File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 2.8.5
Notes: Primary key fingerprint: 1D87 3720 BB77 4489 A928 79D6 F8EC DD76 9274 F1CE Initial upload of Roland Scholz' Delphi code.
Changes: ================= This program is a turn viewer for Galaxy (standard, GalaxyNG or Blind Galaxy), a game of interstellar war for several players. Features include a map with detailed information, a ship designer, a move editor, a battle simulator, a forecaster and online help. See the online help for more information. NEW USERS SHOULD AT LEAST READ THE SECTION "TIPS" OF THE ONLINE HELP! GalaxyView is GPL software, i.e. the Gnu General Public License applies. See gpl.txt for more information. Requirements: ============= - Windows 95 or higher - Screen resolution at least 800x600 using small fonts (a screen resolution of 1024x768 is recommended) - Complete set of turn reports from a standard Galaxy game, from GalaxyNG or Blind Galaxy Note1: For standard Galaxy and GalaxyNG: You have to set the following options in your first move: Option TWOCOL off (this is the default) Option UNDERSCORES on For Blind Galaxy: Don't set the option showopts to false, GalaxyView needs the options section in the reports. Don't set the option battlesum to off, or News will not show much useful information in battle section. Note2: Put turn reports for different games in different directories. Note3: Put moves in directories, which differ from the reports directory. Note4: Turn reports in Unix format will be automatically converted to DOS format. The original file will be saved as <originalfile>.bak Installation: ============= 1. Install GalaxyView to a directory of your choice by starting the self- extracting archive. 2. Start the program, press the button 'Create new configuration' and follow the instructions (press F1 to get online help). Note: If you start the program the first time, it needs some time to create an intelligence file for every turn report. Note2: The file names of your reports has to be of type <name><number>.<extension> where <name> and <extension> are strings and <number> is a number starting with 0 for turn report 0. Example: turn0.txt Deinstallation: =============== 1. Use the program GalaxyViewUnregistry to delete all GalaxyView informations from Windows registry. 2. Delete all GalaxyView files manually. UPX: ==== UPX (the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) was used to compress the GalaxyView executables. This reduced the size of GalaxyView.exe to 30% of the original size. The GalaxyView archive was reduzed to 70%. UPX Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar, http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html, http://www.nexus.hu/upx, http://upx.tsx.org Author of GalaxyView: ===================== Roland Scholz email: rs@RolandScholz.de GalaxyView homepage: ==================== http://GalaxyView.RolandScholz.de History: ======== V2.85 (01/27/03): Bugs fixed: . GalaxyNG: In rare cases, GalaxyView was not able to identify a report. . When changing size, resources, population or industry in PlanetView dialog, the changed values were only shown after GalaxyView has been restarted. . In rare cases, a 'division by zero' error occured in ship designer. V2.84 (05/22/02): Bugs fixed: . Changing trivial battles in Battle section of News dialog didn't work in some games. . Sometimes the Battle section in News dialog disappeared. V2.83 (05/19/02): New: . You can now limit the battles shown in Battle section of News dialog to non-trivial battles (like you can do in Forecast). Bugs fixed: . GalaxyNG: Battle simulations from the battle section in News dialog produced an error message. . News dialog couldn't display more than 45 battles in highest detail level. . Minor bugfixes. V2.82 (03/09/02): Changed: . When displayed, Chart dialog now changes its height so that all races are shown Bugs fixed: . In rare cases, auto detection of game type failed . Standard Galaxy: Sometimes, chart dialog was empty . In rare cases, deleting a command in Move Editor deleted all 'Show way of groups...' arrows . Now 'Load Most Recent File' works in Move Editor and in Text Editor . Standard Galaxy: Minor bug fixed . Small bug fix in Move Editor . Minor bugfixes V2.81 (02/12/02): New: . News dialog now shows bulletins . Non-Blind: Race dialog now shows race name changes Changed: . Tables are now using a stable sorting algorithm (for example if you first sort the Planet list by name and then by production, all planets producing CAP will be sorted still by name) Bugs fixed: . Non-Blind: Checking a move in Move Editor hangs when using two 'Send Message' commands. . Blind Galaxy: Imported Race information wasn't always shown in Race dialog . Forecaster sometimes had problems with upgrade orders when breaking off ships from a group . minor bugfix V2.8 (12/01/01): New: . You can now import other users reports or parts of it. Useful for team games or if you just got appropriate information from another player. Read the online help for more information. . History can now be changed. . If you double click a line in a group or planet table with a + or - sign in the first column, you can edit the appropriate command. . In the ShipDesigner you can now limit the list of ship types to military, transports, all but military and all but transports. . In Forecast you can now specify the mass for trivial battles. . GalaxyNG: MoveEditor now supports = command. . Distance circles now show distance numbers (you can switch this on or off in Options dialog). . You now get a warning if you want to quit GalaxyView, if there is an unsaved move. . If