Nova for Windows revision history 2000 Jan. 2, 2000 Added progress bars for "Please wait" messages Jan. 11, 2000 Changed appearance of Satellite/Group editor Jan. 14, 2000 Added Uni-Trac selection to antenna rotators supported; also added MA to DDE string for Unit-Trac Added e-mail and HTML links to About Nova for Windows screen Added automatic redrawing of satellite ground tracks Added optional footprint fill density to Setup/General Jan. 17, 2000 Improved coding in Utilities/Quick Visibility Check Jan. 19, 2000 Removed all variables from "heap" Jan. 20, 2000 Rearranged button in Setup/Satellites; consolidated Keplerian element update functions ver 2.0w ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 21, 2000 Improved performance of Experimental facility Jan. 22, 2000 Fixed error in displaying ground tracks in Script Tracking (Tnx Don Blanchura) Jan. 25, 2000 Added "watchdog" timer option to Setup/Antenna rotator (Tnx Paul Williamson) ver 2.0x ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jan. 26, 2000 Added Drag-and-Drop for Keplerian Element updates. Changed "Who's Up" to check marks instead of blue font Jan. 29, 2000 Added large display for AutoTracking Jan. 31, 2000 Fixed unwanted page-flip when clicking the Add button in Setup/Satellites (Tnx Malcolm Preston) Feb. 5, 2000 Fixed error in Reset to Defaults (Tnx Robert Suding) Feb. 15, 2000 Fixed several odd things in Script tracking (Tnx Alan Adamson) Feb. 16, 2000 Added Copy-to-clipboard to Utilities, Script, and View Capture Fixed Setup/Satellites selection of a satellite (Tnx Alan Adamson) Changed menus for NovaFTP & NovaGPS (Tnx Alan Adamson) Feb. 17, 2000 Added AH: to indicate that the AutoTracking satellite is above the Horizon Table minimum in DDE output (Tnx Alan Adamson) Feb. 18, 2000 Fixed Noise map when set for 24-bit (Tnx Tom Gabel) Feb. 26, 2000 Cleaned routines for displaying ground tracks; eliminated minor memory leaks Disabled Time-Out timer during periods before pass Added calendar to Files menu Mar. 17, 2000 Fixed footprint filling (Tnx Alan Adamson) Fixed Setup/General/View Style behavior (Tnx Trevor Player) Fixed Access Violation with 2nd Observer Ver 2.0y ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mar. 20, 2000 Corrected error in antenna display in Sky Temperature map. (Tnx Chet Pierson) Fixed AutoTracking keypad buttons (Tnx K1WVU) Mar. 29, 2000 Fixed Script tracking with "Favor higher priority" (Tnx Alan Adamson) Mar. 30, 2000 Rearranged map configuration screen; added "Footprint only when visible." April 2, 2000 Added Semi-tracks (short ground tracks) to Rect. map. Fixed Daylight Savings Time detection (Tnx Alan Adamson) April 5, 2000 Added "All Observers" and "Show Sat footprints" to NASA selection in maps (Tnx Dave Filmer) Improved error catching for FTP if server is unavailable ver. 2.0z ----------------------------------------------------------------- April 12, 2000 Added "Move clicked sat to 1st" in maps; revised map configuration screens Fixed Observer elevation feet/meters (Tnx Bill Johnston) Fixed footprint display after clicking on map (Tnx Tom Gabel & Michael Olbrisch) Entirely overhauled NfW for 32-bit floating-point precision throughout. New data files will be required. Added Minimum pass duration less than one minute to Script setup (Tnx Dave Lamont) Improved file saving of captured View bitmaps Added warning if screen resolution is less than 800x600 Added drag-and-drop of satellites from Utilities/Quick Visibility Check to Views ver 2.1a ----------------------------------------------------------------- April 25, 2000 Fixed pesky bug during start-up. (Tnx Bill Johnston and Alan Adamson) Changed lat/lon grid color (Tnx Dale Ireland) April 27, 2000 Revealed options in Mutual footprint (Tnx Francois Amour) April 28, 2000 Added local file name entry to FTP download setup April 30, 2000 Updated Utilities for consistent appearance May 1, 2000 Fixed ground tracks to use currently selected algorithm (Tnx Dale Ireland) May 8, 2000 Added Lat/Lon readout to Rectangular and Orthographic maps May 9, 2000 Fixed floating-point error (Tnx Jim Weber) May 13, 2000 Added "all observers" to sound alarms (Tnx Mike Boney) May 15, 2000 Fixed Not Busy selection in Script setup (Tnx Alan Adamson) May 16, 2000 Fixed printing in Script (Tnx Francois Amour) May 17, 2000 Added printing of View image (Tnx Mike Boney) Restored sound alarms when NfW is minimized (Tnx Dale Ireland) Replaced Canadian province boundaries (Tnx K.M. Gaider) May 19, 2000 Fixed error in views when no text is visible (Tnx Mike Boney & Tim Zibrat) May 23, 2000 Added short/long date format (Tnx Magnus Lindahl) Fixed floating point error w/ two observers (Tnx Mike Boney) May 25, 2000 Added font size toggle to Utilities May 26, 2000 Updated EME and DXCC databases May 27, 2000 Fixed update interval after NfW minimized (Tnx Alan Feldmeier) Improved error handling in FTP function June 1, 2000 Fixed