2.60.30   9th November 2005

  o Conversion of product to 'Freeware' license status.


2.60.29   10th March 2002

  o Gerber file generation/metric number display
    Ranger 2 stores data internally in 'inch' units.  When numbers
    were displayed in metric mode, the conversion from inch to metric
    was rounding too many digits off the displayed value.
    This made it difficult to enter the required values into the
    Gerber plot dcode table.  Copying the values displayed in the
    gerber missing dcodes report to the dcode table did not always
    result in the required values being defined.

  o System general information:
    The system was not correctly checking for write protected or
    disk full conditions when saving a design.

  o Component outline editor:
    It is no longer possible to enter part pads with a size code
    of zero, as this size is reserved for via holes.  Placing size
    zero pads on components leads to incorrect results from the
    artwork checker.

  o Artwork checking:
    If the Clearance Check & Connectivity Tracer 'Start' button
    was double clicked (instead of single clicked), then a program
    crash occurred.
    The artwork connectivity checker would cause a program crash if
    the parts list contained any parts for which no outline was
    available.


2.60.28   26th June 2000

  o Master outline library:
    This release contains an updated version of the master component
    outline library which corrects some wrongly defined outlines.

  o Documentation:
    The product setup directory now contains an updated version of the
    reference manual.  (Now renamed as r2man.pdf).

  o Installation:
    Updated the required Microsoft support dll's (mfc42.dll & msvcrt.dll)
    that are packaged with the product.


2.60.27   16th August 99

  o Artwork editor:
    Green lines were left all over the screen when adding or moving
    parts, tracks, track corners etc.
    (Problem introduced at rev. 2.60.26)


2.60.26   2nd August 99

  o System general information:
    Re-checked all date related code, and added a Year2000
    compliance message to the startup banner.

  o Circuit device library editor:
    The editor was limiting the width of the device value field
    to 8 characters. (The limit should have been 12 characters)

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    The system was permitting 12 characters to be entered into
    the value field in the toolbar, but was truncating the value
    to 11 characters when it was applied to symbols.

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    The system was locking up if certain commands were not
    deactivated with the right mouse button before selecting another
    command. (ie. they had some feature attached to the cursor and moving
    when a new command was selected)

    The affected commands identified and fixed are :-
       Signames/Move
       Symbol/Move
       Wires/Move Point
       Wires/Add Point
       NonElectrical/Adjust Arc

  o Silk screen generator:
    The silk screen generation dialog was ignoring the data validation
    failure indicating that incorrect layer values had been keyed into
    the layer selection boxes.  This resulted in mask data being generated
    on layers 0-2 with a resultant loss of the reserved layer type.

  o 2 layer auto-router:
    The copper fill function was permitting entry of a fill pitch
    (grid resolution) value of zero.  This caused the system to crash.

  o System general information:
    If you performed a 'File/Save As' when no edit tool was open,
    (ie. you wern't in artwork/circuit editors etc), then the new
    design filename did not appear in the main window titlebar.

  o System general information:
    The system was crashing with designs having long filenames.

  o System general information:
    The 'Hit ESC key to exit without saving' functionality has been
    changed.  The artwork editor and part placement editor will now
    prompt you with a popup dialog, instead of the previous easily
    missed message that was displayed on the bottom status bar.
    The 2 & 6 layer autorouters should never have monitored the
    ESC key, as there is no provision for an unsaved exit from
    these routines.  A program error caused them to incorrectly
    respond to ESC key presses.

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    The components on the toolbar have been squeezed closer together
    and rearranged slightly to ensure that the page number selector
    is visible on systems having a 800x600 resolution display.
    (At this resolution, the 'wires locked' selector is just visible
     at the right hand end of the toolbar, but loses its label)

  o Printing:
    The 'thin line printwidth' parameter was incorrectly being applied
    during the drawing of filled circles and filled rectangular areas.
    This caused the filled areas to be draw oversized.

  o Pad and track digitiser:
    If you used the Cancel button to close the net selection window
    when 'one named net' digitise mode was selected, all nets were
    digitised.


