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- RenderCalc History
-
- Author: Daniel S. Milling Jr.
-
- Copyright © 1994 Daniel S. Milling Jr.
- All Rights Reserved
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-
- v1.46
- -----
- - First Released Update!
- - Changed a number of things.
- - Removed the 'Tell Me About RenderCalc!' Button. It was just put there to
- take up space until something was found to do with that space :-) Use
- the 'About' menu item instead.
- - Changed the TIMECODE TYPE selection to a Cycle gadget to save space.
- This gadget has also been moved to where the 'Tell Me About RenderCalc!'
- button used to be, underneath the TIMECODE OUTPUT section. With the
- change to a cycle gadget, the SMPTE non-drop frame option has temporarily
- been eliminated. Once some solid data regarding this calculation has
- been found, it is a simple matter to add this feature.
- - ADDED FEATURE: Now, when any timecode value is entered into any of the
- three timecode input gadgets, the timecode value is expanded. This means
- that if the value '123' was entered, the expanded value would be
- '00:00:01:23' which would replace the entered value in the string gadget.
- - Added two new Informational text boxes. These are located beneath the
- Units Conversion Table where the TIMECODE TYPE selection used to reside.
- - The CONVERSION TABLE box displays which values are represented in the
- Units Conversion Table. Since the Distance gadget and the Length
- gadget may alternately display data in this table, the CONVERSION
- TABLE gadget tells the user which is being displayed at any time.
- - The TIMECODE METHOD box displays what the final timecode value is
- in the TIMECODE OUTPUT section. Since there are two modes of
- timecode calculation, this box will display the current mode.
-
-
- v1.44
- -----
- - Unreleased Update
- - Changed a couple of minor internal things.
- - Changed the manner in which the Shareware Notice appears. It has now
- become a bit LESS annoying (when was the last time you saw that
- happen...) The notice will appear at startup and upon exiting the
- program, as it did before. Instead of opening a window and staying
- on-screen for a set time interval, the notice is now in the form of a
- requester which may be closed by the user at any time. I have also
- removed the notice when the Zoom gadget is clicked. There is only one
- catch to this. The Shareware Notice requester will appear randomly
- during program operation. After testing it out, it doesn't usually show
- up too often :-). Since this is completely random, the frequency of the
- Shareware Notice Requester is different every time the program is run.
- As usual, registered users will never see this requester.
- - BUG FIX: There was a minor bug with decoding keyfiles. There was one
- certain circumstance where the window title would be rendered improperly.
- The keyfile decoding was fine but the translation of a certain piece of
- data would go wrong under one known circumstance. This has been fixed.
- - ADDITON: Added the ability to add and subtract either timecode values or
- decimal frame number values from any of the timecode inputs, in the
- Timecode Input section. This operation is relative to the current
- timecode type selected. When doing timecode calculations, this can come
- in quite handy.
-
-
- v1.41
- -----
- - First Release!
- - V1.4 WAS supposed to be the release version but I decided to add a Zoom
- gadget. You may now shrink the program window and get it out of the way.
- When click, the Shareware Notice is displayed for a few seconds. Upon
- registering, this notice will also be removed.
-
-
- v1.40
- -----
- - Never Released
- - Changed some minor internal code and cleaned up a few things.
-
-
- v1.37
- -----
- - Never Released
- - Implemented the keyfile system. If a proper personalized keyfile is not
- present, the SHAREWARE window will appear, at both startup and upon
- exiting the program, happily reminding the user that this is a shareware
- package :-) With the appropriate keyfile, obtained by registering
- (hint hint) this message will be removed and will never appear again
- (unless, of course, you lose or tamper with the keyfile...)
-
-
- v1.36
- -----
- - Never Released
- - ** MAJOR UPDATE! **
- - Added Time Code readout below the FRAMES, SECONDS and MINUTES OUTPUT.
- - Added a toggle between SMPTE non-drop frame (30fps), SMPTE drop frame,
- EBU (25fps) and FILM (24fps) time code.
