# 0.00.47 (46404) Nov 19, 2010 11/19/10 adjust default location of voltmeter body and probes 11/19/10 rename ModelViewTransform to CLModelViewTransform3D because there are way too many ModelViewTransform implementations in PhET 11/18/10 fix: derive capacitance properties when custom dielectric constant changes 11/18/10 make only negative charges move in dielectric "Show all charges" view 11/18/10 start E-Field Detector zoom level at max magnification, appropriate for battery 11/17/10 make dielectric transparent when voltmeter is selected so bottom plate can be touched through the battery 11/17/10 reset custom dielectric material in model.reset 11/17/10 convert DielectricMaterial to Property 11/17/10 implement Battery.reset and Capacitor.reset, use them in DielectricModel.reset 11/17/10 replace Capacitor.plateThickness and plateSideLengthProperty with Capacitor.plateSizeProperty 11/17/10 terminology change: plateThickness -> plateHeight 11/17/10 terminology change: plateSideLength or plateSize -> plateWidth 11/17/10 add Dimension3D to simplify many interfaces related to shapes 11/17/10 remove bogus BoxNode constructor, insure complete initialization of plate and dielectric nodes 11/17/10 fix max spacing between dielectric charges, adjust spacing function exponent so that behavior is unchanged with battery voltage range # 0.00.46 (46242) Nov 16, 2010 11/16/10 fix background for check boxes in E-Field Detector on Windows # 0.00.45 (46217) Nov 16, 2010 11/16/10 dev version with minor fixes and internal changes 11/15/10 move createBoxShape to BoxShapeFactory 11/15/10 hide debug shapes for battery and wires when battery is disconnected 11/15/10 don't measure voltage at battery or wires unless the battery is connected 11/15/10 convert Capacitor model element to Property 11/15/10 convert Battery model element to Property # 0.00.44 (46188) Nov 15, 2010 11/15/10 use Wire.getShape in WireShapeFactory, so that we're displaying the same shapes used in the voltage model 11/15/10 use CAP_BUTT for wire strokes, adjust battery terminal connection points 11/15/10 put all dev stuff in new developer package 11/15/10 indicate color of shape strokes by setting foreground of developer menu items 11/15/10 enable/disable shape debug via developer menu items 11/15/10 remove portion of bottom wire that is occluded by battery 11/15/10 add battery terminal offsets to shape model, for more precise wire connections 11/15/10 more precise model of positive battery terminal 11/15/10 remove transparency feature from plates, they are always opaque 11/15/10 remove dielectric transparency for voltmeter # 0.00.43 (46138) Nov 15, 2010 11/15/10 dev version to demo measurement of voltage and E-field in 2D projection of 3D scene 11/15/10 make E-field detector measure points in the 2D projection of space between the capacitor plates 11/15/10 debug CapacitorShapeFactory methods used by E-field Detector 11/15/10 clean up CapacitorShapeFactory, add methods needed for E-field Detector 11/15/10 add ShapeUtils.add and subtract 11/15/10 remove Point3D from BoxShapeFactory interface 11/15/10 subtract portion of bottom wire occluded by bottom plate 11/15/10 refinements in CapacitorShapeFactory 11/12/10 shape of bottom wire subtracts dielectric and top plate shapes (bottom plate is OK) 11/12/10 implement Capacitor.topPlateIntersects(Shape) and bottomPlateIntersects(Shape), voltmeter probes can now touch the plates 11/12/10 implement shape factory for capacitor, handle object occlusion via shape subtraction 11/12/10 move code for box shapes into BoxShapeFactory, use in BoxNode 11/12/10 remove MVT.modelToModel(Point3D), no longer needed since all Shape creation is in view coordinate frame 11/12/10 change all Shape generation to use global *view* coordinate frame, view needs this for rendering, model doesn't care for Shape intersection 11/12/10 provide MVT to model elements, for 2D shape generation in model coordinates 11/12/10 add method in MVT for "flattening" a 3D model point to a 2D point, still in model