ZET - Astrology Software

The Archive of News

27 August 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 60

Realized 3 variants of location of zodiac on a chart wheel:
- outer (as before),
- middle (same as ZET 7),
- inner.
See "Chart Settings", "Wheel".
Created a Windows-mode displaying of database folders and files: folders first, files next alphabetically.
Restored option of displaying of quadruplisity and element glyphs in planet table ("Chart Settins", "Data", "Affetic").
General House Table: double interpretation displaied for near cusp located planet - planet in current house and planet as located near house.
Fixed bug of selecting a city from atlas, sometimes leads to error message.
Fixed some minor bugs.

21 August 2006

Uploaded several True Type fonts. See "Downloads" page.

20 August 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 59

Added possibility to specify value of aspect exactness at percents of orb for "highlight exact" option.
[Geo] Added possibility to display cities of Atlas II at geographical map.
Fixed bug of calculation of Solar Firdary periods.
Fixed minor bugs.

12 August 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 57

Added possibility to use astrological True Type fonts with any layouts. You can create a layout in "True Type Font" window using "drag and drop".
Fixed minor bugs.

1 August 2006

Uploaded some hight quality icons for ZET (by Elena). See "Downloads" page.

30 July 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 56

Added function to calculate the novenarium and duodenariam (zodiac sign, where the point is located in 9th and 12th harmonic).
Fixed bug: when choosing a configuration, does not restored methods of triplicity and terminus calculation.
Fixed bug, sometimes leads to program fail when choose a chart from History.
Minor update of the User Guide.
Some other minor elaborations.
Added the interpretation text "Natal Planets without Aspects" by Paul Hysen. See Library of Interpretation Texts

23 July 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 55

The Catalog of Asteroids: the longitude of asteroids now may displayed in sidereal zodiak.
Almuten Figuris: to display a detailed description of calculation of the almuten of the chart, click by mouse to the planet-almuten glyph on the tableau at bottom left.
Added possibility for user to select the style of A*C*G lines: solid with some thickness, dotted or dashed.
Fixed a flaw of A*C*G lines marking up.
Fixed bug, sometimes leads to program fail when choose a chart from History when a real-time clock or time dynamic are turned on.
Fixed bug of previouse release: was wrongly disabled the "Horizon of Inner Chart" option for ecliptic charts, using in A*C*G.
Fixed bug of astroformula translator, leads to program fail when substantial exceeding maximum count (26) of round brackets in formula.
Fixed bug: absent of midpoints interpretation, if midpoint contains AS or MC and in some other cases.
Fixed bug: not recognised the interpretation text "Planets in Houses of Relocation" (if exists).
Fixed bug of "Search for Event": not worked the affetic calculation function.

16 July 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 54

Removed some restrictions of Lite version. Now acceptable:
- sidereal and draconic zodiac (additionally to tropical), several ayanamsas for sidereal,
- heliocentric ant topocentric coordinate systems (additionally to geocentric),
- any harmonic charts.
Added possibility to make an operational interpretation (of single planet from a chart) with a text of "Universal Interpretation" type. Corresponding UNI-texts should be added to operational bookshelf of the library of interpretation texts. Attention: for large UNI-texts the interpretation process may be long term. To interrupt it press Esc key.
Removed restriction (255) for count of books in library of interpretation texts.
Adjusted displaying planet names in the planet table.
Fixed bug of calculation reception by rulership: the main ruler had not priority for second ruler.
Fixed bug, sometimes leads to program fail when calculate a log of Sun rises.

