Elements' History
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Version 2.3.1: new features
(released March, 2011)
- Fixed issue where the inspector palettes failed to show at startup
- Updated elements properties
Version 2.3: new features
(released July, 2010)
- Integrated Sparkle for easier updating
- Added Danish language
- Added magnetism property
- Element 112 renamed as Copernicium
Version 2.2.1: new features
(released February 2, 2009)
- Fix a bug intruduced in v2.2 which affect the correct display of the main window on english systems
- Change the app icon. Now it's more Leopard friendly.
Version 2.2: new features
(released February 1st, 2009)
- Mass values updated according to the latest IUPAC changes
- Scalable main window (periodic table and graph)
- New look for the selection highlight of the elements in the periodic table
Version 2.1: new features
(released March 12, 2008)
- New comparison feature: just click and drag from one element to another to compare their main values
- Add a button to switch between icon and text view on top of the Inspector (for State, Origin and Radioactivity)
- New table design
Version 2.0.1: new features
(released May 8, 2007)
- Japanese translation by Tadahisa Sugisaki
- For some localizations, the value of the sheer modulus was sometimes not displayed in the Inspector
Version 2.0: new features
(released January 25, 2007)
- Totally redesign periodic table
- Add printing for table and graph
- Add units preferences
- Add shortcuts in the weight calculator (try "Asp" and see)
- Add Elastic properties (Young modulus, Bulk modulus, Sheer modulus and Poisson's ratio)
- Add Misc properties (Second ionization potential, Velocity of Sound and Electron Affinity)
- Add Discovery year
- Add picto into the tooltip
- Add CAS and IUPAC classic group numbering, so you can choose your favorite
- Add color chooser for the table's gradient color
- Add preferences for graph lines and markers
- Clean-up and sort the table menu
- Rewriting most part of the application result in speed up and lose of app's weight
Version 1.6.1: new features
(released June 6, 2006)
- Fix the v1.6 crash under Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Fix the sort column function in the Molecular Weight calculator
Version 1.6: new features
(released May 26, 2006)
- Add chart view for Isotopes and ionization potential
- Add new image's formats to save Bohr diagram (PNG, PDF and JPEG)
- Add automatic update checking
- Add the ability to navigate freely inside the table with the keyboard arrows
- Add the ability to switch electronic configuration information in the Bohr
diagram panel
- Add a mini tooltip to show temperature in the different units (on mouse over in the Inspector)
- Add the automatic selection in the Inspector when pressing the "Enter" key in search field
- Minor fix
Version 1.5.2: new features
(released February 6, 2006)
- Add Chinese translation (thanks to Jing-Jong Shyue)
- Add table and graph view for the 1st ionization potential
- Minor fix
Version 1.5.1: new features
(released January 12, 2006)
- Mac-Intel compatible (Universal
binary)
- International release of the 1.5 version (English, French, German, Italian and Russian)
Version 1.5: new features
(released December 8, 2005)
- Add graphs view (you can click on them to switch element)
- Inspector completely redone and now customizable (you can separate each part, reorder them and put them where you want on screen)
- Add electronegativity information
- Add block information
- Add origin information
- Add metal state information
- Change the "blue circle" position marker's look
- English and French only. International version will follow soon
Version 1.4.1: new features
(released October 14, 2005)
- International release (with new Czech localization (thanks to Lukáš Vajda))
- Change the liquid color in the state view to help color blind people
- Fix the "bracket" bug in the Molecular Weight calculator
- Fix the "double checked" bug in the unit menu of the Molecular Weight calculator
- Change the picto position in the Tooltip
Version 1.4: new features
(released September 26, 2005)
- Add a temperature slider to show the different states of elements when temperature change
- The Bohr diagram can be exported (drag/drop, copy or save)
- Coloration table can be changed via links in the Inspector
- Change the Tooltip look (now state is shown as picto)
- Minor esthetic change
- Fix typo and values
- English and French only. International version will follow
Version 1.3.2: new features
(released September 26, 2005)
- Czech localization (thanks to Lukáš Vajda)
- Typo and values fixed
- Used as International version, waiting the International v1.4 release
Version 1.3.1: new features
(released July 7, 2005)
- Russian localization (thanks to Michael Krekin)
- Bug with the blue circle when collapsing menubar fixed
- Bug with the Spanish name in the inspector fixed
- Typo fixed
Version 1.3: new features
(released May 5, 2005)
- Italian localization (thanks to Nicola Del Monaco)
- German localization enhanced (thanks to Oliver Buerschaper)
- Empirical Atomic Radius and van der Waals Radius information
- Isotopes can now be used in the Molecular Weight Calculator
- Show which element's information the Inspector displays with a blue circle
- Show the current element in the coloring comparison scale
- Split Inspector's parts by clicking anywhere in their title
- Minor change in tooltip display
- Minor change in the interface look
- Typo fixed and values corrected (be careful many change occur in Density,
Molar Volume and Radius)
- Preference option "Show Inspector at Startup" bug fixed
- Converter's display bug fixed
Version 1.2: new features
(released March 2nd, 2005)
- German localization (thanks to Oliver Buerschaper)
- Ionization Potentials information
- Coloring comparison for lots of information (like Atomic Weight, Boiling Point, Density and many more)
- Command to navigate in the periodic table from one element to the previous/next
- Lower case recognition in the search field (i.e. you could use "Au" or "au" to find "gold")
- New color information to show complete belt (orange) in the Electronic Configuration graphic
- New tooltip information display position
- Elements now remember your last coloring mode and the splited part(s) in the Info window
- Fixed typo in gas density unit (now correctly in g/l instead of g/cm3)
Version 1.1: new features
(released February 25, 2005)
- French localization
- Names of the elements translated in Japanese, Chinese and Dutch (in the "Info" window only)
- Partial colored box for probable information
When the class/state/crystal-structure of an element is not known for sure, its box in the periodic table is half-colored
- Remove the "Transactinides" class label
The class of elements 110 to 112 is known for sure to be Transition Metals
The class of elements 113 to 118 is not known for sure, but
the supposed class is also shown (half- colored box to clearly show that it's
only the presumed class)
- Crash when clicking on Oxygen (O) or Californium (Cf), introduced in v1.0.2, fixed
- Minor typo in translated names fixed
Version 1.0.2: new features
(released January 19, 2005)
- Names of the elements translated in 11 languages (in the "Info" window only):
English (default), Czech, Croatian, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish and Swedish
- Preferences to select which windows will be open at startup
- Minor bug fixed
Version 1.0
(released January 13, 2005)
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