ARtool Miscellaneous Information

The Making Of ARtool

ARtool has been written using the GNU Emacs editor, Sun's JDK, and Sun's Forte for Java CE IDE. All these programs can be downloaded for free from www.gnu.org and, respectively, from java.sun.com. I have used Forte for the initial design of the frames and dialogs, but the coding was done exclusively in emacs, which is my favorite editor.

The user interface is, quite obviously, done using Swing. ARtool has been compiled and tested using JDK 1.3.1_01

About the version number

The version number of ARtool consists of three values (for example 2.7.23) that have the following signification: the first value is the major version number for ARtool and will change only when significant changes will be made to the application; the second value is the revision number for ARtool, this will change whenever an update will be made to the interface and will be reset to 0 whenever the major version number is incremented; finally, the third value represents the ARtool packages revision number, this will get incremented whenever I will update one of the ARtool packages and will never be reset to 0. The first release of ARMiner started at version 1.0.0.

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