Nova for Windows revision history 2001 Jan. 2, 2001 Fixed FTP download after changes at Celestrak.com Added confirmation after license registration Jan. 5, 2001 Added detection of printer Jan. 7, 2001 Fixed behavior of Satellite Script if entries are manually selected (Tnx Alan Adamson) Jan.12, 2001 Fixed calibration page display in Rotator setup with GS-232 (Tnx Alan Adamson) ver 2.1j ----------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 14, 2001 Added AOS/LOS horizon calculations to Views and AutoTracking Feb 19, 2001 Improved command sequence for M^2 rotators (Tnx Bill Johnston) Added access to sound alarms from Setup/Satellites Feb 21, 2001 Fixed text display after end of Script (Tnx Alan Adamson) Feb 22, 2001 Fixed time slider in AutoTracking (Tnx Bill Johnston) Feb 27, 2001 Added AOS/LOS horizon mask to Listing Added Two Observers Multiple Satellites to Listing ver 2.1k ----------------------------------------------------------------- March 3, 2001 Overhauled Utilities/Listing and all Utilities Setup screens March 4, 2001 Fixed numerous bugs resulting from previous overhaul (Tnx Alan Adamson) Added naming to View Creation Wizard (Tnx Claude Perreault) March 8, 2001 Moved FTP dowmnload to its own thread March 9, 2001 Fixed hidden window problem in Individual View Configuration (Tnx Tony Hunt) March 24, 2001 Added separation distance between satellites to Utilities/ Two Sat Visibility (Tnx. Graham RatCliff) March 28, 2001 Fixed error when changing AutoTracking satellite (Tnx Alan Adamson) March 29, 2001 Fixed bug in setting AutoTracking satellite ; Fixed Sun Illum% in Utilities/Eclipse (Tnx Alan Adamson) April 2, 2001 Added Meade LX200 telescope to "antenna interfaces" April 4, 2001 Added Web-enabled function (needs special license to activate) April 5, 2001 Added DDE server response to POKE (Track on/off/change autotracking satellite) (Tnx Leon Smith) April 11, 2001 Added pacing delay to EasyComm output (Tnx Susy Brown) April 22, 2001 Fixed Antenna Parking function April 26, 2001 Fixed "Default To Now" in Utilities/Listing (Tnx Tony Hunt) ver 2.1m ----------------------------------------------------------------- April 28, 2001 Fixed bug in AutoTracking that caused Invalid Floating Point Operation after changing AutoTracking satellite or when opening Nova during a pass. (Tnx Alan Adamson & others) May 8, 2001 Fixed Info pop-up misbehavior; Fixed visibility text data display (Tnx Alan Adamson) May 13, 2001 Fixed GS232 interface (Tnx Don Jacob) May 14, 2001 Fixed error in Script Tracking when no script has been built (Tnx Jack Patterson) Fixed error in Listing, Two Observers mutual window (missed 2nd window in some passes) (Tnx Ib Christoffersen) May 16, 2001 Improved error trapping if no printer is installed Fixed initialization error (Tnx Ib Christoffersen) May 21, 2001 Fixed clipboard function in Listing (Tnx Sang-il Ahn) May 22, 2001 Improved LX200 telescope interface May 24, 2001 Added keyboard cursor-arrow key control of antenna rotator May 29, 2001 Revised Script output. Replaced "Print to File." May 30, 2001 Added spreadsheet-friendly output to printing functions June 4, 2001 Corrected LX200 azimuth ver 2.1n ----------------------------------------------------------------- July 16, 2001 Added HTTP support to internet download of Keplerian elements July 23, 2001 Separated HTTP & FTP file lists Added protection from empty server name (Tnx Alan Adamson) ver 2.1o ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 21, 2001 Fixed I/O error 103 in Utilities/Listing (Tnx Tim Zebrat) Added e-mail capability to "Capture View" (Tnx Craig Stewart) Fixed upper/lowercase error in EasyComm output (Tnx Mark Hammond) Added multi-satellite select to Individual View Configuration (Tnx Don Newcomb) Added "Cancel" to Script screen (Tnx Jeff Gibson) Aug 23, 2001 Fixed "Stop" button in HTTP download (Tnx Tony Hunt) Aug 28, 2001 Fixed incorrect display of Group contents in Eclipse utility. Fixed "Delete" button action in FTP/HTTP file selection window (Tnx Alan Adamson) Corrected port selection for Uni_Trac in Setup/Antenn Rotator (Tnx Charlie Sufana) Sept. 6, 2001 Added font size to internet download setup Fixed cursor lat/lon values when multiple Views displayed (Tnx Charlie AJ9N) Sept. 21, 2001 Improved time usage in tracking thread (Tnx John Beanland) Oct. 7, 2001 Fixed appearance of Mode sched window Fixed Satellite Script performance if there are more than 32,000 passes ver 2.1p ---------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 6, 2001 Numerous small fixes to accommodate Windows XP (Tnx Alan Adamson) Nov. 7, 2001 Changed M2 rotator interface to accept comma separator (Tnx Werner Keim) Improved function of Utilities/Quick visibility display Further slight improvements in appearence under WindowsXP Fixed error in DDE output for flip mode (Tnx Dave Lamont) Nov. 15, 2001 Fixed error in Mode indication in DDE (Tnx Dave Lamont) Dec. 5, 2001 Small changes to acommodate DDE interfaces Dec. 7, 2001 Fixed error in reloading Script after changes (Tnx Perry Yantis & Alan Adamson) Jan. 22, 2002 Fixed error when initializing if a satellite has crashed ver 2.1q ---------------------------------------------------------------- Feb. 14, 2002 Added Utilities/Frequency display Added option to Setup/Antenna rotator to tie AutoTracking time to the time of the active View Added character pacing to NovaCom (Tnx Susy Brown) Feb 25, 2002 Added vertical cursor line to graphics display in Script setup Improved pass selection in Script Setup Fixed Script column number display in View Fixed pass transfer from setup to View (Tnx Alan Adamson) Fixed Horizon display in Radar map March 1, 2002 Added graphic display to Horizon table Fixed ground track display in Script mode (Tnx Alan Adamson) Added 2nd Obs squint data to Utilities/Listing/Two Obs Az/El (Tnx Ron Long) Improved error trapping if user selects nonexistent serial port (Tnx Brian Lonnon) ver 2.1r