Veterinary Calculator / News: Recent posts

This is just a minor release to fix some text to make things easier to understand and to fix building on linux with nant. This is also likely the last GPL release, the next release will be LGPL or perhaps even BSD.

I am currently moving the subversion repository to sourceforge's systems and it should be up soon. I also am considering a license change to LGPL or maybe even BSD to allow more freedom to integrate the project with commercial projects. The goal of this project is to improve veterinary software, not to grab control. So I feel the license should be changed to reflect that.

I am sorry to remain quiet for so long but I have finally decided to do an update to this project. I have updated the website at http://vetcalc.vetmanage.com . I will be making a 1.0 release as soon as I get some documentation together. Once I have the documentation I will begin putting together packages for Windows and Linux. If anyone using VetCalc has found any bugs please report them now as I will be out of town next month after school ends.

In addition to running on DotGNU I have now added a .build file for csant, you may now build VetCalc from source on your favorite flavor of unix. Please note that VetCalc.build is only in the .tar.gz package which was just uploaded, future releases will include VetCalc.build in both the .zip and the .tar.gz packaes. To build simply untar on a machine with dotgnu installed, go into the directory created and run csant from that directory, it will automaticly create VetCalc.exe.

This release removes the last of the old parenthesis code, fixes a bug in the backspace handler so that it now puts in a 0 when you backspace all of the numbers and makes escape clear the current number as well as previous entries.

The first beta has been published, the only code change was the completion of the parenthesis code, however this release marks the completion of all features, from now untill the first production release I will be focusing on fixing bugs.

This release now uses livecontrols from http://sourceforge.net/projects/livecontrol In adition it fixes the conversion utility to behave in a more useable manner.

This Alpha completely replaces the math evaluator with a new one supporting order of operations, warning parenthesis support is VERY broken in this, it will be replaced as soon as possible. It also improves DotGNU's Portable.NET support the basic calculator functions now work under Portable.NET version 0.6.10, note that conversions still do not work.

This release primarily corrects the calculator buttons to behave more like windows buttons. I also removed some extra resources that werent really being used which reduced the .exe filesize by about 50%.

This alpha adds a new faster factorization algorithm and features a more or less complete rewrite of the LiveButton class that decends directly from system.Windows.Forms.Control.

Just thought i'd note that as of Alpha 0.3 VetCalc now runs under the DotGNU project's Portable.Net. It doesn't perform calculations yet, but it does load up. Mono still does not work however.
UPDATE: If you intend to use VetCalc under Portable.Net it is advised to run the latest cvs versopm of Portable.Net. There are still a few crashes under Portable.Net, however the Portable.Net developers have been quick to fix bugs which I have reported.

This alpha fixes a bug in the unit converter, splits the mathematical evaluator to prepare for order of operations support and adds a new LiveButton class for new buttons in the interface.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125282&package_id=137327&release_id=288044

Second Alpha is out, it replaces the old Evaluator with a new stack based evaluator.

Subversion repository is up at https://www.vetmanage.com/pubsvn/vetcalc

I have posted the first alpha. Please be forewarned it is not ready for production use, but I will be working on it often.