jDip version 0.95 [May 2003]

New Features

• Drag-and-Drop can be used to enter orders (Colin Jacobs)
• Edit mode improvements (Colin Jacobs)
• Animate mode allows turn-by-turn animation of the map
• Influence setting in View menu shows all occupied/last-occupied provinces by power
• Order format (e.g., abbreviations of provinces, coasts, etc.) can be set and adjusted in Preferences
• Help System added (F1 to get help generally, or about specific windows). Note that Help text is not yet complete, and not all windows have specific help.
• New variants (with complete, detailed maps)
  • SailHo! Crowded
  • Hundred3.1 [H31]
  • Hundred3.2 [H32]
• New variants (with very spartan grid-maps) added:
  • Asia
  • Modern (with and without Wing units)
• A new type of unit, the Wing unit, is now optionally available for any variant.
• Games now saved as compressed XML, and incompatible with previous versions (sorry!)
• Improved order parsing
  • Some common misspellings added
  • Even more variations of orders are now legally accepted
• improved command-line parsing and new command-line options (such as enabling logging, getting the version, and setting the variant plugin path)
• Java Webstart is now supported
• Waive orders are no longer supported.
• Better support for Mac OS X-specific features, which have not yet been tested. These may be disabled via the “-noosx” command line parameter. Comments from Mac users are very much desired!
• Save Game and Variant file format documentation
• Started scattered localization in French.

  GUI changes / improvements

• “Reports” menu added; report items were previously under “View” menu.
• Removed “Validate XML files” from preferences (could cause buggy behavior when enabled); it is now a command-line option instead.
• Improved text rendering quality in many places.
• Improved error dialogs (text and formatting)
• Shortcut changes (control R = resolve, control E = results)
• New startup splash screen (Joeri Clayes)

  Bug Fixes

• Fixed: TestSuite now uses “variant” directory, so it actually works
• Fixed: Remove orders drawn in wrong area
• Fixed: Retreat orders drawn in wrong area
• Fixed: No text displayed in game-end dialog
• Fixed: Formatting and display issues in Status report
• Fixed: Remove order results displayed negative units to remove
• Fixed: View settings (e.g., Show Units) were not disabled during map loading, and could result in an inconsistent menu / actual drawing state if selected.
• Fixed: If a required variant was missing, there was a program error. Now, an informative error message is displayed.
• Fixed: Handling of uncaught AWT exceptions, for easier end-user debugging
• Fixed: 1898 now starts in Spring, 1898 with fixed positions
• Fixed: SVG private XML namespace well-formedness issues
• Fixed: If no move orders (or no units), adjudicator would emit paradox messages (although no paradox existed).
• Fixed: supply center for Portugal wasn’t drawn on topological map
• Fixed: Confusing error message about DefineState orders
• Fixed: Creating a Dislodged unit on the first turn caused an exception
• Fixed: Occasional display bugs when entering/exiting Highlight Unordered units mode

  Core changes

• Multiple Performance enhancements to core adjudication routines, for optimal speed in automated adjudicators. This results in a 15-30% performance increase from version 0.85, the previously fastest version. This release will now become the new baseline performance release.
• JUnit tests added for non-GUI code (Mike Rosseel)
• Much faster Position class, and position class API changes
• New field and changes to Position and Position.ProvinceData classes
• Province class API changes
• Improved Path.getMinPath() algorithm
• Phase class API changes to support YearType
• YearType class added to Phase (to support negative, or “BC”, years)
• Reduced adjudicator String creation
• Improved API documentation
• Assertions enabled in ANT “Run” target
• dip.misc.Convert to help convert Judge files to jDip XML adjacency format
• dip.misc.Log class can now log to a file in addition to stdout
• jcmdline (jcmdline.sf.net) is now used to parse command line options
• New Coast constant (Coast.WING, aka Coast.TOUCHING) added
• Coast.TOUCHING (Coast.WING) created automatically from adjacency graph
• Coast.TOUCHING used for for Path.getMinPath() and Province.isTouching()
• New Unit.Type: WING
• New validation tests added (wing.txt, 19 cases) for Wing units
• New validation test harness for OrderParser created
• Utils.SimpleFileFilter is now in its own class (dip.misc.SimpleFileFilter)
• CSS stylesheets can be – and now are – used in JEditorPane instances
• Many new ANT targets: webstart, test, performance, and junit targets

