Anno Domini 2003
Copyright (C) Enzo
Ciaffarafa, 1995 - 2003
Shareware for IBM
PC + Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98SE, 98 or 95
AD 2003
Revision History
v1.15 - Build 1, 1st December 2003
(217) The preview calendar in
the Preferences tab now shows the calendar for the current date;
(216) Bug removed from 3 Month
calendar reports where the smaller calendars could show incorrect dates if the
Mini-Calendar setting was changed from Next Two Months to Previous Month;
(215) The ADCLOCK.INI file
is now restored when the Restore Settings function is used;
v1.14 - Build 1, 13th November
2003
(214) New diagnostic data added
which now contains all the data files used by Anno Domini;
(213) Access to calendars after the current
month removed from Anno Domini Free mode;
(212) Access to the Daily Diary
re-enabled for Anno Domini Lite users;
(211) Details of the last backup
now re-enabled in the Help tab;
v1.13 - Build 3, 11th November
2003
(210) You can now view calendars outside of
the range 2000-2009 when in the Diary view;
(209) In the Reports tab you can now manually
enter the year for the report without the necessity of using the mouse;
(208) Access to the Moon Phases tab has been
removed in Anno Domini Free mode;
(207) Bug removed which caused
the data files to be corrupted when Anno Domini Lite users registered causing
a possible crash;
(206) Access to the Mini-View
has been removed whilst in Anno Domini Lite mode;
v1.13 - Build 2, 2nd November
2003
(205) Bug removed where Diary
entries in the Daily Diary view were previously not being recorded;
v1.13 - Build 1, 26th October
2003
(204) Lined paper effect added to
the daily diary view;
(203) Month selector added to the
mini-view;
(202) The Registration dialog now
automatically appears when you connect to the Internet to start the registration
process;
(201) Bug removed where Anno Domini
could enter an endless loop and crash if your home location did not observe
Daylight Saving Time;
(200) Bug removed where storing
a location in your memorised list which did not observe Daylight Saving Time
would incorrectly default to using DST for that session;
(199) Bug removed to correct the
angle of tilt of the Moon for southern hemisphere locations;
(198) Access to the Internet has
been improved to ensure that a connection is always established;
v1.12 - Build 1 & Build
4, 11th September 2003
(197) The Registration process
has been overhauled ensuring that registration of Anno Domini can only take
place when there is a valid Internet connection;
(196) The current month and date
is now shown in the desktop clock window;
(195) A new Tiny display option
for the desktop clock shows the full current date along with the current time;
(194) When taking Snapshots,
a dialog now appears confirming that the image has successfully been taken and
asks if you wish to immediately view the image;
(193) The Event Editor has been given an updated
look;
(192) The Sun and Moon position panels in
the Calendar tab have been updated;
(191) Rio de Janeiro has been added to the
location database;
(190) Bug removed from the
Sundial where on occasions the last line of longitude would not be shown correctly;
(189) The Monthly Diary can now
be pre-selected as the default report in the Reports tab;
(188) Disabling Real-Time Astronomy
in the Preferences tab ensures that the Moon and Sun distances are only updated
on the minute instead of each second;
(187) The position of San Salvador
has been corrected in the location database;
(186) Bugs concerning Broadband/LAN
access (specifically the registration process) have been resolved in build 4;
v1.11 - Build 1, 1st July
2003
(185) During installation, users
now have the option of installing Anno Domini without first rebooting their
PC system;
(184) A new Finance button has been
added to the On This Day tab;
(183) The Internet content shown now depends
on whether you home location is in the USA or not;
(182) The mini-calendars and the Sun/Moon tracking
functions have been removed from the calendar tab for AD Free users;
(181) The daily diary entry and viewer is now
available to AD Free and AD Lite users;
(180) The highlighting of each chosen location
in the Location tab has also been removed for AD Free users;
(179) The daily diary entry/view is now available
to AD Free and AD Lite users;
(178) On removal of Anno Domini,
the entry in the Add/Remove dialog is now correctly deleted;
(177) When removing Anno Domini
from a PC system, the Internet shortcuts are now also deleted;
(176) When the Internet shortcuts
are copied to the Favorites directory, any previous Anno Domini Internet shortcuts
are first deleted;
(175) On installation, any previous
version of Anno Domini which is running in the background is now automatically
shut down;
