D-form Version History


1.3.2a (27/07/2000)

- Fixed bug that caused D-form to make the content window white if "Translate" and "Scale" menu items was choosed and OK was pressed.
- Added the Control-Magnet feature to move the magnet around (the blue handle).

1.3.1a (18/3/99)

- Fixed bug that prevented the object to be displayed with the new settings when the preferences was changed.
- Fixed bug that caused D-form to save corrupted data when saving RAW files with RGB values.
- Fixed bug that caused FastBox of bicubic_patch objects to be displayed gray.
- Fixed bug that caused revert to didn't work if "Preferences" dialog window was opened.
- Fixed bug that caused the "Undo" menu item to be available just after polygonizing a bicubic_patch if the object was rotated with the Hand Tool.
- Fixed bug that caused the "Save" menu item to be available when user opened DXF or POV-Ray triangle files.
- Fixed bug that caused D-form to ignore diffuse, specular and gloss values when reading Vision-3D text files.
- Fixed bug that caused the Drag tool to drag only tree vertices per polygon. I announced this in 1.2.1a but the bug was still there. Now it's fixed.
- Fixed bug that caused the cursor to be erroneously displayed as a clock when a triangulation failed.
- Fixed bug that caused the hand tool to move selected vertices the first time you use it. Hand Tool should affect always the whole object.
- Now D-form should test if the user selected the wrong file format when opening a file.
- Now D-form should test the input values of text fields in dialog windows.
- Now D-form will auto recognize between RAW files with and without RGB values.
- Now D-form will keep object separation when importing a POV-Ray triangle file and exporting a Vision-3D text file.
- Now D-form will outline default buttons in dialog windows.
- Now D-form will display a checkmark in the "View" menu to highlight the actual view.
- "Centre" menu item translated in "View" menu.
- Changed "Fractint RGB Values:" in Preferences to "Write RGB Values:"
- Added "Light source position:" X: Y: Z: fields in "Preferences" dialog window.
- Added "Tool deformation multiplier:" field in "Tools setup" dialog window.
- The "Rotate..." menu item performs permanent rotations now.

1.3.0a (24/December/98)

- Added "Render type" menu item.
- Added hidden lines, flat shading, and ShadeFrame, rendering algorithms (polygonal objects only).
- Now the cursor is displayed as a watch during perspective/orthographic change.
- Now the magnet centre (the blue handle) is properly updated.
- Now D-form will warn at quitting if the object is not saved.
- Now D-form will warn when opening a new object if the previous one is not saved.
- Now D-form will ask for confirmation before to Triangulate.
- Now D-form will ask for confirmation before to Polygonize.
- Changed "When dragging vertices:" in Preferences to "When deforming:"
- The Hand Tool is no more undoable. An "undo" will undo the last deformation performed, ignoring any rotation done with the Hand Tool.
- Removed raw objects in dotation, and substituted with Vision-3D text ones.

1.2.2a (7/September/98)

- Fixed bug that caused the "Revert" menu item to be available even when reverting was not possible.
- Fixed bug that caused the "Undo" menu item to be available even when the last function was undoable.
- Fixed bug that caused the "Undo" menu item to didn't work properly with bicubic_patch objects.
- Now D-form saves bicubic patch files as POV-Ray files.
- Now D-form saves polygonal files as BBEdit files.
- Now the Magnet Tool can be used limited to an axis or a plane, like the Stretch Tool (see Docs).
- Changed View menu order and keyboard shortcuts to match Vision-3D and Meshwork standard.
- Changed Preferences shortcut key to "L" to match the POV-Ray standard.
- "Use FastBox preview" now ends with a "w".
- "Reduce showed edges" changed in "Reduce shown edges".
- "Deform selected" menu item separated from others.

1.2.1a (20/May/98)

- Fixed bug that caused the Drag tool to drag only tree vertices per polygon.
- Fixed bug that caused FastBox to don't scale if the "Fit to window" menu item was used.
- Fixed bug that caused wrong deformations if the Move / Stretch Tool was used with the command key pressed.
- Fixed bug that caused "Revert" menu item to didn't work properly with bicubic_patch objects.
- The Hand Tool is now undoable.
- Holding the Axis button, the pop up buttons show up faster now.
- Added "Polygonize" menu item.

1.2.0a (15/April/98)

- Fixed bug that caused "Triangulate" to freeze the Mac if used the objects has triangles in it. The triangulation should be faster now.
- Fixed bug that forced to manually restore the last used Tool after changing the active axis.
- Fixed bug that allowed to choose the Pinch Tool, yet disabled (the empty button).
- Fixed bug that enabled the "Save" and the "Save as..." submenu items if no object was loaded.
- Fixed bug that enabled the "Triangulate" menu item if a bicubic_patch object was loaded.
- Rewritten the "Drag" code. Now D-form should be more responsive and the delay after selecting vertices is removed.
- Added support for multiple object RAW file format.
- Added support for multiple object Vison-3D text format.
- Added POV-Ray triangle import file format.
- Added 3DMF export file format.
- Added "Fit to window" menu item.
- Added "One space export" checkbox in "Preferences" dialog box.
- Now the green handles move speculary in all the deformation tools.
- Now the window is one pixel larger on the right.
- Changed name of "Effects setup..." menu item to "Tools setup".
- Changed name of "Center location" in Tools setup dialog window to "Magnet location".
- Changed naming in saving prefs. From version 1.2.0a D-form will save preferences files with version in the name to allow use of different versions on the same Mac.
- Changed info in "About D-form...".

