Balls & Sticks Changelog

What's new in Balls & Sticks 1.80 Beta

Aug 8, 2012
  • An issue related to the handling of fractional coordinate in special cases has been fixed.

New in Balls & Sticks 1.77c (Aug 8, 2012)

  • Some portions of the code have been revised and the updated space group file has been incorporated.

New in Balls & Sticks 1.76 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • "See Inside Poly" now has a slider which lets you adjust opacity of the polyhedra when inside is shown. The slider is found on the tool bar next to the "Perspective" slider.

New in Balls & Sticks 1.74 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • One of the bug fixes in the prvious version created a bug, and it has been reversed in this new version.

New in Balls & Sticks 1.73 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • A couple of bugs associated with "Edit Chemical Structure Information" dialog box have been fixed: catching identical coordinates of entries and checking value limits.

New in Balls & Sticks 1.72 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • More flexible indexing scheme makes it possible to accomodate larger numbers of elements than previous versions.
  • On previous versions, clicking on a flat 2D (polyheadra) object didn't cause selection of the object unless "see inside poly" button was pressed. This bug has been fixed.
  • There may have been more than one, but, at least, a bug has been fixed which could have cuased previous versions of BS to crash or behave strangely after deleting some element(s).

New in Balls & Sticks 1.60 (Aug 8, 2012)

  • This version has been removed because it cannot read BS files from older versions, and its own BS files cannot be read by older versions, either.
  • This version tried to address the problem reported by Hermann Gies: BS crashed when large number of atoms were present in the unit cell.