ΓÇó The 5 custom currency limitation has been removed.
ΓÇó The Flags plug-in has been introduced: it allows the user to associate flags to custom currencies. The plug-in comes with more than 50 flags from all over the world, but the user can edit it using ResEdit to add other flags. To be effective, the Flags plug-in must be stored in the same folder as the Euro Assistant Pro application.
ΓÇó The Currencies dialog box has been completely revised and now provides a better overview on currencies.
ΓÇó The Add Currency dialog box has also been revised: it allows the user to specify the new currency's flag and rounding, country names have been replaced by currency names in the ISO codes reference list and keyboard navigation of the list is now fully supported.
ΓÇó The Edit Currency dialog box has been added: it lets the user edit an EMU currency's rounding, a non-EMU currency's euro exchange rate and rounding and a custom currency's name, ISO code, euro exchange rate, flag and rounding.
ΓÇó The Update Rates dialog box can be closed by pressing the Command-period key combination or the Esc key.
ΓÇó All dialog boxes are now movable.
ΓÇó Commands in the File menu have been rearranged and the Language menu has been moved from the File menu to the Preferences dialog box.
ΓÇó A bug concerning the activation of the hidden Euro Assistant Pro has been fixed. With Mac OS 8.5 or higher, if the Tape window was visible when Euro Assistant Pro was hidden, then neither tape nor Euro Assistant Pro window were shown after Euro Assistant Pro was switched back to the foreground.
ΓÇó A bug which caused Euro Assistant Pro not to quit when the iconized window's close box was clicked has been fixed.
ΓÇó Several minor bugs concerning mainly window positioning and dialog events management have been fixed.
Version 2.1.1v1 - November 26, 1999
ΓÇó An incompatibility with Mac OS 9 which caused a system crash when the user tried to automatically update rates over the Internet has been fixed.
Version 2.1.1 - November 23, 1999
ΓÇó The dial-up procedure has been modified to allow more compatibility with non-Apple PPP implementations (e.g. FreePPP).
ΓÇó The Copy Tape command has been added to the Edit menu.
ΓÇó Minor bugs concerning window zooming and window re-positioning after a screen resolution change have been fixed.
ΓÇó The Register Online button in the About dialog box now brings up the Kagi Online Order Processing web page in the current Euro Assistant Pro language (if not available the English Kagi Online Order Processing web page is opened).
ΓÇó Minor changes concerning the Register Euro Assistant Pro dialog box have been introduced.
ΓÇó The German translation has been revised.
Version 2.1 - October 20, 1999
ΓÇó The Copy Special submenu has been added to the Edit menu: it lets the user copy the content of the active display to the clipboard including thousands separators and ISO code. It also lets the user define and add custom Copy commands so that frequently used text strings including a display's content (with or without thousands separators and ISO code) can be copied to the clipboard.
ΓÇó The Add Separator/Remove Separator command has been added to the File menu. It adds or removes a horizontal separation line after the active display in the Euro Assistant Pro window. One or more separators can be useful when several currencies are listed in the Euro Assistant Pro window (EMU currencies can for instance be visually separated from non-EMU currencies).
ΓÇó The Iconize on application switch and Floating iconized window preferences have been introduced. The first option lets the user automatically iconize Euro Assistant Pro when it is switched to the background and de-iconize it when switched back to the foreground. The second option makes the iconized Euro Assistant Pro window float over all other running applications, so that the user doesn't need to activate Euro Assistant Pro in order to use it.
ΓÇó The Use proxy preference has been added. By specifying a HTTP proxy address and port number the user can bypass a firewall or any other security system or can automatically update rates without having to directly access the Internet.
ΓÇó Euro Assistant Pro is compatible with Mac OS 9.
ΓÇó Euro Assistant Pro uses Navigation Services (Mac OS 8.5 or higher).
ΓÇó The Preferences dialog box has become a multi-pane dialog box.
ΓÇó The tape format specified in the Save Tape dialog box is now saved.
