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New Features In Previous Releases

R2009.12.26

R2009.10.25

1. This incorporates an updated User Manual (PDF Format) and integrated Help System.
   These have been updated to reflect all the features of the current release
   
2. Shear Tests Extended Column, Propagation Saw Tests
3. Snowpack Height is set to default scale value when new profile created
4. Automatic Software Updates
5. Installer Support for Windows 7
6. Installer option to download PrimoPDF Print Driver

1. The Shear Dialog Height/Depth column was sometimes shifting off the screen to the left

1. Updated Grainforms to  IASC 2008 Standards
   Version now uses the symbol fonts from IASC organization
2. Updated saved values to Canadian Avalanche Association Dec 2007 OGRS Standard
3. New save format (*.prx) files now in XML CAAML Format. 
4. Import/Export compatible with Avert Online Snow Science Systems which is a product
   to manage your avalanche data and your backcountry business
5. 2 New Layer Tests: Shear Frame and Deep Tap Tests

R2008.04.20:

1. Converted to Code Gear Delphi 2007 Compiler providing Vista and Internet Support.
2. Help System converted from WinHelp to HTML Help format,  Vista only supports HTML Help by design.
   (Note Menu option Help on Help is no longer supported)
3. New Installer Inno 5.2.3 used provides better install support.
4.  (Ref#628) Add drop down to list all translation .slt files. All translation files defined will now show up in dropdown list on the translation menu.
5.  Updated Online Help and User Manual. Both updated with current new features and fixes.
6.  Added (non-standard) single dot symbols for Dry Water Content and Fist Hand Hardness. In previous versions these were blank and it  was difficult to differentiate between the symbols on the graph or not. Now you can enable this in preferences on the Layers tab to show a small dot on the graph to show the symbols are on the graph.

Older:

1. (Ref#610) When a new profile is created the date is defaulted to current date. If the profile was for the current date but the field not touched then the date
   would not be saved. The date is now saved correctly. 
   Note that if an existing profile has a date that is invalid or cannot be decoded when the file is opened then it will be set to 1900-01-01 to indicate an unknown date.
2. Flag (Lemons) indicators which  flag the unstable snow layers. Bases on research by Ian McCammon, Jürg Schweizer, and Bruce Jamieson. Press F10 key to toggle on/off. Click for Details New Installer Inno 5.1.5. Includes new CAA Standard XML file export option for profiles
3. You may select either the Snowpro XML format or use the new (Provisional) Canadian Avalanche XML format on the Preferences Export tab. These formats can be read directly by many database programs such as Oracle and MSSQL and as well by Excel R11 and higher. This provides an easy format to import the profile data into your own applications. The older original Snowpro XML format is available by setting option in preferences. Please note that the CAA Format is a work in progress and subject to change Snowpro will be updated as needed to conform to the CAA XML Standard.
   Contact us for more details.  
   Snowpro now incorporates the XML libary XDOM 3.1.21 (Nov 2005). Includes new XML file export option for profiles Incorporates installation security support on Windows NT/2000/XP
4. Incorporates changes to bring to CAA 2002 Standard
   Changes include:
   Sky Condition: Added new labels "Few Clouds" and "Few Clouds with Haze" 
   Sky Condition: Renamed label "Clear" to "Clear/No Clouds"
   Crystal Forms: Renamed Class label "FACETED CRYSTALS" to "SOLID FACETED CRYSTALS"
   Water Content: Changed label "Unknown" to "Not Observed"
5. Modified the language translation files to support new labels
6. New /NOCREATE command line option
7. Compiled under Delphi 5.0 for better Win2000 Support Foreign Language Modifications
8. New Installer program
   We are using a new installer program INNO which improves installation on NT4/2000/XP systems.
   It also brings the look up to XP standards. 
9. New French Language Translation File Set - (francais.slt, francais.sl2)
   Now supports English, Icelandic, and French and more in the works) 
10. Updated On-line User Manual (Acrobat PDF format) 
11. Software renamed from Snowpro 2000 to Snowpro Plus+  (2003)
12. Full User Manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
    Added additional Language installation support for English and Icelandic. Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 to read the User Manual is available for installation if required. This can be installed by running file rp500enu.exe on the Snowpro Installation CD-ROM.   Use your window browser to locate the file on the CD-ROM and double-click on the filename to start installation. 
13. The profile name is now shown in overwrite current profile prompt 
14. Software version shown in hint on top left "Snowpro Label" 
15. Added exit confirmation prompt when clicking "Exit Snowpro" button 
16. Can now disable the initial "Snowpro" animation by clearing the "Show Animation" checkbox on the Preferences General Tab. 
17. Modified Menu Window, Maximize All option to expand shrunken profiles by selecting Maximize All a second time. 
18. Set limits to number of graphs displayed to 4 for Windows 95/98 and 8 for Windows NT/Plus+ due to resource limits reached in operating system. This should eliminate reaching maximimums and subsequent draw failure. (Investigation is under way to improve this to higher values)
19.  Improved redraw speed of graph objects. 
20. Updated on-line help. 
21. Widened many screens and buttons to allow foreign language labels more room. Some images in User Manual may be slightly different due to changes.
22. New default range settings for Snow Temperature scale and Ram Hardness scale. You can now set the default scale setting  for new profiles. This is located in Preferences on the Snow Layers Tab. 
23. Popup Menu settings now saved with profile. The Popup Menu allows you to show or hide comment and other information on the graph. This is used often to help with display of layer comments. The status of the settings are now saved with the profile and restored to same settings when the profile is loaded.