you select a planet in the map and press ALT while selecting another one, distance circles will be drawn for both planets. Bugs fixed: . Blind Galaxy: Forecast sometimes didn't calculate distances correctly. . Showing + or - in first column of group tables now works when sending fleets also. . When scanning planets, the already used number of ships didn't took intercept orders into account. . GalaxyNG: Option BATTLEREPORT was renamed to BATTLEPROTOCOL in MoveEditor . GalaxyNG: Check Move gave wrong error messages, if AMOUNT was used in LOAD commands (and the number of ships to use was not specified). . GalaxyNG: Automatic detection of planet ownership improved. . In rare cases, GalaxyView was not able to detect the type of game when a configuration was created. . Minor bugfixes V2.76 (06/12/01): New: . Map button 'Show ship masses' . Map button 'Show destroyed ships in 'Groups at planet' list too' . Path to calculator can now be changed in Options dialog. . Path to Galaxy help files can now be entered in Options dialog. The given files are accessible from Help Menu. . Minor enhancement. Changes: . 'Scan Area' dialog completely redesigned. . Turn Overview now shows any number of planets a player have lost (not only if he lost more than one third of his planets) . Forecast don't uses old reports and therefore will not show groups, where production began some turns ago and which should be finished next turn. An appropriate note has been added to the online help. Bugs fixed: . Turn Overview sometimes showed wrong total number of colonized planets. . State of map button 'Show way of all groups ...' wasn't saved in configuration . News->ShipTypes showed wrong number of ships for newly created designs. . Minor bugfix in Forecaster V2.75 (05/29/01): New: . Battle section in News dialog now shows the new column "Speed" in highest detail level. . Text Editor had a limit of 64kbyte of text. There is now no such limit. Text Editor can now load files much faster. . Non-NG games: Ship Designer shows new information 'Number per turn (safe)'. See online help for details (important!). Bugs fixed: . GalaxyView had problems with turn reports, which are a mixture between DOS and Unix format. . Forecaster sometimes didn't send groups on routes for planets with more than one route. . GalaxyNG: When producing cargo technology, Forecaster calculated wrong new value. . When selecting a transport group with cargo technology greater 1, the max speed circle displayed in the map was wrong. . Column 'Max./Cur. Mass' in planet table in forecast dialog sometimes showed wrong values when it should display no values. . Move Editor had problems with X-command (Scrap Old Ships) in 'Natural text' mode. . In rare cases, selecting a group in hyper space, shows an incredible high ETA below the map. . Planet View sometimes gave error messages when changing planet owner. . GalaxyNG: When colonizing new planets, Forecaster sometimes showed too low new population and industry values. . Minor bugfixes V2.74 (04/24/01): . Display of your own ships in map only worked in current turn. This has been fixed. . New map button 'Show way of ALL groups'. . New Move commands in planet menu: 'Declare Peace/War on Owner of Planet'. . New group command 'Unload Group and Send to Planet' . Some improvements in 'Design Ship Type' command window. . Table of Ship Types in News dialog now shows for every ship type the number of ships you have. . Forecast had problems with 'Send message' command. This has been fixed. . Sometimes, the Move Editor was confused when creating commands for several groups/planets at once. This has been fixed. . Moves created with 'Put to Clipboard' may have contained commands ending with the space character. This can confuse galaxy servers and was fixed. . NG games: Move Editor now makes sure, that no names with more than 20 characters can be used for planets, ship types, fleets and races. This check was implemented for all game types except NG, but NG has the same limitation. . Minor bugfix in forecast. . Minor bugfixes. V2.73 (03/22/01): . New command 'Design Ship Type and Produce at Selected Planet' in Ship Designer. . GalaxyView had problems with planets named ~ This has been fixed (was a big problem in NG game Weird1) . Bug in Move Editor with 'Send message' command fixed. . Bug in Move Editor 'Check Move' fixed. . Minor bugfix in News dialog V2.72 (03/07/01): . For every border agreement, you con now (optionally) specify the turn, when the border agreement expires. When this happen and 3 turns before the expiration, you get an appropriate message, when the configuration is started (this can be configured). . "Show way of selected planets..." didn't work when loading orders. This (and some other problems) has been fixed. . GalaxyNG: When specifying the amount of cargo in a load command, but not specifying the number of ships to use, an error occured in forecast. This has been fixed. . 