2.60.25   27th July 99

  o There is no change to the Ranger2/Windows executable with this
    release, but the online help file has been recompiled to
    correct some formatting errors with bulleted lists etc.

2.60.25   19th July 99

  o Added online help file.


2.60.24   4th April. 99

  o CCT 'Specctra' router interface :
    The design importer could fail the second time it was
    run within a design session.

  o Circuit schematic editor :
    When loading designs created with DOS Ranger2, parts rotated
    to 90 or 270 degrees AND flipped appear at the wrong orientation.

2.60.23   6th May. 98

  o Artwork editor:
    Sometimes when you tried to add via holes to layer zero,
    the selected pad type changed to 'antipad'

  o Artwork editor:
    It was possible to add 'heat relief' pad types to a
    non-powerplane layer.
    The pad style will now automatically change to 'round pad'
    if you try to do this.

  o Artwork checker:
    The artwork checker crashed if the design contained
    heat-relief or antipad items on non-power planes.

  o Artwork checker:
    The artwork checker will treat heat-relief and antipad
    pads on non-power plane layers as if they were round pads.
    When such a situation is detected, a warning is displayed,
    and you are given the option of saving a copy of the
    artwork with the pad types converted.


2.60.22   23rd Mar. 98

  o CCT 'Specctra' router interface :
    The design exporter generated keepout areas definitions as
    'paths' instead of 'polygons'.  This caused the Specctra
    router to now show the keepout areas cross-hatched.

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    The part auto-allocate functions were creating duplicate
    part numbers for all parts except those belonging to the
    first allocated part prefix group.
    (This problem was introduced at release 2.60.20 with the
     increase in part number range from 1-1023 to 1-2047).

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    After using 'File/Save' to save the design file from within
    the schematic editor, subsequent repaints of the screen
    would display bus-width signals as thin lines.  The only
    way to recover from the problem was to close and reopen
    the circuit editor.

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    If a circuit device was created with some terminal pins
    unplaced, then the unplaced pins could be shown in the
    circuit schematic at random positions.

  o Circuit and artwork print preview:
    Negative X/Y shift values were wrongly displayed with a
    '-' sign after the decimal point.
    Also, the edit window was not wide enough to show all the
    number when it was > 9.9

  o Artwork editor:
    It is now possible to select heat-relief and antipad styles
    from the pad style list.  Enter/Add Pads may then be used
    to manually add features to power planes.

  o Artwork editor:
    When using Enter/Add pads to add antipads to a power plane
    layer, the selected pad style will be automatically changed
    to 'Antipad' if 'Round Pad' style is selected.
    Conversely, pad style will automatically change to 'Round Pad'
    if you attempt to enter antipads to a non-powerplane layer.

  o Artwork and part placement editors:
    The DOS version of Ranger2 had the ability to use the ESC key
    to exit from various editors without saving design changes.
    This facility was unintentionally left in the Windows version
    of Ranger2, and its attempted use caused problems if various
    commands were active at the time ESC was hit.
    This feature has been retained, and now functions correctly.


2.60.21   20th Mar. 98

  o Copper fill boundary definition:
    When you selected any of the copper fill boundary definition
    functions, the grid displayed at 20 x fill pitch.
    It should have displayed at 2 x fill pitch.


2.60.20   16th Mar. 98

  o IMPORTANT - Program registration key:
    Your existing product registration key remains valid
    for this software release, but YOU MUST re-enter your
    keycode into the File/System Setup/Product Registration 
    dialog.

  o Gerber and DXF file importers:
    The source file pathnames became truncated at 72
    characters even though the edit box allowed entry
    of an 80 character path.

  o System limits change:
    The permitted range for part reference numbers has
    been changed from 1-1023 to 1-2047.

  o Circuit schematic editor:
    It was possible to manually allocate part numbers
    outside of the permitted range.
    Also, auto part allocation could allocate part
    numbers outside the permitted range.

  o Part list editor:
    It was possible to enter part references outside of
    the permitted part number range.  Illegal references
    could also be created with the part repeat function.

  o Part list editor:
    Invalid outlines are now highlighted in red.

  o Circuit device and Outline library editors:
    It is now possible to choose "Open device" or "New device"
    menu items when a current library part is already open
    for editing.
    "New" and "Open" icons have also been added to the toolbar.