Bug Fixes in Previous Releases

R2009.12.26:

1. (Ref# 54)  The cum shear stress and snow loads are not plotting correctly - Fixed
2. (Ref# 55)  The update dialog was being displayed upon startup even when there was no new update available
   Fixed: Now only displays on startup when there is a newer release
   

R2009.10.25:

1. The Air and Surface Temp did not get saved if you opened up an old profile and did not modify the values
    and then resaved the profile
2. Title1, Title2, FieldId, Surface Condition sometimes were not restored on read xml
3. Potential load errors if no values for Title1, Title2, LocationId, PicturePath, OpId
4. Shear layer comment object on right panel was not set to correct width when slope was shown
5. Surface Condition was not restored on read xml
6. Fracture Sub value was not being correctly loaded.
7. Shear Frame was not loading correctly
8. For XML format the Snow Temp Scale was not being set

R2008.04.20:

1. (Ref#618) Precip field does not behave correctly when selecting.Reworked, Fixed.
2. (Ref#620) Change to Sky Condition Picklist - Obscured. Spelling Corrected, Fixed.
3. (Ref#621) Fix Bottom of pit calcs - Was not working, Fixed.
4. (Ref#946) Air Temperature date says 40 is okay but only allows up 30. Range corrected to -80 to + 40 Celcius, Fixed.
5. (Ref#947 Altitude error messages to deal with translations. Metres and Feet in dropdown can now be translated, Fixed.
6. (Ref#948) Crystal Form size box is too small. This was not a bug but some clients found that entering 1.0-3.5 would not be displayed. This is configurable in preferences by using a smaller font. Reworked default font sizes in preferences to manage this better by default.
7. (Ref#957) Toolbox Snow Temp colour not correct on start, Fixed.

Older:

1. (Ref#498) There was a problem where if a snow profile was saved with the  environment date set to one value and the profile opened under a different environment date that the date might not be correctly interpreted. Modified to include the date format used in the profile file.
2. (Ref#604) The right mouse button popup menu option "Hide all shear layers" was not working.
3. (Ref#605) The surface line in the right panel did not draw in dotted when "Display Surface line" selected in preferences.
4. (Ref#606) The default to display the snowpro animation on new installs now defaults to off.
5. There were two errors in the Snowpro Format. The units attributes for the
   elements GrainDiameter1 and GrainDiameter2 were not correctly set. 
6.  Minor changes to cosmetics.
   The Crystal form popup box was widened to allow more text to be displayed on 1 line and in header.
   The layer and shear popup windows were slightly widened. 
7. The code was optimized before compiling under Dephi 5.0
   This cleaned up the memory usage and solved 1 outstanding bug where the layer window popup height would sometimes be too large The crystal forms popup had a bug in it where it sometimes would blank out the symbols
8. Widened a few screens and fields to allow translated text to be better displayed. Under the new Windows XP operating system, the Snow and Shear Layer  height/depth columns were shifted to left of screen so that they were hidden. Form widened to compensate for XP's drawing behaviour.  (Could back tab to locate column or set XP to Windows compatibility code.) Removed the Create Translation File option. This is obsolete.Windspeed would not retain "Calm" setting.
9. This is actually typo in the wndspd.txt file where first entry had an extra space on it. To fix without reinstalling, remove end space in wndspd.txt file using notepad editor. Date formats d-MMM-yyyy e.g. 3-AUG-2001 were not being correctly recognized and would default to current date when    open existing file using that format.Line from top snow temperature point to the air temperature point was not being printed/exported correctly sometimes when both temperatures were the same value.Single language translation file now split into two files.
10. The original single translation file due to reaching maximum size limit of 64k bytes is now divided into 2 files. These are language.slt and language.sl2. For example for icelandic the actual names would be islenska.slt and islenska.sl2. Note in the User Manual that any reference to the language.slt file should also include the language.sl2 files. The empty language template trans.slt now additionally includes trans.sl2. If you intend to create a translation file set then copy both the trans.slt and trans.sl2 files to the name selected. For example to create a french language set you would:
    a) Copy trans.slt to francais.slt
    b) Copy trans.sl2 to francais.sl2
    c) Edit both francais.slt and francais.sl2 files adding the french language translation to the file
    d) Move the francais.slt and francais.sl2 files to the Snowpro installation directory (c:\program files\gasman\snowpro)
    e) Select the menu options Translation, Select
    f) Type francais in the Add entry field and click Add button
    g) Click the Enable Translation Checkbox
    h) Exit the Snowpro Software
    i) Restart the Snowpro software and the french language labels will be displayed
    j) Repeat for other languages
    
    We currently have English and Icelandic (islenska) translation files with this release of the software. Spanish is in development and will be available for download from our web site. We will also assist users in developing other language translation files. Contact us  for details. 
11. The graph title line 1 and 2 were not being correctly saved. 
12. The Hand Hardness grid boxes were sometimes being drawn in a solid colour instead of diagonal cross. 
13. Modified to deal with non-standard display resolutions.
    Most monitors display at 96 pixels per inch but many laptops use 120 pixels per inch. Display and print modified to make graphs consistent in different resolutions. 
14. Fixed language translation of HASL Units field. Now uses loadable file units.txt. 
15. Save Menu option not prompting for name for new files. 
16. Close system button was not saving new profiles if names were not first set.
17. Redraw left paint box when sizing watercontent was leaving shear stress line. 
18. Ctrl+Click on empty Hardness space on layer caused error message dialog. 
19. Could not cancel from Shear form if there was error in data.
20. Can now use the Cancel button to exit the form.
21.  Would get a listindex error when dropping surface watercontent on new profile plotted and entered from surface down. 
22. Modification of ram and shear table values was not updating the modified status ( ** ) on status line of current profile graph. 
23. Ram table report was not setting columns correctly. 
24. Language translation was not working completely on some forms. 
25. Toolbar icons Water Content and Grain Form did not draw correctly on non-standard resolution monitors. 
26. Hand Hardness sizing was leaving some extra lines on form. 
27. Toolbar Hand Hardness icons hints disappear when toggling modifier. 
28. Cleanup redraw of form when dropping temperature icons. 
29. Bug where it allowed dropping a temperature icon above surface.
30. Added missing help link for preferences help button. 
31. Occasional drop of first surface water to graph caused graph failure. 
32. Plot down menu status was not being saved with profile.
33.  Snow Layers Report not showing Water Content and Hardness values. 
34. Aspect value was disappearing Certain profiles would not correctly print the shear comments information.
35. New Snow Temperatures Tips added with drag-and-drop were not being translated correctly when first added.