NumericalChameleon Portable Changelog

What's new in NumericalChameleon Portable 2.1.0

• Compatibility changes:
• The NC 2.1 has been made compatible with Java 9.
• The NC 2.1 requires Java 8 or later. Java 6 and 7 are not supported anymore.
• Removed all Look and Feels where the developer abandoned (see also removed libraries)
• New features:
• Java.net.useSystemProxies=true is now enabled for the nc-admin.exe launcher in order to use proxy settings from the system by default on Microsoft Windows
• On macOS the system proxy settings are being recognized if Java 9 is used
• On both GNU/Linux and macOS the environment variables http_proxy resp. HTTP_proxy and no_proxy resp. NO_PROXY are being recognized on startup
• Text in notice area is saved and restored automatically
• Added JTattoo Look and Feel that comes with a lot of great modern themes
• Localization bundle is now part of the update center so that localization changes can be delivered faster
• One new category: (music) note values
• Two new groups: music and liquids
• Added decades and centuries to the time difference dialog
• Added Morsecode (classic and Apple Watch) to category spoken numbers
• Graphical improvements:
• Splashscreen has got both rounded edges and a shadow
• Nicer images for the favorites
• Swap button is now between source and target
• Fixes:
• Fixed: unsaved text in notice area gets lost if not saved explicitly
• Fixed: combobox resizing didn't happen on first start of the app
• Fixed: Google calendar does not accept our .ics due to missing escape chars
• Fixed: .ics should use CRLF as the endline sequence according to RFC 5545
• Fixed: non-privileged user can open the update dialog which will fail
• Fixed: nc launcher script on GNU/Linux and macOS didn't accept parameters
• Fixed: setting sci figures can be selected if Roman Numerals has been loaded
• Fixed: typo in unit description USB SuperSpeed+
• Internal improvements:
• Gathering latest tzdata info from https://www.iana.org/time-zones rather than from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/
• Reading zone1970.tab (modern format) rather than zone.tab (old format) in order to get the principal location for each time zone
• Removed own implementation of the Splashscreen and rely only on the Splashscreen functionality from the JRE
• Removed libraries:
• Removed JGoodies Looks (latest version is not free of charge anymore)
• Removed JGoodies Common (latest version it is not free of charge anymore)
• Removed Kunststoff LnF (abandoned)
• Removed Metouia LnF (abandoned)
• Removed Squareness Look and Feel (abandoned)