'Declare war...', 'Declare peace...' commands didn't work in group tables. This has been fixed. V2.71 (03/01/01): . When starting an old standard configuration, GalaxyView V2.7 always created new history files. This should only happen once! This has been fixed. V2.7 (02/28/01): . New History dialog, showing historical information about races and planets. The dialog can be used for example to find the following information: . When have you met which race . When have you seen which ship type . When have a planet ownership changed . Race name changes (non-blind games only) . If you select a group in a group list for which a send or intercept order exists in Move Editor, an arrow will be drawn in the map from the origin planet to the new destination if the map button "Show way of selected planets..." is pressed. See online help for more details. Note, that this button existed in older GalaxyView versions, but with a different meaning! . News dialog now contains 'Ships in Production' section. . News dialog now contains 'Ship Types' section to show ship types in tabular form. . Planet View dialog now contains a field 'Origin of information'. This is used for history. For more information read at least the note in the online help of the history dialog. . You can now use the right mouse button on the planet information area below the map to create commands for the selected planet also. . The 'Groups at planet' table can now be printed or saved like most of the other tables. . GalaxyNG: When using the unload-command in Move Editor, you can now specify the amount of cargo to unload. . GalaxyNG: Forecast didn't work for load commands, where the amount of cargo was specified. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix and enhancement in display of battle result. . Memory leak fixed. . Minor bugfix in map. . Minor enhancements and bugfixes. V2.66 (12/14/00): . While simulating, Battle Simulator now shows the results (number of wins, defeats, stand-offs) in the bottom left corner of the dialog. . Non-blind games: In version 2.65, command for sending messages to other players didn't work in Move Editor. This has been fixed. . Non-blind games: Forecast didn't work, if the Move Editor displayed the move in raw mode and the move contained messages to other players. This has been fixed. . Blind-games: If game option BATTLESUM is switched to off (which is not recommended!), battles will now be correctly loaded (but will not show much useful information in News anyway). . Minor bugfix in Battle Simulator. V2.65 (12/07/00): . You can now select more than one entry in the planet and the groups lists. With this, you can give a command to more than one planet/group (i.e. select some planets in the planet list (using Ctrl or Shift key!), press the right mouse button and select 'Set Production for Planet to Capital' to create such a command for all selected planets!). . New menu ButtonBar to hide or show the button bar and to show the button bar in a separate window (which can be arranged horizontally and vertically). Configurations now contain position and size of the button bar. . The Windows calculator can now be started from within GalaxyView (either by a button or a menu item). . Non-blind games: If a player have left the game, planet ownership algorithm sometimes incorrectly assigned planet owner. This has been fixed. If GalaxyView shows incorrect planet owner, you have to delete all <report>.gvi files. Note, that you will loose all information changed with the Planet View tool, if you do so. . Ship Designer 'forgot' newly created designs, which are not yet in any report. This has been fixed. . Scan area dialog didn't take into account ships of groups already sent in the current move. This has been fixed. . In rare cases, map didn't show all routes correct. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfixes and enhancement V2.64 (11/21/00): . GalaxyView can now show some given planet commands in the map (use menu item 'Show Commands in Map' in Move Editor). . List of Planets now can display all planets (not only planets from one race), where you have useful information. . List of Planets now displays planets from intelligence also. . If you press shift while selecting a planet in a list, the planet is selected in the map and the distance to the last selected planet is shown. . Battle section in News sometimes reported a victory where it should report a defeat. This has been fixed. . Scan Area dialog improved. . 'Check Move' sometimes reported errors in a message command. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix in battle section of forecast. . Non-NG games: Move Editor now makes sure, that no names with more than 20 characters can be used for planets, ship types, fleets and races. . GalaxyNG: Now, you don't have to specify number of ships in Load command, if you want to specify the amount of cargo. . Minor bugfixes V2.63 (11/07/00): . GalaxyNG: Move Editor now support H-command and all options. . Big memory leak fixed. . Checkbox 'Show only ship types from current report' now works again. . Possible battles in forecast now takes into account given 'Declare war' and 'Declare peace' orders. . Deleting all races in Chart now works. . Non-blind games: Newly created groups were not shown in forecast. This has been fixed. . Entering decimal values using . as decimal separator now works in countries using , as decimal separator. V2.62 (10/30/00): . Forecast now shows Stockpiles and Routes. . Ship Designer now shows all designs from other races seen in previous reports. . In Group tables in extended mode, upgrade cost were calculated wrong. This has been fixed. . Non blind games: GalaxyView sometimes showed uninhabited planets as beeing inhabited. This has been fixed. To correct those problems, you have to delete at least the *.gvi file for the latest report. Note: You will loose all information (for the current turn) you changed with the Planet View tool, if you do so! . Blind Galaxy: Turn overview didn't show players left the game. This has been fixed. . Blind Galaxy: Amount of cargo could not be specified in Load command in Move Editor, if 'Display Move As' 'Natural Text' was chosen. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfixes and enhancements. V2.61 (10/23/00): . Ship Designer calculates two new values now (see online help for details). . GalaxyView (again) sometimes had problems with reports, where two battles occured at the same planet. This has been fixed. . Forecast didn't work for empty routes. This has been fixed. . New forecast icon (thanks to Chris Bisson) . Blind Galaxy: Forecast sometimes showed wrong ETA for groups. This has been fixed. . Move Editor couldn't load move with 'Send message...' commands, when move was displayed as raw text. This has been fixed. . Upgrade costs are now rounded up. This is more useful. . If you produce a ship, which takes more than one turn to build, forecast showed a group with number of ship 0. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix. V2.6 (10/09/00): . GalaxyView now can do a forecast, i.e. it can execute the move available in the Move Editor and then display race information, planets information and group information for the next turn. A forecast also shows possible battles, which can be simulated directly. . Ship Designer improved. . Move Editor can now load moves in unix format (those moves will be converted to dos format and the original file will be saved as <filename>.bak). . Blind Galaxy: Move Editor now supports partial techs for upgrade command. . Border agreements can now be based on planets and co-ordinates. . To sort a table ascending or decending, the left mouse button is now used, because most programs uses only the left mouse button for this purpose. Using the right mouse button on a table will do nothing now. . To fill in a group ID (or a racenbame) in a command dialog, you can now select an entry in a group list (or in the race list). . If you simulate a battle from the News dialog, battle section, you can select, which race belongs to which side (defender or aggressor). . You can now specify comments to be used in every move you create with the Move Editor (see online help for details) . The size of dialogs and table columns should be correct now on desktops using big fonts. . Blind Galaxy: To increase industry by one, you need 0.5 CAP. In Standard games and GalaxyNG, you need 1 CAP. The 'Develop Planets' algorithm always used the 1 CAP for one industry rule. This has been fixed. . Move Editor no longer creates commands with trailing spaces, because there seems to be an NG server having problems with this. . GalaxyView sometimes had problems with reports, where two battles occured at the same planet. This has been fixed. . GalaxyView should now have no problems with names of races and ship types longer than 20 characters. . The formula for the p[kill] value in Ship Designer was wrong and has been corrected. . Bug in planet ownership algorithm fixed. V2.58 (09/05/00): . Standard Galaxy: V2.56 and V2.57 had problems with planet ownership information, if a player left the game. This has been fixed (Standard Galaxy players should delete all *.gvi files created with GalaxyView V2.56 and V2.57). . In rare cases, GalaxyView was not able to read in the Ship Type section. In this cases, some 'Invalid floating point error's showed up. This has been fixed. . In some cases, if you select a group, planet circles were displayed instead of group circles. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix. V2.57 (08/28/00): . In the 'Develop Planets' dialog, an alternative algorithm can now be choosen. See online help for details. . The value for the field 'Number per turn' in Ship Designer was rounded. Therefore, a value of 0.9998 was shown as 1.000 ships per turn. To fix this problem, the value will now be truncated. . An error occured, if the Ship Designer was opened after a size 0 planet was selected. This has been fixed. . Blind Galaxy: If you save the planet list to a text file, you can now choose to save planet numbers instead of user defined planet names. This is needed, if you want to give the list to another player. V2.56 (08/21/00): . New option 'Secure Group Display' in options dialog. Read the online help for details (please do so!). . All tables, which can be printed can now be saved to text file. . Blind Galaxy: In rare cases, all planet ownership information for some races were lost. This has been fixed. . Move Editor sometimes had shown wrong ETA for fleets, where groups have been broken off. This has been fixed. . Sometimes GalaxyView reported wrong population and industry values for planets. This has been fixed. . If there was a planet where either industry or population equals 0, GalaxyView showed a current mass value of -1 in Planet dialog. This has been fixed. . Map update problems for border agreements fixed. . State of map button 'Show way of your groups' was not included in a configuration. This has been fixed. . News dialog no longer have problems with turn reports with more than 1 MB of size. . You now get a warning, if you create commands with the Move Editor for an old report. . If you switch to another turn and a planet was selected, the group list below the map was not updated. This has been fixed. . Battle list sometimes showed a victory, where it should report a defeat. This has been fixed. . When creating new configuration, GalaxyView now fills in the fields 'Name of Galaxy Game' and 'Name of Your Race' in Move Editor automatically. V2.55 (08/09/00): . Last version had problems when the user selects a size 0 planet. This has been fixed. . List of battles now take into account status of players (in former versions a battle was shown as victory only, if only you had ships left after the battle. Now, its a victory, if all ships of players have been destroyed, with which you are at war). . In battle simulator, some