  Miscellaneous

• File-format incompatibility with all prevous versions. Games are now saved as gzip compressed XML, instead of a proprietary binary format. All future versions will also save files as compressed XML, and cross-version compatibility should be considerably improved.

  jDip version 0.90 [February 2003]

  New features

• Rudimentary order drawing!
• Persistent Undo/Redo! All orders, edits, and resolves may be undone, even across multiple saves.
• Orders can now be hidden on a per-power basis
• New view option: Highlight units without orders (not all maps support this feature)
• Small drags (< 5 pixels) are now interpreted as clicks; this improves perceived responsiveness
• Splash screen at startup
• Support for convoyable coasts (used in Ancient Med variant)
• Concept of ‘borders’ added, which can enhance/restrict/condition orders and allow more variant support
• Added 2 new variants: “Crowded 1898” and “Shift Around”.
• Support (using a non-topological grid map) for Ancient Med and Loeb9 variants. Note that Loeb9 is not fully supported in this release.

  GUI changes / improvements

• GUI order input now respects order checking options settings This enables/disables real-time checking of order legality
• GUI order input now respects convoyable coasts
• GUI order input now has better checking of support orders
• GUI order input now respects Borders (if applicable)
• Improved text formatting in order list
• Full internationalization support for status bar text
• Faster open/save dialog performance
• Custom cursor used for bad order input; now consistent across platforms
• Filenames are suggested when saving and exporting
• ESC key will always abort the GUI entry of an order
• Improved ability to cancel orders with mouse
• Improved order status and prompting in statusbar messages
• Improved traditional map thumbnail image
• Improved show/hide supply centers option
• New error messsage indicating if there is a version incompatibility when opening save game (.jdip) files.
• Property table in Help|About now non-focusable
• Game & Player info moved to View menu, and dialog made larger.
• Standard variant is now the default in the New Game dialog
• Multiple-Order input now properly handles pasted orders with (* *) style Judge order notes
• Status, Results, and Info dialogs now non-modal
• Improved Results and Status dialog content formatting
• Misc. dialog size adjustments
• Renamed “Order Validation” to “Order Checking” in menus and dialogs
• During render (drawing) events, the right-corner of the Status bar will display “Rendering”

  Bug fixes

• Fixed: TestSuite was not using defined RuleOptions
• Fixed: Armies occasionally had coastal destinations in the order list
• Fixed: Orders are now rechecked when Order Checking Options have changed.
• Fixed: Supply center / Order highlighting display bugs
• Fixed: Game Web Address not being saved in Game & Player Info dialog
• Fixed: Directories were not shown in Open & Save dialogs
• Fixed: Most-recently-used file list bugs
• Fixed: Accelerator/shortcut key issues
• Fixed: Galicia not clickable on detailed Standard map
• Fixed: Select All in some dialogs didn’t always highlight
• Fixed: Many scrolling bugs

  Core changes

• Private XML namespace added to variant SVG files for more sensible customization
• API Documentation improvements and updates
• Build.xml “Clean” and “Install” targets added (Mike Rosseel). “Install” target requires downloading the IzPack installer
• DATC test case maps now are in a separate variant file (testVariants.zip)
• Significant refactoring
  • judge.parser.OrderParser renamed to JudgeOrderParser
  • dip.order.Orderable interface created
  • dip.order.Order implements Orderable interface
  • Order subclasses have better method abstraction
  • renamed Order method getSourceUnit() to getSourceUnitType()
  • dip.gui.order package created for GUI Order input and order drawing
  • OrderFactory is now a true Factory. All orders must be created through an OrderFactory.
  • OrderParser now performs Order parsing.

