What's New

What's new in version 3.02

1. Speed up and Slow down buttons on the play menu will now repeat when held down.
2. Tower speed shown in the status bar . 
3. New Tower .WAV Files - Tewksbury - Thanks to David Bagley.
4. Change to the view switching to maintain the same view between the touch and blue line tab.
5. Change to the view switching to maintain the same view between the touch, grab and map windows.
6. Addition of new mapping option using Ordinance Survey.
7. Addition of a new advanced section on the touch property window.
8. Addition of a new advanced touch optin that prevents the calls from wrapping into a second part.

Bugs fixed in version 3.02

1. Fixed crash when editing tower details.
2. Fixed Windows 2000 bug that prevented the simulator from working correctly.
3. Fixed Windwos 2000 install bug that prevented some essential files being installed on some systems.
4. Fixed a scrolling problem on the strike window.

What's new in version 3.01

1. Simulator :
   • Fully functional simulator for use at home and in the tower.
   • Ring your own bell.
   • Supports upto 20 real bell inputs .
   • Speech recognition for calls and command inputs
   • Support for David Bagley's Multi Bell Interface .
   • Support for home made sensors .
   • Support for keyboard input.
   • Replay and saving of a simulator session.
2. Bell Sounds :
   • New Tower Wizard to assist the setting up of towers for the simulator
   • Support for 5.1 surround sound.
   • Alter the perceived 3D position of the bells.
   • Alter the pitch and volume of individual bells.  
   • Alter the pitch and volume of all the bells as a whole.  
   • Speaking the general ringing commands. The user can specify the text that is used in each case.
   • Give a bell striking characteristics, like always following another bells position
   • Alter the striking of the bells individually, in terns of both lateness and of erraticness .
   • Start and end change repeats.
   • Multiple cover bells.
   • Mute individual bells
   • Mute all bells.
   • Test facility on the setup dialog.
   • Handstroke lead gap can now be variable rather than just on / off.
3. Touch :
   • Addition of an author field.
   • Save as RTF
   • Save as image. 
   • Independently set the font of the title, author, and notes fields.
4. Interface :
   • Major Improvements in the flexibility of the interface.
   • Each document type now allows you to position the interface components separately.
   • Ability to dock, float and make up your own tab windows.  
   • Slide in windows for less often used functions.
   • When working through long lists of towers, grabs, methods, you can type in the name, and it will go to it.
   • All dialogs with multiple screens now use a common tree structure for navigation.
   • Ability to load and view saved pictures.
   • Task Pane

1. Dates in record keeping module were not able to extend back beyond 1971.
2. Latest style .WAV files were not supported, causing a crash.
3. Made the stability of the generated bell sounds less susceptible to other actions on the computer.

1. Record Keeping Module :
   • Details of over 5000 tower built in.
   • Can add towers to and delete towers from the base database.
   • Record details of your grabs, including comments, bells go and bells sound ratings.
   • OS (and others) maps with tower pins showing grabbed and non grabbed towers.
   • Ability to grab towers from the map
   • Fast Powerful search and sort facility.
   • Set up often used filters.
   • Internal Internet link to towers web site
   • Can add towers to and delete towers from the base database
   • Multiple users can be set up, allowing each person to have there own set of grabs and filters.
2. Crib Sheets :
   • Plain English description of how to ring any place notation, including the built in 12,000 methods
   • Print useful sheets for assisting learning the line.
3. Called Changes :
   • New editor for called changes that allows you to create and practice using all the knows calling conventions.
   • Play the changes
4. Touch :
   • Variances can now be all odd or all even .
   • Calculates and displays +ve and –ve Coursing Nature of rows.
   • Notes on the touch screen .
   • Mouse over a splice letter to see the name of the method on a tool tip.
   • Can splice together methods that have differing numbers of splice positions.
5. Blue Lines :
   • resize the blue line directly on the screen
6. Bells Sounds :
   • Indicates peal speed of selected bell speed.
   • Options of having different bell recordings for hand and back stroke (useful for muffled ringing).
   • Options of setting the number of rounds before launching into the touch.
7. Interface:
   • All the analysis screens now have a copy screen option.
   • Option to show and hide property windows hint panel
   • Visual method editor can now have numbers on it.
     

Bugs fixed in version 2.01

1. Print from un-docked windows now works.
2. Preview Windows now redisplay the style layout.
   

What's new in version 1.08

1. Interface:
   • New property window with many directly editable fields. You can now see as much or as little of the touch details on one screen as you need to.
   • Method now has a copy facility. If you them paste into a graphics program you get an image, while if you copy into a text program you get all the change numbers.
   • Customise your own buttons images.
   • New 'tools' toolbar and menu.
   • Splice tooltips now have method names in them.
2. Start Notation - you can enter notation to be called prior to the main touch.
3. Style management:
   • The style for both the blue line (option) and the touch are now saved with the touch document
   • You can define blue line styles with reference to the tenor . Thus making the style generic across different numbers of bells.
   • All the places where you use the blue line window (preview and select row Etc) now have there own styles.
4. Three new analysis screens:
   • Lead End  - showing every lead end in the touch
   • Calls Made  - showing a list of calls (and splices) made for the touch
   • Splice Transitions - showing method to method transition grid.
5. Advanced search system, allowing you to search on any aspect of a touch.
6. Lead head codes (and table of codes ) now function for higher numbers (upto 22).

Bugs fixed in version 1.08

1. Play popup box resize bug
2. Blue Line printing now correct size.

What's new in version 1.07

1. First Public Release