9 July 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 53

[Pro] It's possible to mark up the source interpretation texts with HTML codes, and use for interpretation in Web document or in plain text formats (in last case the markup codes are ignored).
Improved "Check book headers" function (library of interpretation texts).
Astrological formula description language: added some functions. Exampes:
MoonDay[9] - 9th day of Moon. The calculation method (by rises or by 12-degrees sectors) is defined by current settings.
DayOfWeek[4] - wednesday (1 - sunday, 7 - saturday), it's possible to specify the transit data e.g. DayOfWeek'[4],
SO.LillyEssGreen - Essential status of Sun by Lilly is positive or
ME.LillyEssGreen[5] - Essential status of Mercury by Lille more then 5.
SA.LillyEssRed[12] - Essential status of Saturn by Lille is negative and less then minus 12.
VE.LillyAccRed - Accidental status of Venus by Lilly is negative.
NE.KeferGreen[3] - Affetic number of Neptune by Kefer is positive and more then 3.
PL.KeferRed - Affetic number of Pluto by Kefer is negative.
Added function of sorting the database by mouse click in appropriate cell of table header. The "Date" and "Time" columns are sorted together.
Fixed bug of previouse release, concerning the "ZET access protection" function.
Updated collection of interpretation texts by Paul Hysen.

1 July 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 52

Fixed bug sometimes leads to a program fail when invoke a chart popup menu.
Fixed bug of previouse release, leads to a program fail when click "Open Time Zones..." button of the "Event Data" window.
Fixed bug of previouse release, concerning the "Daily Watch" function.
Other minor elaborations.

25 June 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 51

Graphic Ephemeris: added possibility to calculate for period of 3 days (Transit only), e.g., you can get a graphic of moving of Parts, Vertex, Equatorial Ascendant, Co-Ascendant, Polar Ascendant.
Added possibility to create graphics for periods of 30, 60 and 120 years (transit, progression, direction).
Aspects Diagram [Pro]: added periods of 30, 60 and 120 years.
Improved the function of automatic updating.
Fixed bug of setting of size and position of chart wheel.
Fixed bug of tables colums setting.

18 June 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 50

The Catalog of asteroids, adding asteroids in JPL/SSD format: realized function of adding unnumbered asteroids (tested for 200,000 asteroids).
The Catalog of asteroids: realized "Filtering" function, allows select and display in the catalog (and in "Cosmos" tableau in "All asteroids" mode) any set of asteroids. E.g.: 1) sort by orbital petiod, 2) select (using Shift key) asteroids with period more then 20 years, 3) invoke popup menu and set "Filtering" flag.
Realized "Asteroid Distance Filter" function ("Cosmos" window, Cosmos Settings, "All asteroids" mode), allows to watch asteroids, forthcoming to a planet on specified distance.
Realized setting of font in ZET Notepad.
Fixed some bugs of geographical map.
Fixed bug of printing out the planet glyphs (49th release bug).
Fixed some bugs of interpreter.

11 June 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 49

Language of astroformula: restored identification of objects SE, SEL (Selena - object with "Sel" code), PR, PRO (Proserpina), CH, CHI (Chiron).
The "Path to GeoData" parameter now keeps the path to folder, which not exists or not contains corresponding files (it need for using the removable memory storage).
Changing the list of selected stars in star catalog now leads to redraw a current chart.
Added menu of functions for object of "Nebulae" type on a chart.
The descriptions of stars and nebulas now writes in interpretation, if selected options "Conjunct with planets" and "Include nebulae" (Chart Setting window, Stars tab. The Star Filter not affets to interpreatation.
Fixed bug of "Edit parameters of virtual object" function.
Fixed some other bugs, which may leads to program fail.

9 June 2006

Small collection of astronomy pictures for ZET Astro-photo-album. See "Downloads", "Additional files", Planets-H.zip

7 June 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 48

Simplified the procedure of updates the professional versions of ZET (will consider next updates). Required the autoupdate wizard of 4.06.
Fixed bug, sometimes leads to program fail while creating interpretation.
Other minor updates.

4 June 2006

Issued new version of ZET Auto-update Wizard. Should installed manually.

4 June 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 47

Added possibility to create any types of interpretation texts (in difference of existing fixed set of types). See User Guide, Horoscope Readings, Marking-up..., Prognostic Charts Interpretation.
Astrocartography: added possibility to choose a star form the catalog of stars ("ACG settings" window, "Stars" tab, "Catalog of stars" button, "Choose for ACG" menu item).
The hot-key "Ctrl+I" for displaiyng the "Comment" window.
Some other minor things.
Updated collection of interpretation texts by Paul Hysen.