coordinates 11/12/10 use consistent labeling of points for defining 3D box faces # 0.00.42 (46037) Nov 12, 2010 11/12/10 make charges bolder # 0.00.41 (46029) Nov 12, 2010 11/12/10 use a non-linear relationship for showing total charge on dielectric, so that changes are clearly visible with battery voltages 11/12/10 hide debug nodes when voltmeter is hidden # 0.00.40 (46011) Nov 11, 2010 11/11/10 dev version to demonstrate shape-based voltmeter probes 11/11/10 move responsibility for debug shape rendering into ShapesDebugNode and out of general nodes, all shape generation can now be in world coordinate frame 11/11/10 move all Shape creation stuff out of the model and into factories, usable by both model and view 11/11/10 add constant for MODEL_BOUNDS_STROKE 11/11/10 don't try to constrain locations unless !World.isBoundsEmpty 11/11/10 use intersects(Shape) instead of contains(Point2D) for voltmeter probes 11/11/10 test for shape intersection between wires and voltmeter probes 11/11/10 make voltmeter read 0V when probes are touching 11/11/10 add shapes for voltmeter probe tips 11/11/10 add infrastructure for touching voltmeter probe tips together to display 0V 11/11/10 specializations of Wire for connecting a battery to a capacitor 11/11/10 specializations of WireSegment for connection to battery and capacitor, length changes dynamically 11/11/10 add y-offset getters for battery terminals, for computing wire connection points 11/11/10 move all battery shape constants inside Battery model element 11/11/10 adjusted battery body bounds to match new battery images 11/11/10 modified the battery image so that only the top terminal is visible, and the positive terminal doesn't extend above body 11/11/10 move creation of battery body shape into Battery model element 11/11/10 move rendering of battery terminal shapes into BatteryNode 11/11/10 restore spacing between dielectric charges # 0.00.39 (45953) Nov 11, 2010 11/11/10 dev version for discussion about dielectric charge spacing 11/11/10 temporarily double max spacing between dielectric charges to demo that this does not fix scale problem 11/10/10 put voltmeter in front of E-Field detector, since voltmeter is smaller 11/10/10 move circuit up a little so bottom wire doesn't get clipped when window is maximized 11/10/10 drop feature that shows intersection of probes with other objects, probes will always be on top (decided in 11/10 status meeting) # 0.00.38 (45903) Nov 9, 2010 11/9/10 dev version to demo progress on voltage measurement 11/9/10 new 3D probes with parallel projection from Noah P (images and assets) 11/9/10 get wire segment endpoints from battery and capacitor model elements, not constants 11/9/10 fix wire shape algorithm, it wouldn't handle the types of wires in Multiple Capacitor circuits 11/9/10 add shape of battery terminals to model (with SR) 11/9/10 add shape of wires to model, associate voltage with a wire (with SR) 11/8/10 use Double.NaN for unknown voltage, display "?" in voltmeter, document in model 11/8/10 remove superfluous "show sign" feature in voltmeter 11/8/10 i18n of "?" for voltmeter display 11/8/10 add close button to voltmeter, similar to bar meters 11/8/10 fix close button on E-Field Detector # 0.00.37 (45831) Nov 8, 2010 11/8/10 demo 3D probe with parallel projection 11/8/10 new 3D voltmeter black probe with parallel projection, from Noah P. 11/8/10 check in Sketchup files for 3D probes, created by Noah P. 11/8/10 another black voltmeter probe image from Noah P, previous one was slightly rotated # 0.00.36 (45825) Nov 8, 2010 11/8/10 dev version to demo new 3D probes 11/8/10 new 3D voltmeter probes from Noah P, with outlined tips 11/8/10 fixed #2570, Vector2DNode bugs causing layout problems in E-field Detector for zero-magnitude vectors 11/8/10 new 3D E-field detector probe from Noah P, crosshairs properly centered 11/8/10 new 3D probes from Noah P. 11/8/10 feasibility test for Noah P. with 3D-looking voltmeter probe 11/4/10 decided that we will have no collision detection (11/4 status meeting) 11/4/10 decided not to add grid lines to E-Field Detector because of scale issues (11/4 meeting with NP) 11/2/10 control visibility of voltmeter and E-field detector in model 11/2/10 add getVoltageBetween to circuit model (needs to be properly implemented) 11/2/10 first pass at voltmeter 11/2/10 add zoom control to E-field detector 11/2/10 EFieldDetectorView was getting too large, move body and probe to separate files 11/2/10 generalize wire that connects a probe to a meter 11/1/10 constrain E-field probe location to be inside the bounds of the world 11/1/10 clean up handling of visibility for E-field detector 11/1/10 fix detector probe drag behavior, constrain to the play area via the model "world bounds" 11/1/10 add world bounds to model, to constrain placement of model elements 11/1/10 make the E-field detector wire look more natural 11/1/10 setOpaque(false) on various Swing components in the E-field Detector 11/1/10 get wire connection working properly for rotated E-field probe 10/30/10 confirm that E-field detector probe remains aligned with origin when rotated 10/30/10 TestDragPSwing, test app to demonstrate a general problem with dragging PSwing nodes, see #2557 10/30/10 decrease size of battery to match the part of the battery that's in the same 2D plane as the E-field probe 10/29/10 add geometry of battery to model, needed by voltmeter and collision detection # 0.00.35 (45524) Oct 28, 2010 10/28/10 demonstrate progress on E-field detector 10/27/10 test app for detector wire 10/27/10 fix "Show Values" control in detector so that it doesn't hide vector labels 10/25/10 clip vectors to display area 10/25/10 fix initial layout of field detector 10/25/10 combine vector label and value to simplify detector layout code 10/24/10 center labels and values above/below tails of detector vectors, labels above values 10/24/10 decided E-field in battery will be zero, because field detector shows capacitor-specific field vectors (Noah P) 10/24/10 remove dielectric gap from model, per Noah P. 10/24/10 show absolute values in field detector, with no comma in numbers 10/24/10 model for detector vectors: 0 outside plates, either air or dielectric inside plates # 0.00.34 (45344) Oct 22, 2010 10/22/10 dev version for discussion with Noah P. 10/21/10 demonstrate dielectric gap = 0 10/21/10 revert BatteryCapacitorCircuit.get*At methods for demo 10/21/10 another attempt at BatteryCapacitorCircuit.get*At methods, still need specs 10/21/10 add method for determining if a point is inside dielectric # 0.00.33 (45314) Oct 21, 2010 10/21/10 dev version for discussion with Noah P. 10/21/10 simplified field detector for Introduction tab (hide vector check boxes, show only Plate vector) 10/21/10 make "Show Values" its own PSwing so that it will always be at lower-left of field detector 10/21/10 try a simplified naming scheme for string keys, hopefully easier for translators 10/21/10 i18n of vector labels in E-field detector 10/21/10 snapshot of design doc in SVN, for working offline 10/20/10 add vectors to E-field detector 10/19/10 derive negative orientation of current indicator 10/19/10 remove polarity from current indicator, it was misused here 10/19/10 add polarity property to battery 10/18/10 add E-field detector to model, using Property notification 10/18/10 add stubs to BatteryCapacitorCircuit for determining E-field at a Point3D 10/13/10 properly initialize "Show Values" in field detector 10/12/10 add vector values to field detector, wire up to controls 10/12/10 add wire that connects field detector probe to meter 10/12/10 put components of field detector directly on the canvas, so that their locations can be adjusted independently as the canvas size changes 10/12/10 provide PNode interface to meters control panel, specific type of meter doesn't need to be known 10/12/10 enable voltmeter check box for development 10/12/10 decided not to update bar meters only when they are visible, not worth it (insignificant performance gain, significant code