ΓÇó The Online Registration button in the About dialog box and the www.oanda.com button in the Update Rates dialog box now start up the default browser (for Mac OS 8.1 or lower Internet Config is used).
ΓÇó The default language in the Euro Assistant Pro Setup dialog box is now the running Mac OS language (provided obviously that it is one of the Euro Assistant Pro languages).
ΓÇó The Czech Koruna, Nicaraguan Cordoba Oro, Russian Ruble, Uganda Shilling, Uruguayan Peso and Yugoslav Dinar ISO codes in the New Currency dialog box have been replaced so that they match with the ISO codes specified by the OANDA 164 Currency Converter.
ΓÇó Some minor bugs have been fixed.
ΓÇó Euro Assistant Pro has been translated to Spanish and Greek. Version 2.1 (multilingual) runs in 10 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Finnish.
Version 2.0.1 - July 13, 1999
ΓÇó A bug concerning the reading of printing preferences has been fixed. The bug led to the loss of the Page Setup information and, in particular cases, to system errors when the Page Setup or Print Tape commands were chosen.
ΓÇó The Guinean Franc ISO code in the New Currency dialog box has been corrected.
ΓÇó Euro Assistant Pro has been translated into Japanese. Two versions of Euro Assistant Pro exist now: a multilingual version running in 8 languages (English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish) and a Japanese version.
Version 2.0 - June 28, 1999
ΓÇó Euro Assistant becomes Euro Assistant Pro.
ΓÇó Euro exchange rates of non-EMU currencies can be automatically updated over the Internet (Update Rates command in the File menu). The user can specify how many and which euro exchange rates to update. By checking the Update rates at startup preference, euro exchange rates can be automatically updated at startup (daily or weekly).
Euro exchange rates are retrieved from the fxp.oanda.com server using OANDA Foreign Exchange Protocol (FXP).
ΓÇó The euro display in the Euro Assistant Pro window can now be moved to a different position or can be removed.
ΓÇó A custom base currency (default is euro) can be specified by the user by selecting it in the Base Currency submenu in the File menu. The base currency's choice affects the rates displayed by the Rate button in the Euro Assistant Pro window and the text clippings obtained by dragging and dropping ISO codes to the desktop, a file or a folder.
The user can also specify how exchange rates have to be displayed by checking either the Show Rate Against Base Currency or the Show Rate Against Stronger Currency option in the Base Currency submenu.
ΓÇó The Add Currency command has been replaced by the Add Currency submenu: the user can now directly select the currency he wants to add.
ΓÇó The setup of Euro Assistant Pro, which is performed when Euro Assistant Pro runs for the first time, has been completely revised. The new Euro Assistant Pro Setup dialog box is multi-pane and enables the user to:
- add up to 12 currencies to the Euro Assistant Pro window;
- define and add custom currencies;
- specify a rounding for all currencies added to the Euro Assistant Pro window;
- update the euro exchange rates of the non-EMU currencies added to the Euro Assistant Pro window by retrieving them over the Internet.
ΓÇó Several changes concerning drag & drop have been introduced:
- if the ISO code associated to a non-zero display is dragged, then the displayed amount is clipped (the ISO code is also added to the clipping if the option key is pressed while dragging);
- if the base currency's ISO code is dragged (provided the corrisponding display amount is zero), then the base currency's exchange rates of all currencies displayed in the Euro Assistant window are clipped;
- if an ISO code of a currency which is not base currency is dragged (and its amount is zero), then the rate of the dragged currency against the base currency is clipped;
- if the Tape window's content is dragged and the option key is pressed, then just the last conversion listed in the Tape window is clipped.
ΓÇó The maximum euro exchange rate has been raised from 9999 to 999999, so that also very low value currencies can be defined and used.
ΓÇó Two new roundings have been introduced (100 and 1000). A temporary rounding (greater than the one specified by the user) has been introduced: it is applied when the user rounding would exceed the calculation precision of Euro Assistant Pro and it is indicated by a bracketed rounding amount in the Rounding popup button.