1.1.2a (3/February/98)

- Recompiled with CodeWarrior.
- Now D-form should run under MacOS 8.
- Fixed bug that caused window title corrupt if the "Save" menu item was used repeatedly.

1.1.1a (6/November/97)

- Fixed severe bug (introduced in 1.1.0a) that made D-form bomb if the Drag tool was used with a bicubic_patch object.
- Fixed bug that enabled all the "Save as..." submenu items if a bicubic_patch object was loaded.
- Fixed bug that enabled the "Directional drag" and "Elastic drag" menu items if a bicubic_patch object was loaded.
- Changed some values in all the ".POV" included files to make them render better.

1.1.0a (27/October/97)

- PowerPC native!
- Fixed bug that caused bicubic patch objects freely rotate if "Use FastBox preview" option was set on.
- Fixed bug that caused FastBox to collapse to a point if an object was deformed with FastBox turned off and than deformed whit FastBox turned on.
- Fixed bug that caused the loaded object to disappear after settings preferences.
- Now D-form saves preferences in the Preferences folder.
- Now D-form can read and write Amapi Text (.txt) files.
- Now D-form can read and write Vision-3D Text (.vtxt) files.
- Now D-form can read DXF (.DXF) files.
- Now D-form can read and write RAW files with RGB values (the RAW format supported by Vision-3D, see docs for more info).
- Added "Triangulate" menu item.
- Changed "Open..." and "Save as..." menu items to hierarchical.
- View menu keyboard shortcut has changed.
- Painted gray the area under the buttons.
- Now the views in "View" menu items are dimmed if no object is loaded.
- PPC version of D-form has the "Use FastBox preview" off by default.
- Removed the unused zoom button from window.

1.0.8a (18/September/97)

- Fixed bug that prevented D-form to read correctly RAW files that uses the format with one space only between vertices instead of two. Now it should read files with any number of spaces between components.

1.0.7a (14/September/97)

- Fixed bug (introduced in 1.0.3a) that prevented object to redraw correctly when dragging vertices whit the Drag tool while "Deform selected" menu item is checked.
- Fixed bug that prevented the wireframe to update correctly if the pop up buttons of Axis tool cover part of the wireframe.
- Now the window should fit monitors of any size.
- Now the window title shows the name of the file opened.
- FastBox code speeded up. Now the FastBox appear instantly and updates at the maximum speed independently from the object size.
- Added support for multiple object RAW files. Now D-form keep the objects names when you save the RAW file.

1.0.6a (8/September/97)

- Fixed bug that made the current view the "Front" view if the "Undo" option is used.
- Added the Option-Hand feature to limit the rotation to the active axis.
- Taper tool radically improved. See docs for more info.

1.0.5a (30/August/97)

- Fixed severe bug (introduced in 1.0.3a) that prevented object to be displayed correctly while "Deform selected" menu item is checked.
- "Show only triangle involved" preferences option dropped the "triangle".
- "Page Setup..." and "Print" menu commands removed.
- Changed the default preferences. Now "Show only involved" is off by default. (This because people believed D-form is not able to draw bicubic patch preview!)
- Little documentation cleanup.

1.0.4a (9/August/97)

- Fixed bug when choosing items from menu "View" and "Deform selected" is on.
- Fixed the bug where if you open a file, choose "Save as...", modify something and then choose "Save" the first file were updated and not the second.
- Fixed bug where the "Centre" command not centred an object shifted from centre by negative Y value.
- Fixed bug where the "Centre" command had strange behaviors if selected with "Deform selected" turned on and with vertices selected.

1.0.3a (01/July/97)

- Fixed bug that caused D-form to add a spurious character at the end of a .POV file every time it saved it.
- Fixed the code of some of the .POV files included.
- Fixed the code that updates the menus.
- Added About Box.
- Added command-Stretch option to stretch an object along the plane normal to the active Axis.
- Added "Save" menu item.
- Added "Revert" menu item.
- Added the file "apple.POV" (entirely modeled using D-form, by deforming spherebig.POV and cylinder.POV).
- Now the Move tool can move only selected vertices (if "Deform selected" menu item is checked).
- Now the Axis button shows a little black arrow to make clear it's a "push and hold" button.

1.0.2a (24/June/97)

- Fixed bug that prevented control-Move to work properly.
- Control-Move and Stretch features (present also in older versions) added in documentation.
- Fixed two bugs that prevented objects to centre properly.
- Centre does not longer tries to centre a yet centred object.
- Changed name of "Centrate" menu item to "Centre".
- Minor code cleanup.

1.0.1a (16/June/97)

- The application icon has changed.
- Some buttons icons graphics fixed.

1.0.0a (11/June/97)

- Initial release.


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