ARGUS 4.0 Revisions:

Apart from the changes shown below, there have been made corrections and additions to the XLI script interpeter. These changes are not described here as they are quite technical and of less interest for most users.

revision 1 (released 2. feb 2005)

revision 2 (released 15. feb 2005)

• Moon's node no longer missing on anglian style chartwheel.

revision 3 (released 27. mar 2005)

• User defined entries in the additional gazetteer now handles south latitude and west longitude.
• The restore option in the backup menu can now overwrite existing files

revision 4 (released 31. mar 2005)

• Fixed an error introduced in revision 3 making the program crash if you entered a city, which were not found in the atlas.
• Fixed an error which produced a program crash if you entered a blank field for longitude or latitude.
• Labels in script generated menus will not longer be cropped if they are too long.

revision 5:

• Fixed an error in the livechart, which produced aspect lines pointing to an empty position (chiron).
• Fixed the button size in the license code dialog and the backup dialog.
• Fixed script interpreter, so that it is now immune to ESC (27) codes in the text
  

revision 6: (released 9. jun 2005)

• Fixed a timeout in the module installation, which made it sometimes fail when installing slow .exe files.
• Clockchart (key U) is now temporarily disabled when running the livechart to avoid conflict between them.

revision 7

• Livechart not longer slowed down by data in the output window.
• Continuation line backslashes now works across $ paragraphs in script files
  

revision 8 (released 7. jul 2005)

• Scripts with EXEC (calling external programs) now less prone to crash

revision 9 (released 23. okt 2006)

• Det er ikke længere nødvendigt at klikke OK før man "blader" i dobbelt-input fanebladene i data-input menuen.
• Klik på x øverst til højre i udskriftvinduet sletter nu vinduets indhold
• Orbisværdier i orbis-sæt definitionerne er rettet så minutterne ikke længere misfortolkes
• You do no longer need to click OK before swithing tabs in the dual-entry input mode.
• Clicking the upper-right x in the output window now clears the output content.
• Orb values in the orbset definitions no longer misinterpret the minutes of arc
  

revision 10 (released 20. mar 2006)

• Livechart now shows BC dates correctly
• Livechart now calculates the age correctly for BC dates
• Fixed a Floating point error arising if you separate radix and forecast more than 4082 years.
• Fixed error in the script engine, making the forecaster interperetation exit prematurely at Chiron aspects.
• Aspect grid no longer cuts the text below the graph when Chiron is included.
• Livechart bookmarks now survive exit and restart of the the livechart window as long as you do not change the birthdata.
• City names entered in the intput menu will now be saved in the database together with the data.
• If one of two planets in an orbset definition has the orb set to 0-00, aspects to this planet will not appear, even if the combine rule is set to max or mean. To make this work, you need to set the config swtich 11 to 1 (with the macro $1 11 CONFX).
• Orbspeed is now shown correctly even if the speed is zero (eg. neither applying or separating)
• The macro "+" inserting data in the database is fixed, so that it works as it did in Argus 3.1. Users of the Correx plugin will appreciate that the module now works better in the "universal method" mode.
• The font dialog in "preferences" now shows the actual fontsize rather than always 10.

revision 11 (released 8. jan 2007)

• Slow start: Earlier versions sometimes paused with a blank rectangle when loading, in some cases even hung completely, due to a nonresponse from other open applications to a new-font broadcast. This has been fixed so that Argus is no longer waiting for response before continuing.

revision 12 (released 5. mar 2007)