(174) Bug removed where the wrong
tab was selected when the user was prompted to change their home location;
(173) The Compare Locations window
is now placed uppermost of all open windows;
(172) The time zone for Nairobi,
Africa has been corrected to +3.0 hours ahead of GMT;
v1.10 - Build 1, 5th May 2003
(171) The Installer now displays an animation
prior to a reboot;
(170) The height of the clock display
has been adjusted for Windows 98 operating systems;
(169) The display of the weekdays
in the Planner and Diary reports has been adjusted;
(168) FreeCell access in the menu
has been disabled for screen resolutions less than 600 pixels high;
(167) Updates of Anno Domini 2002
are no longer permitted from v1.10 to allow for more data space for future updates
to Anno Domini 2003;
(166) Bug removed in the Moon
Phases tab where selecting a yearly Full Moon list would sometimes not clear
previous non Full Moon events;
(165) The program no longer terminates
immediately if the OTHISDAY.TXT data file is not found;
(164) Bug removed affecting early
Windows NT systems where the fonts may not initialize correctly on setup;
(163) Bug removed where performing
an Update would sometimes cause Anno Domini to lose track of your home location;
v1.09 - Build 1, 10th April 2003
(162) New Prevent Screen Saver
function added to the menu;
(161) For Diary and Planner reports, Saturdays
and Sundays are shown in different colours;
(160) Bug fixed affecting Daylight
Saving Time where the indicator could appear incorrectly in the calendar;
v1.08
- Build 3, 26th March 2003
(159)
Access to the Microsoft Disk Cleanup function has been added to the menu;
(158)
Bug removed where Daylight Saving Time would not be correctly calculated for
dates in reports and statistics which fall outside of the current year;
v1.08
- Build 2, 19th March 2003
(157) On This Day database now distributed
as one file saving 120KB of storage space;
(156) Bug removed from the
Sundial where striped areas were visible on certain days;
(155) Bug removed where Internet
Explorer window would not always maximise when Preference set;
v1.08
- Build 1, 12th March 2003
(154) Registered users can now
gain access to a second set of images from nature when an update is performed
via the Calendar Images listbox in the Preferences tab;
(153) New popup bubble appears
in the Taskbar advising user when a new update to Anno Domini becomes available
when running in Windows 2000 or XP;
(152) The distance of the Moon
to the Earth is shown in real-time in the Astronomy tab;
(151) The next Apogee/Perigee
of the Moon is shown in real-time in the Astronomy tab;
(150) The next Aphelion/Perihelion
of the Sun is shown in real-time in the Astronomy tab;
(149) The age of the Moon is
shown in real-time in the Astronomy tab;
(148) Distances can now be shown
in Astronomical Units (AU);
(147) Run Program feature added
to the menu;
(146) Menu items are reduced automatically
if the current screen size cannot display them all;
(145) Checksums are displayed when invalid
registration details are entered to pinpoint typing errors;
(144) The Next Moon Phase shown
in the Astronomy tab now correctly updates in real-time;
(143) Bug removed where if
the Short Date Format setting in Windows was set to dd/mm/yy, the Calendar Statistics
date would incorrectly default to dates in the 21st Century;
(142) The Anno Domini icon
is correctly removed form the Tray area during an upgrade;
(141) Bug removed in the Calendar
tab where the window size would sometimes be incorrect caused by other programs
running in the Startup folder;
(140) Bug removed where selecting
any of the buttons from the Help tab would sometimes cause the Help or Internet
window to be obscured by Anno Domini;
(139) The AD2003.INI and ADCLOCK.INI
files are no longer overwritten during an update;
v1.07
- Build 2, 23rd January 2003
(138)
The Update process will now only proceed if the current Anno Domini path is
valid;
(137)
Bug fixed where icons no longer appear on the desktop when the Anno Domini News
feature is accessed;
v1.07
- Build 1, 23rd January 2003
(136) Internet links can be added
at any time via the Create Shortcuts/URLs menu option;
(135) The currently installed version
of Anno Domini is now shown in the new look Install dialog;
(134) Further logging information is now stored
during the Update process;
(133) The Internet links are now
only copied if the Favorites folder has been found;
(132) The icons in the desktop
clock will now not disappear on a resolution change;
v1.06
- Build 1, 5th January 2003
(131) An installation log has
been added when you perform a full install or update of Anno Domini to trace
any errors that might occur. This is accessed by clicking on the AD icon from
within the installer;
(130) Two new conversions added.
