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SOLAR FIRE GOLD - UPDATES
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Listed in Reverse Chronological Order
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SOLAR FIRE GOLD - UPDATES
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Listed in Reverse Chronological Order
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Version 7.0.7 - 19 Aug 2008
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* Added, Chart Art, 12 new chart art pages have been designed and included
as standard in Solar Fire
* Added, Wheel Styles, 3 new TriWheel styles have been included, each one
showing aspects between two of the three charts, hence the three wheel
styles. Using the "Pages" button on the View Chart screen, it is easy
to switch between these three charts to see the various aspect
combinations
* Added, Calculated Charts, user can now easily toggle between Geocentric
and Heliocentric mode for a chart either by Chart > Edit > Toggle
Coordinates or right-click on highlighted chart on the
Calculated Charts list > Edit > Toggle Coordinates or use keys Ctrl+K
when viewing Solar Fire's main menu
* Added, Clone Charts, a user can now "clone" a chart highlighted on the
"Calculated Charts" list by either clicking on the Chart > Clone or
pressing on the Ctrl+O keyboard keys. This action creates a copy of
the chart into a preview window allowing you to move it to other parts
of the screen, resize it or make it "Always on top". This feature is
handy when you want to keep a copy of a chart that you are working on
always in view. You can also clone as many charts as are listed on the
"Calculated" Charts list or make multiple clones of the same chart
* Added, Electional Search, when previewing search results, there is now
an option to display a Dial or BiDial instead of a UniWheel or BiWheel
together with all the Dial pointer features. The BiWheel or BiDial is
displayed if the "of Radix Chart" is selected in the search conditions
* Improved, Dynamic Events, removed the Maximum Accuracy OFF menu option
from the Dynamic Transits & Progressions process. This process now runs
as if Maximum Accuracy is always ON. The Maximum Accuracy option now
only applies to the Calendar module such that when Maximum Accuracy is
OFF the calculations and the drawing of the Calendar, particularly the
31-day Calendar, runs faster than when Maximum Accuracy setting is ON
* Impoved, Half Aspect Grid, if you are displaying a half grid in either
the View Chart screen or the Animate screen, you can right-click on the
grid itself and see a new entry on the menu named "Grid Settings".
Clicking on this menu item pops up a screen where a numberof settings
can be changed such that the half aspect grid can now display the angles
between points/planets in all of the cells. There is an option to display
the angles in either Degree/Minutes/Seconds format or Decimal format.
Additionally, you can also select whether you want to see the angles
based on "regular" angles up to 180* or angles up to 360*. For this
purpose, a new page layout has been supplied called "Half Aspect Grid"
located in the "Grids" or "Added Recently" topic
* Improved, Solar Fire Version, now print the full version of the program,
including revision number, on various reports. Previously, only "v7.0"
was being printed
* Fixed, Folders/Files, on computers where the LoginName name of the user
contains a dot (".") or period, or any other folder name contains a dot
or period, some functionality of Solar Fire was giving spurious results,
particularly in areas of opening or editing files. For example, if a
user opened a *.SFcht chart file then a chart's Comments information
would not be seen or a corruption of the Comments might have shown
* Fixed, Chart Files and User Files backup, the backup feature on Windows XP
(and earlier) computers was only creating folders at the destination and
not copying (backing up) all the files, though it was working fine on
Windows Vista computers
* Fixed, Exit, when closing down Solar Fire using Chart > Exit menu item,
the user was not asked whether they wanted to save charts, however,
clicking on the "X" button instead did correctly ask whether a user
wanted to save charts before exiting Solar Fire. Both exit points now
ask whether a user wants to save charts
* Fixed, Electional Search, events now in strict date/time order.