  o Printing of very thin lines:
    Lines in the circuit schematic were being printed at
    one pixel wide, as the line features do not contain any
    associated width value.  This resulted in the lines being
    very faint on high resolution printers.
    The "File/System Setup" dialog now contains an edit
    box where the printing width of such undimensioned features
    may be specified.  The units are in mil (0.001") and the
    setting defaults to 10  (ie. lines at 0.01" wide)

  o Artwork editor:
    The setting of "Auto snap to 45"  now defaults to 'on'
    for new designs.  Also, the on/off state of this function
    is now stored with the design.

  o Wiring list editor:
    The "Find Signal Name" function is now operational.

  o Parts list editor:
    Parts created with the "Repeat Part" function were wrongly
    marked as 'selected'.  This caused new parts added off the
    bottom of the visible window to appear highlighted as soon
    as they were scrolled into view.

  o Parts list editor:
    It was possible to enter excessively long part description
    and bill-of-materials code strings into the editor.

  o Wiring list editor:
    It was possible to enter signal names longer than 8 characters.
    This would eventually cause the software to crash.

  o Grid X/Y display and "Measure Distance":
    The grid X/Y display/measure distance modes now show their
    data in millimetre units when a metric grid is selected.
    Also, the displayed coordinates are now correctly snapped
    to the half-grid points of the current displayed grid.
    If grid snap is switched off, the displayed coordinates are
    not snapped to grid.

  o User-defined grids:
    Metric user defined grids were not being displayed at the
    correct pitch.

  o Grid selection:
    The current grid selection (eg. Auto-Inch, User-Defined etc.)
    is now stored with the design.  The grid on/off status is
    not stored.

  o Outline library editor:
    Grid/Set Origin will now snap the grid origin to the part
    datum cross as well as to part pads.

  o Board profile editor:
    Grid/Set Origin will now snap the grid origin to the board
    datum cross as well as to profile vertices.

  o Board profile editor:
    Grid/Set Origin would not snap to profile features that
    you had just drawn unless you closed and reopened the
    profile editor.

  o Artwork editor:
    The Parts/Goto command now permits the required part ident
    to be typed in, or selected from a list.

  o CCT 'Specctra' router interface :
    The design exporter did not correctly generate keepout area
    definitions.

  o Artwork checker:
    The connectivity checker was crashing while trying to locate
    short circuits.

  o Wiring list editor:
    Tools/Group Signal Names is now available.


2.60.19   2nd Mar. 98

  o Circuit Device & Outline library editors:
    "Close Device" and "Close Outline" accidentally became
    changed to "Close library" when the menu mnemonic keys
    were allocated in release 2.60.18

  o Outline library editor:
    The mnemonic key "y" was not defined for "File/Copy".

  o Circuit device library editor:
    The mnemonic key "T" was defined twice in the menu bar
    when a device was open.
    "Text" mode now uses "x" as the mnemonic key.

  o "File/Delete" menu:
    The mnemonic key "C" was allocated to two functions.
    Circuit macro delete now uses "M" as the mnemonic key.

  o Device, outline and profile editors:
    The mnemonic key for "Adjust Arc" has been changed from
    "j" to "u".

  o Artwork gerber file import is now available.

  o File "Browse" buttons have been added to the DXF file
    importer to permit easier file selection.


2.60.18   23rd Feb. 98

  o Toolbar buttons :
    A "Add new part" button has been added to the schematic
    editor toolbar, and a "Place part" button has been added
    to the part placement toolbar.

  o Rip/retry router:
    Newly created designs on new installations had all
    rip/retry router parameters set to zero.
    The problem went away if you entered and exited from
    the "Edit/System Defaults/Ripretry router costs" menu
    at least once.

  o Rip/retry router:
    Designs that were affected by the above zero-parameters
    problem were never able to save their routing results.
    (even though all the correct parameters were entered
     by hand)

  o Rip/retry router:
    It was not possible to route in single sided mode on
    layer 2.

  o Rip/retry router:
    A "Restore System Defaults" button has been added to
    the router parameters editor.  This resets all router
    parameters to the default values hard coded into the
    program.

  o Rip/retry router:
    The router was producing short circuits.

  o All system:
    All menu items now have a mnemonic (shortcut) key defined
    to permit menu selection from the keyboard.

  o Artwork checker:
    The artwork checker could crash if you checked two designs
    in succession, and the second design had less nets than
    the first.