    Miscellaneous

• Test cases added for Ice variant (DATC secion 12)
• Test cases added for Convoyable coasts (DATC section 13)
• Test cases added for Chaos variant (DATC section 15)
• Test cases added for 1898 variant (DATC section 16)
• Saved games are not compatible with previous version (version 0.86).
• Order drawing will continue to improve throughout subsequent versions, both in style and in speed.
• Difficult passable borders, used in some variants (e.g., Loeb9) are not yet supported.
• For those requiring rapid adjudication (no GUI), please note that version 0.85 remains the baseline perfomance release. This version has an approximately 7-8% performance deficit compared to version 0.85. Performance optimizations will be addressed in future versions.

  jDip version 0.86 [November 2002]

  Core changes

• Tightened specs/implementation for Coast.normalize()
• Parser can now accommodate power names with hyphens
• Subtle i18n ResourceBundle loading bug fixed
• Updated build.xml
• StatusBar now has an optional ProgressBar
• Significant changes to GUI classes for mode (e.g., edit, review) handling
• RuleOptions serialization bug fix

  GUI changes / improvements

• “Revert” is now “Best Fit”.
• “Best Fit” to window automatically occurs when map is loaded
• Map Info changed to Variant Info in menu
• Improved text/layout in New Game dialog
• Changing & loading maps no longer causes window resizing
• Size of order-entry panel now constant
• Convoyed-move validation option off by default
• Progress Bar now shown when loading maps
• Faster open/save file dialog performance
• User is now clearly informed when victory conditions have been met

  Bug fixes

• Parser fix with coasts and hyphenated Move orders
• Parenthetical coast parsing bug fix
• Fixed two ^S menu options
• Fixed Baltic Sea unit placement on Detailed map
• Fixed bug with victory conditions during move phase

  New features

• New vector-based map (“Traditional”) (Joe Campbell)
• SailHo! (version 2) Variant added
• Pure Variant added
• Chaos Variant added
• Rule Options tab in New Game dialog
• “Build” Rule option (e.g., chaos rules, etc).
• Rule options displayed in Variant info.
• Dutch translation started (Mike Rosseel)

  Miscellaneous

• N/A

  jDip version 0.85 [October 2002]

  Core changes

• Performance & style optimizations to non-GUI core classes
• Added versioning to some classes which were forgotten about previously….
• Considerable adjudicator/adjudicator core classes performance optimizations
• Assertions now used in many core classes: enable assertions when debugging!
• Tool plugin management via dip.tool package
• Core changes in SVG DOM render classes
• Simplified SVG Map format, especially positioning metadata
• SVG metadata parsing code now simpler and more robust
• SVG settings can allow supply centers symbols to change colors with changed ownership
• SVG maps can specify zoom amount and min/max zoom limits
• Reorganized resources to better support internationalization
• More internationalization support
• Build.xml updates, auto-build of variant file packs. ANT 1.5 or later is now required.
• Variant packs may end with “Variant.zip” as well as “Variants.zip” (and .jar or .zip is acceptable)
• Added RuleOptions class to enable future rule options

  GUI changes / improvements

• View previous turn results menu shortcut is ^T
• Improved Save Changes dialog
• “Gentler” zoom/pan; now defaults to 20% increments
• Topological map has improved simple units
• Improved Topological Map layout
• “Selected Orders Only” menu option removed from View
• Considerably improved mouse support in GUI map
• Scrollbars added to metadata notes
• Improved status/ajudication result dialog titles
• Adjustments and Dislodged units now reported in Turn Status summary

  Bug fixes

• Revalidate order menu shortcut is now ^D instead of ^R (conflicted with Results menu item)
• Fixed multiple-order-entry dialog result text message
• Fixed debug text written to stdout for convoy orders entered via GUI
• Fixed TestSuite memory leak
• Fixed map XML validation issues
• Fixed New Game dialog map selection thumbnail list and scrolling problems
• Fixed il8n resource localization bugs
• Fixed order entry bug using “->” for moves without whitespace before the “->”
• Fixed history-menu update bug post edit mode
• Fixed all known adjudicator bugs

  New features

• TestSuite now supports variants.
• Drag-and-Drop support: drag files (.jdip or judge files) to be opened
• Plugin interface for add-on tools [that can do almost anything!] now supported
• Ability to change map view (View | Select Map) [if multiple maps are available]
• Key shortcuts for View and Order mode; (but not edit mode), when mouse is over map
• New Map: “Simple” Standard map [Vector based]
• New Map: “Detailed” Standard map [Bitmap & Vector based]

  Miscellaneous

• Users that need rapid (tens of thousands of orders per second) adjudication (for use in, say, developing computer “AI” opponents) will see a tremendous performance improvement in this release.
• Saved games from version 0.83 should be compatible with this release.
• An early vector-based version of the SailHo! variant is now available as a separate download
• Targetted Future Features: Order Drawing, New Variants, Renderer speed improvements
• Only the Windows installer has been tested; please let me know how the installer works on other platforms

  jDip version 0.83 [September 2002]

