Moon Phases v2.1

Steven Kienle
sckienle@worldnet.att.net

This program is a simple phase of the moon calculator.
Just click on the date to select the date you are
interested in and this application will display the
phase of the moon on that day.

Warning, this application uses an approximation method,
which can be done effectively on the PalmPilot, rather
than the real way, which uses floating point,
astronomical equations, trigonometric functions, and
basically would take forever.  The problem with the
approximation, is that it can be up to a day off.  I
have spot checked the program up to the end of 2031 and
that seems to be the largest error.

I am sorry about the size of this application.  The 
majority of the size is in bitmaps, which I have to include
because the PalmOS doesn't seem to want to help me create
elipsoid curves.

A german translation of Moon Phase is avavilable as of
6 May 2001.


Release Notes:

V2.1:

Cleaned up some memory leaks.


V2.0:

Added color support with more interesting moon phase graphics.
Unfortunately, this increased the size of the program.....

Corrected a bug:  when a help [i] button was used and the alert 
exited, the bit map was not redrawn on the screen.  The moon
phase is redrawn now.

Created two versions of the program, one with the B&W graphics
for older machines and one with the color graphics.  This lets
people with older Palms, like me, not have to spend the memory
for pictures we never get to see.


V1.6:

Added a "small" icon to display in the application List mode.

Modified the Moon! program launch menu item to look for the 
Sol! II application, which is replacing Moon! first.  If Sol! II
doesn't exist on the Palm device, it will look for Moon! instead.


V1.5:

Modified dates in "Next" table to show only the month and
day because when the dates rolled into October through 
December, there wasn't enough room to show all 6 digits.


V1.4

Added a menu command to switch to the Moon! program if it
is loaded on the machine.


V1.3

Bug Fix: Modified the start up code a bit to better match
what the PalmOS expects.

Added an option to allow for the Lunar Phase day count to
start at 1, which is more social expected, rather than 0, 
which is more scientifically accurate.

Adapted code so the scroll buttons can be used to move between
dates.


v1.2

Bug Fix: corrected code so it would run on PalmOS 2.0 platforms.

Corrected phase day information to be accurate with standard
phase day numbering practices.

Modified code to allow it to work at a lower functionality on
PalmOS 1.0 platforms.


v1.1

Added buttons to change the date backwards or forwards by one day.

Added table to show the dates of the four major phases of the moon.
You can click on this table to jump to the date show: to the next
Full Moon, for example.

Reduced the size of the bitmaps to make room for the new table.

Reduced size of application in Palm memory, because of the reduced
bitmap size.


V1.0

Initial release.