complication) 10/12/10 will not be using phetcommon's ModelViewTransform2D because it doesn't handle 3D needed for this sim 10/12/10 revised ModelViewTransform to handle deltas in 2D-view and 3D-model coordinate frames 10/12/10 removed unused code from ModelViewTransform 10/12/10 migrate GridPanel to phetcommon, deprecate EasyGridBagLayout 10/12/10 add support for relative anchors to GridPanel, doc where to add Java 1.6 baseline anchors 10/12/10 migrate FadeOutActivity to piccolo-phet 10/12/10 decided to keep unused IPlateChargeGridSizeStrategies for historical purposes, noted in javadoc 10/12/10 decided not to factor out duplicate code in drag handles, doing so would obfuscate 10/12/10 tweak drag handle nodes to use less space 10/12/10 clean up drag handlers, doc and clearer variable names 10/11/10 refine how IntroductionModule subclasses DieletricModule 10/11/10 specify explicit default values for ranges in CLConstants 10/7/10 enable Electric Field Detector check box (again) for feature development # 0.00.32 (44871) Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10 development version to share with KSU 10/7/10 instead of using dielectric=air in Introduction tab, use custom dielectric with a huge offset 10/7/10 disable Electric Field Detector check box (again) 10/7/10 rotate field probe 10/7/10 enable Electric Field Detector check box (again) for feature development # 0.00.31 (44860) Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10 development version to share with KSU 10/7/10 fix: custom dielectric constant not reset by Reset All 10/7/10 gray out Voltmeter and Electric Field Detector check boxes, since they are not yet implemented 10/7/10 default custom dielectric constant to 5 10/7/10 default dielectric charge view to "all" 10/7/10 default Plate Charge view to "on", as specified in the design doc 10/7/10 default dielectric offset to just outside the capacitor, as specified in the design doc 10/7/10 fix: reverse polarity of charges on the dielectric 10/7/10 create body of field detector 10/7/10 adjust origin of field detector probe to be at center of crosshairs 10/7/10 enable Electric Field Detector check box for feature development # 0.00.30 (44840) Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10 development version to share with KSU # 0.00.29 (44839) Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10 absorb color strategy into BoxNode, delete IBoxColorStrategy 10/7/10 delete unused box coloring strategies, since we seem to have settled on this 10/7/10 order dielectrics in combo box by increasing dielectric constant 10/7/10 increase max spacing between positive and negative charges in dielectric charge pairs 10/7/10 increase spacing between dielectric charge pairs so that we have 3 rows when plate separation is 10mm 10/7/10 fix BatteryCapacitorCircuit.getMaxDielectricEField, it wasn't the max, and this was affecting dielectric "all charges" view 10/7/10 don't change the transparency of transparent dielectrics when field view (etc) is selected 10/7/10 change dielectric colors, per Noah P 10/7/10 change box color strategy to preserve alpha channel 10/7/10 replace polystyrene with glass # 0.00.28 (44772) Oct 6, 2010 10/6/10 document model symbols used in design doc 10/6/10 change dielectric "Show All Charges" to be proportional to E_dielectric 10/6/10 clean up encapsulation of pitch and yaw properties for 3D mvt 10/6/10 move dielectric colors to CLPaints 10/6/10 move dielectric constants to CLConstants 10/6/10 use bold font for Plate Charge control title, to be consistent with bar meters 10/6/10 cleanup and doc grid-based views (plate charge, field lines, dielectric charge) # 0.00.27 (44751) Oct 6, 2010 10/6/10 change E-field display algorithm so that lines smoothly appear/disappear at edges of plate 10/6/10 default to Dieletric tab for dev version 10/6/10 gray out Voltmeter and Electric Field Detector check boxes until they are implemented 10/5/10 add localized strings used by E-Field Detector 10/5/10 remove some dependencies on