28 May 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 46

New collection of interpretation texts by Paul Hysen.
New version of ZASP Utility which sorts and creates HTML formatted aspects lists (by Adrian Orlowski).
Chart Wheel: added possibility to drag a wheel by left mouse button in house belt (without Shift pressing). When zoom a chart wheel by mouse wheel, a chart centered to a mouse pointer.
Chart tableau: added popup menu for stars, and also for planets in planet table.
Added possibility to run ZET in any configuration, independently of current Main.ini. For this you can specify in ZET shortcut parameter: /config=path
where path - the path to configuration file you wish, e.g., LANGUAGE\English\Config\ZET.ini
Common House Table: added function of interpretation "planet in house". Choose from popup menu or by double mouse click.
ZET Notepad: added function of insertion of current time in the text (Ctrl+T buttons).
Cancelled drawing Black Moon and some other "moons" glyphs by TrueType font (because of difference from ZET font).
The length of comet name is non-limited.
Minor upgrades of "Cosmos" tableau.
Fixed bug of interpreter, sometime leads to a program fail.
Fixed some other minor bugs.

21 May 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 45

Added alignment of long header's strings of a chart (event data), prevents overlaping of natal data header.
[Pro] Added possibility to specify short names of chart types for displaying in a chart header (see "Chart Type Editor").
Added finction to display in asteroids catalog a distance of objects from Earth and Sun with possibility to sort the catalog by these values.
Added possibility to display in planet coordinate table as "additional data" column helio-longitude and helio-latitude.
Upgraded "General House Table", in particula, displayed conjunction of planet with house cusp (3 degree orbis).
Fixed bug of "Scan for new ephemeris files" function of asteroids catalog: new ephemeris files have recognise only when ZET starts.
Fixed bug of "Search for event" function, resulting that formula "planet'.[interval].planet" do not worked.
Fixed bug of chart selector: sometimes when selector opens, do not set an appropriate state of buttons.
Fixed bug of Arabic Parts: when Deleting a Part, the message box refers to it by its Value, not by its Name.
Fixed bug of Chart tableau - with complex charts, the chart headers at right over-write the top of the planets list.
Fixed bug of Glyph Editor - when opened for a comet with a long name, the name is cut short in the name entryfield of the Glyph Editor.
Fixed bug of stars aspects displaying in the aspect list.
Fixed several bugs of "Cosmos" tableau.
Fixed some other minor bugs.

11 May 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 44

Added possibility to import comets data if SkyMap format (see updated User Guide).
Fixed bug of comets calculation.
Fixed bug of displaying heliocentric Parts in aspect greed.
Fixed bug of time zone calculation.

7 May 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 43

Added function "Daily Watch", allows to recognise specified transit events for charts, saved in specified database. When first, during a day, ZET start, the Daily Watch recognises the realization of specified event for any chart, and, if yes, displays an appropriate message. As transit data used real current time and location (here and now). The event is specified by language of astroformula, e.g.,
SO'.[0-1].SO
means: the transit Sun conjunct natal Sun with 1 degree orb (nativ's birth day).
The Daily Watch setup window invoked by menu of Data Base (left field).
Added possibility to use the Parts in heliocentre (only for "Chart" tebleau).
Restored function of asteroid's catalog "Save coordinates in a text file".
Fixed bug of comet calculation.
Other minor things.

30 April 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 42

Added possibility to work with comets. See User's Guide, "Asteroids and comets", "Add comets" chapter. In the "Cosmos" tableau can draw only ellipsoidal orbites of comets yet.
The "Cosmos" tableau: improved drawing of asteroids with hight inclination.
Fixed bug: not worked the "Chart Type Selector" main menu item. Assigned the F4 hotkey for chart selector.
Fixed bug of return planet menu creating.
Other minor things.

