PalOMoney Release Notes

1.0.3-a

Version 1.0.3-a fixed some horrible bugs caught by tester. It also adds a dialog for password protected Money files.

• A bug that caused a debug assertion has been fixed.
  • Failing to find a current Microsoft Money installation and other problems that prevented opening a Money file resulted in a null pointer assertion.
• A bug that caused external quotes sources to fail has been fixed.
  • The bug incorrectly formatted arguments to external sources and MoneyPal, and failed to read and use initial and final double-quotes in the URL Template field.
  • The work around was to use short folder names that contain no spaces in order to avoid using double quotes at the beginning and end of the URL Template field.
  • This bug may have caused problems with the internal quote sources as well. Confirming this will require additional testing.
• Logging has been enhanced to more clearly indicate problems.
  • Many more function results are logged.
  • To reduce clutter, MoneyPal no longer displays the list of Money file securities unless the log level is 5 or higher.
  • MoneyPal displays and logs quote transactions.
  • MnyUpdate_XXX.log has been renamed MoneyPal_XXX.log, and contains the MoneyPal version info
  • The time stamp portion of MnyUpdate_XXX.log now includes seconds.
  • The File.CSV import method, used by external quote sources, now logs to MnyUpdate_XXX.log.
• PalOMoney now displays a Sign in to open your Money file dialog to indicate an error code when failing to open a Money file.
  • The dialog accepts a password and includes an Ok option to try again.
  • This dialog appears even if the error is not from a missing and incorrect password.
  • Click Cancel to abandon the dialog, and open the Portfolio window with no file.
  • This feature is early stage experimental.
    • Before using this feature, consider that the Money file password will be passed along in plain text to MoneyPal during its launch. The Last Launch MoneyPal command line is saved in plain text in PalOMoney.ini.
    • This dialog will be improved when the password error codes become better understood.

• A cosmetic bug in the example quote source QuoteCSV.py that wrote soft line breaks instead of hard line ends has been fixed.

• A PalOMoney website bug that caused the Store to download the .msi installer as a DOC file has been fixed.

1.0.3

Initial release for external testing. This software is experimental, which means very much pre-alpha.