2.60.17   16th Feb. 98

  o The rip/retry router crashed on systems not having
    a directory named c:\temp.

  o Toolbar icons have now been added to most system
    editors.


2.60.16    9th Feb. 98

  o Macro generate and insert operations are now available
    in the circuit schematic editor.
    Please note that the system is not compatible with
    circuit macro files created on the DOS version of Ranger2.
    The "File/System Setup" menu has a new entry where the
    directory for circuit macro files may be specified.
    Also, the "File/Delete/Circuit Macro File" operation is
    now implemented.

  o Four circuit schematic drawing sheet macro files have been
    added to the schematic master libraries directory.

  o The Demonstration.r2 design had an incorrect (very small)
    via hole diameter setting.


2.60.15    2nd Feb. 98

  o Modifications to permit licensing as Ranger2 / Lite.
    'Lite' version is limited to 64 parts and 256 nets.
    Also, the 6 layer rip/retry router, and the Cooper and
    Chyan Technologies Specctra router interface are not
    available in the 'Lite' version.

  o Parts list editor :
    If you selected Metric units, then entered the
    parts list editor and moved the cursor over part
    X/Y position values, then reselected Inch units
    and checked the part positions again, some parts
    had become moved by 0.001".

  o Part placement editor :
    The colour setup menu has been replaced with a Windows
    dialog box style editor.

  o Artwork editor/outline library editor :
    Silk screen outlines made from circles did not move when
    the part was moved.
    NB: This bug fix will only fix the problem for newly
    entered circles in component outline library entries.
    Existing outlines containing circles will still exhibit
    the problem.


2.60.14   26th Jan. 98

  o The CCT 'Specctra' router interface :
    The router importer did not correctly import the via
    holes from the routing result file.

  o Artwork editor :
    Part move could crash when moving parts with a large
    number of pads or attached wires.

  o A 6 layer ripup and retry router has been added to
    the system.

  o Part placement editor :
    There was a possibility of the editor crashing if
    any required component outline library entry had text
    associated with the silk screen data.

  o Part placement editor :
    There was a memory mismanagement problem that could
    cause the placement program to crash.  The problem
    only showed up if a certain sequence of entering the
    placement program with power links shown / not shown
    was followed.

  o Ranger 1 job loading :
    The system did not correctly load the circuit schematic
    from a Ranger 1 job when some parts were placed at 90/270
    orientations AND flipped.


2.60.13

  o Internal development release only.


2.60.12  11th Dec. 97

  o Circuit schematic editor :
    The Symbol "Tray" submenu has been moved onto the
    main circuit editor menu bar.
    The menu now contains a function to turn the tray
    on and off.

  o Circuit schematic editor :
    The part selection tray has been replaced with a 
    Windows scrollable listbox.

    The tray contents can be sorted by clicking the button
    at the top of the tray window, or using the menu function.

    The logic for deleting tray entries has changed.
    The tray delete function now removes the currently
    highlighted tray entry.  (Previously, you selected
    tray delete mode, then clicked on the entries to remove
    them).  Selected tray entries can also be removed by
    clicking the button at the top of the tray window.

  o Circuit schematic editor :
    Double clicking an entry in the part tray will select
    the part, and place the editor into part-insert mode.

  o Circuit schematic editor :
    When placing the first instance of a symbol that is
    being sourced from a master library volume, the system
    did not show the symbol outline (in green on the cursor)
    until the first instance of the part had been placed.

  o Most commands should now have their prompting (help)
    text displayed in the bottom status bar.

  o Device library editor:
    The terminal delete function did not work correctly,
    as the terminals reappeared when the screen was refreshed.

