History
Version history
Version 2.02
- FIX language resources errors
- ADD Italian manual
- CHG updated French manual
Version 2.01
- FIX chart search bug in localized versions
- CHG harmonic calculation improved
- CHG transits removed from simplified mode
- CHG minor transation changes
- FIX ephemeris installation bug
- CHG French folder creation changed to prevent accented letters encoding conflicts in the file system
- FIX latitude/logitude bug (incorrect seconds input)
Version 2.0
- CHG Conversion of function declarations to C++ style (internal design change)
- CHG Conversion of byte types to char types where needed (internal design change)
- ADD Language-pack support
- ADD Closing the program via a shortcut requires confirmation
- ADD Printing of non-white background requires confirmation
- CHG TrueType font used for text output
- ADD New type of "#text" switches (see below)
- ADD #Glyph switch for defining national characters
- ADD MoveTo rendering method of glyphs (improved graphic output of fonts)
- CHG Atlas shows installed countries/states only
- CHG Time in chart files is always stored in 24h mode
- ADD Chart files containing names of months in English or PM/AM suffix can be loaded in all language versions
- FIX Parallel aspects calculation (by SK)
- FIX Nutation correction (by Antonio)
- ADD #SimplifiedMode and #AdvancedMode switch (easy-to-use simplified version for beginners)
- ADD SimplifiedMode and AdvancedMode menu
- ADD #DebugFont (for developers only)
- FIX 11th house was always omitted and 12th incorrectly displayed in the -v view. Partially fixed.
- ADD #CharSet (for details see WinGDI.h in Windows SDK)
- ADD #UseInternationalAtlas switch - prefer international atlas to the American one (for non-US countries)
- ADD language-specific configuration script in the language pack (possibility of more regional settings for language packs)
- CHG default paths are now relative to the exe-file (not C:\ASTROLOG32\ anymore)
- CHG menus slightly restructured to be more systematic
- ADD Open command file menu item
- ADD advanced/ simplified mode page in the Wizard
- ADD #DegCharacter switch - reassignment of degree chars (for developers of language packs), syntax: DegCharacter [ANSIColorTextMode][TextMode][ANSIColorTextMode2][TextMode2][GraphicsMode]
- ADD #OmitWizard switch (for developers of language packs)
- ADD #OmitRegionalWizard switch (for developers of language packs)
- CHG Swiss Ephemerides 1.70 in use
- CHG Default colors and selections changed
- FIX position of IC is now saved correctly in *_pos files
- ADD file named autorun.dat, placed in miscellaneous directory is automatically executed on start(if exists). Useful for macros, glyph definitions, etc
- ADD #DisableMacroShortcuts switch (for developers of language packs)
- ADD common ephemeris files
For earlier version changes, please see the History A32.html in the distribution.
Program history
In the beginning, there was the 16-bit Astrolog by Walter Pullen, later improved by Alois Treindl and Valentin Abramov. António Ramos ported Astrolog to 32-bit platform and added many features. Since version 2, the program has been developed by Tomáš Kubec.