There are new releases of FreePlanner at
www.freeplanner.org.
I have fixed most of the reported issues.
There is some basic functionality differences. There is a new Multi-Level checkbox on the main window. When this checkbox is clicked, each click of the dive button creates an additional segment from the depth and time fields. When the Multi-Level checkbox is not checked, clicking the dive button replaces the active dive with a square profile based upon what's in the depth and time fields.
Using the new feature allows the quick creation of dives for comparison purposes - this was the number one requested feature.
Metric/Imperial has been cleaned up.
A couple of issues:
FreePlanner does not support OS X version 10.5 or Windows Vista. A lot of people have had issues with those two platforms. Save yourself some frustration if you're running those platforms and want FreePlanner - I will support those platforms later but not right now. Less than 5% of the total hits on the FreePlanner website were either 10.5 or Vista. Most of the operating systems were 10.4 and XP, split about 50/50.
Also, the Windows install sometimes does not create the menu entry correctly so that when FreePlanner is run, it doesn't generate decompression schedules. There are instructions on
www.freeplanner.org on how to fix this.
One last caveat - make sure that FreePlanner is installed in the correct directory - installation into the wrong directory will prevent FreePlanner from operating correctly.
There is a user manual in the works and table generation in addition to bug fixes will be included in the next release.
Here are the current requested features:
Range based deco gas selection - input own mods
Add Gradient Factor
Consolidate Gas Management
Blending Window
Contingency Planning - longer, deeper, no deco
Rock Bottom Calculation
Remember window position
surface interval input in days, hours and minutes
Custom deco algorithms
Clean up multiple dive report
Travel Gas
Ability to toggle series on and off on the charts
These features will be added ASAP.
I want to say thank you to everyone who's helped out with the testing so far. I couldn't have gotten this much done alone so quickly and it has been a real pleasure so far working with everyone.