error when clicking on satellite in Script mode (Tnx Alan Adamson) June 2, 2000 Fixed font sizes of titles in Utilities (Tnx Alan Adamson) June 3, 2000 Fixed sat name lookup in Setup/Satellites (Tnx Alan Adamson) Improved automatic dial-up behavior of internal FTP function (Tnx Ken Stonecipher) Added to EasyComm and NovaComm output strings (Tnx Alan Adamson) June 5, 2000 Fixed error in DXCC country database and in setting text to "none" in View pop-up menu (Tnx Steve Poirier) Fixed behavior of check boxes in map setup (Tnx Alan Adamson) ver 2.1b ----------------------------------------------------------------- June 7, 2000 Added drag-drop update of Keplerian elements onto Nova's icon on Windows desktop June 8, 2000 Added Wizard to Views/Create New View to assist beginners ver 2.1c ----------------------------------------------------------------- June 21, 2000 Converted help system to HTML Help Removed dependence on WinINet.DLL (Internet Explorer) ver 2.1d ----------------------------------------------------------------- June 30, 2000 Added topocentric distance to Utilities/Moon graphs/Distance Incorporated all functions of NovaFTP into Nova for Windows Added freeware AtomTime to installation ver 2.1e ----------------------------------------------------------------- July 5, 2000 Fixed installation script to include FTP configuration file Added file name checking to avoid overwriting critical Nova data files (Tnx Dale Ireland) July 6, 2000 Added logging of FTP downloads July 8, 2000 Improved error handling and performance in FTP function Added RAS for dialing and hanging up the telephone (FTP) July 9, 2000 Fixed problem with dialing modem on first use of FTP (Tnx Dale Ireland) Added detection if RAS is installed Added "passive mode" to FTP for use with firewalls (Tnx Alan Adamson) July 10, 2000 Fixed error in Utilities/Listing/2 Observers mutual window and Lat/Lon display on map(Tnx Javier_Bermejo_Adanero) Fixed problem in dial-up (FTP) when line was already connected (Tnx Dale Ireland & Alan Thoren) Fixed failure to erase progress screen in Kep. elem update (Tnx Dale Ireland) Fixed sporadic appearance of day separator in Utilities/ Listing (Tnx Keith E. Brandt, M.D.) ver 2.1f ----------------------------------------------------------------- July 13, 2000 Returned to using WinINet.DLL for FTP dialup. Fixed disappearing entries in Setup/Satellites when using large fonts; added option to not display View Configuration Wizard at startup (Tnx Paul Williamson) Fixed inheritence of time offset in default View (Tnx Dale Ireland) Added Multiple Observers to Utilities/Listing (Tnx Johann Lochner) July 22, 2000 Fixed cursor lat/lon display in Rectangular map; added mouse- down display of Observer lat/lon (Tnx Aaron Lipsky) Fixed Script column display (Tnx Alan Adamson) July 23, 2000 Added Default button to map configuration (Tnx Mike Boney) Fixed View Configuration Wizard July 27, 2000 Fixed footprint mask in maps (Tnx Francoise Amour) Fixed error in launching configurations from main menu ver 2.1g ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aug. 21, 2000 Added Automatic Observer Update function for Aerosonde Ltd. Aug. 23, 2000 Fixed behavior of View screen capture (Tnx Alan Adamson) Sept 12, 2000 Fixed bug in Configure Default View (Tnx Alan Adamson) ver 2.1h ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sept 13, 2000 Added Yaesu GS-232 rotator interface support (Tnx Jim Madden) Added settable observer and second page to Utilities/Quick Visibity Check Sept. 19, 2000 Fixed error in AOSAz and LOSAz for Moon, Sun, etc. (Tnx Richard Allen) ver 2.1i ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sept. 20, 2000 Added "Dynamic Deadband" and "target leading" to AutoTracking Sept. 26, 2000 Added "Flip: ' to DDE string for Uni_Trac Oct. 11, 2000 Fixed behavior of "Make AutoTracking satellite" button in pop-up sat. info. window. (Tnx Dave Lamont) Nov. 21, 2000 Fixed Kep. elem. updating of default view (Tnx Jim Walls) Nov. 22, 2000 Fixed number formatting in DDE string az. (Tnx Jerry Pixton) Nov. 23, 2000 Fixed plotting error when multiple Radar maps are shown at different sizes (Tnx Claude Perreault) Nov. 28, 2000 Improved Nova's ability to locate installed NovaGPS data files (Tnx Andy Glenn) Nov. 29, 2000 Fixed Sun footprint when using elev. mask Dec. 1, 2000 Added Kep. Elements/Rebuild database to main menu (Tnx Charlie Sufana) Dec. 3, 2000 Updated squint calculations (high gain & omni) to conform to AO-40 antenna positions (Tnk Stacey Mills, MD) Dec. 5, 2000 Changed Moon Graphs/Success potential to reflect mutual visibility of the Moon (Tnx Ben Bailey) Dec. 10, 2000 Changed minimum interval for automatic updating of Kep. elements to one day Dec. 13, 2000 Fixed 1/2 hour offset in Setup/Time (Tnx Don Crago) Fixed anonymous password problem with FTP to Celestrak Improved calculation of MaxEl for highly elliptical satellites (Tnx Anthony Coldman)