7Units/src/main/java, branch v0.5.0a2

Update documentation and version# (0.5.0a2)

2024-03-23T20:44:32Z

Complete exponentiation of dimensions

2024-03-23T20:29:12Z

Previously, you could only exponentiate individual dimensions in expressions. For example, `Length^3` was valid, but `(Length / Time)^2` was not. This is now fixed.

Add + and - to prefixes

2024-03-03T16:23:03Z

This was added to be consistent with the data file spec, which was changed for consistency with unit expressions. It may not be a common expression, but it's a bit weird that you can use +/- in units but not prefixes, even though they're in the same file!

Add comments to metric exception files

2024-03-03T16:11:51Z

Bump version to v0.5.0a1

2023-09-24T14:59:04Z

Refactor Presenter.loadSettings

2023-09-16T21:09:41Z

These changes should reduce nesting and increase readability.

Improve setting value usability

2023-09-16T21:09:39Z

Some settings used to use long, sentence-like values in the config file. Now, they use simpler values that are easier to remember and specify in the manual.

Only create config directory when saving

2023-09-16T19:29:02Z

Previously, if the user had no settings dir, starting the program would create it, but nothing would be read. If the user did not change their settings, it would just leave an empty directory!

Allow config file to load custom data files

2023-09-16T18:58:52Z

The parameters "custom_unit_file", "custom_dimension_file" and "custom_exception_file" can now be used to load custom unit, dimension and exception files. Specify them more than once to load multiple files. I haven't yet added this to the GUI, and I probably won't, because you already need to be able to edit text files to create this, so having a GUI won't make it any more intuitive.

Move config file to standard location

2023-09-16T17:58:48Z

The user's config directory is taken as ~\AppData\Local\ on Windows and is XDG-compliant elsewhere. The config file's location is /SevenUnits/config.txt. The SevenUnits directory is created if nonexistent. The previous location inside the git directory would not work for someone actually installing and using 7Units, so this change was made.