Previously, some "Enters" and "Is Exact" events were not in time order
* Fixed, Electional Search, the Search Location was not automatically
looking up the entered Place in the ACS atlas
* Fixed, Electional Search, the Aspects file selected by the user is now
used for searches, when it is required. Previously, Solar Fire's default
aspect file was being used
* Fixed, Place lookups, if a place not in the ACS atlas is entered in the
Place box then you either press TAB or click on the Country box then
immediately click back to the Place box, because you see an error in
the Place name, the ACS Atlas lookup is invoked and the list goes into
a continuous loop eventually raising an error message
* Fixed, Dynamic Events, when "Natal Solar Rate" was selected for Primary
Mundane, no events were displaying
* Fixed, Dynamic Events, Maximum Accuracy ON, the longitude of Mercury was
sometimes incorrect for hits to other planets in Transits to Transits
* Fixed, Dynamic Events, Maximum Accuracy OFF, fixed various logic
combinations that caused some spurious results for some event hits
* Fixed, Calendar, for July 2008 only, an Overflow error message was
generated if Transits to Transits was selected in the Calendar
Preferences
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Version 7.0.6 - 16 June 2008
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* Added, Chart Art, added 12 new page designs, the Sun in each
house, for
Solar Returns. The background graphic of each of the pages has a
brief
text interpretation for the Sun in that house
* Added, Chart Art, added 2 new Chart Art designs for Children
* Added, Eris Glyph, set the Eris glyph to the new standard and
added an
option to select the original glyph used in Solar Fire Gold in the
Preferences > Edit Settings > Misc. tab. NOTE: The new font
files will
need to be manually installed as per instructions
on the website
* Fixed, Reports menu, Vulcan (Baker) locking up program when in
View Chart
and the Reports button clicked
* Fixed, Reports menu, Vulcan (Baker) locking up program when
Reports button
clicked and Tabulations selected
* Fixed, Charts menu, if there are no charts on the Calculated
Charts list then
clicking on Chart > Rising/Setting or Chart > Lunar Phase
items caused a
runtime error of the program
* Fixed, Stellarium v0.9.1 giving wrong years. The format of the
date and time
strings changed in this version of Stellarium.
* Fixed, Dynamic Events, OK button was not fully showing on the
Interps screen
for a line entry in Dynamic Events list when it was double-clicked
* Improved, Tabulations, extended the Vedic Dasas layout so that it
displays the
full 120-year set of Dasas/Bhuktis
* Improved, Check for Updates on Web, the Solar Fire program was not
closing in
some circumstances when a patch update was downloaded resulting in
a warning
message being raised requesting the user to close the Solar fire
program so
that the patch update could proceed
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Version 7.0.5 - 5 May 2008
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* Added, Menus, added fast menu access (Utilities menu) to the Swiss
Ephemeris
files folder
* Added, Interpretations files, in cases where all interpretation
(*.int) files
are relocated to another folder from the standard
"...\Solar Fire User Files\Interpretations" folder, you may now
manually add
a new key "InterpPath=" under the [Solar Fire] section, along with
a folder path
(ending in "\") to the Solfire7.ini file located in
"...\Solar Fire User Files\Settings" folder. This option might be
useful in
situationswhere you want your own master set of interpretation
files in a
different location to the standard Solar Fire Gold interpretation
files.
* Added, Midpoint Interpretations, added new midpoint interpretation
text
and reports
* Added, Chart Art, three more pages were added: Art_PurpleBamboo,
Art_RedCosmos
and Art_StarNavy
* Fixed, Combined Charts, if a Combined chart was created, e.g.
Composite Midpoints,
and then a Solar Return chart was then created for the first name
used in the
Composite chart, the second name used in the Composite chart was
being displayed
as the name of the Solar Return chart on the Calculated Charts list
as well as
the preview wheel
* Fixed, Chart Art pages, the graphic backgrounds on the 14 new
chart art pages
released in the v7.0.4 patch were not displaying when the default
printer was
set for Letter page size
* Fixed, Aspect Grid, runtime error when the new Aries Point
selected in a chart
using the Draconic zodiac
* Fixed, Chart Analysis, "Leading Planet" was incorrect for
Locomotive chart shapes
* Fixed, Interpretations Editor, temporary file creation error on
Vista 64-bit
when Compacting interpretation files
* Fixed, Interpretations Editor, runtime error when clicking on the
Browse
button on the Output File
* Fixed, Interpretations Editor, when the File > Upgrade is run
(to upgrade the
Interpretations file from v2 to v3 file structure extending it for
the new
points/planets like Sedna and Eris as well as for midpoint text)
the first
12 characters of the text for various combinations was being
"chopped off"
* Fixed, Interpretations Editor, now warn user if any of the new
points are
selected, like Sedna and Eris, and the interpretations file has not
been
upgraded to the latest version
* Fixed, Interpretation Text Import, Changes to text made by users
in the
interpretation files were not being copied from earlier versions of
Solar
Fire to Solar Fire Gold when the Utilities > Import Charts and
Settings had
the "Interpretation Files (For advanced users only)" selected
* Fixed, Dynamic Report, when Maximum Accuracy switched off, for
