What's new in TDF Plan 1.8.8
Apr 30, 2020
- Added Cs-131 to the menu of brachytherapy radionuclides.
- Fixed a bug involving the recently added 'Other' radionuclide half-life preference setting and also added an RBE preference setting for the 'Other' radionuclide.
New in TDF Plan 1.8.7 (Apr 6, 2020)
- Added Ru-106 to the menu of brachytherapy radionuclides.
- Added an 'Other' option to the menu of brachytherapy radionuclides with a user customizable half-life value in localization preferences.
- Corrected the mouseover informational text for a checkbox in localization preferences.
New in TDF Plan 1.8.0 (Jul 9, 2018)
- Initial testing with MacOS 10.13.5 High Sierra and Windows 10 appears OK.
- Recompiled using Xojo 2018 Release 1.1 as a 64-bit application for both MacOS and Windows.
- Added a holidays file for South Africa.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.9 (Apr 30, 2018)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the SQLite database from updating properly.
- Recompiled using Xojo 2018 Release 1.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.8 (Aug 3, 2017)
- Updated user guide Incomplete Course page for the new makeup wizard.
- Revised the user interface and behavior of the makeup course wizard to include its own dedicated calculator (instead of exporting settings to the ESC). The course autosequence calculator is now disabled in favor of the user explicitly specifying the makeup regimen start date. The original treatment schedule, gaps and repopulation settings of the target course are now maintained in the makeup calculation.
- Updated holiday files through 2025.
- Recompiled using Xojo 2016 Release 2.1.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.7 (Jun 22, 2015)
- Recompiled using Xojo 2015 Release 2.2
New in TDF Plan 1.7.6 (Apr 3, 2015)
- Revised handling of missing and inaccessible file IOExceptions throughout the entire program.
- Much more reliable startup of new installations.
- Now works with Windows 8.1.
- Added the VisualC++ 2013 library (.dll) installers for Windows OS to the download in case they are needed.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.5 (Mar 19, 2015)
- Recompiled using Xojo version 2015 r1.
- More robust handling of missing files at startup.
- Fixed window positioning bug at startup on small screens.
- Running on Windows 8.1 there may still be unresolved issues with accessing the visual c++ dll libraries at startup , try manually installing the libraries per MS recommendations...
New in TDF Plan 1.7.4 (Dec 27, 2014)
- Recompiled using Xojo version 3.1, improved appearance under OSX 10.10 Yosemite.
- Replaced deprecated Xojo file opening, saving and text streaming APIs with current versions.
- Removed some unused code and variables.
- Updated information in the about window, removed dead link to the obsolete USC Rad. Onc. server.
- Updated user guide in download to current version.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.3 (Nov 11, 2014)
- TDFPlan now initializes in a standard window configuration.
- Revised window initialization to eliminate the problematic windowstates file.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.2 (Oct 18, 2014)
- Acute BED now supports negative values when repopulation so dictates.
- When calculating repopulation based on the elapsed time between the first and last fraction instead of using the actual number of treatment course days (Tx), the elapsed time (Tx-1) is now shown in brackets next to the number of treatment days.
- Fixed a bug in version 1.7.0 involving date displays when elapsed time is used for repopulation.
New in TDF Plan 1.7.0 (Oct 17, 2014)
- Recompiled with Xojo2014 release 2.1.
- Fixed bug in treatment gap calculations that involve multiple courses when repopulation is enabled.
- Added BFCO example repopulation settings to biology file.
New in TDF Plan 1.6.0 (Jun 25, 2014)
- Recompiled with Xojo2014 release 1.1.
- Recompiled as Cocoa application for OSX 10.7 and beyond.
- Fixed bug that didn't initialize the calendar properly in OSX Cocoa version.
- Fixed bug that disabled the database window menu selection in the calendar window.
- Revised database file name extension from from .rsd to .sqlite to work with current operating systems.
New in TDF Plan 1.5.9 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Changed window location initializations to work with Windows 7.
- Updated calendar holiday files through 2016.
- Recompiled with RB2012 release 2.
New in TDF Plan 1.5.6 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Fixed a bug involving late effects repair.
- Recompiled with RB2010 release 2.1.
New in TDF Plan 1.5.5 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Fixed a bug when copying and pasting courses that caused the copied and pasted courses to always use the same start and end dates.
- Added a new "%Rx" term to simplify calculation of BED to a percentage of the prescription (Rx) dose. This makes calculation of late BED to organs (e.g. cord) near the target volume simpler to implement.
- Changed the former course "Rx dose/fraction" field to simply be the prescribed (Rx) fraction. Actual delivered dose per fraction is now calculated (and displayed) as dose/fraction = [(RxFraction * %Rx) / %Isodose] cGy.
- Expanded ESC calculator functions.
- Added a "wizard" to manage the ESC for simple makeup courses.
- Added ability to flag a course's BEDn cell in the IMR spreadsheet as the intended course for makeup calculations.
- Misc. user interface, button and menu appearance tweaks.
- User guide updates.
- Recompiled with RB2009 release 5.
New in TDF Plan 1.5.3 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Recompiled with RB2009 release 4.
- Misc small updates, also revised the timing of when window locations are saved to when a window closes rather than when it moves. This may fix an occasional issue where the file TDFWindowsStates gets corrupted when running on the XP operating system and the program erroneously thinks the windows were off screen somewhere when the program was last closed.
New in TDF Plan 1.4.9 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Added ability to reinitialize all preference files.
- Updated user guide.
New in TDF Plan 1.4.8 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Fixed a bug related to using single quotes in names.
New in TDF Plan 1.4.6 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Fixed display bugs related to the old style TDF calculation (no changes to LQ).
- Improved user interface for demo and expired demo license.
- Recompiled using latest RB 5.1 development release.
New in TDF Plan 1.4.3 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Added NTCP calculations and plots.