• Pagenumbers are now written "page xx" rather than "page xx of yy". You may however have the expanded version, if you edit line 1108 (first line is 0) in the language definition file (language.cfg), and insert a template called "page %d of %d". The first %d translate into current page number, and the second (if present) into total number of pages.
• The language definition file is added to the "edit system variables" in the preferences menu. Scroll down the 500 system variables, and you will find the language definitions following. Editing and updating a line will write the changes to disk, whereas the system variables only change temporarily until you click PREFERENCES > SAVE TO DISK.
• A bug in the aspect calculation routine is fixed. If you chose large orbs and small aspects, this could sometimes result in missing major aspects, if an aspect angle was closer to a minor aspect (but outside orb) than to a major aspect (inside orb), it would be rejected. This is now fixed and all aspects within the defined orbs are written.
• It is now possible to make a printout of the database WITH notes, if you click the print-button with the RIGHT-MOUSE button.
• The pop-up menu in the notes-entry field is changed, so that you can do a printout of the notes to the output window. Previously, you needed to do a tedious copy and paste procedure.
• If you, using a macro ($2 5 CONFX) to choose national abbreviations instead of symbols in the positions printout, the signs will now print with three-letter abbreviations instead of two, which could be ambiguous.

revision 13 (released 30. mar 2007)

• The help system is changed to HTML help to be vista compatible.
• The argus font pca-ansi.ttf is changed to a symbol font, the old version did not display the Sun and some Pluto and Uranus symbols in windows vista.

ARGUS 4.2 Revisions:

revision 20 (released 30. march 2010)

• New version 4.2.

revision 21 (released 1. may 2010)

• A floating-point error, sometimes arising when calculating Kündig sections fixed
• Fixed font problem in the positions panels in the live-chart, where on some computers the line spacing got too big to hold all lines, scrolling the Sun position off the panel.
• The old ver 4.0 showed aspects between angles in the live-chart. This "feature" was removed in ver 4.2, but unfortunately also aspects from transit and tertiaries to radix angles disappeared. This is now fixed.
• Fixed error in the start files of the interpretation templates for Synastry and Progressed.

• The interpetation editor will no longer crash, if it finds an XLI file had text after a $$$-line
• Progressed table now shows BC dates in correct order
• Atlas city lookup now works with accented letters
• Argus closedown no longer may show "cannot write to pca.ini"
• System variables with text lines including spaces can now be edited.
  

revision 23 (released  may 2017)

• The period accpting two-digit year input (formerly 1900-2000) can now be changed to another 100-year span. To cover e.g. 1930-2030, change the system variable 98 to 1930 (must be 1900 or greater)
  
• The info-boks shown under HELP>ABOUT now shows the Argus run-path (typically c:\argus)
  
• New house system (Krusinski) added.
• Live chart new checkbox to select heliocentric instead of geocentric positions. Sun and Moon positions then both show the position of Earth
• Progressed table now mark BC dates with BC.
• When installing modules, using the default 'List' for filename you will get a list of modules available from our download website to mark and go.
• When installing modules, entering a filename not found on your local PC, it will be looked up on our download page.
• When installing modules, you may specify a single XLI file, it does not need to be packaged witha .DEF file.
• File menus now bette remembers your last acces folder
• Dynamic transit graphs now works with BC dates
• The status bar at the bottom of screen letting you toggle between output and control, now works properly
• The icons on the function panel are better secured, and will appear immidiatelly when restored from backup
• Live chart now correctly shows aspects from transit, tertiary and solar arc to radix angles
• Live chart fixed risk of "division by zero" error when operating the time sliders
• When opening live chart horary (todays date) will remove all marks in forecast checkboxes.
• Relationship chart now shows names correctly
• Added field in the F-key definitions to enter a macro to automatically run at program start
• Running Argus from command line with parameter -n will ignore any automatic startup macro or auto.xli.
  

revision 24 (released jan 2019)

• Daylight saving time tables updated, for example Russia aborted DST a few years ago
• Live chart checkbox setting for radix MC/AC saved at close
• Downloading a corrupted zip file (module) now produces a message
• Now possible to restore a namefile without first closing its tab
• Namefile tabs show full path if file is outside the Argus folder
  
• Install module, if filename entered not found, it will be searched on the EE website
• Install module download ignores cache, previously, you might get an old version saved on your computer
• American style date input now works properly with namefile, which previously might swap day and month
• Namefile sort by birthdate now works with older namefiles having spaces replacing leading zeroes
• Selecting a city in Atlas lookup now accepts double-click instead of the need to click OK
• Output window now lets you save and load .txt and .xli files
• If Argus at load time finds the configuration (pca.cfg) corrupted, it will give you a message and try finding a useable backup or as a lase resort, a factory setting one from the repair folder
• F-key definitions has an added field at the bottom to enter a startup macro to run automatically when Argus loads.
  