    The logic of the terminal delete function has changed.
    You now click on the terminal you require to delete.
    Previously, each click of the mouse removed a terminal
    on a last-in/first-out basis.

  o Device library editor:
    When assigned terminal pins were deleted, their numbers
    were not returned the the free pin list, so they could
    not be assigned to a pin again.

  o Circuit schematic printing:
    It is now possible to select which circuit features are
    printed, by clicking "Select" in the print preview mode.
    Also, the circuit can now be printed in the configured
    colours as well as all black.


2.60.11  1st Dec. 97

  o Part prefix editor:  The scrollbar did not operate
    correctly when clicking the mouse above or below
    the thumb.

  o The greyed-out menu command :
      "File/Maintenance/System1 to System 2 conversion"
    has been removed as the system now offers automatic
    compatability with Ranger 1 designs.

  o The greyed-out menu command :
      "File/Import-Export/Import from ORCAD ASCII-out"
    has been removed as this utility will not be ported
    to Ranger2/Windows.

  o Circut device editor:  The symbol number and pin number
    fields in the toolbar were not wide enough to display
    numbers > 99.

  o The circuit schematic editor was crashing when adding
    new connections to the diagram.

  o Artwork pen plotting:  It is now possible to mirror
    artwork layer plots around the X axis.
    (Drill sheets and circuit schematics cannot be mirrored)

  o The system will now preserve the settings of visibility
    control flags. (eg. tracks at width, show part pads,
    show pads drilled etc)

  o It is now possible to save the design from within the
    Seetrax Autorouter.

  o The Futurenet conversion variable setup page has been
    recoded as a Windows dialog.  The remainder of the
    user interface is still in its DOS Ranger 2 form.

  o Circuit schematic tray add functions have been recoded
    to use a Windows dialog for selection of devices to be
    added to the part tray.
    The previously greyed out "Symbol/Tray/Search Volumes"
    function has now been implemented, and renamed
    "Symbol/Tray/Add from All Volumes".

  o The printing scale parameter now allows 3 decimal places.


2.60.10  24th Nov. 97

  o The DXF I/O tool is now included in the system.
    The path where the DXF I/O configuration file is stored
    can be defined from within the File/System Setup 
    dialog box.

  o Circuit schematic editor: Window delete was crashing
    if the delete operation resulted in the removal of
    all connection features from the page.

  o Parts list editor:  If "allow position edit" was enabled,
    and the tab or space key was pressed while the cursor
    was in the part rotation field of the last part in the
    list, the system could crash.  The last part had to be
    positioned so it was the very last line of the parts
    editor window for the problem to appear.

  o Circuit device library editor:  The symbol ident and
    value labels became wrongly positioned when the symbol
    datum position was changed.

  o Circuit device library editor:  Text delete mode would
    sometimes not delete text that you clicked on.

  o Circuit device library editor:  Text delete mode could
    crash the system.

  o If the system "Close" menu item (or top rh 'X' button)
    was selected while in the print preview mode, the
    system became stuck in preview zoom-reduce mode.
    There was no way out except to kill the Ranger2 process.

  o When pen plotting rectangular squared-ended pads, the
    system did not allow for the diameter of the pen when
    calculating the pad length.  This caused the pads to
    be plotted too long. (This bug is also in DOS Ranger2)

  o When a new design was saved (without the design being
    closed), then the Window header did not change to show
    the name of the saved file.

  o The old DOS type circuit schematic setup box has been
    replaced with a Windows dialog box.

  o Wiring list editor:  Signal names beginning with a digit
    had "IC" inserted at the front of the name.

  o When printing, the system was selecting incorrect entries
    in the colour palette that had been realized into the
    printer device context.  Also, circuit wires were being
    drawn with a wrong raster operation.
    (Customer defect description:  Lines are printing in
     grey on HP Laserjet 5 printer even though 'print-in-black'
     is selected.  Also, pads are printed undrilled even
     though 'show drill holes' was selected)

  o The Futurenet parts and wiring list importer has been
    included in this release, but its user interface has not
    yet been converted to Windows style.