some planet
aspects, the EXL dates were the same date and time
* Fixed, Dynamic Events, when Maximum Accuracy ON and a Dynamic
Events report
run where there is only one aspect selected, i.e. conjunction, and
one transit
planet to one natal planet, the resulting report gave spurious
results
* Fixed, Planet Calculations, Vulcan (Baker calculation only) was
locking up
Solar Fire Gold when it was selected
* Improved, Midpoint Axes and Trees Report, changed the "|" symbol
used in these
reports to the more common "/" symbol used for midpoints
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, changed the Text Editor option
"write.exe"
to "wordpad.exe"
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, lengthened the folder/file text
boxes to allow
for longer paths
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, changed the midpoint separator
from "|" to "/"
so that midpoint text using "/" can be read in
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, add message to let user know how
to Upgrade
interpretations file to the latest version if they select any of
the Midpoints
text categories and the interpretation file is the older v2 format
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, if no chart opened then grey out
the
File > Compact and File > Upgrade menu items
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, if no INT file opened and a
Compile is
performed from a source text file then open the created INT for
viewing after
the Compile has been completed
* Improved, Interpretations Editor, changed the order that "Point to
Midpoints" are
exported when Decompiling, now in Midpoint order
* Improved, Aspect Orbs, extended Parallel and Contra-Parallel test
to check for
both applying and separating orbs. Previously, only one test was
done for both
applying and separating orbs resulting in parallels or
contra-parallels being
displayed in a grid if the orb for either applying or separating
was set to zero
* Improved, Aspect Orbs, now allow the user to enter separate
applying and separating
orbs for the Parallel and Contra-Parallel aspects. Previously, the
same value
entered into the Applying orb was being used to automatically
update Separating
orb, and vice versa
* Improved, Unidirectional Orbs, changed logic so that if a
Unidirectional orb is
selected when Use Planet Orb Ratios is also selected, the lowest
orb ratio is
used for aspects in orb calculations
* Improved, Chart Analysis, added a "Leading Planet" to the Bowl
shape
* Improved, Page Topic Index, set "Auto Apply" ON as the default so
that Page
Preview is enabled
* Improved, Main Menu, allow the setting of the Firdaria Report,
Nodal Variation,
to be saved in the menu for the next startup
* Improved, Wheel Style, updated the Uni2.wh1 wheel style to now
display
intercepted signs
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Version 7.0.4 - 10 Mar 2008
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* Fixed, Planetary Nodes, added Sedna and Eris to Planetary Nodes
report as they
were left out of this report after these new planets were added
* Fixed, Calendar, both the default Progession and the default
Direction settings
in the Dynamic Transits and Progressions entry screen were not
holding their
values if the Calendar feature was run and the user returned to the
Dynamic
Transits and Progressions entry screen. This problem showed up if
the Progression
was not set to "Secondary" and the Direction was not set to "Solar
Arc" in the
Dynamic Transits and Progressions
* Fixed, Calendar, the View menu tick was not set to the saved
calendar period
when the Calendar was started up
* Fixed, Calendar, Preferences > Edit Settings, if "Use default
timezone" is selected,
the Calendar did not reflect a change in the displayed timezone on
the Calendar
when a change was made to the default place/timezone in Solar Fire's
Preferences > Edit Settings > Places tab
* Fixed, Dynamic Report, when Copy/Paste Dynamic Report data to a
Word document
(or Excel), tabs on columns were missing
* Fixed, Dynamic, Directions->Radix, Primary vanDam, when listed
and then View Chart,
a warning message now offers to display transits
* Fixed, Dynamic, Primary Mundane, results were different to those
in Solar Fire
Deluxe for the same chart and settings
* Fixed, Dynamic Transits, deleting two or more columns in Dynamic
Events Report
caused program to crash
* Fixed, Repair, the Repair function was removing some important
files thus causing
a "Bad installation..." error message at next startup. Due to
complexity at
installation, the "Repair" button was removed for the Solar Fire
Gold entry in
Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs
* Improved, Page Designs, when new page layouts are either created
or externally
added to the "Pages" folder in the "Solar Fire User Files" folder,
when a user
next selects the View > Page Topic Index menu item, a test is
now done for
whether the new page is a "Chart Art" type of page or other page
type. If it
is a "Chart Art" page then it is now automatically added to the
"Chart Art"
topic where it will now be found. Other types of pages are
automatically added
to the "Added Recently" topic. For these latter types of pages, a
user can always
"drag and drop" the new page from the "Added Recently" topic to any
other topic listed.
* Modified, Calendar, if "Show Exact Times of Hits" is set in the
Calendar Preferences,
the items are now sorted by time in the day. If "Show Exact Times
of Hits" is not set
then the default order of display continues to take place, that is,
by Event and Planet.
The View > View Interpretations Report is now also sorted
accordingly.
