, the Solar Fire program was not closing in some circumstances when a patch update was downloaded resulting in a warning message being raised requesting the user to close the Solar fire program so that the patch update could proceed --------------------------- Version 7.0.5 - 5 May 2008 --------------------------- * Added, Menus, added fast menu access (Utilities menu) to the Swiss Ephemeris files folder * Added, Interpretations files, in cases where all interpretation (*.int) files are relocated to another folder from the standard "...\Solar Fire User Files\Interpretations" folder, you may now manually add a new key "InterpPath=" under the [Solar Fire] section, along with a folder path (ending in "\") to the Solfire7.ini file located in "...\Solar Fire User Files\Settings" folder. This option might be useful in situationswhere you want your own master set of interpretation files in a different location to the standard Solar Fire Gold interpretation files. * Added, Midpoint Interpretations, added new midpoint interpretation text and reports * Added, Chart Art, three more pages were added: Art_PurpleBamboo, Art_RedCosmos and Art_StarNavy * Fixed, Combined Charts, if a Combined chart was created, e.g. Composite Midpoints, and then a Solar Return chart was then created for the first name used in the Composite chart, the second name used in the Composite chart was being displayed as the name of the Solar Return chart on the Calculated Charts list as well as the preview wheel * Fixed, Chart Art pages, the graphic backgrounds on the 14 new chart art pages released in the v7.0.4 patch were not displaying when the default printer was set for Letter page size * Fixed, Aspect Grid, runtime error when the new Aries Point selected in a chart using the Draconic zodiac * Fixed, Chart Analysis, "Leading Planet" was incorrect for Locomotive chart shapes * Fixed, Interpretations Editor, temporary file creation error on Vista 64-bit when Compacting interpretation files * Fixed, Interpretations Editor, runtime error when clicking on the Browse button on the Output File * Fixed, Interpretations Editor, when the File > Upgrade is run (to upgrade the Interpretations file from v2 to v3 file structure extending it for the new points/planets like Sedna and Eris as well as for midpoint text) the first 12 characters of the text for various combinations was being "chopped off" * Fixed, Interpretations Editor, now warn user if any of the new points are selected, like Sedna and Eris, and the interpretations file has not been upgraded to the latest version * Fixed, Interpretation Text Import, Changes to text made by users in the interpretation files were not being copied from earlier versions of Solar Fire to Solar Fire Gold when the Utilities > Import Charts and Settings had the "Interpretation Files (For advanced users only)" selected * Fixed, Dynamic Report, when Maximum Accuracy switched off, for some planet aspects, the EXL dates were the same date and time * Fixed, Dynamic Events, when Maximum Accuracy ON and a Dynamic Events report run where there is only one aspect selected, i.e. conjunction, and one transit planet to one natal planet, the resulting report gave spurious results * Fixed, Planet Calculations, Vulcan (Baker calculation only) was locking up Solar Fire Gold when it was selected * Improved, Midpoint Axes and Trees Report, changed the "|" symbol used in these reports to the more common "/" symbol used for midpoints * Improved, Interpretations Editor, changed the Text Editor option "write.exe" to "wordpad.exe" * Improved, Interpretations Editor, lengthened the folder/file text boxes to allow for longer paths * Improved, Interpretations Editor, changed the midpoint separator from "|" to "/" so that midpoint text using "/" can be read in * Improved, Interpretations Editor, add message to let user know how to Upgrade interpretations file to the latest version if they select any of the Midpoints text categories and the interpretation file is the older v2 format * Improved, Interpretations Editor, if no chart opened then grey out the File > Compact and File > Upgrade menu items * Improved, Interpretations Editor, if no INT file opened and a Compile is performed from a source text file then open the created INT for viewing after the Compile has been completed * Improved, Interpretations Editor, changed the order that "Point to Midpoints" are exported when