DielectricModel 10/5/10 specify default locations for meters in CLConstants # 0.00.26 (44729) Oct 5, 2010 10/5/10 remove stubs for Save/Load feature, not necessary per Noah P 10/5/10 start up with Introduction tab selected 10/5/10 fix: make View controls reset properly 10/5/10 implemented Introduction tab (subclass of Dielectric tab) 10/5/10 implemented Reset All feature 10/5/10 fix: knob on voltage slider and Plate Charge slider jumps to center when you mouseDown on it 10/5/10 decided not to add curvature to field lines on perimeter of plates 10/5/10 make battery voltage slider and Plate Charge slider snap to zero 10/5/10 when E_effective is zero, use zero spacing between +- pairs on dielectric # 0.00.25 (44692) Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10 first version of dielectric "all charges" view 10/4/10 add convenience method for getting dielectric width, use in views # 0.00.24 (44686) Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10 use the same min/max for representing top plate charge and dielectric excess charge 10/4/10 make number of excess charges on dielectric proportional to sqrt(Q_excess_dielectric) 10/4/10 move plate charge grid strategy into its own top-level class file # 0.00.23 (44668) Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10 increase max field lines to 900, per Noah P 10/4/10 first working version of excess dielectric charge view 10/4/10 use better plate charge layout strategy, developed by Sam Reid 10/4/10 factor out nodes for positive and negative charges 10/4/10 first pass at excess dielectric charge, not working yet # 0.00.22 (44657) Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10 make spacing between e-field lines change continuously as E_effective changes 10/4/10 only update views (charges, field) when visible # 0.00.21 (44648) Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10 demo new field density algorithm 10/4/10 smaller arrows on field lines 10/4/10 compute field density based on minimum plate area, not based on plate side length 10/4/10 simplify PlateChargeNode.getNumberOfCharges 10/4/10 remove Multiple Capacitors tab, will be included in a future (post 1.0?) version 10/4/10 check in new (larger) e-field probe image created by Noah P 10/1/10 get rid of "non-zero minimum" for E-field lines, it's not doing anything but complicating computations # 0.00.20 (44619) Oct 1, 2010 10/1/10 fix: density (not number) of field lines is proportional to E_effective 10/1/10 make physical parts of the capacitor transparent when E-field, Voltmeter or Field Detector is selected 10/1/10 add placeholder node for E-Field Detector, wire up visibility to control panel 10/1/10 check in field detector probe image created by Noah P 10/1/10 change "Field Detector" to "Electric Field Detector" # 0.00.19 (44601) Oct 1, 2010 10/1/10 demonstrate E-field lines 10/1/10 make capacitor plates and dielectric transparent when E-field is selected 10/1/10 add E-field view 10/1/10 move responsibility for dielectric color into DielectricNode # 0.00.18 (44586) Sep 30, 2010 9/30/10 demo fix to current indicator, and improved plate charge layout 9/30/10 add margin along z axis for plate charges, hack to keep them on the plate with 3D perspective 9/30/10 keep plate charges from falling off the edges of the plate 9/30/10 ensure that at least one charge is shown if number of plate charges is non-zero 9/30/10 TestPlateChargeLayout, test harness for plate charge layout 9/30/10 fix: current indicator should point counterclockwise for +dV, clockwise for -dV 9/30/10 tweak tick marks on Plate Charge slider, make thumb line up precisely with zero 9/29/10 remove debug value node from PlateChargeControlNode, this info is shown in ModelValuesPanel 9/29/10 when "Remove Wires" is pressed, set Plate Charge control to the plate charge with the battery connected 9/29/10 change range of Plate Charge slider to go from "lots (+)" to "lots (-)" # 0.00.17 (44526) Sep 29, 2010 9/29/10 demo first pass at grid layout for plate charges 9/29/10 