columns were named 'Defence', but they should be named 'Shield'. This has been fixed. V2.54 (07/31/00): . Creating Configurations improved (now it works for games, where the players start with different number of home planets). . Tables containing strings like '1x2.3' or '989.12 / 876.89' will now be sorted by the first number (and not as strings). . Map buttons 'Show group range circles' and 'Show fleet range circles' work again. . Move Editor didn't handle 'Load cargo' command correctly in GalaxyNG games, when the amount of cargo was specified. This has been fixed. . Two minor bugs in Border Agreement dialog fixed. . A new test for 'Check Move' implemented in Move Editor. . If you press 'Accept values' in 'Planet View' dialog, the message 'Intelligence information updated' appeared. This annoying message has been deleted. . GalaxyView now shows in the group tables, if some or all ships of a group have been given intercept orders (and not only if send orders have been given). . You now can add planets to the 'Develop Planets' dialog, which you don't own, but where you have ships. . If you click on a planet with no population, industrie etc., this zero values will now be displayed (in former versions of GalaxyView, nothing was displayed (but nothing means 'not known')). . Shiptypes will no longer be mixed, if you load several configurations. V2.53 (07/24/00): . GalaxyView now shows in the group tables, if some or all ships of a group have been given send orders! . GalaxyView now shows in the planet table, if a planet has been given production orders. . When creating a configuration when the 'show size of battles' button was pressed, GalaxyView crashed the next time it was started. This has been fixed. . When you first created 'Add group to fleet' command in the Move Editor specifying a number of ships to use and then created 'Add groups to fleet' command without specifying the number of ships to use, the Move Editor has deleted the first command. This has been fixed. . When starting GalaxyView, in some cases the main window appeared AFTER all reports have been loaded. This has been fixed. . In some cases, the Move Editor didn't show the ETA of a send command (instead of the ETA, a ? was displayed). This has been fixed. . Selective planet defences could be hidden by windows task bar. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix. V2.52 (07/17/00): . News dialog now shows routes. . Now it is possible to specify the amount of cargo in 'Load groups' commands in GalaxyNG games too. . You can now use a float value for 'Range Interval' in Options form. . To choose planets for a border agreement, you can now click on the desired planets in the map. . In GalaxyNG, ship types are now allowed with names consisting of more than 20 characters. GalaxyView had a problem with this. This has been fixed. . Blind Galaxy: Race table sometimes showed wrong values in the 'difference' rows. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix in Border Agreement form. V2.51 (07/03/00): . When selecting a group at a planet, which is in a fleet (not the first one), an error occurred. This has been fixed. . Some columns in bombing list showed wrong values. This has been fixed. . If you select an alien group in the 'Groups at planet' list, the group speed wasn't displayed in the map. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfixex in Move Editor. . Minor bugfixes. V2.5 (06/28/00): . Group lists now have two types to display: standard and extended. This gives a lot more information. . 'Scan Area' now works with more than one group and with a list of planets also. . Most lists (planets, groups, races, etc.) can be printed! . Current move in Move Editor can be printed. . Printing the map now works correctly. . Ship Designer shows new column 'Defence'. . Ship range circles can now be limited to the selected type of groups to view. . Planet list now gives more information. . GalaxyView now can display selective planet defenses (Blind Galaxy only) . Instead of entering a planet name in a command form, the planet can be selected in the map. . Group speed shown in the map includes now minimum and maximum speed also. . A configuration now includes showing the commands in Move Editor as raw or natural text. . GalaxyView now works better on systems using big fonts. . GalaxyView didn't show routes in Blind Galaxy games for renamed planets. This has been fixed. . GalaxyView had problems with two battles at the same planet in one turn. This has been fixed. . Blind Galaxy: Scan Area now works 'wrap around'. . Minor bugfixes and enhancements. V2.45 (06/05/00): . You now can give commands to planets and groups directly from the map (just press the right mouse button!). . Move Editor now supports comments (only at single lines, not with a command!) . Several bugs fixed in algorithm to show your groups in the map (thanks to Allesandro Cremona for the bug report and all the reports to test with!). . GalaxyView reported wrong current speed for loaded transporters with cargo tech level greater than 1. This has been fixed. . Changing planet ownership information sometimes didn't work for Blind galaxy games. This has been fixed. . In some cases, 'Get from 'Groups at Planet'' didn't work in Move Editor. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix. V2.44 (05/31/00): . V2.43 didn't work for NEW configurations. This has been fixed (sorry for that). V2.43 (05/30/00): . 