Decompiling, now in Midpoint order * Improved, Aspect Orbs, extended Parallel and Contra-Parallel test to check for both applying and separating orbs. Previously, only one test was done for both applying and separating orbs resulting in parallels or contra-parallels being displayed in a grid if the orb for either applying or separating was set to zero * Improved, Aspect Orbs, now allow the user to enter separate applying and separating orbs for the Parallel and Contra-Parallel aspects. Previously, the same value entered into the Applying orb was being used to automatically update Separating orb, and vice versa * Improved, Unidirectional Orbs, changed logic so that if a Unidirectional orb is selected when Use Planet Orb Ratios is also selected, the lowest orb ratio is used for aspects in orb calculations * Improved, Chart Analysis, added a "Leading Planet" to the Bowl shape * Improved, Page Topic Index, set "Auto Apply" ON as the default so that Page Preview is enabled * Improved, Main Menu, allow the setting of the Firdaria Report, Nodal Variation, to be saved in the menu for the next startup * Improved, Wheel Style, updated the Uni2.wh1 wheel style to now display intercepted signs --------------------------- Version 7.0.4 - 10 Mar 2008 --------------------------- * Fixed, Planetary Nodes, added Sedna and Eris to Planetary Nodes report as they were left out of this report after these new planets were added * Fixed, Calendar, both the default Progession and the default Direction settings in the Dynamic Transits and Progressions entry screen were not holding their values if the Calendar feature was run and the user returned to the Dynamic Transits and Progressions entry screen. This problem showed up if the Progression was not set to "Secondary" and the Direction was not set to "Solar Arc" in the Dynamic Transits and Progressions * Fixed, Calendar, the View menu tick was not set to the saved calendar period when the Calendar was started up * Fixed, Calendar, Preferences > Edit Settings, if "Use default timezone" is selected, the Calendar did not reflect a change in the displayed timezone on the Calendar when a change was made to the default place/timezone in Solar Fire's Preferences > Edit Settings > Places tab * Fixed, Dynamic Report, when Copy/Paste Dynamic Report data to a Word document (or Excel), tabs on columns were missing * Fixed, Dynamic, Directions->Radix, Primary vanDam, when listed and then View Chart, a warning message now offers to display transits * Fixed, Dynamic, Primary Mundane, results were different to those in Solar Fire Deluxe for the same chart and settings * Fixed, Dynamic Transits, deleting two or more columns in Dynamic Events Report caused program to crash * Fixed, Repair, the Repair function was removing some important files thus causing a "Bad installation..." error message at next startup. Due to complexity at installation, the "Repair" button was removed for the Solar Fire Gold entry in Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs * Improved, Page Designs, when new page layouts are either created or externally added to the "Pages" folder in the "Solar Fire User Files" folder, when a user next selects the View > Page Topic Index menu item, a test is now done for whether the new page is a "Chart Art" type of page or other page type. If it is a "Chart Art" page then it is now automatically added to the "Chart Art" topic where it will now be found. Other types of pages are automatically added to the "Added Recently" topic. For these latter types of pages, a user can always "drag and drop" the new page from the "Added Recently" topic to any other topic listed. * Modified, Calendar, if "Show Exact Times of Hits" is set in the Calendar Preferences, the items are now sorted by time in the day. If "Show Exact Times of Hits" is not set then the default order of display continues to take place, that is, by Event and Planet. The View > View Interpretations Report is now also sorted accordingly. * Modified, Calendar Options, re-arrange screen, reverse Sign / House Ingresses and Stationary / Parallels to be consistent with Dynamic screen * Modified, Chart Files, updated the birth time of Prince Henry (aka Prince Harry) in the Royalty.SFcht chart file from 4:20am to 4:20pm. * Modified, View Chart, removed the chart number in brackets next to chart type in caption so that it does not display. Useful when "Copy/Send" chart