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- 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.
-
-
- 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.
-