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Kinematic Land 1.5.1
Tencas Group 1996-97
Revision history
Release 1.5.1 (13 Feb 97):
- PDF tutorial documentation added.
- PDF reference documentation started, only for registered users.
- serious bug removed caused by CodeWarrior C plug-in bug.
- other minor bugs removed.
Release 1.5 (24 Jan 97):
- recompiled with Metrowerks Codewarrior IDE 1.7.2 (CW10).
- Kinematic Land opens more than one document now.
- you could switch between open documents.
- real time progress added.
- windows tiling moves also the infowindow.
- some bugs fixed.
- more detailed error messages returned by Kinematic Land kernel.
- palette icons are greyed out when some tools aren't available.
- info window is also greyed when there aren't open documents.
- bug removed when overloading some external trajectory from file.
- some memory blocks allocated and never released are now released.
Release 1.4 (6 Oct 96):
- the QuickDraw 3D view can be saved as standard metafile format (3DMF).
- the QuickDraw 3D view can be copied onto the clipboard.
- faster code when drawing the main windows.
- more than two items can be selected.
- smaller file size.
- the QuickDraw 3D scene is computed a bit faster.
- cut, copy, paste work as standard operations to cut, copy, paste constraints, but they aren't useful to exchange data with other applications.
- the main windows are correctly positioned. At first time you launch KL 1.3, they disappeared.
- the scroll hand tool has been added.
- the positions of the info window and the Quickdraw 3D window are saved in the preferences and in the file.
- added interactive dragging also for 680x0 processors.
- added Join menu item to remove points from the chain.
- added Unjoin menu item to separate one point of the chain.
- added the zone selection tool.
- added the Select All menu item.
- added the Deselect menu item.
- added the Align tool. It lets you draw new kinds of mechanisms.
- faster code when generating computing matrices.
- you can edit also members with one unit vector. This tool lets you decrease your scene size.
- bug removed when updating the display windows.
- some menu items were renamed.
Release 1.3 (31 Jul 96):
- the QuickDraw 3D view got the standard viewer, so that you can handle the scene.
- more checks have been added when allocating new memory for handles and pointers.
- the flag in control window menu works correctly.
- the main windows are three now for 3D editing.
- 3D editing support.
- the info window is now saved in preferences.
- some main windows can be closed and reopened.
- the constraints kernel has been changed to support more constraints.
- the external trajectories imported from file are now saved in the document file.
- fatal bug in free dialog should have been removed.
- added enhanced Kinematic Land file format (DSC3) with constraints definitions and 3D points.
- compatibility with KL 1.2 file format (DSCR), only read.
- reorganized windows tiling.
- removed Tile Horizontal.
- more memory partition size when starting Kinematic Land.
- matrix inverter optimized, then a bit faster.
- added dialog for unit vectors.
- added revolute joints.
- added cylindric joints.
- added option to show unit vectors.
- added some balloon helps.
- autocentering works independently in three windows.
- zoom coefficent is updated in real time during running.
- member tool has been added.
- member dialog has been added.
- added point attraction during editing.
- added interactive dragging option.
- most colors can be calibrated by the user in the preferences dialog.
- added unit vector dragging.
Release 1.2 (20 Jun 96):
- added some code for 3D view through QuickDraw 3D.
- the position kernel has been radically changed.
- the main window isn't disabled during animations.
- the speed and accelerative calculations have been radically changed.
- the evolution box in the free dialog works correctly now.
- cubic interpolation supported for inputs from file.
- added Modified Newton-Raphson method.
- added also the Modified Newton-Raphson with initial approximation method.
- bug removed with external trajectories.
- added some test when opening the files.
- Apple Guide expanded.
- added cubic interpolation.
- added spline interpolation.
- bug removed when removing old trajectories.
Release 1.1.2b (9 Apr 96):
- cosmetic bug with control bars when running animation.
- the about dialog disappears after three second at start-up for registered users.
- the about dialog is correctly updated if a screen saver is active.
Release 1.1.0b (1 Apr 96):
- added internal code to solve speed and accelerative calculations.
- added info window.
- added grow icon in control windows.
- bug removed in save code.
- added revert menu item.
- name changed from Cinematic Land to Kinematic Land.
- added code to name points and members.
- added code to open point and member dialog with a double-click.
- bug removed in the dialog of distances and angles.
- added code to load and save trajectories from file.
- recompiled with Metrowerks Codewarrior IDE 1.4 (CW8).
- added some code for Quickdraw 3D on PowerMacs.
- every member is choosen with a popup menu, instead of specifying its points.
- Kinematic Land now generates also QuickTime movies from its main window.
- faster control window redraw.
- measure grids have been added in control windows.
- cursor changes when suspending Kinematic Land.
- better free items management.
- corrected some code in Open Document Apple Event.
- point and member names are removed.
Release 1.0 (5 Feb 96):
- completed Apple Guide file.
- corrected some inconsistencies in bundled texts.
- bug fixed in registration form generation.
- added some strings in the printing registration form.
- small problems with preferences file.
- bug fixed in free variable dialog.
- bug fixed after more saves.
- bug fixed in reverse chain solutions.
- precision range modified in calculations.
- control windows are now removed when a new file is opened.
- correct stop to the animation with CMD-period sequence.
- OS event support during animation.
- safer save procedure rewritten.
- correct window dragging without hiding the palette (thanks to John DeWeese).
- control windows can be resized now.
- better control redrawing in the main window.
- added Calculate item in Items menu to force calculations.
Release 1.0a1 (14 Jan 96):
- removed a lot of spurious programming tools.
- removed some technical resources used during development by Tencas Group.
- fixed bug in trajectories.
- added code to test wrong preferences files.
How to contact us:
My Emails:
tenuti@dei.unipd.it
tencas@kagi.com
Try also to look at Kinematic Land WWW home page at Kagi site:
http://www.kagi.com/authors/tencas/
My snail mail:
Marco Tenuti
via Chiesa di Alcenago, 1
I-37020 STALLAVENA (VR)
ITALY
Phone: ++39-45-908893
Fax: ++39-45-551783
Kinematic Land was tested on:
Macintosh System version CPU problems
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8500/120 7.5.5 1.5.1 PPC604 ...
180c 7.1 1.4 68030/68882 ...
LCIII 7.5.5 1.4 68030/68882 ...
LCIII 7.1 1.4 68030 ...
IIfx 7.1 1.4 68030/68882 ...
Performa 6200 7.5.5 1.4 PPC603 ...
Thanks to:
- Gregor Pavlin (pavlin@mech.tu-graz.ac.at) for his Joint 1.0.2 software and his interest in my program.
- Christopher Wright (chrisw@skypoint.com) for future support and experienced knowledge.
- Alan Salisch (salisch@cloud9.net) for some suggestions.
- Tomaso Paoletti (sarago@dei.unipd.it) for suggestions about C and CodeWarrior.
- Fabrizio Oddone (fab@kagi.com) for his public domain code of µSimulator.
- John DeWeese (jdeweese@sytex.net) for some useful routines and ideas in his Floating.c.
- Troy Gaul (tgaul@halcyon.com) of Infinity Systems for Infinity Windoid 3.0.
- Glenn Katz (katz@guideworks.com) to have sent us Guide Maker Lite 1.2.5.
- Litoart to test on its PowerMacintoshes and supplied some help.
- Andrea Giarola to buy my old LCIII.
- Massimo Legnani (massimo.l@intesys.it), a novice Mac user, who tests Kinematic Land on his 7500/100.
- Marco Novembre (macnova@maya.dei.unipd.it) for a serious test and technical ideas to make Kinematic Land better.
- my very patient girlfriend Elisa...