by Clipboard, File or Email Attachment. Previously, printing a chart never had the chart number printed so it is now consistent. * Modified, Dynamic Report, adjusted the default width of some columns when they are selected and displayed * Added, Color Schemes, the King Scale color files from Tad Mann were added to Chart Options > Color Scheme * Added, Chart Art, 14 more Chart Art page designs were added * Added, Arabic Parts, add a new file Moreparts.arp containing 150 Arabic Parts * Added, Page Designs, new Declin_bi.pag added showing two declination strips for synastry work in declination * Added, Wheel Designs, new wheels added: BiWheels - Aspects2.wh2, Aspects3.wh2, Aspects4.wh2, TriWheel - Tri3.wh3 * Added, Calendar, Precession Correction (Prec. Corr.) added to Calendar Preferences * Added, Calendar, options now in Calendar Preferences to select if Moon Ingress and Void of Course (VoC) text categories are printed in the Calendar Interpretations report * Added, Main Screen, added the full version number to the caption of the main screen so that be the full version is can now be seen saving a user having to go to Help > About Solar Fire * Added, Dynamic Report, now display column headers to both Print and Copy outputs from Dynamic Events screen --------------------------- Version 7.0.3 - 20 Feb 2008 --------------------------- * Fixed, Demo, if Solar Fire Gold Demo installed and then Solar Fire Gold full version installed, uninstalling Solar Fire Gold Demo removes the Swiss Ephemeris Common files causing a startup error when next starting up Solar Fire Gold. * Fixed, Solar Maps Lite, clicking on the Eclipse button did not display any eclipses in list. * Fixed, Dynamic > Animate menus, these were not displaying on computers with Windows 98 or Windows ME operating systems. * Added, Dynamic > Animate menus, now allow Real Time Clock and Animate menu windows to be minimized. * Fixed, Startup, Swiss Ephemeris error at startup when Solar Fire Gold installed on Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition operating systems. * Changed, Startup, modified the logic to now allow for the detection and use of the SE_EPHE_PATH environmental variable on a computer, relocating the Swiss Ephemeris files, and in this scenario Solar Fire Gold's embedded Swiss Ephemeris files may actually be deleted (allowable) at startup. --------------------------- Version 7.0.2 - 06 Feb 2008 --------------------------- * Fixed, Calendar, if 7-day mode spans a month then no aspects shown for any day * Fixed, Calendar, if 7-day mode spans a month then Moon data wrong for the days in the new month * Fixed, Calendar, the interps text on the Calendar was using the wrong interps text file - Transits.int instead of Calendar.int * Fixed, View Chart, Dual Wheels using uniextra4.wh1 gave a subscript out of range error * Fixed, Charts, when a chart selected in Chart > Open is a *.cht format chart (older format), the feature to allow a user to convert to the later *.SFcht format did not work. * Fixed, Birthdays, though more than 40 charts may be highlighted in a chart file, only about 40 of them are displayed on the Birthday list. It was found the Birthday list being displayed had a limit of around 40 charts even though the birthdays file had the right number of charts. The limit was extended to around 160 birthday charts that can be displayed. * Fixed, Calendar, Preferences > Edit Settings, if "Specify my own location/timezone" selected, it did not perform auto. lookup of ACS atlas for timezone after you tabbed past the Country entry box. * Fixed, Startup, if Solar Fire Gold is installed and then Solar Fire Deluxe is uninstalled, a "Run-time error '429'" shows up when starting Solar Fire Gold. This problem only occurred for Solar Fire Deluxe and not earlier versions. * Improved, Swiss Ephemeris file path, added auto. recover facility to return back to default path if the current path fails to detect the Swiss Ephemeris files at that location on the startup of Solar Fire Gold --------------------------- Version 7.0.1 - 17 Jan 2008 --------------------------- * Some chart wheels with colour fills were being displayed in their opposite colours when displayed on Chart Art pages with "dark" backgrounds where the page objects were being displayed in "white". Now fixed. --------------------------- Version 7.0.0 - 13 Jan 2008 --------------------------- * Solar Fire Gold ready