- - NOTE: SMPTE drop frame is NOT implemented at this time. When this time
- code type is selected, all values will be zeroed. At this time it acts
- only as a place holder for a future update.
- - Added a WHOLE NEW SECTION devoted to Time Code input and calculation.
- - Added TIMECODE IN, OUT and DURATION input gadgets.
- - Added TIMECODE IN, OUT and DURATION calculation table.
- - Added a FRAME output table which corresponds to the Time Code IN, OUT
- and DURATION output table members.
- - Added on-the-fly recalculation of time code between all three supported
- formats. This means you can see what the time code will be for any
- format without having to re-type your values.
- - Added an About button which does the same thing as selecting the 'About'
- menu item.
-
-
- v1.35
- -----
- - Never Released
- - Added MINUTES output below the FRAMES and SECONDS output.
- - Toyed with the idea of adding a Time Code option. Laid the ground work
- for this option.
- - Changes the GUI to reflect the addition of the MINUTES output.
-
-
- v1.32 thru 1.34
- ---------------
- - Never Released
- - MANY internal changes which cleaned up the code a bit. Nothing major
- externally has been changed.
-
-
- v1.31
- -----
- - Never Released
- - Internally rearranged the conversion table so that more accurate
- numbers may be obtained.
- - Changed the name of the INPUT VALUE gadget to LENGTH. It sounded more
- logical.
- - Linked the Distance gadget to the conversion table output. Now any
- number entered into the DISTANCE gadget will be converted and printed,
- relative to the units represented by it's cycle gadget.
- - The LENGTH gadget value is also preserved. If, for example, you enter a
- number into the LENGTH string gadget and get it's conversion output, you
- can enter a number into the DISTANCE string gadget and get it's output.
- Each number, with units, is preserved and all one has to do is click inside
- the respective gadget and hit return. You will now get the conversion
- units for that value. You can enter numbers back and forth between the
- LENGTH and DISTANCE gadgets and always preserve the value and units of
- the other gadget.
- - Added SECONDS output.
- - Moved the output of FRAMES along with SECONDS, below the inputs for SPEED
- and DISTANCE.
- - Changed the GUI to reflect these changes.
-
-
- v1.30
- -----
- - Never Released
- - Now the Speed, Distance and Input Value gadgets allow units of inches,
- feet, yards, miles, millimeters, meters or kilometers.
- - Re-wrote the conversion table function and shuffled around the order of
- the printed table. The printed table now has a more logical layout.
- - Updated the GUI to reflect these changes.
-
-
- v1.21
- -----
- - Never Released
- - The Cycle gadget for INPUT VALUE was broken. When this cycle gadget was
- clicked it did not automatically update the units of the number entered
- into the INPUT VALUE gadget. This meant that the table below would not
- be updated properly (ie. if the original value was in units of 'X' and
- you clicked on 'Y' the table would not be update!) This is now fixed.
-
-
- v1.20
- -----
- - Never Released
- - ** MAJOR update! **
- - Added an INPUT VALUE gadget.
- - Added another cycle gadget which represents the units for the INPUT VALUE.
- - Added a unit conversion table which would take the input of the new
- INPUT VALUE string gadget and print out the converted values in the table
- below. The conversion units handled are inches, feet, yards, miles,
- millimeters, meters and kilometers.
-
-
- v1.10
- -----
- - Never Released
- - Added 3 new Cycle gadgets which allowed for the control of the units
- of speed, distance and time. SPEED could now be miles, meters, feet or
- yards per hour, minute, or sec. DISTANCE could now be in units of miles,
- feet, meters or yards.
- - Updated the GUI to reflect these changes.
-
-
- v1.00
- -----
- - Never Released
- - My first attempt at GUI programming in C!
- - Only allowed input of SPEED in MPH and DISTANCE in FEET.
- - Output in FRAMES
-
-
- v0.9
- ----
- - Never Released
- - Really cheap and dirty CLI based version which only could handle MPH
- for speed and FEET for distance.
- - The only output was FRAMES
-
-