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Version 0.6.7

• Fixes appearance of dark mode in settings.
  
• New option to hide on deactivate.
  
• Added F11 and F12 key to hot key selection
  

Version 0.6.6

• Runs on Sonoma.
  

Version 0.6.5

• 64 bit support.
• Runs on Catalina.
  

Version 0.6.4

• Universal Binary.
• New icon.
  

Version 0.6.1

• Bugfix: Missing opening or closing braces in the expression should no longer lock up pearCalc.
• Optimised the scanning process for applications (now done in background immediatly after startup). As an effect response-time of pearCalc after unidentifiable entries should be much better.
  

Earlier Versions of pearCalc:

Version 0.6:

• Completely new mathematical evaluation engine with a lot more functions.
• pearCalc now stays active after application launch if it is not set to auto hiding.
• pearCalc now provides Apple Help compatible online help.
• Application launching can now be disabled. This can speed up response time if an invalid expression is entered.
• Pressing the global hot key while pearCalc is visible but in background now sets the focus to pearCalc instead of hiding it.
• Added keyboard shortcut for preferences.
• Further enhanced MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) compatibility.
• Commands 'quit' and 'help' now also work in german version.
• If an application or URL is launched via shortcut, the shortcut is added to the auto completion list instead of the full name.

Version 0.5.1

• Added compatibility for MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar)

Version 0.5

• The auto completion-list is completely editable and manageable inside the preferences-panel.
• Shortcuts can now be reordered via drag&drop
• pearCalc can now be used as text replacement-tool inside every text editor that supports services.
• pearCalc can launch URLs and generate a new email-message in your favorite email-app.
• Limited the precision to max. of 10 digits after the decimal-separator.
• Added auto hide-feature: you can set pearCalc to hide automatically after it launched an app or URL.
• Since this version pearCalc features a global hot key to hide and activate it from within any application.
• Finally pearCalc features a new icon.

Version 0.4.1

• Fixed a bug introduced in Version 0.4. Numbers with more than 10 digits led to a wrong result. (Thanks to Vinay Gupta for the bug-report!).

Version 0.4

• New auto-completion feature for application names.
• Also added a german-language localization
• Quick store- and recall feature (without the need to select text first).
• The preferences-panel and the about-box are now implemented as sheets.
• Entering a question-mark now brings up the online-help.
• The preferences-panel can now also be brought up via text-command ('prefs' or 'preferences').
• Optimized the text parsing algorithm to minimize accumulative rounding-errors.
• Last but not least you can now set the transparency-level of the pearCalc-window!

Version 0.3

• Added shortcut abilities as well as definable precision and decimal-separator-format.
• A formula within a text editor can be spread among multiple lines (service-function).

Version 0.2

• Added application-launch capabilities, added help-function, changed icon

Version 0.1

• First official release

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