layout charges in a grid using algorithm from CCK's CapacitorNode (lines 270-230) 9/29/10 handle partially-inserted dielectric for Plate Charges view 9/29/10 make battery have no affect when disconnected 9/29/10 fixed another plate charge polarity issue # 0.00.16 (44502) Sep 29, 2010 9/29/10 another dev version to demo plate charge, fixed polarity issues 9/28/10 create infrastructure for dielectric charge views, wire up to control panel 9/28/10 pull PlateChargeNode out of PlateNode, bad idea to merge them 9/28/10 merge PlateChargeNode into PlateNode # 0.00.15 (44492) Sep 28, 2010 9/28/10 dev version to demonstrate problems with plate charge representation 9/28/10 keep charges fully inside the plate by taking the charge size into account 9/28/10 reduce size of charges to match Noah's mock up 9/28/10 fixed plate area drag handle 9/28/10 fixed plate separation drag handle 9/28/10 a rough version of showing plate charges, to demonstrate that this design does not scale well 9/28/10 converted everything to use 3D MVT to create perspective (big change, broke 2 drag handles) [44484] 9/28/10 first attempt at adding 3D model to 2D view transform to MVT (untested) 9/28/10 straighten out some things in BoxNode related to 3D perspective 9/28/10 reset the battery slider on Reset All 9/28/10 ensure that all meters remain in the play area when the main window is resized 9/28/10 hook up "Plate Charges" check box # 0.00.14 (44465) Sep 28, 2010 9/28/10 display the number of plate charges, to check that this representation is going to work # 0.00.13 (44455) Sep 28, 2010 9/28/10 change dielectric constant range to 1-5, per Noah P. 9/28/10 change battery voltage range to +-1.5V, per Noah P. 9/27/10 rename ScaleButtonNode to ZoomButtonNode, since my people are calling it a "zoom button" 9/27/10 create nodes for positive and negative charges, use in other places that require + and - 9/27/10 create scale button programmatically, image files looked lousy because these buttons are so small # 0.00.12 (44365) Sep 24, 2010 9/24/10 replace PText("-") with PPath(Rectangle2D) on current indicator, so that "-" can be precisely centered # 0.00.11 (44358) Sep 23, 2010 9/23/10 make current indicator fade out faster (500 ms) 9/23/10 change current indicator to use a constant transparency (0.75f) rather than proportional to dV/dt # 0.00.10 (44355) Sep 23, 2010 9/23/10 modulate transparency of current indicator proportional to dV/dt, fade out when dV/dt=0 9/23/10 hide clock control panel, this sim contains no animations that should be pausable 9/23/10 make sim clock accessible to model 9/23/10 fix Add/Remove Wires button layout so that it doesn't overlap current indicator 9/23/10 create current indicator node, place on canvas, not wired up 9/23/10 increase value font size for bar meters 9/23/10 allow separate fonts for label and value on capacitor drag handles 9/23/10 use bold font for bar meter titles 9/23/10 reduce number of decimal places to 2 for all bar meters 9/23/10 use the same exponent for bar meter value and label, with max label format 10^N # 0.00.09 (44322) Sep 22, 2010 9/22/10 use the same exponent for bar meter value and label, with max label format 10x10^N [44320] # 0.00.08 (44318) Sep 22, 2010 9/22/10 use the same exponent for bar meter value and label, with max label format 1x10^N [44316] # 0.00.07 (44315) Sep 22, 2010 9/22/10 remove tool tip and flashing max label from bar meters # 0.00.06 (44263) Sep 21, 2010 9/21/10 dev version to discuss scale button on bar meters 9/21/10 use + and - magnifying glass images to indicate what the meter scale button will do 9/21/10 new images for the meter scale button, enable/disable button as appropriate 9/21/10 add ticks outside the bar meter track for min and max labels 9/21/10 add tooltip to meter scale button 9/21/10 add scale button to bar meters, flash max range label when it changes 9/21/10 move meter nodes to new capacitorlab.view.meters package 9/7/10 fixed plate area drag handler, use only x drag coordinate because y dimension is