So it seems that lately I work too much on software related to sailboat and yacht.
The need to design a bulb was the reason for a first round of fixes to BulbCalculator. There was left some bugs that were annoying also if basically inoffensive. Given the bug fix, I also done some fix to the look&feel.
I am planning a new release (2.0.1 probably) in the first days of the next year, but first I need to fix some others minor glitches.
I am pleased to announce the avaibility of BulbCalculator 2.0
BulbCalculator is a software to develop the bulb of radio controlled sail yacth, with the possibility to view a 3d preview and print a lot of usefull information.
The actual version is a port of the old BulbCalculator program, developed by Marko Majic who handed me the original source code, to some more modern tecnologies. It is now developed with the Qt4 Library to be cross platform, it can run on Window (xp, Vista and hopefully Seven), Linux and eventually also Mac.
It as a number of new features, some of which are:
More information on the new homepage of the project
To directly download the software there is an appropriate download page
I wish to thanks Marko, the original author, who handed me the complete source code of the old version, along with really usefull information and a continuos support.
So a new version is on the git repository. The big change I have done is to drop the internal browser. Now when you download a foil profile, the default browser is started.
The big advantage for me is to drop some hundred lines of code. From the user point of view, is that there is now a full fledged browser instead of the old minimal browser like window.
I just created a new project on gitorious to host BulbCalculator.
Unluckily on gitorious there is not a bugtracker, so I migrated only the git repository and the wiki, while I will setup a bts on this site.
Here is the new home, where you can find the wiki and the source code.
The first beta release of bulbcalculator is out.
After about two years of work, finally I can announce it.
All the details are in the temporary home page, as soon as possible I will come up with something better
After about 2 years of development, the new version of BulbCalculator is ready to enter the testing phase.
Today I pushed two commits that fixes the two last standing point that block the release.
After that, I am going to do some test and data validation and then release a beta.
If nothing goes wrong, it will be release before the end of the year.
On bulbcalculator.grys.it it available the first (win32 only) snapshot of BulbCalculator. It has bugs, it have not functionalities (no print, no import, no open/save) but it already do some basic calculations and it is possible to export the data in a text file.
Later this week I hope to release a new snapshot with some more features and less bugs 
BulbCalculator is coming along nicely. After beeing stuck with the 3d part for some time, I move to implement the other functionalities, since I am thinking that it is better to have a fully functional software than to have a nice software. At least I will get an usable version, also if not 100% complete,since anyway the basic porting is only the first step of that project.
So now I impemented a view of the bulb data, ready to be exported in text format. I’d like to add some more format for the export, but for now I am still not convinced. I also fixed some bugs that I found along the way had some good ideas on features to add to the software, so for now the project seems to be promising.