2.60.09  17th Nov. 97

  o Although no auto-save operations are currently supported
    on Ranger2/Windows, some legacy DOS Ranger2 autosave
    code was accidentally included in the software build.
    This old autosave code could activate, and cause corruption
    of the design data in memory.
    Nothing was written to disk during the bogus autosave,
    so if the design had been previously saved to file,
    the saved copy remained unaffected if you closed the
    design without saving.

  o When a new design was created, the default artwork colour
    scheme set in the design was not necessarily the same
    as that introduced when the 'defaults' action was
    chosen in the artwork "View/Set colours" window.

  o There is now a colour guide box adjacent to each layer
    selection parameter in the artwork dialog bars.

  o The old artwork and autorouter layer colour / visibility
    editor has been replaced with a Windows dialog type
    popup editor.
    The wording in the "View" menu has been changed from
    "Set Colours" to "Layer Properties".


2.60.08  10th Nov. 97

  o Part placement gate/pin swap was reporting 'part not
    found on schematic' when it tried to perform schematic
    back annotation on exit.

  o Circuit device editor:  A bug was introduced at version
    2.60.07 that caused green lines to be left on the screen
    when adding or moving lines on a device outline.

  o The system is now able to load Ranger 1 designs.
    The method of design selection is the same as for DOS
    Ranger 2 jobs.  Just navigate to a Ranger 1 job directory
    and open the job.idx file.  Designs can then be selected
    from the popup name list.
    The system can also read Ranger 1 "defndl.vnn" circuit
    device libraries, defolb.olb master outline libraries
    and the Ranger 1 sizpc.def master parameters file.
    Your old Ranger 1 libraries may either be copied over
    the top of the installed master libraries, or you can
    change the path settings in File/System Setup to point
    to your old libraries.
    If you make any changes to the contents of these libraries
    from within Ranger2/Windows, the system will overwrite
    the old files with Ranger2/Windows format data.
    A warning will be issued first.

  o On exit from the master circuit library/outline library
    editors, the system would always rewrite the library
    even if no change had been made.

  o Circuit compiler:  The compiler sometimes produced
    "Ambiguous bus spur" error messages even when there were
    no bus width wires on the circuit.
    (Latent bug from DOS R2 source).

  o Circuit schematic editor/compiler:
    The circuit editor incorrectly permitted entry of signal
    names containing leading and/or trailing spaces.  This had
    the effect of making the compiler not join together nets
    that appeared to have identical names.
    Existing jobs affected by this problem will have the
    extraneous spaces stripped from their names on loadup.

  o Pen plotting of the circuit schematic was not operational.

  o It is now possible to print the drill sheet.  Previously,
    this could only be penplotted.
    To print the drill sheet, enter print preview mode from
    the artwork file/print menu item, choose 'Select' on the
    preview dialog bar, and then change the print type from
    "Artwork Layers" to "Drill Sheet".


2.60.07  3rd Nov. 97

  o When you close a design, the system will now only prompt
    you to save the design if it has actually been edited.
    Note: closing a design that was loaded as a DOS Ranger
    design will always prompt for saving to allow the
    opportunity to save in the new ".r2" file format.

  o When you entered, then exited the parts and wiring list
    editor, all fixed parts became unfixed.

  o PSpice output is now available from the File/Import-Export
    menu.

  o Entering the schematic editor corrupted the sizes table
    entries for Tracks size 0 & 1, and Pads size 0.

  o Circuit device library editor:  The tab key order in the
    power pins editor was wrong.

  o Circuit window copy mismanaged memory, leading to a corrupt
    schematic, or system crash.  The problem was dependant on
    the size of the schematic area selected for copy, and also
    on the number of pins on the selected symbols.

  o The autorouter failed on entry with a design that contained
    a large number of unroutes.

  o Corrected misspelt registered trademark name at the top of
    the Cooper & Chyan Technology router interface dialog.

  o Circuit device editor:  If you called up the power pin
    definition table for a device, and allocated a power pin
    with the same pin number as that currently displayed in
    the 'Next free pin number' box, then the next free pin
    number did not advance, and it was possible to then
    assign this power pin to one of the symbols pins causing
    an illegal duplicate assignment.
    
  o X/Y position readout is now available from within the
    circuit device library editor.

  o Circuit schematic editor:  It was impossible to see the
    contents of the part placement tray if the graphics mode
    selected had > 256 colours.

