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Version 2.0 - June 1999

- Euro Assistant becomes Euro Assistant Pro.

- Euro exchange rates can be automatically updated over the Internet by choosing the Update Rates command in the File menu. The user can specify how many and which rates to update and, using the Update rates at startup preference, update rates automatically at startup (daily or weekly).
Euro exchange rates are retrieved from the <fxp.oanda.com> server using OANDA's Foreign Exchange Protocol.

- The Euro display in the Euro Assistant Pro window can now be moved to a different position and removed.

- The user can select a custom base currency (default is Euro) using the Base Currency submenu of the File menu. The base currency's choice affects the rates displayed in the Rate button and in the text clippings obtained by dragging and dropping ISO codes to the desktop.
The user can also specify how exchange rates have to be displayed by selecting the Show Rate Against Base Currency or Show Rate Against Stronger Currency options in the Base Currency submenu.

- The Add Currency command has been replaced by the Add Currency submenu: the user can now directly select the currency he wants to add.

- The setup of Euro Assistant Pro, which is performed when Euro Assistant Pro runs for the first time, has been completely revised. The new Euro Assistant Pro Setup dialog is multi-pane and enables the user to:
- add up to 12 currencies to the Euro Assistant Pro window;
- define and add custom currencies;
- specify a rounding for all currencies added to the Euro Assistant Pro window;
- update the euro exchange rates of the non-EMU currencies added to the Euro Assistant Pro window by retrieving them over the Internet.

- Several changes concerning drag & drop have been introduced:
- if the ISO code associated to a non-zero display is dragged, then the displayed amount is clipped (the ISO code is also added to the clipping if the option key is pressed while dragging);
- if the base currency's ISO code is dragged (provided the corresponding display amount is zero), then the base currency's exchange rates of all currencies displayed in the Euro Assistant window are clipped;
- if an ISO code of a currency which is not base currency is dragged (and its amount is zero), then the rate of the dragged currency against the base currency is clipped;
- if the Tape window's content is dragged and the option key is pressed, then just the last conversion listed in the Tape window is clipped.

- The maximum euro exchange rate has been raised from 9,999 to 999,999, so that also very low value currencies can be defined and used.

- Two new roundings have been introduced (100 and 1,000). A temporary rounding (greater than the one specified by the user) has been also introduced: it is applied when the user rounding would exceed the Euro Assistant Pro calculation precision and it is indicated by a bracketed rounding amount in the Rounding pop-up button.

- The interface has been completely revised (Euro Assistant Pro window's drawing routines, dialogs, icons, cursors).

- The Register Euro Assistant Pro dialog has been localized and now runs in 8 languages.

- Several minor bugs have been fixed.


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