'Groups at Planet' list showed wrong minimum speed for loaded ships. This has been fixed (Groups list in News tool showed correct values). . When using turns NOT beginning with turn 0, GalaxyView sometimes crashed. This has been fixed. . When doing a 'Scan Area' command, you can now exclude planets where you have ships already. . If you have planets A and B selected, you can now press shift while selecting planet C to measure the distance between planet A and C (and not between B and C). . Move Editor had problems with Break command. This has been fixed. . Bugfix in Move Editor (when using 'load and send' command). . ETA calculation in Move Editor improved. . DTO calculation was wrong in non-Blind games. This has been fixed. V2.42 (05/22/00): . Chart tool now can display delta values (thanks to Matthew Messana for the idea) . Algorithm to display the players groups in the map improved. . Checking a move which contains a command to send a fleet or to intercept with a fleet gave an error. This has been fixed (thanks to Peter Roberts for the bug report). . Bugfix in 'Develop Planets' algorithm (thanks to Chris Shaffer for the bug report) . If the button 'show planet sizes' is pressed, all planets with unknown size will be displayed as a circle (not a disc) with default size (thanks to Ken Weinert for the idea). . Bugfix in Move Editor . Minor bugfix in zooming algorithm. . In rare cases, scrolling didn't work in Chart tool. This has been fixed. V2.41 (05/15/00): . When showing previuos report or 10 reports back, sometimes planets where incorrectly marked as bombed. This has been fixed. . Major bugfix in zooming algorithm (thanks to Alessandro Cremona for the bug report) . Minor bugfix in Intelligence algorithm V2.4 (05/07/00): . GalaxyView now displays the players groups in the map at accurate positions (even in Blind Galaxy games)! This information is taken from the 'Your Groups' list (not from the map). Selecting a group in the map gives detailed information. . Clicking anywhere in the map selects the nearest object (planet or group). . Zooming improved (better for large maps or deep zooms). . You can zoom in small steps using the shift key when pressing a zoom button. This allows to fine tune the map size. . If 'zoom in on mouse position' is activated, right mouse button zooms out. . You can now save the map as a picture in BMP-format. . You can now print the map (very experimental, has to be improved in the future). . About box contains all GalaxyView contributors (Please tell me, if I forgot someone!). Just have a look. . Selecting a group in the 'Groups at planet' list now shows the group range in the map. . 'Curr. mass' in planet list now takes available material into account. . Blind Galaxy: The center of the map displayed can be changed. . Blind Galaxy: Distance calculation between two planets and ETA calculation now uses the shortest distance between two planets (wrap-around map!). Distance calculation between two planets at opposite sides of the map border is correct now. . Blind Galaxy: Erasing a fleet in the Move Editor now creates the correct command. . Blind Galaxy: The command 'Load Cargo and Send Group To a Planet' supports specifying the amount of cargo now. . Blind Galaxy: Turn overview now contains players left the game (see online help for details) . Drawing the map is now faster. . Some bugfixes . Minor improvements V2.33 (03/27/00): . Ships are now shown always at correct position in the map. . Non-blind games: Map is now centered for turn reports with maps not beginning at position 0. . Map disappeared when zooming very large maps too much. This has been fixed. . Planet list in News now has a column for ETA (Estimate Time of Arrival). . Standard galaxy games: In rare cases, an error occured when using a turn higher than 0 as the turn 0 report. This has been fixed. . Minor bugfix V2.32 (03/21/00): . Move Editor: Double clicking an entry in the 'Commands' list opens the appropriate form to add the command below the current line. . Move Editor: The Escape key closes (cancels) a command form. . Move Editor: Double clicking an entry in the 'Your Move' list opens the appropriate form to change the command. . Minor enhancement in Battle Simulator. . Border agreement tool couldn't be started from the menu 'Tools'. This has been fixed. . Report parser is now more tolerant to empty lines in the report. V2.31 (02/17/00): . In Blind Galaxy games with partial techs enabled, the Ship Designer showed wrong 'Number per turn' values for ships with more than one weapon. This has been fixed. V2.3 (02/14/00): . Border agreements can be visualized in the map (thanks to Robert Dodd for the idea!) . For Blind games: The last owner of unknown planets can be made visible in the map. . The group tables can now be restricted to all but military and all but transport also (thanks again Robert). . Groups used in the 'send groups from planet' form now can be restricted to the above groups too. . Bugfix in 'Develop planets' algorithm . Minor bugfixes and enhancements V2.25 (01/10/00): . Due to a bug, selecting a planet from the planet list didn't select the planet in the map. This has been fixed. . In Blind games with option techs set to off (which is the default), the shield value for ships was wrong in the battle and groups section in the News form. . In rare cases in Blind games, alien ships has been reported twice in 'Groups at planet' list and in the 'Groups' list of that player. This has been fixed. V2.24 (12/23/99, Xmas edition): . The support of partial tech in the ship designer in the last release causes a bug even if no partial techs were used (wrong mass calculation). This causes a miscalculation even in the 'Number per turn' field! This bug has been fixed (thanks to Robert Dodd for the bug report). . Minor