24 April 2006. New interpretation texts

Added new interpretation texts: Lunar Phases, Horary Moon Days ("Days of Moon" chapter), Horary Lunar Mansions ("Moon Mansions" chapter). Compiled by Paul Hysen. See Library of Interpretation Texts

23 April 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 41

Added "Custom Ascendant" house system, allows to setup the equal houses from any point, specified either by degree of zodiac, or by planet (object).
Added option of displaying the reference date of returns (Solar, Lunar and so on) in the chart header, except the background date. The date displayed with accounting of time offset for time and place of return. See "Chart Settings", "Format", "Ref. data of Returns in Header".
Added function, when ZET started to open windows, which was opened before shutting down ZET (applied not for all windows).
Added chart types: "Solar Minor" (30 degrees Sun return, mothly) and "Terrar" (birth time return, daily).
Restored the "Chart Type" window (selector). Appropriated control elements in "Event Data" window appears only if the selector closed. The selector window is 2D zoomable.
Fixed bug of caculation of Almuten Figuris for hight geographical latitudes.
Fixed bug of autoupdate function, arised when startup ZET in some operation systems.

17 April 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 40

Fixed bug of "Save to Database" function.

16 April 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 39

The "Chart Type" selector inserted to "Event Data" window. The "Chart Type" window deleted.
Restored function of control dual chart aspecting as in ZET 7 by F5, F6, F7 keys.
[Geo] You may use more bulky control with "Aspect Direction" window for complex charts.
Resrored displaying of aspect direction in status bar.
Improved functions of time and location dynamics: when keep pressed the buttons of change values, this value will changed permanently (as in ZET 7).
[Pro] Improved the "Reference Date" function. The reference date of current ring displayed in status bar. Added "Get from Reference date" button in the "Event data" window.
[Geo] Astro-Carto-Graphy: the "Horizon" and "Meridian" options on the Stars tab functioned as display switches separate from the Event Data panel on the ACG Planets tab.
Chart Settings, Planet tab: added detaled hints.
Saving of "Astronomy Data" table now created in format with TAB-separated fields (for MS Excel).
[Pro] Improved "Compass" function, - the Local Space chart.
Improved the autoupdate function and the autoupdate wizard (install the autoupdate wizard manually).
Fixed bug of graphical ephemeris: multiple planet glyphs in header (some times).
[Pro] Fixed bug, some times occured when calculate houses in "House - Sign" system in Sidereal Zodiac.
Created "ZET UnRAR" utility for unpacking the RAR-files, which use for manual installation of ZET updates in cases, when automatic update impossible, taking into account, that next updates will issued in RAR-format only.

2 April 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 38

Added option "Glyph Size Factor, Table", see Chart Settings, Fonts, Printer.
Astrocartography: added function "Meridian" (Planet in upper or lower meridian transit), differ from function "Planet in MC-IC" in case of significant planet latitude.
Changed interface of "Dynamics of Time" and "Dinamics of Location" windows: added parameter of delay for animation.
Added parallels and contra-parallels in Aspect Grid.
Added function of displaying the time difference of background and source data. See status bar, "Asc/Age" field, reset by mouse click.
Added function of copying of reference date and possibility to paste it in the date input fields of "Event Data" and "Dynamics of Time" windows. It allows, e.g., to case single Solar chart from dual one. See popup menu of "Reference date" window.
Added scrolling of planet table, including with separated fields (delimiters), by mouse wheel.
Added possibility in harmonic charts to disply houses, equal of harmonic Asc (Chart Settings, Zodiac, Harmonic)
Added option to show/hide borders of catalog's cells.
Added function of arbitrary interpretation of chart, e.g, you may interpret the transit as progression.
Upgraded the autoupdate wizard.
Fixed bug of displaying of hulf-sum in the Uranian Chart wheel.
Fixed bug of copying the cell of "Astronomical Data" window.
Fixed bug of operational interpretation of aspects of complex charts.
Fixed bug of Aspect Diagram: appearance of wrong message when mouse click to empty field of diagram.