revision 27 (released october 2023)

• Live chart slider: Hold down both mouse buttons and slide to move the time scale left or right
• Live chart slider: use the mouse wheel to change the time scale zoom factor
• Change the order of database tabs by drag and drop
• Aspect table orbs for house cusps fixed to show applying or separating correctly
• Namefile insert: The top button inserts data at the marked position instead of the one below
• Multiple windows work easier for showing two or more outputs side-by-side
• Live chart world map can now be displaced by click and drag, not super fast though. With the mouse-wheel the map can be zoomed in and out
• Search city option added to live chart
• The function manager now sorts the function names alphabetically
• Module installation has an additional button for testing a module without instlaling
• A new hous system added hsysx. Whole sign houses with zero degrees of the ascending sign to the left. Both MC and ASC are thus detached from the house cusps
• Opening a non-existant namefile is no longer possible
• New Atlas database (TZ) replacing the earlier ACS atlas. The user will not notice much difference though. The number of included cities are a bit lower, but still close to 200.000 cities selected by population above 500. Capitals are shown in UPPERCASE to make them easier to spot. Most cities are listed by population if more than one city with the same name are found, making it easier to select the right one.
        There may be a few cases, where timezone/daylight saving time differs from the ACS data. For years after 1970 the TZ should be the most reliable, before 1970 TZ is normally somewhat faulty, the edition for Argus has been edited quite a bit, so it should be more the 99% correct. For times on the date where daylight saving is switched on or off, the time can be uncertain. Mostly a shift time of 2 am is used, still you may not know if a birthtime at night on a shift date is including DST or not

• Error fixed: House system WholeSignHouses used with the Live chart showed the planets and houses displaced (rotated) in the outer circle (Forecast)
• The name WholeSignHouses now replace the generic "hsysx"
• The extra chartwheel module including dwarf planets is now installed automatically, also when updating Argus.
  

ARGUS 4.0 Revisions:

Apart from the changes shown below, there have been made corrections and additions to the XLI script interpeter. These changes are not described here as they are quite technical and of less interest for most users.

revision 1 (released 2. feb 2005)

revision 2 (released 15. feb 2005)

• Moon's node no longer missing on anglian style chartwheel.

revision 3 (released 27. mar 2005)

• User defined entries in the additional gazetteer now handles south latitude and west longitude.
• The restore option in the backup menu can now overwrite existing files

revision 4 (released 31. mar 2005)

• Fixed an error introduced in revision 3 making the program crash if you entered a city, which were not found in the atlas.
• Fixed an error which produced a program crash if you entered a blank field for longitude or latitude.
• Labels in script generated menus will not longer be cropped if they are too long.

revision 5:

• Fixed an error in the livechart, which produced aspect lines pointing to an empty position (chiron).
• Fixed the button size in the license code dialog and the backup dialog.
• Fixed script interpreter, so that it is now immune to ESC (27) codes in the text
  

revision 6: (released 9. jun 2005)

• Fixed a timeout in the module installation, which made it sometimes fail when installing slow .exe files.
• Clockchart (key U) is now temporarily disabled when running the livechart to avoid conflict between them.

revision 7

• Livechart not longer slowed down by data in the output window.
• Continuation line backslashes now works across $ paragraphs in script files
  

revision 8 (released 7. jul 2005)

• Scripts with EXEC (calling external programs) now less prone to crash

revision 9 (released 23. okt 2006)

• Det er ikke længere nødvendigt at klikke OK før man "blader" i dobbelt-input fanebladene i data-input menuen.
• Klik på x øverst til højre i udskriftvinduet sletter nu vinduets indhold
• Orbisværdier i orbis-sæt definitionerne er rettet så minutterne ikke længere misfortolkes
• You do no longer need to click OK before swithing tabs in the dual-entry input mode.
• Clicking the upper-right x in the output window now clears the output content.
• Orb values in the orbset definitions no longer misinterpret the minutes of arc
  

revision 10 (released 20. mar 2006)