ΓÇó The interface of Euro Assistant Pro has been completely revised (Euro Assistant Pro window's drawing routines, dialog boxes, icons, cursors).
ΓÇó The Register Euro Assistant Pro dialog box has been localized and now runs in 8 languages.
ΓÇó Several minor bugs have been fixed.
Version 1.2.1 - February 28, 1999
ΓÇó Euro Assistant has been translated into Danish.
ΓÇó The limitation of a single non-EMU currency in the Euro Assistant window has been removed: more non-EMU currencies can be now simultaneously displayed.
ΓÇó The Tape window has become a floating window. Minimum required system software is now System 7.5.
ΓÇó A bug concerning "big" tape files has been fixed. Text files which were obtained by saving the Tape window's content and which approached the SimpleText 32 K limit, could not be correctly opened by SimpleText.
ΓÇó Some other minor bugs have been fixed.
Version 1.2 - February 8, 1999
ΓÇó Another "important" non-EU currency has been introduced: the Norwegian Krone (NOK). In addition to that up to five other custom currencies can be now defined.
ΓÇó A series of numeric values, stored in a text file or clipping, can be imported by selecting the Import command in the File menu or by dragging the file icon or clipping on the ISO code of the desired input currency. Euro Assistant automatically calculates all conversions and logs the results in the Tape window.
ΓÇó Five tape formats have been introduced and can be applied when saving or clipping the Tape window's content. Conversions can be now arranged on a single row or in a tabular form (with or without ISO codes).
ΓÇó Euro Assistant can be iconized by clicking the little European Union flag located at the bottom left corner of the Euro Assistant window or by choosing the Iconize command in the File menu.
ΓÇó The Preferences dialog box has been introduced. The user can now specify:
- whether to show flags in the Euro Assistant window and/or in menus;
- how the active display has to be focused;
- whether to startup iconized;
- whether to show the Save Tape Before Quitting? alert box;
- the tape clipping format and whether to include thousands separators when saving or clipping the tape.
ΓÇó Euro Assistant has been translated into Swedish.
ΓÇó The Clear Tape command can be undone.
ΓÇó Several bugs concerning the tape operation have been fixed. Most tape routines have been rewritten.
ΓÇó A bug preventing the user to save the tape's content on a volume differing from the startup volume has been fixed.
ΓÇó Some other minor bugs have been fixed.
Version 1.1 - January 1, 1999
ΓÇó The irrevocable euro conversion rates for EMU currencies, fixed by the European Council on December 31, 1998, have been introduced. These irrevocable conversion rates are displayed in the Currencies dialog box and cannot be modified.
ΓÇó 9 other non-EMU currencies have been introduced: Euro Assistant now converts euro to USD, JPY, CHF, CAD, AUD and to the 4 European Union currencies not participating to the Economic and Monetary Union (GBP, GRD, SEK and DKK).
Euro exchange rates of non-EMU currencies can be edited in the Currencies dialog box. An exchange rate modification date has been associated to each non-EMU currency.
ΓÇó Euro Assistant has been translated into Finnish.
ΓÇó A bug concerning decimal and thousands separators has been fixed. Separators with ASCII codes greater than 127 were not handled correctly.
ΓÇó A bug concerning the saving of the Euro Assistant Preferences file has been fixed. In absence of an existing preferences file and under particular circumstances, Euro Assistant was unable to save its preferences.
ΓÇó A bug concerning the Cut, Copy and Paste commands in the Currencies dialog box has been fixed. With System 7.x.x the edit commands were not correctly performed.
ΓÇó Some corrections concerning the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese localizations have been made.
Version 1.0.1 - December 14, 1998
ΓÇó Euro Assistant has been translated into Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish.
ΓÇó Two new roundings have been introduced: conversions can now be calculated to 3 and 4 decimal digits.
ΓÇó The calculation range has been reduced from 0 Γëñ |x| Γëñ 10.000.000.000.000 to 0 Γëñ |x| Γëñ 100.000.000.000.