bugfix and improvement in 'Scan area' algorithm V2.23 (12/14/99): . For Blind Galaxy games, where partial tech is supported: The Ship Designer can calculate the cost and number per turn for ships with partial tech (thanks to Robert Dodd for the idea) . Minor bugfix in Ship Designer V2.22 (11/23/99): . When loading moves, an 'Invalid floating point operation' error occured in same cases. This has been fixed. V2.21 (11/16/99): . Major bugfix: The speed of loaded transport ships with a cargo tech higher than 1 was calculated wrong (thanks to Cosmin Tanu for the bug report!). This has been fixed. V2.2 (11/09/99): . The list of battles contains now a new detail level. At this detail level, for every battle, a detailed list of every group involved is shown. . Now you can evaluate every battle (thanks to Robert Dodd for the idea)! Display the battle list in the news dialog, select a battle (or select a planet, where a battle occured in the map) and press the 'Simulate battle' button to simulate the selected battle with the battle simulator . If you click on a planet in the map and a dialog with a list of planets is visible, the planet will be selected in the list . Two new options in the 'Change options' dialog: Default number of simulations in battle simualtor and default battle list detail level . Two options were not saved to or read from the registry. This has been fixed . In some cases, GalaxyView crashed when using 'Check Move'. This has been fixed . minor bugfixes . minor enhancements (f.e. some speedups) V2.12 (10/18/99): . The height of the dialogs 'Show Races', 'Show Planets' and 'Turn Overview' now depends on the contents . About box changed . Bugfixes in 'Check Move' algorithm . Minor bugfix in 'Develop planets' algorithm V2.11 (09/29/99): . Mouse cursor over a planet while no planet is selected made the groups at planet display to flicker. This has been fixed . Chart display now uses double buffering also . About box is now always on top and has a background image V2.1 (09/19/99): . The map now uses double buffering. No more flickering (f.e. try the film button)! . Smooth zooming . If no planet is selected in the map, moving (!) the mouse over a planet shows planet information . The download file is now a self-extracting archive (thanks to Gerhard Kalab for the freeware program makeZip!) . Minor enhancements . Minor bugfixes V2.01 (06/13/99): . When reading the map in a report, GalaxyView don't uses integer values for map start/end any longer. This fixes the problem with Cronos reports. . Scan area command now available from the group list . In rare cases, the wrong planets were shown as bombed. This bug has been fixed. . In turn overview, the number of lost planets was incorrect sometimes. This has been fixed. . Minor enhancements . Minor bugfixes V2.0 (05/27/99): . On most lists, there is now a context menu to create commands. For example, pressing the right mouse button on a planet in the planet list displays a menu with commands specific for this planet. Now you can create your orders planet by planet and group by group. . New tool chart to get a chart displaying several statistics for every race and all turns. . Configuration files no longer supported. Configurations are now stored in Windows registry, which is much more flexible than files. You have to create new configurations for all your games (see help on configurations how this can be done easily). Note: In former versions of GalaxyView, you could start GalaxyView with the name of a configuration file. Now, start GalaxyView with the name of a configuration (no path, no extension). . Map enhancements: . New button to display all planets in the map with their size. . New button to display all battles in the map with their size. . New button to display planet defence/weapons and number of ships at planet . New menu item `Check move` in Move Editor to find errors in the move. . The Move Editor can now put the move to the clipboard and can get it from there. . `Scan area` in Move Editor can now get the coordinated from the map by clicking on the map with the mouse. . New tool Text Editor for writing emails directly to other players. It can handle Unix style text files, too. . Search for race can now find planets, where the player has ships, too. . Calculation of ETA in the Move Editor now works for fleets also, which are created in the current move (and doesn't exists already). . Button bar will be divided into two parts, if main window is too small. . Text search (f.e. in the Report section) can now search case sensitive/ insensitive. . Menu items now have their appropriate bitmaps. . Bug fixes in 'Develop planets' algorithm. Now, no CAP is taken from planets, which needs it themselves and no groups are loaded on planets, which don't have any cargo. . Mouse position indicator don't hide planet information on 800x600 displays any longer. . Thanks to Sheldon E. Smith for his help on the online help. . Minor enhancements . Minor bugfixes V1.72 (02/15/99): . Scan area command in the Move Editor can now use a rectangle or a circular area. . New special commands in the Move Editor to intercept all groups at one planet with all groups from another planet or to send all groups from one planet to another planet. . ETAs are now calculated for intercept commands also . In rare cases, groups at planet list contains some groups twice. This bug has been fixed. . Minor enhancements . Minor bugfixes V1.71 (01/13/99): . Quick release to support GalaxyNG 3.2 reports. . The Move Editor was slow for large moves because of the automatic recalculations of ETAs. Now, these calculations