• Livechart now shows BC dates correctly
• Livechart now calculates the age correctly for BC dates
• Fixed a Floating point error arising if you separate radix and forecast more than 4082 years.
• Fixed error in the script engine, making the forecaster interperetation exit prematurely at Chiron aspects.
• Aspect grid no longer cuts the text below the graph when Chiron is included.
• Livechart bookmarks now survive exit and restart of the the livechart window as long as you do not change the birthdata.
• City names entered in the intput menu will now be saved in the database together with the data.
• If one of two planets in an orbset definition has the orb set to 0-00, aspects to this planet will not appear, even if the combine rule is set to max or mean. To make this work, you need to set the config swtich 11 to 1 (with the macro $1 11 CONFX).
• Orbspeed is now shown correctly even if the speed is zero (eg. neither applying or separating)
• The macro "+" inserting data in the database is fixed, so that it works as it did in Argus 3.1. Users of the Correx plugin will appreciate that the module now works better in the "universal method" mode.
• The font dialog in "preferences" now shows the actual fontsize rather than always 10.

revision 11 (released 8. jan 2007)

• Slow start: Earlier versions sometimes paused with a blank rectangle when loading, in some cases even hung completely, due to a nonresponse from other open applications to a new-font broadcast. This has been fixed so that Argus is no longer waiting for response before continuing.

revision 12 (released 5. mar 2007)

• Pagenumbers are now written "page xx" rather than "page xx of yy". You may however have the expanded version, if you edit line 1108 (first line is 0) in the language definition file (language.cfg), and insert a template called "page %d of %d". The first %d translate into current page number, and the second (if present) into total number of pages.
• The language definition file is added to the "edit system variables" in the preferences menu. Scroll down the 500 system variables, and you will find the language definitions following. Editing and updating a line will write the changes to disk, whereas the system variables only change temporarily until you click PREFERENCES > SAVE TO DISK.
• A bug in the aspect calculation routine is fixed. If you chose large orbs and small aspects, this could sometimes result in missing major aspects, if an aspect angle was closer to a minor aspect (but outside orb) than to a major aspect (inside orb), it would be rejected. This is now fixed and all aspects within the defined orbs are written.
• It is now possible to make a printout of the database WITH notes, if you click the print-button with the RIGHT-MOUSE button.
• The pop-up menu in the notes-entry field is changed, so that you can do a printout of the notes to the output window. Previously, you needed to do a tedious copy and paste procedure.
• If you, using a macro ($2 5 CONFX) to choose national abbreviations instead of symbols in the positions printout, the signs will now print with three-letter abbreviations instead of two, which could be ambiguous.

revision 13 (released 30. mar 2007)

• The help system is changed to HTML help to be vista compatible.
• The argus font pca-ansi.ttf is changed to a symbol font, the old version did not display the Sun and some Pluto and Uranus symbols in windows vista.

ARGUS 4.2 Revisions:

revision 20 (released 30. march 2010)

• New version 4.2.

revision 21 (released 1. may 2010)

• A floating-point error, sometimes arising when calculating Kündig sections fixed
• Fixed font problem in the positions panels in the live-chart, where on some computers the line spacing got too big to hold all lines, scrolling the Sun position off the panel.
• The old ver 4.0 showed aspects between angles in the live-chart. This "feature" was removed in ver 4.2, but unfortunately also aspects from transit and tertiaries to radix angles disappeared. This is now fixed.
• Fixed error in the start files of the interpretation templates for Synastry and Progressed.