21 March 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 37

Added function "Update ZET via Internet" ("Help" menu, "Update ZET" item).
Added the polar projection of sky sphere (N-chart), designed for astrology of constellations. The chart invoked by Alt+F2 keys, scrollable by mouse, zoomable by mouse wheel.
Other minor updates.
Uploaded TrueType font "ZastroIM" contains the line drawings of the zodiac signs (by Paul Hysen). See "Downloads", "Additional components".

12 March 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 36

The catalog of asteroids: The range of asteroids numbers expanded up to 999999, so you can use Swiss Ephemeris for UB313 (Xena) with conventional number 999001. See ftp://ftp.astro.ch/pub/swisseph/ephe/ast999/
The catalog of asteroids: Added option "Calculation for Current date", if switch ON then displayed the coordinated of all asteroids for date of source data. The accurate calculation fulfil only for asteroids, which selected and have the ephemeris, other ones calculated approximately with orbital parameters.
The "Rectification" function: Added option to set the start date of scan interval. Added option of show/hide animation, when hide the speed of scanning increesed.
Fixed some bugs.

5 March 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 35

Launched the User's Manual.
The Catalog of Asteroids: restored possibility to import of JPL/SSD NASA format (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sb_elem.html), added possibility to import of E.Bowell format (ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html).
Added possibility of interpretation of aspects of parallel and contra-parrallel in natal, transit and direct charts. The example of marking:
[SA.P.PL] - Saturn in parallel with Pluto,
[SO.P^.MA] - Sun in contra-parallel with Mars.
Added function of calculating the "Almuten Figuris" by Ibn Ezra (Chart Settings, Data, Almutens).
Added option "Radial shifting only" (Chart settings, Wheel).
Firdaria: realized posibility to use 4 levels of planetary periods.
Restored affetic by Kefer.
The "Referent date": added function of displaying of the event angle of directions and data of Primary Direction.
Fixed minor bugs.

19 February 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 34

Elaborated functions of solar, lunar, embolic lunar, planet return. Now the date of event (background date) do not changed when returns calculated. This allows to use returns in complex charts together with other types.
Added function of displaying the date, for which the progressed and return charts are calcutated (chart menu, "Referent date"). In the "Referent date" window displays this date, the native's age for progression, and the return number for returns. The return before event is 0 number, previous is -1, next +1, and so on.
In the "Dynamic of time" window the "Returns" buttons now controls of the return number and not affects to the event date. In case of complex chart these buttons controls the second aspecting ring (see "Direction of aspects" window, Alt+A keys).
Added chart displaying options: "Separate Zodiac Signs" (Chart Settigs, Wheel), "Planet stroke", "Planet marker", "Length of marker" (Chart Settings, Misc.), "Planet marker colors" (Chart Settings, Color).
Added option of displaying all planet names in planet tableau (Chart Settings, Format, Names of asteroids and planets).
Tabulated ephemeris: added possibility to calculate in addition to longitude, also latitude, right ascention, declination, azimuth, altitude and velocity (of longitude).
Other minor elaborations.

12 February 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 33

Tabular Ephemeris: changed design, added field of planet selecting.
The Catalog of Asteroids: adjusted albedo (reflecting factor) for 2228 asteroids, accordingly the diameter of asteroid is calculated more accuratelly. For asteroids with unknown albedo this value sets to 0.2.
The Catalog of Arabic Parts: restored function of parses page selection with the list.
Fixed bug: "List index out of bounds (0)", sometimes occures when interpretation.
Fixed other minor bugs.

5 February 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 32

Aspects Orb Table: introduced additional columns for house cusps, parses, asteroids and others. Automatically convertation in new format.
Aspect Diagram: added "Planet in Houses" option, allows to draw periods of transit (progression, direction) of planet via natal houses.
Asteroids: realized possibility to use 6-digit number asteroids. The function of adding asteroids of JPL/SSD format replaced to MPC format. The "MPC convertor" utility cancelled.

