HISTORY

VERSION	NEW FEATURES/CHANGES	BUG FIXES
V3.20	- Mouse wheel support - Coordinates in the viewing panes - Hot keys for grid switching - Export parts with TABs (.csv) - Toggle points of primitives	- Parts not moved in position/rotation dialog - Minifig legs could be rotated wrong
V3.10	- Arrow generator - Baseplate generator - LSynth support	- crash on read only drives
V3.00	- Minifig generator - Rubber belt generator - Flexible hose generator - Spring generator - New toolbar style	- Filling of disk under windows 95/98/ME - several crash situations - wrong language displayed on some dialogs
V2.12	- Sorting of parts by color, name or position - Automatic insertion of steps	- Unsolicted crash - .LDR not supported in some cases - Some corrections save picture processing
2.11	- Enhanced color dialog and support for 512 standard colors - Default extension for dat files is now LDR - Perspective viewing of models in 3D-Viewing - Enhanced picture save dialog which allows defining viewing angle and additional drawing options. - A small red frame shows the active drawing pane now - MLCad no longer registers for dat, but for LDR instead - Rotation point invisible per default	- LdLite meta command transform not processed correctly - File type registration check didn't check all items - Incomplete partlist when saved to a file - Crash when saving series of gif pictures - Dimensions wrong calculated - Wrong picture when using rotation steps - Wrong picture when using fast forward - Several cosmetic corrections - Background color not effective after changing in view-mode - Rounding problem with coordinate display in status-bar - Not all points moved for optional line command (type 5) - Crash after a certain period of using MLCad when optimisation is turned on.
2.10	- Rotation model generator - Loading of all kind of windows bitmaps, gifs and jpegs - Generate pictures and save them in windows bitmaps, gifs or jpegs	- Crash when loading bitmaps into picture model generator - Lost memory when loading ldlite meta commands - Invisible lines drawn - Display types of ghosts and hidden properly - Corrupted display after changing operation mode or sub-model when optimisations are set to medium or maximum - Lost memory when using stacked state stores - Correct problem with keeping items of the project part list in place - No warning if saving of group list failed - Problem with selections changed and "Draw to selection only" active - Corrected wrong display in part report
2.00	- Revert to saved menu entry - Menu and Toolbar entry for "Draw to selection only" - Speed up rendering and size calculation - Extended part-tree menu with group config entries - Lines and optional lines width thickness from 1 to 3 - Enhanced part report with options to save a part list and ignore colors - When rotating multiple parts the rotation point information is based on the actual rotation point setting. The item selected first gives the rotation point. - Saving and Loading of Groups - Scrollbars in the editing/viewing panes which can be turned on/off seperatly for each pane and view/place mode - Toggle the preview size with a right click into the preview pane - Support for user defined language dll's with internal useability checks - When adding parts to a drawing pane, the missing coordinate is inherit from the previous part - Part selection dialog now remembers sort criteria until MLCad is restarted - Part report now can ignore colors of parts	- Group config not loaded when MLCad is started with a file - Export of mpd projects - Scale problem when switching/creating/deleting mpd sub models - Rounding problem (Was part not placed correctly) - Rotation dialog preview: After rotation display was different from preview - Line drawing problem (often lines where not visible) - Selection problem during ungrouping - Crash during selection (both simple click and rubber band) on the border of the pane - Two steps where shown when only one step was available and new part indication was turned on - Missing parts when printing part lists
1.9R4	- New tracing feature for use in case of problems	- Solved bug in file-type registration - Solved display bug when using "New parts indication" - Solved crash's when using the picture/fractal generators - Solved printing problem - Solved picture generation problem - Solved movement problems
1.9R3	- .dat and .mpd registration can be turned of in the settings now - New Enter Position & Rotation dialog	- Solved bug in the drawing routine which causes holes - Solved bug when moving parts in weard angles with the buttons - Solved problem with enter rotation/position - Solved problem with wrong previous part indications
1.9R2	- None	- Online help display problem - Crash when defining colors - Defined colors not properly displayed - Scroll problem of part preview