Mach has been added to the Velocity section and Stones added to the Weight section;
129) A new disk button has been
added at the foot of the Contacts tab allowing you to export your Contacts information
to an ASCII text file;
128) When selecting a date from
the calendar window, holding down either the SHIFT, CONTROL or ALT keys displays
extra information regarding the Sun;
127) The appearance of the Sundial
has been modified whilst in Enlarged mode;
126) Some of the Reports have
been adjusted in size to fill the page better depending on whether dpi has been
chosen at 300 or 360;
125) All of the web-sites used
in Anno Domini can now be automatically updated via the Anno Domini News server;
124) The image from nature for
October has been changed to save data space;
123) Access to the Mini-View
has been removed in Anno Domini Free mode;
122) Only calendars from 2000
AD onwards can be viewed in Anno Domini Free mode;
(121) Bug removed from the
Diary where entries could be lost or garbled data be displayed if entry made
at the end of December/beginning of January;
(120) Bug removed where buttons
with images could lose their icons on a screen resolution change;
(119) Bug removed where Anno
Domini would sometimes ignore the Show at Startup preference and always open
regardless of the setting chosen;
(118) Bug removed where a shortcut
named news would incorrectly appear on the desktop;
(117) Bug removed in grams
to pounds conversion;
v1.05 - Build 1, 15th December
2002
(116) In the Clocks and Location
tabs, the actual time difference between your chosen home location and all other
locations is now shown;
(115) In the Moon Phases tab you
can now view all of the Full Moons that occur in the selected year (AD Standard
only);
(114) The times of Twilight Start/End
are now displayed in the Calendar tab each time you select a date (AD Standard
only);
(113) In the Astronomy tab two buttons
have been added giving access to the Sky & Telescope Planetarium and to
the NASA news server (AD Standard only);
(112) With the Planner report you
can now choose how many months are shown via the Period drop-down box in the
Reports tab (AD Standard only);
(111) New Find Location button added
to the Location tab giving you access to an Internet database of locations around
the world;
(110) In the On This Day tab, a
Sports button has been added giving access to the BBC Sports server and a TV
button giving access to TV listings for the UK
(109) When performing an upgrade,
a backup is made of the main executable file in case anything goes wrong with
the upgrade allowing you to go back to the previous version;
(108) Roughly every three weeks
Anno Domini will prompt the user to backup their data;
(107) When performing an update,
the main program file is now backed up allowing you to revert back to an older
version if the upgrade fails;
(106) The Sundial now has a much smoother appearance;
(105) All buttons which access the Internet are
now underlined;
(104) When storing a new location you now have
the option of immediately setting that location as your home location;
(103) The image from nature for November has
been changed to save data space;
(102) The mouse cursor changes to an animated
hourglass during lengthy operations;
(101)
Four of the hotspots on the Events tab required a double-click of the mouse
rather than a single click to activate the calendar window. This has now been
corrected;
(100)
Bug removed from Win 95/98
systems where performing a backup of your data to hard disk or floppy could
cause the system to crash;
(99)
All of the reports have been slightly shrunk in size to allow the reports to
be printed on US sized paper;
v1.04 - Build 2, 12th November
2002
(98)
Bug removed preventing new users to Anno Domini 2003 accessing the Standard
and Lite versions of the program;
(97)
Bug removed when storing a new location where Daylight Saving Time could be
active for that location in that session regardless of the setting chosen by
the user;
v1.04 - Build 1, 31st October
2002
(96) Anno Domini now split into
3 versions - Free, Lite and Standard;
(95) Added access to the CNN News
web-site via the News button in the On This Day tab;
(94) Added access to the History
Channel web-site for further On This Day information;
(93) Added access to the CIA World
Factbook in the Location tab;
(92) Added access to the Yahoo!
