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HISTORY
December 1990: Work commenced on SnapStock. Early versions were used by the
author only.
March 1992: With the X*press X*change information service marketing charting
software to its IBM and Mac users, but not to Amiga owners, I decided to make
version 1.0 of SnapStock available to Amiga users of the network.
May 1995: With support for the Amiga on X*press (now known as Ingenius) drying
up, SnapStock was significantly upgraded to include support for Genie
information service quotes, as well as dozens of new features (the code is now
about four times larger than version 1.0). Version 1.9 (beta) released to Genie
users.
October 1995: Version 2.0 released. Bugfixes/features since 1.9:
-# of issues included in Performance Report increased from 100 to 1500.
-# of issues allowed per quotes file increased from 400 to 1500
-# of lines allowed in SSTOCK.CFG increased from 200 to 1000
-"Confirm" step added to file saves.
-Moving average or data plots may be turned off/on.
-Expanded portfolio report: Share price and $ CHANGE from last report
is now shown.
-Charts of your personal portfolios will no longer record zero values
when price data for a day is missing. Previous day's values are used.
-Performance and portfolio reports will retain previous report data
until a new report is generated.
-A color key is included on the performance report screen.
-Report printing has been simplified and made more consistent.
-Options panel is simpler and clearer.
-Envelope charting is faster and clearer.
-Data interpolation creates missing data points when weekly/monthly
plotting is selected.
-WB 1.3 file requester bug repaired. No more GURUs.
-INVERT mode will now cancel automatically when FILTER mode is deselected.
-The "F", "S" and "Y" stock codes (GENIE quotes) now accepted by Snapstock.
-"k" key will now rechart your issue without ascending the previous
chart. "K" (shift-k) will ascend and rechart.
-"Zoom" date entry bug fixed.
-Bottom menu strip no longer locks up when "invert" mode is selected.
-New universal quotes reader added, compatible with CIS quotes and others.
-Startup ICONX script added
-Additional portfolio configurations may now be loaded.
January 1996: Version 2.11. New bugfixes/features:
-Bug in stock split feature fixed. Plus, new key, "6" , now allows any
split correction value to be entered.
-A bug in the menu drawing routine, causing double screen redraws, has been
fixed.
-Extended select is now possible with quotes files and script files. Selecting
the SnapStock icon, then shift-double-clicking a quotes file will auto-update
chart files. Doing same with script file will execute the script.
-Script language added. Scripts may be executed from shift-clicked icon, file
requester or from a function key.
-Reports may be printed to disk (from scripts only.)
-Another menu lockout bug fixed.
-Chart write-protect option.
-New comma-delimited import and export options, plus more intelligent parsing
of quotes files. Future dates now make date errors instead of adding to
charts.
-Space bar will toggle between line and bar charts.
-Selecting "invert" now immediately inverts and redraws the moving average.
-Error handling made a little more robust. Fatal program crashes should be
harder to come by.