1.9	- Part Grouping - Automatic part upgrades in a model - Enhanced export functionallity with postprocessing - New text entry dialog for position and rotation with an entry in the tool-bar - More support for primitives, now points can be moved - Snap to grid function - Option that allows new parts to inhert the last orientation - Switchable rotation center - Enhanced preview pane - New color-mode for 24bit true colors	- MLCad now generates Parts.lst if it is not available - CLEAR command will not be drawn in edit mode now - When deleting items, the list stays in the area it was before (Still not ideal but better now) - Hidden didn't work with primitives - View sometimes not correctly after adding primitives - Corrected bug in drawing quads - Solved the preview refresh problem - Now MLCad accepts uppercase meta commands only
1.8	- Selectable studmode - BFC Support (experimental) - Basic primitive support - Enhanced export functions - Faster new part indications - Draw & Drop rotations - Improved selection handling	- Solved a problem with very small grid settings - Reduced flickering when drawing on none white backgrounds - Added the clear command to increase compatibility to LDraw/LEdit
1.7 Release 2	- None	- Program crashed after beeing started for the very first time
1.7	- Model dependend color tables - Customizeable default color table for new models - Interactive zooming of views - Easy selection between viewing-, edit -, movement- and zoom-mode - Indication of added parts during viewing by either darking the previous parts or by graying them - New hotkeys for rotation and mode switching - Background images	- LDraw/Ledit compatible color numbering scheme - LDLite compatible custom colors - Solved problem when moving a part from the list to itself - Solved coordinate problem when adding new parts to the view
1.6	- Scrollbar less drawing and viewing areas - New Move-Mode for scrolling the model in the views - New Outline mode for fastest drawing - Enhanced Color Dialog for redefining colors or creating custom colors - New color box for faster color selection - Export a model for use with other 3D conversion tools - LDLite compatible color-numbering	- Crash when saving pictures - Wrong rotation of multiple parts - Integer rounding problem (caused destroyed views of models)
1.5	- Double-Click on a part in the part list to edit it - Rotation is done based on the center point of a part now - Pseudo model creation from a fractal landscape or picture - Views model coordinates in the status bar - Default comments for name, author, type and model (Author is based on the settings, name is updated automatically)	- Model part list not shown, corrected - Solved crash when saving pictures - Copy/Paste now copies the color as well
1.4	- Three user defineable defaults for rotations and movements - Scan partlist now rescans the models too, or just rescan the models - Default settings can be restored now - Part lists take care of colors now and can be printed - Full MPD (Multi Part Data files) support - Various editing enhancements - Views can have different zoom factors now - Elements can be moved within the model element list now - Comments and steps can be changed now - Full Drag & Drop support - Hot keys - Case sensitive online help (requires MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher)	- The output files where missing the terminating 0 lines - Corrected problem when starting MLCad with a project.
1.3	- Continued speed up - Implemented multiple selection with delayed update option - Scans model directory and includes models found into the internal part list - New option to hide parts for faster and easier modelling - Default view angles for 3D displays are user define-able now - Save part lists to a file - Rotate parts either relative to the current orientation or absolute - Rotation steps can be relative, absolute or additative now - Rotation step window allows to preview the rotated model - Disabled "Quick edit option" since MLCad is faster without it now - Rotation angle is 45° now - Balloon texts for colors in the color selection dialog	- Fixed display problems with Windows 95 - Fixed double draw problem when loading models
1.2	- Speed up of the program (up to factor three) - New enhanced part pre-view area which displays more parts - Remembers window settings over program restart	- Fixed display bug with various graphics cards - Fixed dat file generation problem
1.1	- True color mode with shading - Scroll bars - On screen part selection - Find function in Available Parts View - Favorites - Default color handling for new parts - New tool bars - Extended popup menu in the Drawing and Viewing Area - Cosmetic updates - Wire frames use the real part colors - More fail save	- Fixed various printing bugs - Fixed filename problem when generating pictures - Fixed crash problem when loading bad parts
1.0	Started the program	none