foreshortened for pseudo-3D perspective 9/7/10 resolve ordering problem with plate area drag handle offset 9/7/10 doc and consolidate duplicate code in BoxNode 9/7/10 replace EasyGridBagLayout with GridPanel throughout 9/7/10 created GridPanel, will test it here than migrate to phetcommon 9/2/10 move all drag code to new capacitorlab.drag package 9/2/10 make dielectric directly draggable, use same handler as drag arrow 9/2/10 promote drag handlers from inner classes to top-level types 8/31/10 move "Model Values" check box to Developer Controls panel 8/31/10 migrate ColoredSeparator to phetcommon 8/31/10 replace borders with separators in subpanels 8/31/10 replace CLTitledControlPanel with PhetTitledPanel 8/26/10 add stubs for Multiple Capacitors tab 7/9/10 attempt to fix plate area drag handle, still broken 7/9/10 move model listener responsibilities into drag handle nodes 7/9/10 fix drag handles for dielectric offset and plate separation 7/8/10 add overload indicator to bar meters 5/21/10 started work on a model-independent voltmeter (incomplete, see TODO.txt) 5/20/10 copy voltmeter image files from CCK, confirmed licensing with Sam R. 5/20/10 capacitance meter 5/20/10 create base class for bar meters, refactor existing meters # 0.00.05 (40913) May 19, 2010 5/19/10 dev version to verify model changes 5/19/10 implement new model of charge, surface charge density, and E-field, as specified by NP 5/19/10 change variable names in ModelValuesPanel to match variable names in design doc 5/19/10 rework model assertions and arg checking 5/19/10 new model of surface charge density, to avoid divide-by-zero errors when area=0 5/19/10 assert necessary model conditions 5/19/10 add support for negative dielectric offset 5/19/10 add Stored Energy meter 5/19/10 consolidate meter range constants in CLConstants # 0.00.04 (40879) May 19, 2010 5/19/10 new model, plate charge meter, disconnect plate charge control 5/18/10 reorganize model to be similar to specification 5/18/10 add dielectric offset to model values display 5/18/10 add descriptions to model values display via tool tips 5/18/10 display model values in a dialog, too crowded in the play area 5/18/10 implement new model provided by NP, using "2 parallel capacitors" approach 5/17/10 display plate charge value the same way in control and meter 5/17/10 add background to plate charge control 5/17/10 custom Piccolo slider for plate charge, first pass 5/17/10 change model so that user can set either voltage or charge 5/17/10 create spreadsheet version of model, for verification and debugging 5/17/10 revise model description 5/17/10 change format of values in Developer meter 5/15/10 concise model description in doc/model.txt # 0.00.03 (40785) May 15, 2010 5/15/10 add surface charge density to Developer Meter 5/13/10 handle battery connection properly, move it out of battery and into circuit 5/13/10 add constants to Developer meter 5/13/10 fix Qexcess model 5/13/10 Plate Charge meter: change label, show +- value, red/blue bar based on +- # 0.00.02 (40610) May 11, 2010 5/11/10 dev version to demonstrate a couple of meters 5/11/10 format numbers in developer meter 5/11/10 add check box, background and close button for developer meter 5/11/10 make meters invisible by default 5/11/10 fix dragging of Plate Charge meter, constrain to canvas, keep visible when canvas is resized 5/11/10 first pass at Plate Charge meter, meter works, close button works, drag behavior is broken 5/11/10 implement questionable model for Qexcess 5/11/10 move dielectric constant for air to Air class # 0.00.01 (40556) May 10, 2010 5/10/10 dev version for verifying physical model specification 5/10/10 implement Qexcess, but the specification appears to be wrong 5/10/10 identified bugs in physical model specification, fixed in code 5/10/10 add some things to DevModelDisplayNode 5/10/10 use max plate separate for default, so that we have min model values 5/10/10 bug fix in capacitance model 5/10/10 set all default values to mins 5/10/10 don't show