Currency Converter in the Conversions tab;
(91) You can now select the month
and year of your chosen report from the Report tab;
(90) Registered Users can now add
extra calendar image packs via the AD web-site;
(89) New Handy Tips button added
to the Help tab giving you handy tips on how best to use Anno Domini;
(88) Added Clothing Sizes button
to the Conversion tab giving Internet access to US, UK and European clothing
sizes;
(87) Added Unit Definitions button
to the Conversions tab giving Internet access to many conversion formulae and
definitions;
(86) Added More Conversions button
to the Conversions tab giving Internet access to the OnlineConverter.Com website
giving access to many more conversion functions;
(85) Added Body Mass Index button
giving you Internet access to calculation of your weight according to world
health guidelines;
(84) Added details to the Help screen
and many other tabs on the differences between AD Lite and AD Professional;
(83) When the Diary functions are
not accessible, a new button is visible on the calendar window giving you access
to the Control Panel Set Date/Time function;
(82) Month selector added to top
right hand corner of the calendar window;
(81) Sundial calculations are now
40% faster;
(80) Right-clicking the mouse on
any of the month or year selectors returns the calendar to the current month
and year;
(79) The Anno Domini Installer
window now always appears above other open windows;
(78) The Diagnostics function now
gives you the option of viewing the output;
(77) The registration process has
been overhauled and now requests a user name and product code along with your
original serial number. The users name is then displayed in the About tab;
(76) A new legend appears at
the bottom of the Help tab advising when an update to Anno Domini is available
for download for registered users;
(75) Bug removed from 3 Month
Reports where if the current month was December, the calendar month heading
could be displayed wrong for the subsequent month;
(74) Bug removed from the Month
up/down picker where if the current month was January and you tried to access
the calendar for December after accessing the Reports tab, AD would become confused
as to the current month and year;
(73) Bug removed where Anno
Domini could crash when next run if the Sundial was disabled and you saved your
preferences;
(72) Bug removed in Conversions
tab when converting from Kelvin to Fahrenheit which was producing incorrect
answers;
(71) When the Sundial updated
previously, there was a noticeable flicker. This has now been removed;
(70) You can now access the
Media Player from the menu in Windows ME, 2000 and XP;
(69) When performing an upgrade
to AD 2003, the installer could crash if it did not find a particular INI file
from a previous update. This has been corrected;
(68) Fixed bug in the Anno
Domini menu in XP systems where the menu would fail to appear on occasions;
v1.03 - Build 2, 28th September
2002
(67) An extra 20 Internet links
have been added to the AD 2003 URLs bringing the total number to 200;
(66) Display problems with the
Sundial fixed where for certain times of the day, areas of darkness would not
be displayed correctly and appear striped;
(65) The calendar month heading
for the Diary report is now correctly centred;
v1.03 - Build 1, 18th September
2002
(64) You can select any of the dates
displayed in the Moon Phases tab and the calendar tab will open to that chosen
date;
(63) The compass position has been
added to the Azimuth indicator for the Sun and the Moon in the Calendar tab;
(62) An indication of whether the
Sun is rising or setting has been added to the altitude indicator for the Sun
and the Moon in the Calendar tab;
(61) The times of twilight start
and twilight end have been added to the Clock Comparison windows;
(60) You can now cut the details
of the name and address of the currently selected Contact in the Contacts tab
and paste it into your favourite word processor;
(59) You can now select the colour
of the text displayed in the Planner Reports;
(58) New entries added to the Anno
Domini menu including access to the Internet Settings, Volume Control and Add/Remove
Program features;
(57) Right-clicking the mouse on
any of the spin controls in the Conversions tab clears that field;
(56) The results of the Conversions
can now be printed via the added Print button;
(55) An Email Support function has
been added to the Help tab for registered users;
(54) In screen resolutions of 640x480,
the title bar of the window is automatically removed so the whole window is
visible;
(53) The drop down box controlling
the precision of the results shown in the Conversions tab has been replaced
with a spin control;
(52) The locations of Jeddah and
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Sanaa (Yemen) and Muscat (Oman) have been added to the
Middle East location database;
(51) The title bar of the installer
now shows the version number of the installer;
(50) The AD Diagnostics feature
now reports more detailed information about your PC;
(49) A bug in the display of
the Sundial where the shaded area would not be complete if locations at a latitude
greater than 88 degrees were in darkness has been removed;
(48) A bug in the display of
the days of the week for the Moon Phases for the following and subsequent month
in the Moon Phases tab has been corrected;
(47) The Moon Phase images
in the Calendar tab have been correctly aligned;
(46) Compatibility issue with
Windows 95 solved where the system could crash on installation when copying
the Internet URLs or when changing the mouse pointer;
(45) Bug fixed where after
a cold boot, the Anno Domini window may not open fully;
(44) Fixed bug where Anno Domini
could crash on execution if English was not the Windows default language. This