30 January 2006

Uploaded additional astrological TrueType fonts (see Downloads, Additional files).

29 January 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 31

[Geo]Added function "Complex Chart Planet Filter", allows to setup any subset of planets separatelly for each complex chart rings. The filter affected to astrocartography too, this allows to realized, e.g., Cyclo*Carto*Graphy by David Meadows, i.e. with natal ACG lines disply the lines of progressed Sun...Mars and transit Jupiter...Pluto.
Added setup color of Moon Mansions glyphs (glyphs of second belt).
Added option "Statistic in percents" (Chart Settings, Data, Affetic). When option checked the data displies in percents of planets count, when unchecked then as absolute count of planets, located in appropriated sector.
Restored Lilly's affetic for 10 planets (if unchecked "Septener only" option).
Added option "Show angled only" (Chart Settings, Wheel). When option checked then lines of intermediate houses does not displayed on a chart.
Added option "Show UNI marking" (Texts, Interpretation Setup). When option checked then the marking codes of universal interpretation does not appears in interpretation document.
[Geo]Optimised displying of star names in astrocartography.
Fixed some bugs.

22 January 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 30

Added opportunity of displaying on a chart the orbital elements of planet as points. The point of planet orbit specified in catalog of Parses as a formulae with sintax: A[t].Planet
where
- A - orbital element: 'A' - aphelion, 'P' - perihelion, 'N' - north node, 'S' - south node, 'F' - 2nd focus of orbit;
- t - type of element: 't' - true, 'b' - barycentric;
- Planet - planet name.
E.g.:
A.Sun - aphelion of Sun (mean),
Nt.Jup - true north node of Jupiter (geocentric).
Upgraded interpretation of "House ruler in houses". The interpretation for all houses (but not for one) is now displayed, if planet is multiple ruler.
Added opportunity to setup a custom zero meridian for equatorial projection of stars and and calculation of geodetic lines (Astrocartography Settings, Geodetic).
Added opportunity to setup a size of plain text interpretation page (General Settings, Misc.) Default size: 5200 symbols.
Added option of displaying additional elements of Asc and MC lines (addon to "Extend house lines" option).
Added Vehlow house system. This is an equal house system with the Ascendant positioned in the middle of the first house.
Added "Here and Now" button (Event Data).
Fixed bug of displaying on a chart wheel the Moon Void sector.
Fixed bug: the rectification by "Condensations" method may leads to write a trash to History log.

15 January 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 29

Saving the chart wheel center position when zoom of wheel.
Added opportunity of displaying of the second Zodiac belt, for example, sidereal together with tropical. The vector-index of degree overview displays current coordinate in a status line both main and second Zodiac belts (Chart settings, Miscellaneous).
Added opportunity of a choice of house system used for high geographical latituded (Chart settings, Miscellaneous). By default it is "Equal by MC".
Moon Void display not only for natal, but also for transit (for a double chart). Switching "natal-transit" is carried out by switching of an aspect direction.
Fixed bug of asteroids orbits displaying, arising at their activation/deactivation.
Fixed bug of displaying opposition for full sign orb.
Fixed bug: the "Open file" dialogue caused failure of the program in a mode "real time clock".
Fixed bug of rectification, arising at calculation on the big interval of time. The maximal interval is 1434 minutes (23 hours 54 minutes).

8 January 2006. Upgrade ZET 8, release 28

Added operational interpretation (from a chart wheel) of aspects of Solar and Lunar returns.
Added option "Full Sign Orb" (Chart Settings, Aspects).
Aspect Diagram: added antiscia and contra-antiscia.
Aspect Diagram: the colors of lines of parallels, contra-parallels, anticia and contra-anticia installs in Chart Settings, "Colors" tab.
Fixed bug of displaying of geographical longitude for Davison chart.
Fixed bug, arising with option "Retain 1H Planets List" for harmonic chart.
Fixed bug, arising when run ZET in real time mode in "Geographical Map" tableau.
Fixed bug of function "Check Books" (Library).
Other minor changes.