  Core changes

• Revised core Undo/Redo support manager
• il8n support of undo/redo menu text
• New result type: TimeResult (a time-stamped, time-localized text result message)
• New result type: DislodgedResult (for creating dislodged results w/defined retreat locations)
• Changed how order resolution is flagged in TurnState
• Batik 1.5b4b libraries included
• Serializable object versioning added for all serialized objects and subclasses
• Updated code documentation in several places
• Core Judge input parsing modules complete.

  GUI changes / improvements

• If a file in the most-recently-used file list does not exist, it is now grayed out.
• Dislodged checkbox in Edit mode now disabled if Supply center selected.
• View Result menu item disabled when no adjudication results are available.
• Order sorting buttons have an improved layout, and toggle indication.
• Order list is now always sorted
• Edit mode improved: better visual indication and revalidation of orders with each edit
• Edit/Review/Game End indicator now on status bar for less visual disruption between modes
• Edit mode: must first remove an existing unit before a new unit can be placed in the same province

  Bug fixes

• 1898 variant XML configuration file fixed; now identical to Ken Lowe judge 1898 variant.
• Fixed XML variant parser bug involving supply center ownership/home-power-ownership.
• Adjudication during adjustment phase with no orders for any power resulted in no result creation, and subsequent GUI confusion with respect to resolution status
• Fixed bug in Phase.java, leading to incorrect phase advancement in saved games.
• Fixed bug in Position.java leading to incorrect power elimination
• Fixed bugs w/parsing in Coast.java and Map.java; Map.parseLocation() is now more robust
• Fixed rapid clicking in edit mode created improper/duplicate edits
• Fixed World.java getPreviousTurnState() & getNextTurnState() bugs
• Fixed subtle bug in Location.java and updated documentation
• Fixed filename / gamename titlebar display bugs

  New features

• Support for reading Judge History files, and creating an entire game and game history
• Support for reading Judge Game Listing files (creates a starting phase)
• Advanced Undo/Redo: all orders, edit mode changes, and adjudication (order resolution) changes are undoable
• Clear most-recently-used file list option in preferences.
• “Save Copy As…” command added (saves game to another file, without changing currently open file).
• If a power does not use all available builds, unused builds are noted in the adjustment adjudication results.
• “View | Previous Turn Results” allows viewing adjudication results from previous turn, if available.
• Adjudication Complete timestamp now created

  Miscellaneous

• Saved games from 0.80 are not compatible. However, the file format should now be stable and quite future-proof from this version on, barring any major changes to the save game format. Older files will be automagically upgraded when read in by future versions.
• Mouse Clicking: if experiencing trouble registering mouse clicks, make sure that the mouse is not moving (at all!) when clicking; all moves-with-clicks are interpreted as a Drag and not a Click. An attempt to fix this will be made in a future version. Drag-and-drop of units may also be supported in a more distant future version.

  jDip version 0.80 [August 2002]

  Core changes

• Improved XML Variant and Adjacency format
• New Variant plugin system, that actually works
• ANT build file included
• Support for game Metadata
• Batik 1.5b3 included
• TestSuite uses new Variant plugin system

  GUI changes / improvements

• Larger status bar
• Larger adjudication results window
• Added Credits panel in About dialog
• Adjudication results brought up by default
• Menu cleanup
• Game Name / Filename frame title display changes
• System properties in About dialog are now sorted alphabetically
• New Game dialog fixes/improvements

  Bug fixes

• Edit mode menu item remains checked if new game started/loaded while in edit mode
• Fixed unit placement for Galicia & Prussia on topological map

  New features

• Game/Player metadata editor (Edit | Game & Player Info…)

  Miscellaneous

• Started Judge History/Game information parsing; much code has been written & tested; estimate this feature is 75-80% complete.
• Adjudicator errors noticed; this is due to a code regression; this will be remedied in the next release. The same error exists in the released 0.75 version as well. This should only affect adjudication in unusual situations.
• WARNING: Old save games are not compatible with this version. Save game format will freeze nearer to the 1.0 release.

  Version 0.75 [June 2002]

• First public release