was tracked down to when the date and currency formats were altered, e.g. as
in the Italian language;
(43) Anno Domini now keeps
the date format of the datetime pickers consistant regardless of which language
setting is used in the Regional Settings of Windows;
(42) The installer now does
not overwrite the Contacts, Diary and Quotes data if you are upgrading to a
later revision of Anno Domini 2003;
(41) Bug removed from the Print
Preview where if no printer was installed, Anno Domini would close itself down;
(40) A bug in the display of
the Print Preview for the Planner Report in Windows systems prior to Windows
ME has been corrected;
(39) Negative values in the
fields of the Conversions tab are now allowed;
(38) Bug removed when selecting
the calendar date of todays date. When the Show Quotes option was on, the Calendar
Statistics lines would not update;
(37) On selection of a new
location via the Store button in the Location tab, Anno Domini will ensure that
the home location is not highlighted for replacement;
(36) When searching the quotation
database, Anno Domini will no longer emit a warning beep when it finds an occurrence
of the search string;
(35) A bug in the display of
the menu has been removed for Windows ME users;
(34) The Internet Explorer
function in the menu now correctly reflects whether you have selected the Full
Screen I. Explorer option in the Preferences tab;
(33) A correction has been
made to the Auto-News function to stop it displaying an incorrect date for the
last news update;
(32) The mouse pointer is now
correctly shown for all controls in Windows 95;
v1.02 - Build 1, 27th July 2002
(31) You can select an alarm to
go off at the same time every day without further intervention;
(30) You can now select an alarm
to go off immediately the moment you run Anno Domini on your selected date;
(29) You are also given an option
to Snooze the alarm for a period of either 5 or 10 minutes at a time when the
alarm goes off;
(28) New Full Screen I. Explorer
function in the Preferences tab which when selected causes the Internet Explorer
window to open to its maximum size when an appropriate Internet enabled Anno
Domini button is clicked;
(27) 20 new web-sites have been
added to the AD 2003 URLs making 150 in total;
(26) The Win 95 Compatibility function
has been removed as the program now automatically defaults to this mode if you
are running Windows 95;
(25) Correction made when Anno
Domini warns you either to change your home location or time zone. If Show At
Startup in the Preferences tab was not selected, the Anno Domini window would
not automatically appear. This has now been fixed;
(24) The Turn Off Computer function
now works correctly in Windows systems prior to NT/2000/XP, i.e. 95, 98, 98SE
and 98 ME;
(23) When Anno Domini initially
appears, the weekly diary background is no longer displayed if it is not the
default view;
(22) Bug fixed in 3 Month calendar
reports where the calendars for the following and subsequent month could be
displayed incorrectly;
(21) Bug fixed in 3 Month calendar
reports where dates on the weekend would sometimes not be shown in red;
v1.01 - Build 1, 7th July 2002
(20) Corrected bugs in the Mini
Calendar listbox in the Preferences tab where on selecting either Moon Phases
or Weekly Diary, the calendar tab would not update accordingly until you next
ran the program;
(19) Corrected the display of
the month name in the Diary report;
(18) Corrected bug which occurred
when Moon Phases was not the default view for the Mini-Calendar on startup which
caused the dates and times of the phases not be displayed until the calendar
month was changed;
(17) Corrected bug which caused
AD to crash when Daily Diary or Weekly Diary was set as the default view for
the Mini Calendar in the Preferences tab which would subsequently cause a missing
AD file error to be reported;
(16) When using the File Operations function
from the help tab, the "Restore Data To Hard-Disk" function is now
the default option;
(15) Expanded the month names in the Diary report;
(14) Correction made to the mini
calendars which previously would not necessarily show the correct calendars
on initial selection if the main calendar was not showing the current calendar
month;
(13) Removed the necessity to
read the location data from the main AD600.INI file;
(12) Corrected bug in the menu
for selecting the home location which previously could show more than one location
with a tick mark next to it;
(11) Corrected the events database
to show the Golden Jubilee (UK) event as a one-off event for 2002;
(10) Corrected bug in display
of twilight times when minutes were sometimes shown as 60 instead of 00;
(9) Corrected bug in Diary report
which was not storing its font preference to the INI file;
v1.00 - Build 4, 26th June
2002
(8) Further correction to the
Auto-News function to ensure that once a news item has been read, that it is
not shown again;
v1.00 - Build 3, 25th June 2002
(7) Removed the necessity for
Anno Domini 2002, v1.06 Build 2 to be already installed before the AD 2003 upgrade
can be performed. Any installed version of Anno Domini 2002 can now be upgraded
to Anno Domini 2003;
(6) Ensured that each time an
upgrade is performed that the Internet links are copied to your Favourites folder;
(5) The positional data for Helsinki,
Finland has been corrected to note a time zone of +02.00 instead of +01.00;
(4) The version of Microsoft Windows that is
installed has now been reinstated to the About tab;
(3) When an upgrade of Anno Domini is completed,
Anno Domini is now brought to the top of all other open windows when confirming
the new version and build number;
v1.00 - Build 2, 24th June 2002
(2) Fixed crash caused by Auto-Detect
News function which was reading the wrong information from the NEWS.INI file;
v1.00 - Build 1, 23rd June 2002
(1) First release of Anno Domini 2003.