  o The print preview dialog toolbar has been squeezed so that
    all function buttons are visible when working at a screen
    resolution of 640x480. (At this resolution, the window must
    be maximised for all buttons to be visible)

  o It is now possible to save the design to file from within
    the artwork and circuit schematic editors.

  o When a DOS Ranger 2 design was loaded, non-electrical text
    on circuit schematic devices appeared at half height/length.

  o Circuit schematic/device library text strings were displayed
    longer than they were in the DOS version of Ranger2.

  o Artwork autorouter:  If you had drawn a copper fill boundary,
    then selected pan/zoom or reduce from the menu, the fill
    boundary would disappear as soon as you tried to select any
    other copper fill menu entry.

  o The Specctra router parameters saved with the 'Save Defaults'
    button were not being applied to newly created designs.

  o The Specctra router 'Run' and 'Run Interactive' buttons will
    now first perform an 'Export' action.
    Also, on completion an 'Import' action will be performed if
    the router was started with the 'Run' button.

  o The Specctra router was always looking for a routing design
    file named 'r2.dsn' regardless of the name entered in the
    'Work filenames' box.


2.60.06  27th Oct. 97

  o All circuit schematic related sections of the system failed
    if the circuit contained symbols with > 127 pins.

  o The circuit compiler sometimes crashed if your tried to
    compile immediately after deleting an existing parts and
    wiring list.

  o If you tried to enter the part placement program when no
    parts and wiring list existed, the screen briefly flashed
    and the system returned to the main job mode menu.  No
    error message was displayed.

  o Part placement crashed on startup if required outlines were
    missing, and the affected parts were referenced in the
    wiring list.  (Rework of fix in ver 2.60.05)

  o The track digitising parameters now get saved with the design.

  o Prior to version 2.60.05, the circuit schematic editor was
    storing signal names incorrectly for all pages other than
    page 1.  This made signal names seem to disappear from the
    schematic sheet.  The missing names were however still present
    inside the design database.
    This caused the following problems with the system :-
      
      o When circuits were compiled, signal names appeared
        on nets that had no visible name on the schematic sheet.

      o After deleting a wire from the schematic, the system
        could crash after panning/zooming the display.

    The system will now purge out these old lost signal names.

  o Artwork printing:  If you selected 'File/Print' immediately
    after entering the print preview mode, the artwork was printed
    with pads always filled, even if 'Show Drill Holes' was selected
    in the print setup panel.  After a preview Zoom operation, the
    pads were printed correctly.

  o If you selected the 'Close' system menu operation, the application
    closed down without warning, and no opportunity was given to
    save the design.
    The system Close operation will now invoke the same action as if
    the File menu 'Close' operation had been selected, thus giving
    the user the chance of saving the design.

  o It is now possible to write the Gerber Dcodes setup data info
    a text file, or print the data.

  o The 'Write Gerber Data' button has been removed from the
    Gerber output dialog panel, and the function has been moved to
    the 'File' menu that has been added to the top the of dialog.
    The new menu also contains the Dcodes filing/printing functions.

  o The Gerber dcode tables will now only permit the entry of
    dcode values in the range 10 - 255.

  o It is now possible to write the NC drill tape tool information
    into a text file, or print the data.

  o The 'Write Drill data' and 'Write Rout data' function buttons
    have been removed from the NC drill data dialog, and their
    functions can now be found in the 'File' menu which has been
    added to the drill data dialog.

  o The wiring list editor now highlights power signal names in blue.

  o Gate and pin swapping operations are now available from within
    the part placement editor.

  o The system did not set the focus to the main work window when
    entering the various editors.  This had the effect of making
    keyboard shortcut keys (eg. 'R' for part rotate, 'G' for grid)
    not appear to work until the mouse had been clicked once inside
    the window.

  o The system did not correctly store text items added as non-
    electrical text in the circuit editor, or as free text in
    the artwork editor.  This caused sporadic characters to be
    displayed at the end of the text string.
    The problem only affected text strings that had an exact
    multiple of 4 characters.

  o All circuit schematic Window routines are now available with
    the exception of Macro generation.