• The interpetation editor will no longer crash, if it finds an XLI file had text after a $$$-line
• Progressed table now shows BC dates in correct order
• Atlas city lookup now works with accented letters
• Argus closedown no longer may show "cannot write to pca.ini"
• System variables with text lines including spaces can now be edited.
  

revision 23 (released  may 2017)

• The period accpting two-digit year input (formerly 1900-2000) can now be changed to another 100-year span. To cover e.g. 1930-2030, change the system variable 98 to 1930 (must be 1900 or greater)
  
• The info-boks shown under HELP>ABOUT now shows the Argus run-path (typically c:\argus)
  
• New house system (Krusinski) added.
• Live chart new checkbox to select heliocentric instead of geocentric positions. Sun and Moon positions then both show the position of Earth
• Progressed table now mark BC dates with BC.
• When installing modules, using the default 'List' for filename you will get a list of modules available from our download website to mark and go.
• When installing modules, entering a filename not found on your local PC, it will be looked up on our download page.
• When installing modules, you may specify a single XLI file, it does not need to be packaged witha .DEF file.
• File menus now bette remembers your last acces folder
• Dynamic transit graphs now works with BC dates
• The status bar at the bottom of screen letting you toggle between output and control, now works properly
• The icons on the function panel are better secured, and will appear immidiatelly when restored from backup
• Live chart now correctly shows aspects from transit, tertiary and solar arc to radix angles
• Live chart fixed risk of "division by zero" error when operating the time sliders
• When opening live chart horary (todays date) will remove all marks in forecast checkboxes.
• Relationship chart now shows names correctly
• Added field in the F-key definitions to enter a macro to automatically run at program start
• Running Argus from command line with parameter -n will ignore any automatic startup macro or auto.xli.
  

revision 24 (released jan 2019)

• Daylight saving time tables updated, for example Russia aborted DST a few years ago
• Live chart checkbox setting for radix MC/AC saved at close
• Downloading a corrupted zip file (module) now produces a message
• Now possible to restore a namefile without first closing its tab
• Namefile tabs show full path if file is outside the Argus folder
  
• Install module, if filename entered not found, it will be searched on the EE website
• Install module download ignores cache, previously, you might get an old version saved on your computer
• American style date input now works properly with namefile, which previously might swap day and month
• Namefile sort by birthdate now works with older namefiles having spaces replacing leading zeroes
• Selecting a city in Atlas lookup now accepts double-click instead of the need to click OK
• Output window now lets you save and load .txt and .xli files
• If Argus at load time finds the configuration (pca.cfg) corrupted, it will give you a message and try finding a useable backup or as a lase resort, a factory setting one from the repair folder
• F-key definitions has an added field at the bottom to enter a startup macro to run automatically when Argus loads.
  

revision 27 (released october 2023)

• Live chart slider: Hold down both mouse buttons and slide to move the time scale left or right
• Live chart slider: use the mouse wheel to change the time scale zoom factor
• Change the order of database tabs by drag and drop
• Aspect table orbs for house cusps fixed to show applying or separating correctly
• Namefile insert: The top button inserts data at the marked position instead of the one below
• Multiple windows work easier for showing two or more outputs side-by-side
• Live chart world map can now be displaced by click and drag, not super fast though. With the mouse-wheel the map can be zoomed in and out
• Search city option added to live chart
• The function manager now sorts the function names alphabetically
• Module installation has an additional button for testing a module without instlaling
• A new hous system added hsysx. Whole sign houses with zero degrees of the ascending sign to the left. Both MC and ASC are thus detached from the house cusps
• Opening a non-existant namefile is no longer possible
• New Atlas database (TZ) replacing the earlier ACS atlas. The user will not notice much difference though. The number of included cities are a bit lower, but still close to 200.000 cities selected by population above 500. Capitals are shown in UPPERCASE to make them easier to spot. Most cities are listed by population if more than one city with the same name are found, making it easier to select the right one.
        There may be a few cases, where timezone/daylight saving time differs from the ACS data. For years after 1970 the TZ should be the most reliable, before 1970 TZ is normally somewhat faulty, the edition for Argus has been edited quite a bit, so it should be more the 99% correct. For times on the date where daylight saving is switched on or off, the time can be uncertain. Mostly a shift time of 2 am is used, still you may not know if a birthtime at night on a shift date is including DST or not

• Error fixed: House system WholeSignHouses used with the Live chart showed the planets and houses displaced (rotated) in the outer circle (Forecast)
• The name WholeSignHouses now replace the generic "hsysx"
• The extra chartwheel module including dwarf planets is now installed automatically, also when updating Argus.