Version 4.1 Details

Version 4.1 Details

Nature's Pulse upgrade details

VERSION 4.1 UPDATES/ENHANCEMENTS
Listed below are the changes, enhancements and fixes for version 4.1 of
Nature's Pulse:

Build 1
December, 2000

Runtime error 200 on 200Mhz machines or faster was eliminated

Year 2000 compatibility added for data formats

ASCII dates can now accept the following new formats:
        MMDDYYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, DDMMYYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, YYYYMMDD, YYYY/MM/DD
        Old format files with a 2-digit year can still be used and should
            now work properly for date calculations like F4, or jumping to
            specific date (F9)

 METASTOCK format up to version 6.52 can be read for Y2K format including
        XMASTER extension for up to 2000 data files, not the old 255 limit

 CSI format updated for year 2000 format
	Also changed to reflect new extensions in data format which caused some
	indexes to display incorrectly

WORDEN/TC2000 format supported (up to Version 3 format)
Version 4 data must be exported to Version 3 to work properly

AIQ format supported with Trading Expert v5.0

ENSIGN format supported for Versions 5 & 6, and Ensign Windows

FUTURE SOURCE format supported

PRO format supported

DOW JONES format supported

TECHTOOLS works, but ongoing data availability unknown at this time

GENERAL DATE LOGIC FIXES:

Fixed data display when displaying different time format (F3), it did
     not show years back to 1900 correctly

All input date prompts and output dates on reports have been changed to
     show a four digit year

F4 date difference calculation has been fixed to show proper elapsed time

F9 Goto date has been corrected to jump to proper date
     Requires four digit year input now instead of two digits

Now assumes default DOP file for Metastock V6.x data if none are present
        Assumes 7 field Daily format(Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Vol,OI)
        Assumes 8 field Intraday format(Date,Time,Open,High,Low,Close,Vol,OI)

Logic error messages for Invalid High, Low, Close added to output report
        during check for missing holiday dates:
        (Close must be between high and low price,
        High must be greater than low, etc.)

Total hits and percentage for each date on AUTOSCAN report added

File directory list is now sorted when selecting new file path

Open File window now starts at beginning of the file list

Directory search has been fixed to show readonly directories

When doing Studies and selecting "Clear Screen", it now defaults to stay
        where you are located and not jump to the end of the data file

Maximum bars you can see on a forecast going forward has been increased
        from 500 to 750

Corrected error when over 64000 records are present for Future Source file

Price status line now displays 7 characters, not 6 on data line,
        meaning 2 decimals places now show on S&P charts

Added missing date index number on time cluster reports for cycle A,B,D

When selecting F9-Go to date, the cursor is positioned at the center date

Nature's Pulse version number has been added to header line

Screen display error and occasional system lockup corrected
       during selecting ERRORS.PRN Overwrite/Append option

Font style changed to more modern look to allow better readability

Build 2,3
February, 2001

Metastock Version 7 data format can be read directly up to the 2000 file limit

Holiday file updated with dates from 1968-2002

Build 4,5,6
March, 2001

Fixed minor spacing display error for AIQ, CSI, Metastock, ASCII, and APEX

Re-activated function to compute summary volume on non-daily charts

Volume display added back to non-daily status line

Corrected error on Metastock files without a DOP file

Build 7
May, 2001

Added two new options to export date and time clusters to disk file

Build 8
July, 2001

Added YYYY/MM/DD as additional ASCII date format

Build 9
January, 2002

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Minor fix to Metastock 5 field format
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Build 10
July, 2010

Metastock file format (DOP) checks for mixed case vs. only upper case

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Executable compiled into one EXE file
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Status line display during print updated for copyright 2010

Include ability to run in Vista and Windows 7

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Nature's Pulse will run in Windows based environments.