* Modified, Calendar Options, re-arrange screen, reverse Sign /
House Ingresses and
Stationary / Parallels to be consistent with Dynamic screen
* Modified, Chart Files, updated the birth time of Prince Henry (aka
Prince Harry)
in the Royalty.SFcht chart file from 4:20am to 4:20pm.
* Modified, View Chart, removed the chart number in brackets next to
chart type in
caption so that it does not display. Useful when "Copy/Send" chart
by Clipboard,
File or Email Attachment. Previously, printing a chart never had
the chart number
printed so it is now consistent.
* Modified, Dynamic Report, adjusted the default width of some
columns when they are
selected and displayed
* Added, Color Schemes, the King Scale color files from Tad Mann
were added to
Chart Options > Color Scheme
* Added, Chart Art, 14 more Chart Art page designs were added
* Added, Arabic Parts, add a new file Moreparts.arp containing 150
Arabic Parts
* Added, Page Designs, new Declin_bi.pag added showing two
declination strips for
synastry work in declination
* Added, Wheel Designs, new wheels added: BiWheels - Aspects2.wh2,
Aspects3.wh2,
Aspects4.wh2, TriWheel - Tri3.wh3
* Added, Calendar, Precession Correction (Prec. Corr.) added to
Calendar Preferences
* Added, Calendar, options now in Calendar Preferences to select if
Moon Ingress and
Void of Course (VoC) text categories are printed in the Calendar
Interpretations report
* Added, Main Screen, added the full version number to the caption
of the main screen
so that be the full version is can now be seen saving a user having
to go to
Help > About Solar Fire
* Added, Dynamic Report, now display column headers to both Print
and Copy outputs from
Dynamic Events screen
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Version 7.0.3 - 20 Feb 2008
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* Fixed, Demo, if Solar Fire Gold Demo
installed and then Solar Fire Gold full
version installed, uninstalling Solar Fire
Gold Demo removes the Swiss Ephemeris
Common files causing a startup error when
next starting up Solar Fire Gold.
* Fixed, Solar Maps Lite, clicking on the
Eclipse button did not display any eclipses
in list.
* Fixed, Dynamic > Animate menus, these
were not displaying on computers with
Windows 98 or Windows ME operating systems.
* Added, Dynamic > Animate menus, now allow
Real Time Clock and Animate menu windows
to be minimized.
* Fixed, Startup, Swiss Ephemeris error at
startup when Solar Fire Gold installed
on Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition
operating systems.
* Changed, Startup, modified the logic to now
allow for the detection and use of
the SE_EPHE_PATH environmental variable on a
computer, relocating the Swiss
Ephemeris files, and in this scenario Solar
Fire Gold's embedded Swiss
Ephemeris files may actually be deleted
(allowable) at startup.
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Version 7.0.2 - 06 Feb 2008
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* Fixed, Calendar, if 7-day mode spans a month
then no aspects shown for any day
* Fixed, Calendar, if 7-day mode spans a month
then Moon data wrong for the days
in the new month
* Fixed, Calendar, the interps text on the
Calendar was using the wrong interps
text file - Transits.int instead of
Calendar.int
* Fixed, View Chart, Dual Wheels using
uniextra4.wh1 gave a subscript out of
range error
* Fixed, Charts, when a chart selected in
Chart > Open is a *.cht format chart
(older format), the feature to allow a user
to convert to the later *.SFcht
format did not work.
* Fixed, Birthdays, though more than 40 charts
may be highlighted in a chart
file, only about 40 of them are displayed on
the Birthday list. It was found the
Birthday list being displayed had a limit of
around 40 charts even though the
birthdays file had the right number of
charts. The limit was extended to
around 160 birthday charts that can be
displayed.
* Fixed, Calendar, Preferences > Edit
Settings, if
"Specify my own location/timezone" selected,
it did not perform auto. lookup
of ACS atlas for timezone after you tabbed
past the Country entry box.
* Fixed, Startup, if Solar Fire Gold is
installed and then Solar Fire Deluxe
is uninstalled, a "Run-time error '429'"
shows up when starting Solar Fire Gold.
This problem only occurred for Solar Fire
Deluxe and not earlier versions.
* Improved, Swiss Ephemeris file path, added
auto. recover facility to return back to
default path if the current path fails to
detect the Swiss Ephemeris files at that
location on the startup of Solar Fire Gold
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Version 7.0.1 - 17 Jan 2008
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* Some chart wheels with colour fills were
being displayed in their opposite colours
when displayed on Chart Art pages with "dark"
backgrounds where the page objects were
being displayed in "white". Now fixed.
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Version 7.0.0 - 13 Jan 2008
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* Solar Fire Gold ready