dielectric constant in combo box for custom dielectric material, since it's mutable 5/10/10 update DevModelDisplayNode when custom dielectric constant is modified 5/10/10 show full precision of values in DevModelDisplayNode, so we can see which digits are changing 5/10/10 change plate separation range to 5-10mm, so that dielectric has a substantial thickness 5/10/10 use ranges specified by Noah P, recalibrate locations and model-view transform 5/10/10 developer node for displaying various model values 5/10/10 remove obsolete developer controls so I don't have to convert them from mm to meters 5/10/10 reduce width of Dielectric Constant text field 5/10/10 add air as a dielectric material 5/10/10 convert model from millimeters to meters throughout, to match the specification 5/10/10 utilities for converting between model and view units 5/10/10 implement battery-capacitor circuit model 5/10/10 add dielectric inside/outside area to capacitor model 5/10/10 add arg checks to capacitor model 5/6/10 change meter name from "Charge" to "Plate Charge" 5/6/10 change "Disconnect/Connect" button to "Add/Remove Wires" button, center above top wire 5/5/10 add cursor handler to disconnect/connect button 5/5/10 make voltage slider knob larger, use same colors as drag handles 5/5/10 remove developer control panel from Dielectric module control panel 5/5/10 implement handlers for drag handles (still has some coordinate frame conversion issues) 5/5/10 use strategy pattern for determining how to color the faces of a box 5/5/10 custom renderer for combo box that provides choice of dielectric materials 5/5/10 add wire to model 5/5/10 fix positioning of plate area drag handle 5/5/10 change layout of plate area drag handle to line up with plate surface diagonal 5/4/10 add drag handles for plate area and separation (not wired up) 5/4/10 generalize components of drag handles 5/4/10 migrate HighlightHandler to piccolo-phet 5/4/10 generalize the handler for highlight nodes, see HighlightHandler 5/4/10 add offset value display to drag handle 5/4/10 doc capacitor properties 5/4/10 add dielectric gap to model and view 5/3/10 first pass at drag handle for dielectric offset (not wired up) 5/3/10 add more horizontal space between battery and capacitor 5/3/10 add connect/disconnect button 5/3/10 add battery connectivity to model 5/3/10 add wires, no model, purely visual representation 5/3/10 change origin marker to a bullseye, so it won't be confused with a positive charge 5/3/10 align capacitor's geometric center with the origin of the model coordinate system 5/3/10 wire up more controls to model 5/3/10 wired up developer controls to model 5/3/10 added developer controls for direct-manipulation properties that aren't implemented yet 5/3/10 simplified the model, deleted Plate and Dielectric classes 4/30/10 change viewing angle to match design document 4/30/10 adjust mvt offsets 4/30/10 add model origin marker to scenegraph 4/30/10 add location to battery and capacitor models 4/30/10 add model-view transform 4/30/10 utilities for find the area and centroid of a polygon 4/30/10 make custom dielectric material mutable 4/30/10 i18n of dielectric material names 4/29/10 quick-and-dirty first pass at pseudo-3D representation of plates and dielectric 4/28/10 add control for selecting specific dielectric materials 4/27/10 add control panel for dielectric properties (not wired up) 4/27/10 make all control panels the same width 4/27/10 add control panels for Introduction module (not wired up) 4/27/10 add various localized strings 4/27/10 i18n of units in voltage slider 4/27/10 clean up and rename battery slider 4/27/10 add interactivity to battery slider 4/26/10 more work on battery slider (incomplete) 4/26/10 check in battery slider knob images, copied from faraday 4/26/10 framework for modules, canvases, control panels, etc. 4/26/10 battery node with no slider 4/26/10 check in battery images and assets received from Noah P. 4/26/10 start modeling size attributes 4/15/10 create project skeleton in SVN