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Simile v5.7 Released

Simile verion 5.7 was released on 17th August 2010. We have made Simile more beautiful in a number of ways, but there are serious improvements to functionality too...

Internationalization improvements

  • New installer for Windows version, with language options and higher resolution icons
  • More international characters are now rendered correctly
  • All simile's user messages now pass through a translation function, allowing dictionaries to be created for non-English versions
  • More fonts are fully anti-aliased for a smoother appearance

Other appearance improvements

  • Search feature in Windows help now works
  • Mac version can be adjusted to allow Spotlight for Help functionality in Snow Leopard
  • Cursor flashes on matching open-bracket when you type a close-bracket in an equation
  • "Normalize" in the model customization dialogue now works properly
  • Preferences can customize content of equation listings

Reliability

  • Popups are now safe on components with many millions of values
  • Some combinations of model exceptions and I/O tool layout could hang
    Simile. Not any more.
  • Scrolling input parameter listbox in equation dialogue is now possible
  • Problems when installed in a folder whose name contains spaces in
    Windows 7 have been fixed
  • The PEST interface can now handle large (100+ member) arrays for both
    model inputs and outputs

Extra functionality

And, as usuall, many very minor fixes and enhancements have been made.