are done faster. You can now switch off these calculations. . Very minor bugfixes V1.7 (01/04/99): . GalaxyView now can automatically create commands to load cargo onto transporters and send them to planets, which needs this cargo. Use this to develop your planets (mostly) automatically. . Now, every table in GalaxyView can be sorted by every column! Just press a mouse button on the first field of a column. The left mouse button sorts ascendant, the right descendant. . New section "Tips" in help. Please read this even if you used GalaxyView for a long time. . Some speed ups (f.e. display of planet view list) . Minor bugfixes . Minor enhancements V1.62 (11/13/98): . Optional command line parameter. Use a configuration file as a command line parameter to start GalaxyView with this configuration initially. . The 'send fleet' command in the Move Editor now calculates the ETA like the 'send group' command. When moving commands with the '-' and '+' button or when inserting new commands, all ETAs will be recalculated. . When using the 'Design a ship type' command in the Move Editor, you can now take over the current values from the Ship Designer. . The ship types list in the Ship Designer can now be limited to already realized designs . The group list in the Battle Simulator now contains the group ID for easier selection . In the Battle Simulator, you can now take over all groups from the currently selected planet in the list 'Aggressor' or 'Defender' . Minor bugfixes . Minor enhancements V1.61 (10/13/98): . By using the menu item 'Create automatically' -> 'Scan area...' in the Move Editor, one can now create commands to send single ships to each planet in a specified area. . Bug fixed, which occured, when using the 'Planet view' form . Minor bugfixes V1.6 (10/05/98): . New button 'Show turn overview', which shows all important things, which happened in the current turn . Options can now be changed (use menu item 'Options' in the 'System' menu). You can change number and range of distant circles and visibility of button bar and mouse position display . Display is centered now. Zoom works like expected. . If you get your reports from a unix system, GalaxyView automatically convert them to DOS format . Configuration now also include Game name, race name and Password. So there is no need to type in this information in the Move Editor every turn (password is encrypted in the configuration file). . New column 'development' in the Planets form. . New command 'load cargo and send group to a planet', which is a combination of the L and S command, can be used in the Move Editor . Brighter colors are used to display planets owned by other players. This makes them easier to distinguish . Minor enhancements and bugfixes V1.57 (09/01/98): . Another bug with the sort routine fixed V1.56 (08/31/98): . In the 'Show Planets' form, planets with a name beginning with a lower case character wasn't displayed. This bug has been fixed (Thanks Sheldon!) . When saving a configuration, one can now optionally include view position, zoom and window size (good idea Sheldon!) . Now using Delphi4. Resizing of forms now works better. . Minor enhancements and bugfixes V1.55 (08/04/98): . GalaxyNG: In version 3.1, Frans Slothouber decided to change the order of the 'Unidentified Planets' list. This mixed up the owner information of home planets in GalaxyView V1.54. This is fixed, but autodetection of planet ownership information is weaker than in other GalaxyNG versions. . Blind Galaxy: In same cases, planet ownership information was incorrect. This has been fixed. . Some minor bugfixes V1.54: . Blind Galaxy: A lot of bug fixes (thanks to Erez for all the reports to test with!) . You can now search for text when viewing the complete report or text files . Loading of text files is much faster now . Tab sheets in the News tool are only displayed, if they contain information V1.53: . Blind Galaxy: Bug fixed, which occured in some cases, when reading 'Routes'- and 'Incoming Groups'-sections. V1.52: . Blind Galaxy: In the Group section of the 'News' tool, groups appear twice with option 'full report' on. This bug has been fixed. V1.51: . minor bugfix V1.5: . support for Blind Galaxy added, all options except setting showopts to false supported! . clicking on a planet in a map gives information about groups at that planet . more detailed map . you can now view shiptypes from other players in the ship design form . bug in planet ownership algorithm fixed . some bugfixes . some minor enhancements V1.01: . major bug fixed, which prevents V1.0 to create a new configuration, if none exists before. . sample turn report included V1.0: . some bugfixes . some little enhancements . battle reports can now be viewed in three detail levels . loading of reports now much faster . loading of reports less error prone V1.0Beta3: . now supports GalaxyNG turn reports and moves (V - command) . starting zoom factor is no longer fixed, but depends on the size of the Galaxy map . Move editor sometimes saved moves in natural text (bug fixed) . When creating configurations, the user no longer has to enter the number of initial home planets per player. This information is ascertained automatically from turn 0. . minor bugfixes V1.0Beta2: . minor bugfixes . you now can create and load multiple configurations (this is useful, if you take part in more than one Galaxy game) V1.0Beta (November, 1997): . initial version Note: ===== THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ORAL OR WRITTEN, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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