27 December 2005. Upgrade ZET 8, release 27

Added "Moon Void" options (Chart Settings, Wheel)
Restored "Dual chart aspest dynamics" options (Chart Settings, Misc.)
Restored "Zoom chart wheel" tool.
Other minor changes.

18 December 2005. Upgrade ZET 8, release 26

Restored a possibility to use Swiss Ephemeris module for calculation of virtual objects. E.g. to establish in ZET the planet Vulcan (infra-mercury, not Uranian Vulkanus) it need to do following:
1) copy seorbel.txt file into "Swiss" folder
2) add to "LANGUAGE\English\Virtuals.lst" file the line
; ;227;;Vulcan;;;;;;;;;;H55;
(ZET should be closed)
3) run ZET, open the catalog of virtual objects, select Vulcan for calculating.
Fixed bug: when select/unselect of object of catalog of asteroids, virtual objects or parses, occured a distortion (shift) of settings of other objects, located bottom of selected/unselected object in a lists ("Chart Settings" window, "Planets" tab, and other).
Added some protection of damage of configuration files, which can leads to program fail, e.g., when "Search database" invoked from database menu.
Fixed bug, occures in direction chart when the degree rulers display.
Fixed bug of display the glyphs of asteroids in astrocartography.

12 December 2005. Upgrade ZET 8, release 25

Fixed bug of previouse release (appears "Cannot make a visible window modal" message)

11 December 2005. Upgrade ZET 8, release 24

Realized "Shortcut Key Manager" for custom assigning a shortcut keys for any control items. Now it is possible to use a keys of range Alt+A ... Alt+Z. To use a manager, open first any window (e.g. Chart Settings) and then open a manager. The manager's data saved in hotkeys.ini file. If a problem occures, delete this file.
Added possibility to view the terms and faces rings on a chart (Chart Setting, Data, Ring of terms/decans).
Added functions "Planet Hour" and "Planet in place of dignity" of language of descriptions of astroformula, e.g.
mo.pln_hour & so.tripl.ju & mo.term.sa & me.face.ve & ma.degree.me
means: "Moon's hour, and Sun in trilicity of Jupiter, and Moon in term of Saturn, and Mercury in face of Venus, and Mars in degree of Mercury".
Added option "Planets only mobile". If option on, then in convergence of aspect "planet - cusp (pars)" consider only planet movement. See Chart Settings, Aspects.
Added option "Corresponding signs only". The aspect (multiple 30 degree) exists, only if planets are located into a corresponding Zodiak signs. See Chart Settings, Aspects.
Fixed minor bugs.

4 December 2005. Upgrade ZET 8, release 23

Restored representation (optional) of values of "speed, from earth, from sun" for asteroids in the "planet list".
Added possibility to setup a colors of aspect lines: parallel, contra-parallel, antiscion, contrantiscion (Chart Settings, Color).
Restored slide bar to scroll on the right side of the display.
Restored representation of "Asc","Mc","Dsc","Ic" glyphs without cusp numbers when angles and cusps do not coincide with each other such as in the equal house system.
Cancelled an automatic restart ZET when reset interface language.
Fixed bugs of calculations of planet hours and tattvas.
Fixed bug of call "Search by criteria" function in Database.
Fixed bug of Pars calculation: absence of modulus 360 in intermediate operations x+y and x-y.
Other minor changes.

27 November 2005. Upgrade ZET 8, release 22

Improved the "Search Event" function: added source data to the text of result.
Added option "not use nutation" for calculating of sidereal ayanamsa.
Fixed bug: the symbol "." (dot) was not allowed in the name of configuration file.
Fixed bug sometimes arised "Grid index out of range" message when open the database.
Fixed bug of font editor, arised when work with not first page.

25 November 2005

Added interpretation text "The Magus or Celestial Intelligencer by Francis Barrett (1801)". See Library of Interpretation Texts

20 November 2005

Launched new version ZET 8.