  o If you maximised the window while in any of the editors,
    the grid did not cover all the screen.
    Note that in some view scales, there may still be screen areas
    where the grid is not drawn, The grid is never drawn outside
    the normal 32.2" x 32.2" work area.

  o When the parts & wiring list editor starts up, it will now
    display the cursor winking at the first entry position.

  o Circuit schematic editor, Symbol/Find function :
    If the found symbol was on a different circuit page to that
    on display when the command was invoked, then the page number
    displayed in the page select control did not change.
 
  o Part renumbering program:  If you hit return or cursor down
    after entering a new part number for the last part in the
    parts list, the new number was not applied to the part.
    It was necessary to cursor up, or click another part to force
    the new value to be applied.


2.60.05  20th Oct. 97

  o It is now possible to select Inch/Metric mode of working
    from the main menubar 'Edit' menu.
    In addition, units can be changed while in the sizes editor.

  o Added print facility to the size editor.

  o 'Digitise remaining' function failed because it did not
    correctly load the traced artwork data.

  o The circuit schematic library editor could fail at startup.
    (Wiring data unwanted export to wrong memory blocks)

  o Circuit schematic device library editor:
    Added device delete. device duplicate, copy to/from master
    and create new master volume functions.

  o Artwork window delete crashed if the selected layer
    became empty after the delete operation.

  o Some error and warning messages are only shown for a
    short timed period.  Their display time has been increased
    to 2 seconds.

  o Round ended finger pads were the wrong length in artwork print
    and print preview.

  o Circuit schematic editor wrongly allowed the entry of signal
    names in lower case.

  o The part placement program failed to detect parts for which
    no outline was available.  This caused the system to crash
    as soon as an attempt was made to place the part.

  o Part placement part move mode:  The total net length for a
    part is now shown after a part is placed in its new position.
    The "Click on a part to be moved" prompt is now only show
    once when the operation is first selected.

  o Gerber photoplot:  Request for the 'Enter' key to close the
    dialog box as per normal Windows program behaviour.

  o Autorouter and copper fill parameters now get saved with the
    design.

  o Default autorouter and copper fill parameters can now be edited
    from the Edit/SystemDefaults menu.  These parameters are
    stored in the master parameters file and applied to all newly
    created designs.

  o The artwork and circuit schematic print setup (ie. scale,
    position etc.) now get saved with the design.  (The last
    printed circuit page number is not currently saved)

  o Circuit schematic editor:  Signal names were not saved
    correctly.  This caused them to vanish from any page other
    than page 1.

  o The system temporary directory became cluttered with undeleted
    temporary files.

  o The part renumber program did not back annotate to the circuit
    schematic.

  o Outline editor 'delete unused outlines' function now shows the
    number of outlines that were actually deleted.

  o The part rotation value could not be seen on the parts list
    printout because the column had been positioned too far to the
    right (off the edge of the page).


2.60.04  13th Oct. 97

  o Circuit symbols sometimes disappeared after they were placed.
    Occurance of the problem was dependant on the pin count on
    the symbols being placed. (eg. placing a 7420 would cause
    a failure, 7400 would be ok).
    Cause: incorrect symbol pin allocation block padding.

  o The company name was missing from the Copyright message in the
    about box.

  o Outline editor now has outline duplicate, copy to/from master,
    outline rename and outline purge functions implemented.

  o There was a possiblity that the crcuit editor could display
    symbol text horizontally displaced from its real position.

  o The circuit device editor now shows symbol text at its correct
    size.

  o Circuit device editor 'rotate free text' function did not work.

  o Circuit schematic editor: symbol pins were not erased when you
    moved symbols.


2.60.03  8th Oct 97

  o If you loaded a design with a schematic, closed the design, then
    created a new empty design and tried to save it without entering
    the schematic editor, the system would crash.

  o Request for the license key code to not be displayed in the
    registration information window when the program starts up.

  o The device librarian power pin editor now forces power
    pin names to upper case.

  o The circuit schematic compiler and parts/wiring list editor
    did not set an identity code on wiring list nets.
    (This caused the autorouter to short everything together)


2.60.02  6th Oct 97

  o Preliminary release.


